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A Proclamation on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana, Attempted Simple Possession of Marijuana, or Use of Marijuana | The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)

I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who, on or before the date of this proclamation, committed or were convicted of the offense of simple possession of marijuana, attempted simple possession of marijuana, or use of...

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This is dated today and references the previous one. I have no idea if its impact will be any wider, but your comment is inaccurate.

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Not only that, but the explanation is right there, in the article:

Democrats were stymied for nearly three years because they did not take majority control of the five-member FCC until October.

Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial (www.theguardian.com)

E Jean Carroll’s New York defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday with the ex-president’s lawyer trying to discredit her on cross-examination with a bizarre dialectic about genitals and by intimating that she has loose morals....

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Because consent matters, simple as.

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I wonder what it feels like to be Putin, emperor of the Russian empire, unable to travel the world freely out of fear, while this brave old woman speaks truth about how disappointing and terrible he is.

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I like the cut of your jib.

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If you're a Russian trying to fuck with us, fuck off.

Assuming you're a legit US citizen: try talking to your fucking neighbors before you start to talk about shooting.

Everyone on the Internet seems like they're arguing with strawmen.

Violence only in response to violence. We want to solve this without bloodshed. Only those who wish our country harm wish for a civil war.

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If you answer this, you'll probably win a prestigious prize in economics.

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The moment enough of us decide this has to change, it will.

Relink productivity and wages!
90% tax rate on all the cash you earn in a year after the first $10M
Close corporate tax loopholes

We can solve this, we just need to decide.

Maybe a general strike is out and we should just start a quiet friday strike, and just start extending that back through the week. Productivity just keeps falling until the wealthy decide they don't want to suffer with the rest of us and take the fucking haircut.

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I was being as gracious as I could be to illustrate we could fix this if the wealthy in this country were not being SUCH FUCKERS.

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The growing intensity of straw manning over the past decade has hurt us all so much.

Don't try to characterize what "they" would do, then get mad at your hypothetical. We need to talk to each other instead of about each other.

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Unfettered capitalism.

Time to tax the corporations and the wealthy for their fair share again.

Want to solve almost all our problems? Redistribute wealth from the 1% who spend it on yachts to the rest of us to spend on healthcare, wages, etc.

Small business owner making 6 figures a year? I am not talking about you.

Spez, making 9 figures? That is who I am talking about and where the problem lies.

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This is the one hand, on the other hand, we are now reading about this protest.

Not sure what the right answer is, but these are brave people protesting for peace regardless.

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There are a lot fewer bots here. 🤷‍♂️

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honestly the lamest and funniest bit.

Perfectly ties the whole thing up in a bow: can't even technically manage a domain name change.

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Tesla Q1 sales were down 13% YoY. Most major competition posted high double digit growth. Tesla is in trouble.

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“If they do it that way, you would have kids who would understand the story of Israel,” she said. “They would understand its miraculous nature.”

And right there we have the issue, tied in a bow at the end of the article.

No country is miraculous or blessed. When we figure that out, our world will become a much more peaceful place.

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Ok, so call his office and leave a message about how you don't support that.

People always underestimate how little it takes to scare the shit out of a politician. If more people made a little phone call, a lot more votes would go the way they want.

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Guess he doesn't wanna hear it from his constituents anymore.

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Hans Gruber, The Sheriff of Nottingham and Severus Snape would all, collectively, be interested in that conversation as well.

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Well, have an internet one from me - I'm just gonna take this as the prompt to close the tab without clicking through and be done on the net for the night. Thanks, buddy.

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Oh yes, let's do another special loophole kinda bullshit thing instead of restraining capitalism, breaking up monopolies and providing for the social good.

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Are we (me too) surprised pickahu-ing? We have been told mass migration was coming as part of climate change. You mix in economics and I am thinking this is just the beginning if we don't start to honestly address our issues.

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This right here? ☝️

This is how "business" people save money.

STOP HIRING BUSINESSPEOPLE

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Can you offer anything more or you just stop trying to solve things when the situation gets a little tough or outside your theoretical world view?

It seems you don't deny the huge impact that being captured into slavery would have on you or your descendants, you just feel like race shouldn't play a role now even though it was the primary motivator for the systemic crime. 🤷‍♂️

Like I said, I am not sure what the answer is, and I am not a lawyer, either. But as an everyday citizen, I can clearly see a large group was seriously wronged and their descendants appear to be suffering consequences of that to this day. How the law wants to talk about that and address it, I am not sure. But the reality is obvious.

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Do we have solid genealogical records in this country for the enslaved population and their descendants?

I mean, you say the right way to do it is just use that, so I assume it should just be no big deal to check if someone is an heir, right?

Or is there no chance such a system exists and is it far more equitable to try to disperse the money more widely in the hopes you don't overlook someone who deserves it, even if you give some money to those who don't?

I am not sure what the right answer here is, but your proposal seems like it isn't based in pragmatic reality.

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