Melian Refugee
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samsara passenger with stockholm syndrome
state of decay
Joined July 2016
affirmation: i WILL NOT be a consumption and labor unit to fuel endless gdp growth
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fellas, is it gay to like a biological woman with low bodyfat and defined musculature
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honestly we need to bring this shit back
A man wearing a cangue in Shanghai, circa 1870.... The cangue was a wooden collar once used in imperial China as a form of public discipline. Worn around the neck and inscribed with the person’s offense, it restricted movement so much that the wearer often needed help with daily
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>12.2 cm Pakistani average >African pr*stie I think we all know what really happened here
A Pakistani immigrant who threw cats and dogs off buildings as a child has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for stabbing an African prostitute to death in his Perth unit during a meth-for-sex tryst and dumping her body in a harbour. https://t.co/dwu4VweRMR
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This headline should be rewritten to say - "US Elites have brought millions of Chinese out of poverty, while impoverishing millions of Americans." The Chinese Communist Party could never have accomplished what they did without the complicity of American oligarchs, who likewise
theguardian.com
Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
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Those defending the drug smugglers and their organizations have never heard a baby born addicted to opiates cry and it shows. I have- and I’ll remember the poor baby’s pained wails as the somber faced social worker took them away from their mother in a car seat, possibly forever.
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a very large percentage of women really don't understand how much this kind of thing means to a lot of men
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Western men are so sick of their wives and girlfriends that they're literally re-creating trench warfare conditions in order to escape
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My father-in-law is a furniture designer at IKEA. We were at an Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann exhibit together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build the same furniture today. I will never forget his answer… "We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."
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It's fascinating how completely un-aspirational the HP narrative is. Harry becomes a cop, marries his friend's mid sister, said buddy becomes a shop proprietor; both of them are balding, sending their kids to the unchanged school they attended. A profoundly modern British tale.
“Harry, Dean told me his children are all squibs. Why’d you reckon they get letters? And why are there so many Jamaicans on the platform? They outnumber the British wizards.” “I think we fought for the wrong side, mate.”
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Ark of Bukhara. Initially built 5th-6th C AD. Used as a citadel, it housed royal residence, government offices, a palace, a harem, mosque, a treasury, and even a prison.
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whats it called when you're racist towards a group of people but treat every person that you actually come across unbiased and kindly
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OK “Vijay Prashad” in Santiago, Chile “International Law” (the Monroe Doctrine) states that if you are located anywhere in the Americas and make vague threats like this to the President or People of the United States, you get turned into a fine mist via loitering drone strike
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Industrial farming, especially the farming of pigs and chickens, is an aesthetic of evil, and so are Chinese cooking techniques. You don’t need to be presented with an elaborate argument for why they’re evil or wrong. You just have to look at them to know.
There are dozens of incredibly vile chinese culinary preparations like this that arent necessarily “cruel” as such—the crawfish probably experiences 0.5 seconds of pain—but so visually abhorrent to anyone with a shred of human empathy that it doesnt matter https://t.co/Wg0N3y1Yob
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Your “pater familias” is the boomer Father | Husband | Christian who is already voting against your interest. This is effectively a proposal to completely squash the youth and squeeze every last drop out of them.
How to fix democracy in 3 simple steps: 1) Only married people with children can vote 2) Only one vote per family unit 3) The vote is expressed by the pater familias I literally don't see any downside.
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BREAKING: President Trump is officially terminating temporary protected status for 353,000 Haitian migrants.
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Whether or not animals feel pain from a given execution method is not the only criterion that matters. The way that method impacts us psychologically is just as important of a consideration. We could sedate animals and subject them to all kinds of horrific tortures without them
There are dozens of incredibly vile chinese culinary preparations like this that arent necessarily “cruel” as such—the crawfish probably experiences 0.5 seconds of pain—but so visually abhorrent to anyone with a shred of human empathy that it doesnt matter https://t.co/Wg0N3y1Yob
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