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What's so hard to understand though? In most cases, they flee to the USA in hopes of earning more money for themselves and their families. In other words, it has little to do with the state of democracy, just following the dollar.

Funny how they call them protesters. If they were blacks, they'd call them rioters.

"The election was stolen. But go home, we love you. By the way, I should have won. But go home. Thanks!"

The stage of capitalism where we´re at, with mass production giving consumers an unending possibility of product choices created a generation of people who has a hard time coping with the denial of their wishes. Since politics is a zero-sum game, this reflects in a tendency of using of political violence when your side is defeated. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Anyone disagree that if this crowd was black there would be scores of dead bodies lying on the floor?

The sad thing is that a number of people on this forum alone called this about 2 years ago.

If kids are failed by anything, if they've lost something substantial, it's down to a lack of creative thinking in the education sector hierarchy and education policy. There's so many creative solutions to negate the situation that can be considered. More than just open the schools, close the schools, wear a mask, cancel exams. First time around the lack of creativity could be forgiven. This time? Don't think so. You've had months to prepare. Months of bad decisions like full class sizes.

Start shooting. Arrest whatever Republicans and media personalities you can associate with the protestors. Bring capital charges against the worst of the protestors which you take alive. Impeach and arrest Trump if the inauguration is delayed. The Democrats have a generational opportunity here.

Not a great quality image here, but the ducks were all out on a pond when I went to walk the dog this morning. So here's a snap of Fyre enjoying the view.

Hope it’s all good mate. I had a 24 hour ECG a few weeks back. Turns out I have sinus bradycardia they reckon, which basically means a slower heart rate but it’s not a concern (apparently) due to my fitness/age/size. I don’t feel fit though!

Much easier for a South American to migrate to the USA than to Australia, New Zealand or Western Europe though... To be allowed in, and then to work and live in most of those countries you have to fit a pretty strict list of requirements, and it's hard to sneak through illegaly if the air route is the only way in.

Tbf it's not that long ago Colombia was a very unstable country ravaged by the USA's "war on drugs" with tons of instability and... civil war issues. It might have been ignorant of how Colombia is now, but it's not all that offensive that a reporter would compare it with a place that's had noted instability (and noted US influence and presence). It does show that the big talking heads on the big news networks are full of fucking shit. To me, though, the biggest similarity is with the Middle East. Particularly, America's projects in Iraq and Afghanistan where we've seen US buildings attacked and sieged by radicalised militia groups which... actually look a lot like the people attacking US buildings in the US itself.

I absolutely love how we can't like, retweet or reply to that but we're allowed to quote it. Twitter just wants us to tear him to bits

There's always a tweet!

I wouldn't call myself a patriot but this is a bit of a sinister sight.

If they were Middle Eastern, they'd be called terrorists. But this should still be called terrorism, because that's what it is.

To the people over there this translates to "Keep going. But go home, we love you. By the way, keep going. But go home. Thanks!"

This is why they shouldn't wait two months until the next president steps in. Should be right away.

Rumored to be false. SWAT, VA Police, and National Guard have been deployed.

Yeah I wouldn't hold my breath expecting the right thing to happen. I'd like to hope so... this is probably the most obvious line that's been crossed so far. But we've seen a large chunk of America embrace lawlessness and abandoning old "American values" for support of "their team" because... for some reason... that's how so many people have decided to view politics in democracy in this age of the internet. Will enough people condemn people on "their team" after they've done the inexcusable? I doubt it. It's been funny switching to Fox news and seeing their distraught horror and chaotic reporting. They seem a bit stunned, I guess reaping what they've sown.

You'd like to think so.

https://abcnews.go.com/Live/ - idk if this is geo-locked or not (but just VPN your way to unlock it).

I'm watching ABC News live on YouTube which is pretty decent so far, if it's available where you are.

Personal commentary but i find him quite good, followed him for a few years.

We all know why Esper was fired now........

Makes it look more like a Trump coup attempt than just fringe lunatics...

Imagine what the same people would say if this was a Black Lives Matter protest. Trump should be jailed for life the day he leaves office. What higher order of treason is there above inciting a riot against the actual Capitol building?

I'm not going to pretend that this generation of British kids are the first ones ever to be hard done by but at least the ones who were sent off to war or sent up chimneys did so for some actual reason and/or due to a lack of information about how it would affect them. The current generation of British kids have had Brexit inflicted upon them when all the evidence was there that it would only damage their lives, not enhance them in anyway. They're saddled with the responsibility on a worldwide level of sorting out the climate because the generation that came before them, again with all of the relevant science and information available to them, chose to act irresponsibly and pass on the ever-increasing consequences instead to the younger generation having taken completely inadequate action themselves. Then you've got Coronavirus which has impacted all generations horribly, but the damage it has done to their education has been made a lot worse by the decimation of education funding by the Conservative government over the past 10 years which has left schools with no wriggle room to deal with a shock to the system like this one, and even worse still by the catastrophic monstrosity of governance we've seen over the past year from Boris Johnson and Gavin Williamson, who are only in a position to have any influence over the situation because of, and here we come full circle, Brexit. Of course they aren't the first generation to be affected by it but I'm not exaggerating. I'm just fed up of the kids I've dedicated my career to educating being disadvantaged and burdened by the factors I describe above with one common denominator - a cocktail of selfishness, rich twats who have never known anything else but comfort abusing their position and irresponsible, science-denying, fact-denying right-wing ideology. It's just all so pointless. It should be a basic human instinct to want your children's and grandchildren's lives to be better than your own, and yet in this country, we can't cobble together a government of a handful of people from a pool of 60 million who have even heard of such a concept and actively encourage the labelling of those who have as communists and Marxists. I'm ranting and rambling, I know I am, but I'm bothered on behalf of the current generation of British youth because it's my job to try and give them something to work with when they leave school and others here are concerned for them for the right reasons, they're the ones we can actually help now so they're the ones we're going to harp on about.

I think to be fair he was talking in the context of Britain and that should have been clear by the mention of Brexit. None of us on here think the world revolves around us and in fact are totally embarrassed by the state of the country, our governance and the "Rule Britannia" image that the loudest, stupidest, but not majority section of our population has cultivated for the rest of us on the global stage.

A nice touch perhaps but ultimately our children are going to suffer greatly because of this. Perhaps not right now but each day out of education does damage. I understand at the moment they have to be lockdown but they should be the absolute priority when it comes to reopening things. Has there ever been an equivalent generation where children are sacrificing their futures for the adult generation? With this and Brexit happening, I wouldn't blame any young person for feeling that the generations above them have been completely failed in their duty, which is always to hand over a country in the best possible condition for young people to thrive. Not one thought has been given to them, instead they have been tacitly blamed for the disease.

These are both top tier platformers. Having finished them both they also offer very little resistance for total completion if you're into rewards and trophies.

Sensational catch from Will Young to get Abid Ali out. Diving, one-handed catch. Quality. @McAzeem

I didn't realise your Dad was only 39 mate, such a cruel world. Both my grandparents on my mother's side had heart attacks. They survived them (before passing away of other reasons 15-20 years later) and I think they were around 60, so it definitely worries you when it runs in the family. My mate, who was only 30, also passed away after a heart attack 3 years back. So it probably adds extra worry. Have you not had any panic along with it? Shaky legs? Cold shivers, etc? They do say that you can get physical symptoms without the panic and not realise it's an attack, so that may still be your problem mate. You might not realise you've been anxious. Hopefully it turns out well for you though and you get to the bottom of it. Same with you if you ever need to talk to someone mate! Diet won't help, but when you're slim like us you don't always think about what you're eating. I've definitely got anxiety I'd say as I get impatient and fidgety all the time. I'm easily irritated aswell. But I've just always lived with it as it's never led to attacks, just irritation and I've always been able to control it. So it's probably just got out of control as chest pains and all types of pains seem to be caused by that. It's not like I haven't worried and stressed alot over the months. A shit year, I bet many many people have developed mental and physical problems this year, without even mentioning those who have been directly affected by the virus itself!

Any functioning legal system should have a way of publicly executing, or at least exiling and seizing the assets from, somebody behaving like Trump right now.

Whisky with ice.

AC Valhalla main quest finished, 110hrs ..now for the side quests and Thors Hammer, see if i'm worthy to pick it up yet! ...equal best AC game for me

Explosives found now. This is crazy.

Home test kit is coming tomorrow. Mostly likely it'll be positive.

wow.

I'm sure he was, but even if I let my dog hunt those may have been Canadian Geese, which are known to be aggresive. I couldn't tell cos of the darkness but those geese you do not want to mess with especially in that number!

R.I.P. Colin