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23.01.2023, 11:58
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Well, Amazon did not confirm or deny they were cancelling Mr. Clarkson's shows.
Mr. Clarkson just made a great example of "tell me you got fired without telling you got fired", full rant on Sunday Times: https://archive.ph/1dZ2K#selection-897.0-899.329
Fun fact: it's about the world, absolutely not about him  | | | | | That whole article is quite a ride, isn't it? That's hilarious!
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23.01.2023, 12:01
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | That whole article is quite a ride, isn't it? That's hilarious! | | | | | | The following 2 users would like to thank Axa for this useful post: | | 
23.01.2023, 14:16
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | That whole article is quite a ride, isn't it? That's hilarious! | | | | | Are there tampon dispensers in the boys’ lavatories? | 
23.01.2023, 14:34
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Are there tampon dispensers in the boys’ lavatories?  | | | | | How do you think we would otherwise stop our nose bleeding after a fight?
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23.01.2023, 15:27
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GOP not only defunding the tax police https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/23/p...licans-abolishbut cancelling them.
Within the first week of the new Congress, a dozen GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that would abolish the IRS altogether.
Separately, the GOP majority House voted to rescind nearly $80 billion in funding for the agency that Democrats approved last year.
Whatever happened to the party of law and order?
Neither bill stands a chance of making it into law anytime soon.
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23.01.2023, 15:36
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | How do you think we would otherwise stop our nose bleeding after a fight? | | | | | 
I thought UK school boys' lavatories are special! | Quote: |  | | | You probably think, because you don’t know this war is going on, that when you drop little Johnny off at the school gates he’s going to learn the nine times table that day. No, he isn’t. He’s learning that he might actually be a girl, which is why there are probably tampon dispensers in the boys’ lavatories.
With all this in place, they set about the police, and here they’ve done a tremendous job. Because, so far as I can tell, almost all the officers in the Met — apart from the terrifying number of sexual perverts — are now more wide awake than a frightened fox. | | | | | | This user would like to thank greenmount for this useful post: | | 
26.01.2023, 21:19
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An offer too good to be true From the Wall Street Journal | Quote: |  | | | Elon Musk Explores Raising Up to $3 Billion to Help Pay Off Twitter Debt. Billionaire has held talks with investors about selling new Twitter shares | | | | | An offer to buy shares in a company whose owner told us just a few days ago it was heading for bankruptcy.
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27.01.2023, 10:59
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And chapter #34,587 of cancel culture. Of course it's cancel culture, it is not finding out actions have consequences | Quote: |  | | | Novak Djokovic’s father filmed posing for photo with fan holding Putin flag and wearing pro-Russia ‘Z’ shirt
Four fans were evicted from the grounds of the Australian Open for displaying Russian flags and chanting Putin’s name on Wednesday night | | | | | https://inews.co.uk/sport/tennis/nov...ssians-2107680 | This user would like to thank Axa for this useful post: | | 
27.01.2023, 11:35
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Will Elon Musk be blamed for this too?!
Further reflects what a ridiculous knee-jerk decision it was to ban the former president two years ago.
Donald Trump to be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64408306 | 
27.01.2023, 12:42
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Why am I not surprised....
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27.01.2023, 13:12
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Imagine they would have suggested that they would have used the wrong pronounce or hated someone on a cellular level | 
27.01.2023, 13:17
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Will Elon Musk be blamed for this too?!
Further reflects what a ridiculous knee-jerk decision it was to ban the former president two years ago.
Donald Trump to be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64408306 | | | | | No, you've got the wrong demon. This one is Mark "I need more money" Zuckerberg.  Love him or hate him, Trump generates a lot of clicks and page views and that equates to money.
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27.01.2023, 13:26
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | No, you've got the wrong demon. This one is Mark "I need more money" Zuckerberg. Love him or hate him, Trump generates a lot of clicks and page views and that equates to money. | | | | | Perhaps this is a factor, not sure it will help as it seems the former President is unwilling to leave Truth Social. If it is the case then all it shows is that these companies have zero morals (which we knew anyway), making more of a mockery of the original decision to ban him.
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27.01.2023, 13:30
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Perhaps this is a factor, not sure it will help as it seems the former President is unwilling to leave Truth Social. If it is the case then all it shows is that these companies have zero morals (which we knew anyway), making more of a mockery of the original decision to ban him. | | | | | Eh? That makes zero sense or logic...
Where does the "morals" aspect come from?
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27.01.2023, 18:06
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Will Elon Musk be blamed for this too?!
Further reflects what a ridiculous knee-jerk decision it was to ban the former president two years ago.
Donald Trump to be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64408306 | | | | | Also makes zero sense. What does Elon have to do with this, Facebook and Instagram are his competition.
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27.01.2023, 18:09
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An extreme form of cancel culture | Quote: |  | | | British teenager who made far-right hate videos ‘influencing’ Buffalo shooter jailed for 11 years in UK | | | | | | 
27.01.2023, 18:59
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| | Re: Cancel Culture The California State Bar yesterday charged John Eastman, an attorney closely allied with former President Donald Trump, with 11 disciplinary counts related to his alleged scheme to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election.
The Office of Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona intends to seek Eastman’s disbarment, according to a press release from the State Bar of California.
"Specific charges allege that Eastman made false and misleading statements regarding purported election fraud, including statements on January 6, 2021, at a rally in Washington, D.C., that contributed to provoking a crowd to assault and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President Pence and prevent the electoral count from proceeding."
If the state plucks Eastman’s license, that could put the former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk’s Supreme Court bar membership in further jeopardy as well.
He’s lead counsel on a Supreme Court amicus brief — meaning a brief filed by an outside party not directly involved in the case — supporting North Carolina Republicans and the so-called independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper.
Apart from the Capitol riot, I believe a lot of time is wasted in the US courts by lawyers bringing hopeless cases and any effort to reduce this is welcome.
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30.01.2023, 15:19
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Interesting debate on whether Sam Smith's new release vid is too much for the faint of heart, with some inexplicably drawing comparisons with the rape, violence and sex trafficking antics of Andrew Tate. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/new-sam-s...oversy-online/
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30.01.2023, 16:57
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| | Re: Cancel Culture | Quote: | |  | | | Interesting debate on whether Sam Smith's new release vid is too much for the faint of heart | | | | | It is unnecessarily vulgar to say the least and yes I personally think there should be age restrictions.. | This user would like to thank greenmount for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Cancel Culture The first high-profile hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee for the new Republican majority investigating President Joe Biden’s administration and family turned out to be a nothing burger. | Quote: |  | | | Twitter execs acknowledge mistakes with Hunter Biden laptop story but say no government involvement | | | | | | The following 2 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | |
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