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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Liveblogging Resistance School
This struck me, the difference between charity and justice. Charity is asking can I help with your problem. Justice is asking why is it a problem.
Why people don't have enough? Because some people has to much.
Disorganization: Apathetic, Divided, drift, reactive, inertia
Organization: motivation, united, purposeful, initiative, change
What makes organizations effective: leadership
edited 20th Apr '17 4:29:34 PM by megaeliz
Jeff Session hates Hawai'i, or how to insult both a federal judge and an entire state at the same time
edited 20th Apr '17 5:16:43 PM by megaeliz
Fuck Sessions honestly. The guy's a loathsome racist who tries to use his (exaggerated) role in a KKK case YEARS ago to try and disregard all the criticism directed at all the other times he opposed civil rights and acted like a general asshead. Much like he's doing now.
Cannot wait for him to be gone.
edited 20th Apr '17 5:13:28 PM by Draghinazzo
No, I meant the case where he helped prosecute a murder commited by a member of the KKK. He likes to point to that to display his commitment to racial justice or whatever, but some articles have pointed out that he embellishes the details and didn't even want to take it to court in the first place. This ignoring all the other times he voted against civil rights for women, LGBT people, etc and was generally an ass to people of color by most accounts.
He did make the joke about the only reason he hadn't joined the KKK was because they smoked weed, which IF entirely a jest, is an extremely distasteful one to say the least.
edited 20th Apr '17 5:32:52 PM by Draghinazzo
VERIFY: Inappropriate, suicide-themed joke at Democratic Party event
A video featuring Democrats laughing at a joke involving a spike in the suicide rate is catching dems some flak.
So today the Attorney General at the head of the Department of Justice expressed surprise that the legal system did its job. Yeah...You know what I'm still not drinkin yet. Senator Hirono's and Chelsea Clinton's responses say it best though:
Someone please tell Sessions that Hawaii is a state. An American in Hawaii is as American as one from Alabama. Or Indiana.
And the bit about judges psychoanalyzing Trump. (Riotous laughter). That's completely unnecessary if said Trump states his intentions on live tv, say at a Trump rally, multiple Trump rallies.
(Sessions does seem to be counting on Gorsuch to push the order through though, which, oddly means that stopping this piece of nonsense is up to Kennedy.) Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives

Well, all Trump has to do is make racist or sexist attacks against every judge who might rule against him, then demand they recuse themselves. Doesn't work that way, and Curiel has said in no uncertain terms what he thinks of that idea already. Although, if he gets away with it, I have a great idea for how I can get out of future traffic tickets.
edited 20th Apr '17 4:19:02 PM by Fighteer
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