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NYC to raise cigarette tax to nation's highest despite 55% of their cigarettes already being smuggled in

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Wild boars overrun Islamic State position, kill 3 militants

To quote Morpheus from the Matrix movies : "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

Or in this case, sense of humor.

(04-24-2017, 04:47 PM)ZpaceJ0ck0 Wrote: [ -> ]Controversial removal of Confederate monuments starts in New Orleans

*sigh*

The Confederate States of America, and everything which it entailed, is a portion of the nation's history. A sad part, yes, but part of it nonetheless. Removing these monuments is, in some ways, censoring the history of the US, a part of the US so significant that the Americans held a civil war over it.

"B-but those confederates were a bunch of white supremacists, just like the Nazis!!"

Funny you brought that up because it's a great example. There are still concentration camps up that you can go and visit for yourself so you can see where the atrocities happened. It's a piece of history and taking it down isn't the right thing to do.

I find the comparison between the Nazi camps and these monuments an interesting one.

The concentration camps are still there are as a warning to others.  You can see the damage that was caused.
These monuments did not give warning to future generations, but instead were placed to actively PRAISE these confederate fighters.  Most notably, one was meant to praise the accomplishments of the Crescent City White League, a paramillitary group whose sole purpose was to prevent black voting rights and operated very closely to the KKK.

IF these monuments had been a sign of the damage that such groups did, or maybe even a list of names of they people they killed, it WOULD be a great display and warning to future generations.  However, if you were to put up a monument to Hitler listing his accomplishments but not mentioning the concentration camps, it would actually be a hindrance to history and not serve as a warning.  That is exactly what these monuments did, solely state "good things" done by these highly flawed groups without mentioning the pain they also caused, meaning it was not actually even displaying history correctly.

Yes, the troubled part of the history of The United States needs to be brought up and remembered.  It does not need to be done in a celebratory manner that these monuments were made in so as to lose the benefits it might bring to future generations.

(Also, seriously, watch the video of the people that were protesting the taking down of the statue, and they were yelling at a black woman to go ask her "tribal leaders in Africa" what they thought about the monument.  They were yelling this to a woman who has lived in the US her whole life, and her family has been in the US for generations.  I would rather not want to be on the side of such blatant racism.)

MIT economist Peter Temin: Economic Mobility Requires the Nearly Impossible

Wikipedia blocked in Turkey

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01...-7-month-h

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01...-now-janet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...rket-share

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01...-time-bomb

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-01...s-one-week

US Consumer spending stagnates, US inflation falls below target, the Saudis are cutting oil prices, and Canada's ongoing metldown

Phew !
France has just elected Macron to be the next president, widely rejecting LePen and her populist agenda.
Yay, no crazy facist as our president !

(05-07-2017, 01:04 PM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: [ -> ]Phew !
France has just elected Macron to be the next president, widely rejecting LePen and her populist agenda.
Yay, no crazy facist as our president !

HOLD UP..... are you telling me that the French choose a filthy white male (aka the worst kind of male) over a woman? What a bunch of misogynist pigs!!

/Sarcasm

Following last month's events with United and whatnot, Canada announces plans to implement a passenger's bill of rights for all domestic and I ternational flights to and from Canada.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39930241

Net Neutrality in the states is dead.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/18/the-...ce=Twitter


1 hour and 22 minutes.
Fuck these people who disparage democracy and make light of it as if it were a reality show.
If a large chunk of the US audience for any given site suddenly drops off, this is why. Sorry if I'm gone.

(05-18-2017, 03:03 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]Net Neutrality in the states is dead.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/18/the-...ce=Twitter


1 hour and 22 minutes.
Fuck these people who disparage democracy and make light of it as if it were a reality show.
If a large chunk of the US audience for any given site suddenly drops off, this is why. Sorry if I'm gone.

I have a feeling that nothing will change..... Right away.
Maybe in a year or so we might start seeing a ripple.
Give it about 5-10 years and everything will be completely different.