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71dd20bf | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Just a United States senator making terroristic threats.

It's OK. It's not like he's doing something really bad liking selling loose cigarettes.

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71dd20bf | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a short statement Monday morning, "My message is simple: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law."

No matter how much money YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE, no one is above the law.

Chef's kiss.
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StillIRise1963 | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 It's hard to say whether your children will survive climate change, since nothing is being done a...
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71dd20bf | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3967703f 

It’s not that hard. 

Except: If they’re killed by an unregulated driverless car does that count as “surviving” climate change just because they died before the final inferno?
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Brendan Halpin | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 My younger daughter introduced me to the (possibly archaic) Scots phrase "hurkle durkle" which me...
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71dd20bf | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3ba5878d 

Really hard to build a political movement out of hurkle durkle. I have some experience trying to build one around procrastination.