The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!
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US justice department investigating 'bribery-for-pardon' scheme – as it happened
Potentially criminal scheme to bribe unnamed officials in exchange for a presidential pardon revealed in unsealed court document
www.theguardian.com
I'm sorry about that. I was probably the same as your mom. When I was like 21/22, I used "f****" a lot. With "f***ing" preceding it often. It obviously wasn't about calling someone gay, or to disparage a gay person. It was a term I grew up with to mean "lame" or when someone did something corny. One day I said it to a girlfriend I had been dating for 2-3 years. She asked, "You say that a lot. Why do you do that?" I explained to her why I say it. She said, "Ok, but do you know that can offend people?" She had passingly asked me if I hated gay people in the past. I told her, "Absolutely not. I have no problems with someone being gay. My sister may be gay and a lot of her friends are gay. Is something wrong?" She replied, "Well, my brother is gay." I immediately felt terrible. I apologized profusely. I don't believe I ever said it around him, thank god. My gaydar must have been off because I never picked up on it. After she told me about it, I pretty much have never said it again in that way. It was an interesting moment for me. Here I was, growing up using a word in a way that wasn't meant to be offensive to someone's sexuality per se, but it was, and I 'got it.'
Thanks, honestly I'm not even that sensitive about people using that word unless it's directed at a gay person, I know it's something that young people grow up saying without really thinking much about the meaning it's just something they hear and it becomes part of their vocabulary. If someone knows a person is gay and says it directly to them it's meant to hurt and degrade and that's when it bothers me. It would be better if the word could go away completely and it probably will in time, as long as they stop calling cigarettes "fags" in the UK lol, actually I don't even know if they use that term for them there anymore
The trumpers I work near just mentioned the conspiracy from a few weeks ago about the army invading a German server farm and why the evidence had not been presented yet.
I can hear them questioning why isn't trump presenting any of the evidence they talk about.
They are so close to realizing that they are being lied too lol.
I can hear them questioning why isn't trump presenting any of the evidence they talk about.
They are so close to realizing that they are being lied too lol.
I know this isn't about US politics but it's still funny.
Politics sometimes seems like it attracts people to office so they can project their mental issues or guilt complexes onto society.
I haven’t said a political thing on Facebook since it was called for Biden. I’m getting to wits end with all of the conspiracy nonsense, the posting of threats, everything I see on there. I’m gonna go nuclear on them.
If I can find some people to donate to my cause, I would do the same.
Didn’t some republican official, I think it was some Governor get outed for being gay even though he was vocal against gay marriage and other related things?
There have been plenty of those cases over time on both the local and national level.
Don't trust barr as there has to be a reason for this to leak, or even start the investigation.
It came out because Judge Howell required it (giving the government a period to decide how much to react). I wouldn't be too excited because it just means they'll throw in another hundred thousand to add"bribery for pardon" into said pardon.
There is so much money to be had creating a completely baseless far right website right now. We should all write articles that are completely made up. It would be a blast.
We could put a disclaimer at the bottom that it is all for purely entertainment purposes, but nobody would care or notice. Articles would get circulated on Facebook and Twitter, people would flock, and we'd profit from the completely insane companies willing to advertise with us.
We could put a disclaimer at the bottom that it is all for purely entertainment purposes, but nobody would care or notice. Articles would get circulated on Facebook and Twitter, people would flock, and we'd profit from the completely insane companies willing to advertise with us.
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