Varyk

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

that's the article I was originally referencing and then referenced again.

did you understand that article differently than how i've summarized it?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, I meant intentional deportations of US citizens.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

"To be clear, I’m not dunking on Bernie or AOC."

Not for lack of trying. You failed in mischaracterizing and insulting Sanders because I proved how baseless each of your accusations and assumptions are here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35914985/17933545

"Their intentions might be in the right place."

There's no "might" about it, as I pointed out in the same comment.

"I’m saying the system will only allow so much muckraking."

And rivers are only so wide. Profound.

"The ruling class ultimately determines who is on your ballot in the first place."

Realizing your earlier error("...by design"), you are now just less accurately paraphrasing my prior comment:

"the design was for anyone to be able to enter politics in the US. At a local level, this is still largely possible.

Corporate backing determining higher-level political outcome is a recent consequence of Citizens United, the ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed unlimited political funding by the wealthy. That ruling is a corruption of the US political process, not “by design”."

Thanks for backtracking, but pretending you were saying something different than you were before is disingenuous and irritating.

You were wrong about the US electoral process, or charitably, you misunderstood and mischaracterized it.

Your diagram is simplistic and fundamentally flawed.

You made up blatantly false and consistently vague accusations about Sanders and the US electoral system at large.

I corrected you on these points in earlier comments.

That's that.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

got it.

as far as I'm aware, it's just the "great" part that changed. it's not so much that Italian immigration laws have become overly restrictive as they were so broad before as to proving Italian heritage.

The current Italian citizenship restrictions are still a great deal easier than most other countries.

basically, as long as you have a parent or grandparent who is an Italian citizen or became one, you can become an Italian citizen also by filling out a form.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

i was pretty lazy about it, I'd like to see the results of other breadsperiments.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

oh shoot I just thought they got rid of the "great" part and you can still become a citizen if you have italian grandparents, what are the new restrictions?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

Italy and Ireland were like the last two countries that you could claim citizenship through great-grandparents, but I think Italy just ended it this year.

thanks for posting this, it's the first I've heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.

I'm looking into related posts to find corroboration and explanation for the term "parole" used here.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

not with regard to this specific situation, since white people have been deported or turned away due to their visa status, but under this administration anyone not white should feel way more targeted than they might be under other administrations.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 41 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (18 children)

update: Blue sky users are apparently receiving threatening letters using the phrase their "parole is terminated" despite being us citizens; I can't confirm anything, but I'm looking into it now.

so far naturalized citizens are not being harassed or detained.

everyone i've heard about being turned away or deported so far has a green card, visa or is in the US illegally.

it's certainly a terrible situation and a slippery slope, but as far as I'm aware naturalized citizens are not facing that treatment yet.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 37 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

pretty rough and crumbly and crappy.

it was impossible with the kitchen tools I had on hand to grind it into a fine enough flour to my liking, I just had a generic blender, but my whole reasoning for the experiment was "i bet I could make bread out of bread."

and it was moderately successful in that regard. what emerged was properly identified as bread.

although I chucked most of the loaf in the trash because that was its flavor profile.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

i did this! yes.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 48 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

a half dozen participants were so drunk that they couldn't even participate in the training scenarios.

as for the chief of police;

"No one will ever look at Chief Eynon the same. He did not represent the city of North Ogden in a professional manner.'

he was reinstated the following month.

 

in the preview I can see them under the post, I've added share and save, but on the actual posts in the feed on any layout, share and save are not in the quick action bar.

do I have to enable something else also?

thanks

 

I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.

 

Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you're released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

 
 

I don't get it. Her music is sometimes catchy but otherwise unremarkable, from the songs I've heard. How does she break all these records and accumulate so much fame and wealth?

She's pretty, but a lot of singer songwriters are, especially those with makeup and costume people, a support staff.

Is there something else to her that people like?

I'm confused about what makes her so apparently unique or phenomenal.

Update: there are so many things that make swift unique or phenomenal.

I've received tons of great answers from people that have helped me understand, like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, many factors that makes swift different and consequently more successful than her peers.

Clever lyrics, top-tier production, sharing autobiographical and emotional points in her life very directly, apparent honesty with few or no public blemishes, creating a community of fans through Easter eggs and house parties and unconventional, but always personal methods, an early start supported by wealthy parents, she keeps winning against abusers, and her music itself is popular and fun.

Those are just a few of the puzzle pieces contributed here, and a dive into this post is a pretty good explanation of many of the factors that must be contributing to her phenomenal success and recognition, that set her apart from other pop stars, even pop stars who were phenoms in their own right.

This is a very educational post, thank you to everyone who has contributed.

 

I came across a post in a Michigan community that mentioned this, and i asked if it really happened because it seems so crazy that Republican collaborators would directly mail in fake documents saying Trump won states he lost and I hadn't even really heard about it.

But this is exactly what happened, as I found out today after looking for more corroborating sources:

https://people.com/politics/forged-documents-declaring-trump-pence-winners-sent-to-national-archives/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

Trump republicans in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, and New Mexico forged false elector certificates and actually mailed in those forged electoral certificates to the national archives, that were examined and found to be forgeries, with trump, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman as the ring leaders calling hundreds of Republicans to ask them to directly commit election fraud and forgery.

Some of them said yes. A bunch of them said yes, actually.

 

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

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