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Those people you claimed were cartel when they probably weren't wasn't "nothing." Nabs is a worthless leech, but he's not wrong: I could have sent a bunch of ICE agents after some guys just because you can't handle your shit and made a wild accusation.

You screwed us all over, and it has nothing to do with your pal Fuggs.

I don't know if that was stilgar's point, but the "black lives matter" part of the discussion was kind of reductive and mostly unnecessary to her point. That being said, I'm not entirely sure if this is a valid debate, as in I don't know if any women have been specifically accused of TERFism just by saying pregnant women. The Hawley debate is more about him grandstanding to sidetrack the discussion than it is any concerted effort to make the term inclusive .

Obviously. Corporations have been gambling on how long the could keep wages suppressed before there was long term damage to the economy.

Setting a proper living wage has been neglected for way too long.

The economy is a notorious political bell-weather. It ends up being a high-stakes shell game for whichever side wants to wield it like a cudgel: there are so many data points to follow that bad faith actors can easily point to the one that they can tie back to their intended target while ignoring all of the other relative data points. Unfortunately, inflation being worse than reported means that average voters are being hurt even more, and they're not likely to look to individual companies for relief.

Instead of bothering Pat with your inane questions, @Nablonsky, why don't you just archive all your greatest hits now? Nothings stopping you, you know.

Chill. I'm happy for the dude no matter what happened. I don't even need the deets - as long as he had a great time, I'm cool with it.

Well, I mean it has to be worth the wait.

Ghosty doesn't dismember his friends.

Exactly, you never mix business with pleasure. So, did you pack her pita with your sausage?

She had meat in her mouth all night long.

There you go.

In Los Angeles no less, as does Chevron. And, they do in fact sell to other brands for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is proximity and local fuel requirements. The point is that multiple stations generally get fuel from the same refinery, which means that cost is shared across multiple stations, making the individual discrepancies localized as opposed to systematic. Where a station is on a delivery route is a factor, as well as the rent on the particular plot.

To be fair, he’s probably more concerned with getting the California amendment passed and, frankly, getting people to move to California.

I don’t know if he has explicitly. I don’t think so only because it hasn’t come up, and currently only health care providers are liable.

Considering the DOJ doesn't have much standing to determine it, I don't think they can. What I want to know is how or even if a state like California will comply with potential extradition requests.

Will Smith absolutely faced consequences. And all that's fine if you're going to comedy show, not the Academy Awards. He wasn't on stage for a comedy set, he was on stage to present an award. He contributed to that moment being ruined by making the joke in the first place and he exposed a whole lot of people not just in attendance but watching on TV to a joke they were not there to hear. Edit: Also, you don't get to kill this debate just because you're not willing to budge on your point.

Clearly, his opinions were also influenced by general ignorance.

Yeah, but you shouldn't defend the right to tell those jokes. Maybe telling a bad joke doesn't equate to being assaulted, but it certainly doesn't come without consequences, and, so far, Chris Rock has faced no consequences for it. This isn't just someone telling a fucking dud of a joke, it's someone making fun of a physical affliction. Do you think it's just a bad joke is someone makes a joke about Michael J Fox's Parkinsons?

Will Smith being wrong isn't in question, it's whether Chris Rock was also wrong.

Bullshit.

First of all "alopecia" really just means hair loss, and obviously, that refers to anyone who experiences it. For most people, it can be attributed to another cause (severe obesity, chemotherapy, genetic traits), but it appears to be more common in black women who don't otherwise have the usual physiological factors. The causes of it are not fully known yet, but it's a well known fact in the African American community that women run a heightened risk of losing their hair for no discernible reason.

You were definitely mad at being called white passing. You could sense the shift in tone in your posts.

Well it kind of started because you were dismissive of the racial ramifications of Rock’s joke. It’s never just a joke when you’re dealing with race specific health conditions, and It’s all the worse because it’s reducing JPS’s severe anxiety about the condition to a punchline. Some jokes do cut worse than others and there are boundaries to what a comedian can joke about. Like you said, two wrongs don’t make a right, but you were racially insensitive in making that argument in the first place.