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Yikes.

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Bezos should just buy AMI and fire Pecker!

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I thought that as well.

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Kitty and I are surrounded by them.

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I was so surprised the restore felon rights passed. I figured most just voted yes to everything.If they restore felons rights (as they should) it would stop so many republicans from getting elected, as long as we show up at the polls.

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Litttle old trumpettes.

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The Republican Legislature is fully aware of that and is fighting it tooth and nail. SOP GOP voter-suppression...

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Pathogenic bacteria = the rich. Live off the rest of us and make us sick.

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Seen any lately? Inhumanity seems more prevalent.

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Where can one invest in tumbrel futures? Looks like a growth area.

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The Kingdom's cyber goons got to work sliming "the same Jew who attacks us by day, and sells us products by night!" (Paging Jared Kushner -- looks like your BFF is maybe not a great lover of Israel after all.)

I'd like to point out a distinction here, if I may. Mohamed bin Bonesaw's trolls are going after Bezos for being Jewish. That's anti-Semitism as defined (which is a little funny because I've heard people say that Arabs are Semitic people too; not that I cared enough to verify because that's the kind of crap we're trying to get rid of, outside the study of Anthropology).

It does follow that an anti-Jewish bigot as MbS appears to be would hate the nation-state of Israel also, because it's really Jewy.

However, antagonism toward the nation-state of Israel does not require or imply anti-Jewish bigotry. The nation-state of Israel seems likely to incarcerate Netanyahu. The most adamant opposition to the policies of the current Administration of the nation-state of Israel are Israeli citizens in opposition.

TL;DR: All A's are B's. But not all B's are A's.

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Gavin de Becker? I am calling da bullshit on that name. You can only stretch my credulity so far; not buyin' it!!!

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The Aristocrats!

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I've watched this saga with interest. Bezos is not my ideal of great man but I do admire how he has grasped capitalism by the ass and made it work for him--not my first pick of how to go about life but he used what he had. He's a greedy greedy nerd; he had a mid-life crisis and, and as is so often true, in his low-dick faze picked a hottie without much thought. Seen this a hundred times. Optimistic me, I think he bought WAPO because he supports great investigative news. I champion him in that. And thank him for his dollars. WAPO is the only paper, because of course, that pushed on and on in the Khashoggi murder--As America turns a blind eye and our president slips some nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Can you say ambivalent? I'm leaning towards a decent newspaper.

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swmnguy's comment caused me to do some research on Semitics. I had no idea. It appears to be separated by language and Arabic IS Semitic. Yiddish is from Germanic background. I had no idea. I'm going to look into this further. But is fun to know that in Saudi Arabia they're dissing a nice non-Jewish boy for being...well, Jewish I guess.

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[blushes gratefully for the honour]

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