I don’t see any references or sources at all in the page, and I couldn’t find other news sites with comparable numbers, I call bullshit.
it was reported that there was 41 jordanians who died trying to get to mecca without permits and they slept outside in the sun so that part was true but inflated number, the Egyptians thing is just a lie.
It doesn’t even involve drug smuggling. Like organized crime in the US, they’ve branched out into racketeering and extortion in otherwise legitimate industries. Tortillerias are also major targets of extortion rackets now in Mexico.
"As a firearms owner myself, there’s no legitimate use for a bump stock – not for self defense, not in a law enforcement context, not even in military applications … but what they are tailor made for is a mass shooting.
There’s lots of non-legitimate ways people use guns. For example, I’ve only ever shot them for fun. I imagine being able to have a simulated machine gun experience without all the red tape is pretty fun.
However, we outlawed three-wheeled ATVs despite them being fun so it’s not an argument.
They should build a giant enclosure over the Kaaba so it can be air conditioned. Or at the very least put in those mister-fan combos all over the place that are in amusement parks.
There’s an insane amount of overlap of “those degenerate druggies deserve to rot in prison for life” and “weed should never have been illegal and we should legalize it” around where I live.
In fact, the thing that brought it to my attention in the first place was a family friend and I talking about people we knew in highschool, and he mentioned how one guy got arrested for having “half a dozen” (sidenote: I feel saying half a dozen is trying to make “six” sound more impressive) pot plants and obviously was a “major dealer”, and how he never would have guessed how evil some people are from how they were in highschool.
I asked him what ELSE he had to get 10 YEARS and of course the answer wasalong the lines of “no, that was it but what more do you need? Obviously a messed up guy”
And would you like to know why I called him a hypocritical piece of shit and decided to find someone else to talk to?
He pulls out a thc vape several times while we’re talking. You can’t mistake that smell for anything else.
I guess what makes men TRULY evil is whether mild thing they’re doing is currently illegal or not. When it’s legalized? Smoking is totally fine. When it’s illegal? Smoking is bad and you are evil for even considering it. Know your place, Peasant.
Back in the day, the plant cannabis was referred to as “marihuana” to associate its use with Mexicans, who were (are?) often maligned as migrants, itinerants, etc. Those people could then be made the subject of racist laws and wind up arrested or deported.
Stopping the use of a word that’s hit Kleenex level of saturation is a bigger deal than overturning 175 thousand bullshit convictions? That’s a hot take
Are you shitting me that you think changing a word with an association most people have never even heard is more important than hundreds of thousands of people in this instance and others having their lives measurably improved? Having a criminal record can literally ruin someone’s life. It impacts the jobs they can get and where they can live. Pardoning them for some shit that never should’ve been a crime to start with is a huge deal.
But for sure, tell all those people you’d pick changing the word for the drug over pardons. That’s a good call.
In case anyone wasn’t aware, no this didn’t go directly into the Biden campaign’s funds; it went into a SuperPAC hiding the source(s) behind serveral shell companies. SuperPACs, unlike PACs or individual donations have no contribution limit, and usually require no disclosure of source. Their only requirement is they act independently from the candidate they endorse, and so cannot directly coordinate. This of course is pretty much irrelevant as call-and-response akin to the whole, “Russia, if you’re listening…” can work just fine. Some may remember Colbert Report mocking this concept on a weekly basis.
This mostly a result of Citizens United v FEC and Speech Now v FEC, and traces back to Buckley v. Valeo.
Perhaps the single-most damaging action to our Democracy in decades. Thank conservatives.
Democrats must now play by the game in order to ever have a chance to win and change the rules.
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