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Well done, sir!

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If I'd known there was going to be a pop quiz, I would have studied.

Instant apology if someone has done this lame-o joke already. I obviously didn't study either. Can I copy off you?

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Hey, we tried doing things the smart, competent way for years! Why not give bumbling cruelty a chance to show us what ignoramuses can do, for a change?

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I did it to get here. Overnight in NM. Beautiful county. And he's white, so stopping for gas shouldn't result in hassle (my queer ass, meanwhile...)

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The thing is this will keep happening if the United States doesn't get it's mess together. When I moved to this country they put me in the 9th grade at age 12. I didn't know any better I thought high school was super easy and took Honor's classes because I always did. Coming from what was then considered a still developing country to the United States I skated though high school and graduated at 16 with scholarships to college. I found most of my education easy and I live in New York which has higher standards for education than Alabama. Both my parents work in hospitals most of the doctors are some sort of Asian or Nigerian and the doctors that are American are mostly second generation immigrants.

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I drove from Houston to Oakland. Twice. There were some pretty bits, but the vast nothingnesses got a little dull after a while. The 2nd trip we didn't even have satellite radio, and the choices between Praize Jayzsus and RWNJ radio stations gave me the twitches.Good Messican food at a little place in Gallup, so that was encouraging.

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Yes, let's break everything, damn the fallout or all those who would end up homeless and without food in hopes a bunch of people move elsewhere. And is breaking the economy/government not what the current admin is trying to do?

Why is burning everything down a better option than working towards a better immigration system allowing more people into the country to balance out that human deficit? How is nihilism ever the better option?

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Computer programming 101:

X = X+1

Subtract X from both sides...

(X - X) = (X + 1 - X)

0 = 1

What kind of Socery is this??!?!?https://media2.giphy.com/me...

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One of my Muslim co-workers yesterday told me I don't know what I'm talking about regarding a technical question that I know more about and have more experience doing, hahahahaha.

I'm guessing he voted for Trump and thinks he'll get special privileges when shit starts going down.https://media3.giphy.com/me...

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Also he is probably unsure of the definition of 'recuse'.

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There are two types of naval vessels: submarines and targets.

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from The Book of Wonderfulness™

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould

[ of course . . .

"Jay Gould had just then reversed the commercial morals of the United States. He had put a blight upon them from which they have never recovered, and from which they will not recover for as much as a century to come. Jay Gould was the mightiest disaster to ever befallen this country. The people had desired money before his day, but he taught them to fall down and worship it. They had respected men of means before his day, but along with this respect was joined the respect due the character and industry which had accumulated it. But Jay Gould taught the entire nation to make a god of the money and the man, no matter how the money might have been acquired. In my youth there was nothing resembling a worship of money or of its possessor, in our region. And in our region, no well-to-do man was ever charged with having acquired his money by shady methods.

The gospel left behind by Jay Gould is doing giant work these days. Its message is “Get money. Get it quickly. Get it in abundance. Get it in prodigious abundance. Get it dishonestly if you can, honestly if you must.” - Samuel L. Clemens]

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It is also, too, possible I missed sarcasm as sometimes happens to me here. JIC

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as soon as a defense contractor says "i've got an idea" . . . ?

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