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- sted0
- BuddhaHat3
The 'most militaristic President ever' dodged the draft 5 times
- BuddhaHat2
Steve Bannon, everyone. This guy just got put on the National Security Council.
- Moderator12
Members: He's gone.
- are you talking about vero?capn_ron
- oh my god this is wonderful. thank you Moderator, you are too kind.BuddhaHat
- can you also disable registration for a little bit?dorf
- We are discussing that.Moderator
- Good fucking riddance.Al_dizzle
- Please can I ask... when you say 'he's gone'... how many usernames is that, that were currently in use?BuddhaHat
- What did he do this time? Do I want to know?monospaced
- @mono - see the most recent post in the blog from @oey. Moderator indicated concerns were heard, and that they would discuss. This is the result.BuddhaHat
- Apply extreme vettingBeeswax
- Saw that but was wondering what he did to get banned.monospaced
- In a nutshell, he cranked the 'troll' dial up to 11, and got smacked with a well-deserved ban. All provocation with no ability to coherently respond.BuddhaHat
- am I bad guy now? just asking.********
- I don't have a websitemonospaced
- oh dear...********
- thanks Moderator!
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Vero_Vandal: 0moldero - You're a complete hypocrite Moderator. You turn a blind eye to these scum bags posting in this thread.IRNlun6
- No he's not.monospaced
- yuekit3
- So basically IRN has more in common with the terrorist than an Islamic radical militant. Got it.monospaced
- GoTeamTrumputopian
- These fuckers are ten a penny online. A sleeper cell of nut jobs. When Der Pumpkin Fürher get impeached I sincerely hope it doesn't start a spate of violence.monoboy
- Go fuck yourself monospaced.IRNlun6
- You whiny bitches are in for a rude fucking awaking.IRNlun6
- no go fuck yourself for insisting this was because liberals were ignoring Islamic terrorism and then going after me for disagreeing with your fear mongeringmonospaced
- You're wrong. Period. As usual this was a disgruntled white guy with more in common with you than a Muslim immigrant. Period.monospaced
- Responding true to type.monoboy
- Bigly.monoboy
- BuddhaHat1
An open letter from Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian to the Reddit Community
https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/co…
After two weeks abroad, I was looking forward to returning to the U.S. this weekend, but as I got off the plane at LAX on Sunday, I wasn't sure what country I was coming back to.
President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world, we often talk about a startup’s “unfair advantage” that allows it to beat competitors. Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.
As many of you know, I am the son of an undocumented immigrant from Germany and the great grandson of refugees who fled the Armenian Genocide.
A little over a century ago, a Turkish soldier decided my great grandfather was too young to kill after cutting down his parents in front of him; instead of turning the sword on the boy, the soldier sent him to an orphanage. Many Armenians, including my great grandmother, found sanctuary in Aleppo, Syria—before the two reconnected and found their way to Ellis Island. Thankfully they weren't retained, rather they found this message:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
My great grandfather didn’t speak much English, but he worked hard, and was able to get a job at Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company in Binghamton, NY. That was his family's golden door. And though he and my great grandmother had four children, all born in the U.S., immigration continued to reshape their family, generation after generation. The one son they had—my grandfather (here’s his AMA)—volunteered to serve in the Second World War and married a French-Armenian immigrant. And my mother, a native of Hamburg, Germany, decided to leave her friends, family, and education behind after falling in love with my father, who was born in San Francisco.
She got a work visa as an au pair in the U.S., uprooting her entire life for love in a foreign land. After she and my father married, she received a green card, which she kept for over a decade until she became a citizen. I grew up speaking German, but she insisted I focus on my English in order to be successful. She eventually got her citizenship and I’ll never forget her swearing in ceremony.
If you’ve never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn. It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.
My forebears were brave refugees who found a home in this country. I’ve always been proud to live in a country that said yes to these shell-shocked immigrants from a strange land, that created a path for a woman who wanted only to work hard and start a family here.
Without them, there’s no me, and there’s no Reddit. We are Americans. Let’s not forget that we’ve thrived as a nation because we’ve been a beacon for the courageous—the tired, the poor, the tempest-tossed.
Right now, Lady Liberty’s lamp is dimming, which is why it's more important than ever that we speak out and show up to support all those for whom it shines—past, present, and future. I ask you to do this however you see fit, whether it's calling your representative (this works, it's how we defeated SOPA + PIPA), marching in protest, donating to the ACLU, or voting, of course, and not just for Presidential elections.
- pango1
A us trump supporter friend of my on Facebook just posted that one of their relative just got lymphoma...
And their affordable health care doesn't cover chemo anymore.
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............- I almost LOL'd but it's too fucking serious.********
- The repeal worked like that?monospaced
- Don't really know. I'm just trying my best not to make dickish comments. And send them some money cuz I can't really buy the cupcake they are selling.pango
- Repeal won't happen for months but Insurance companies are bowing out of the program leaving patients with no coverage. THANKS! ObamTrump!robotron3k
- This bullshit is all on your bitch Trumpmonospaced
- I almost LOL'd but it's too fucking serious.
- chukkaphob0
- protecting the illusion of the objects of its possession is what transforms the human back to a disgusting stupid animalsted
- this is under politics because.. ? protesters?plash
- *i didn't expressed my self as good as it sounded in my head:) what i wanted to say: people prefer to defend their acquired objects rather than an another humansted
- Ramanisky22
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General for Refusing to Defend Immigration Order.
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/30/51…
- lol, Scott Adams is right, people need to be careful of what they ask for, they just might get it.robotron3k
- what's so funny about it, homotron69k?zaq
- what's ironic is that you are an immigrant too.zaq
- careful, robo. you'll be next.Gnash
- 12 executive orders in 10 days... and fires anyone who deems his order unconstitutional...pango
- soon Trump will be executing or jailing anyone who opposes him or his executive orders.utopian
- Except he can't and he will just have to be a butthurt bitch about it.monospaced
- He's firing people that refuse to carry out his work? What, like any employer in the world would do?********
- I'm not saying I agree with his work but you're suggesting he's Hitler now for doing something completely normal now.********
- Scott Adams clearly had a point********
- NOBODY here said he was Hitler for this.monospaced
- except robo, but that guy....monospaced
- "soon Trump will be executing or jailing anyone who opposes him or his executive orders."********
- Shows how politicized the judicial system has become. An AG doesn't have a right to pick and choose which laws they choose to defend.IRNlun6
- I think that was more of a sarcastic joke than a comparison to Hitler. That would be a saddam move anyway.monospaced
- I'm in agreement with you anyway. Firing her is a non story. She was a temp and a new one being appointed any day now. Big deal.monospaced
- and IRN the trump admin is intent on further politicizing it ... don't be so naivemonospaced
- As far as I can tell, IRN is one of the few people that has taken an impartial and rational stance in all of this...********
- yuekit0
Weak! Did Trump write this himself?
- It's time to get serious about protecting our country from junior high school students.zaq
- very weak, weak, good, bigly, tremendousmonospaced
- who wrote this? vero_omg_von_drake ?utopian
- double-plus badscarabin
- I thought a hair was static clinging on my monitor...ok_not_ok
- Clearly this was written by DT, each statement is ~144 characters, or less.ben_
- utopian2
Trump's voter fraud expert registered in 3 states
A man who President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has learned.
Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states. He voted only in Alabama in November, records show.
- Hollywood could NOT make this shit up!utopian
- That only demonstrated much understanding he has on voter fraud... and how easily he exploited it....pango
- This makes me wonder how come none of the Muslim terrorist has been elected as president since they would have best knowledge on how to defeat them.pango
- This means nothing other than as pango said the man tested the water to see how easy it is to register to vote. He only voted once.********
- aka not a stoeymonospaced
- face_melter3
These wankers are so inept at putting out fires of their own making its hilarious. Watching Spicer flap around like a Dreamworks (I would say Pixar, but he's truly shit-tier) villain and calling everyone names is incredible.
"Press Sec. is it true that The President fucks dogs?"
"Uh... Those reports are false and based on pure hearsay. Besides, your mum fucks dogs!"
- I mean, it's hilarious as the whole thing has become so utterly absurd.face_melter
- Spicer is soooo stressed out! We have to keep up the pressure. He's about to pop!!CygnusZero4
- Bluejam3
The Immigration Ban is a Headfake, and We’re Falling For It
https://medium.com/@jakefuentes/…
an interesting read ...
- Not sure they're smart enough to pull that off.BusterBoy
- hope you're rightBluejam
- Bannon etc don't necessarily want to hurt immigrants / muslims. They way want to hurt the left at every opportunity.Fax_Benson
- They don't care about a few muslims getting punished if the outcome is that the left are punished more.Fax_Benson
- muslim ban = left upset and hysterical = job doneFax_Benson
- The left are not being punished. It's not about left or right. They are testing the water for sure but nothing is being done to punish anyone other than thosefadein11
- on the list.fadein11
- it's pure punishment politicsFax_Benson
- Hmmm. I hope it IS as simple as that but I think it's all part of a bigger picture that is way worse than punishing the 'left' whatever that is these days.fadein11
- CygnusZero47
Fires a very highly respected AG just because she did what she took an oath to do, to stand up for what is right.
Fascism 101
Trump needs to be cuffed, and escorted out of the white house on the ground of dismantling America, putting us at even more risk with this pointless bigot ban, and for weakening America's place in the world.
This is what happens when you put an elderly senile game show host in a position of power. Less than 2 weeks and he has done severe damage to this country and divided it more than I think it has ever been since the fucking Civil War.
- LOCK HIM UPCygnusZero4
- And people cried like bitches about hillarys.... EMAILS! Lmfao buncha morons. Now look where we are. Country in total chaos.CygnusZero4
- he fired her also because he's replacing her tomorrow, but whatever ... she could have resigned if she was this pissed offmonospaced
- Yates def had that "Can I see your manager" haircut...robotron3k
- Hes not replacing her tomorrow.CygnusZero4
- Its not up to trump when she gets replaced. Jeff Sessions is hung up trying to get approved.CygnusZero4
- Sessions' confirmation hearing is right this moment, Cygnus.monospaced
- And he already replaced her.monospaced
- CygnusZero44
And you know damn well this is going to be hung over Sessions' head this week.
- monospaced0
Seriously ... RELAX ... she was going to being replaced any day now regardless, and this was just her way of giving the finger on the way out. Yes, she did what she felt was right and she made her statement and probably planted the seed she wanted to plant, but her time was over. Good for her, but seriously, relax.
- Exactly. The current levels of hysteria are unsustainable. If you're anti Trump you need to pick your battles.Fax_Benson
- If you're on the left in the US, this is what you're dealing with - http://ace.mu.nu/arc…Fax_Benson
- similar in the UK with brexit. Some brexiteers can make an economic case for it. For most it's purely ideological.Fax_Benson
- I'm anti Trump, but there is certainly a degree of a collective over-reaction going on here on the matter of Yates being let go.monospaced
- collateral damage is just that.Fax_Benson
- yep - nearly always ideological re: Brexit.fadein11
- seriously, read that link. It's terrifying, partly because there's some truth in it. That's Bannon's position - and what vero was trying to get atFax_Benson
- The left can't acknowledge its own complicity in creating this and the right is insane.Fax_Benson
- you're talking about Brexit right?monospaced
- generallyFax_Benson
- yeah ... I'm not, so I don't really know if what you're comparing this to is the same, but I hope you aren't implying the USA's "left" is purely ideologicalmonospaced
- 'ideological' was in ref to brexitFax_Benson
