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[conuly]

Appeals court upholds block on Trump's travel ban

Workers start dismantling jail tent complex in Phoenix

Racist Star Trek Fans Decry Discovery's Diversity, Revealing They Know Nothing About Star Trek

Survey finds US honeybee losses improve from horrible to bad

‘Not Welcome Here’: Thousands March Against Trump in Belgium

A Proposed New Tax, Mainly On Latinos, To Pay For Trump's Border Wall

Trump pushes around NATO; lecture seen as unsettling alliance

U.S. warship drill meant to defy China's claim over artificial island -officials

Housing Secretary Ben Carson calls poverty a 'state of mind' (Fuck you, Ben fucking Carson.)

US admits DEA lied about Honduras 'massacre' that killed four villagers

Manila deploys commandoes, helicopters to retake city from Islamists

Comments

[larryhammer]

(Psst! You've swapped the links of "Appeals court" and "Trump pushes") (Feel free to delete this.)

[conuly]

Ack, thanks.

[smile_n_cuddle]

Trump = so much sadness. I'm glad the travel ban has been halted!

[zesty_pinto]

Wait, the Star Trek thing is REAL? When someone posted Raw Story talking about it, I called it a troll attempt because it's like complaining about all the carbonation in soda.

Isn't this tax also affecting the other big potential booming country in the world, Brazil? It's still a big steaming pile of corruption, but I think it's starting to get that momentum China was having, if I recall correctly... Not exactly a smart idea (but something something Republicans from Arizona).

[conuly]

I always assume pointless bigotry is real. I'm usually right, and when I'm not, I'm pleasantly surprised!

I wouldn't bet any money on Brazil just yet.

[zesty_pinto]

Ha ha, I guess I do have too much idealism towards humanity.

Yeah, it'll be awhile, but people have noted it's got a lot of potential.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Oh, I would LOVE it if the power of positive thinking could pay my rent-- that would be just GREAT

I seriously don't know WHAT version of fantasyland they are living in-- oh wait, they probably have never been touched by poverty so their concept of reality is so skewed and one-sided

[conuly]

I don't even pretend to be able to fathom Ben Carson's mental processes, such as they are.

[siderea]

It bothers me when people who object to Star Trek's racial diversity are referred to as Star Trek fans. If Trek's racial diversity irks you, there's enough of it in there that it's fair to say it's Trek that irks you, and you're not really a fan of it. At the risk of No True Scotsmaning, anyone who is not down with IDIC, is not down with Trek.

[conuly]

Agreed 100%.

[springviolets]

you know, ben carson actually isn't 100% wrong but, obviously, he's approaching it ENTIRELY the wrong way. (because he doesn't actually care about poor people.) it's been demonstrated that poverty does impact your mind and can create a form of trauma, and it's true that if someone has lived in poverty for most of their lives and then you hand them a huge chunk of money, they're absolutely not going to handle it the same way someone who grew up with money did. poverty messes with you. but a "bad mindset" isn't what creates poverty in the first place and it's not what keeps people in poverty--that's all on us/how our society is structured.

[conuly]

Indeed. Good luck explaining it to him, though.