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https://twitter.com/jwwr/status/1213369562499928064
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Frankly, the death penalty should be immediate or non-existent.

If it's a blight on the sanctity of life that a murderer should go on living long after their victim, then the murderer should be put to death as soon as possible. Conversely, if it's barbaric to execute someone today, then it's barbaric to execute someone in a decade from now. Death row only makes sense as a means of milking tax payer money in keeping the condemned alive for as long as possible.

"You took a life. For that, you will wait 20 years in a cell and then have your life taken from you."

The reason it takes so long is because of the appeals process, which pretty regularly results in death row inmates being exonerated.

I think the death penalty should be abolished, but a quick one would be one that kills more innocent people.
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A week later:

https://twitter.com/BenJ_Rosenblatt/status/1212423172932481030
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Hop103 posted...

should've had his trial months from now since Japan can only hold a suspect for up to 24 days without a trial.

He's not been held; he was out on bail
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50964040

He was once a titan of the car industry who held hero status in Japan. He then became one of the country's most well-known criminal suspects. Now he's an international fugitive.

Carlos Ghosn, the multi-millionaire former boss of Nissan, spent months preparing to stand trial on financial misconduct charges. At least, that was what the Japanese authorities were led to believe.

He posted 1bn yen (6.8m; $8.9m) in bail in April. He was monitored by a 24-hour camera installed outside his house. His use of technology was heavily restricted and he was banned from travelling abroad.

Then, in a move that left Japan red-faced and his own legal team baffled, he appeared in Lebanon on New Year's Eve. "I have escaped injustice and political persecution," he declared in a statement.

"We were completely caught by surprise. I am dumbfounded," his lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, told a crowd of reporters in Tokyo shortly after learning of Mr Ghosn's flight. "I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'"

One Lebanese TV channel - MTV - reported that Mr Ghosn had fled his court-approved residence in Tokyo with the assistance of a paramilitary group who were disguised amongst a band of musicians.

It said the band had performed at his house and, shortly after they had finished, the 65-year-old hid himself in a large musical instrument case which was then hurried to a local airport. If this really happened, it may have been a tight squeeze even for Mr Ghosn, whose height is reported at 5ft 6in (167cm).

According to the MTV story, he then flew to Turkey, before arriving in Lebanon on a private jet. The broadcaster provided no proof for this theory which, unsurprisingly, spread rapidly across social media.

But donning a spy-movie disguise is not beyond Mr Ghosn. In March, in a bid to throw journalists off his scent, he left prison disguised as a construction worker. He was quickly identified, mocked in the media, and his lawyer soon apologised for the "amateur plan".
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The newspaper, which cited a number of unidentified sources, said a team was carefully assembled to carry out the plot. The group reportedly included accomplices in Japan who transported Mr Ghosn from his house and onto a private jet bound for Istanbul. From there, he continued his journey to Beirut where he arrived in the early hours of 30 December.

The plane tracking site FlightRadar24 showed a a Bombardier Challenger private jet arriving at Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport shortly after 04:00 local time. Mr Ghosn then met his wife Carole, who was born in the city and was heavily involved in the operation, the Wall Street Journal says.

Several reports have said Carole Ghosn was a major figure behind the plan for her husband to skip bail and get out of Japan. She spoke with him for more than an hour on 24 December, Mr Ghosn's Japanese lawyer said. The couple had previously been banned from meeting or communicating under Mr Ghosn's strict bail conditions.

After her husband arrived in Lebanon, Mrs Ghosn told the Wall Street Journal that their reunion was "the best gift of my life". She has not commented on her alleged involvement in the operation.

Earlier this year she told the BBC: "I want my husband back. I want him with me. I know he is innocent."

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Why?
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They don't call it impossible for nothing.
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It's a good game, even if I never got far into the Lair itself
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When you're right, you're right
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Watch Dogs Legion
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metallica846 posted...

We could literally ass blast Iran for months before moving in. It won't happen, but all these people saying we would lose to Iran are insane. The US hasn't even shown it's true potential against a stronger enemy because we have been blowing up empty huts in Afghanistan for almost 20 years.

How's that been going for us?
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https://twitter.com/lukezim/status/1212170138885246981
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Technically even if he loses, he wouldn't leave office until January 20th or so of 2021
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Crime is at like 50 year lows
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Probably gonna be Smash ultimate
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Tulsi supporter logic
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2020 is not in the 2010s, don't be a pedant.
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MaverickXeo posted...

Then why was she protesting pipelines? Pipelines would reduce emissions substantially - but she is opposed to them.

The creation of more fossil fuel infrastructure will lock us in to decades of emissions down the road; companies aren't building these just to shut them down in 10 years.
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MaverickXeo posted...

That said, as long as it benefits her or her team, she doesn't care about the environment. Also, whenever there is something that affects the environment but is NOT related to oil, she is no where to be seen.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/no-injuries-in-b-c-train-derailment-environmental-crews-assessing-impacts-cn No mention of this ANYWHERE despite the fact that it could completely destroy an entire eco-system.

You're misleadingly conflating separate issues that are only tangentially related in that they're both about the environment. Greta's concern is climate change; while trash or train derailments are bad, they generally aren't responsible for putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It's like being upset that cancer researchers aren't also researching heart disease because both are diseases.
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Celeste
Assassins Creed Odyssey
Ori and the Blind Forest
Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Into the Breach
Fire Emblem Three Houses (Golden Deer, Blue Lions)
Super Mario Maker 2 (story mode)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Kirby's Adventure
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
Untitled Goose Game
Life is Strange 2
Ape Out
Super Mario Odyssey
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Good topic
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No, it's for train scheduling
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I got it (New Leaf) for her for Christmas, and I wasn't sure how she'd take to it since she's mostly played platformers to this point. She's a bit confused about what her goals are now that she's built a house, but seems to really be enjoying the game.
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Really good game, one of my favorites of the year
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Humble pie
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Welcome to the 2020s
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Was this the one where the cops daughter confirmed that hes a piece of shit?

Different pig
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FIFA was about the only game I played at college. Since then, Forza (particularly Horizon) has been my most played series.
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https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1211819910617276423

Lot going on here
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Hitman 2 for me
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https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1211781268922359810

great
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You hate to see it.
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There is a difference between using power for good things and using power for bad things. They are not the same.
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The last time we had a cross-party presidential ticket was Lincoln's re-election. Andrew Johnson was a disaster on a number of levels as president, and was the first to be impeached.
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Ryuko_Chan posted...

who are you and why are you angry

That's a mirror
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https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1211744920823721984
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https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1211749114553102336
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This topic made me smile
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God bless
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I've been tempted to get one, but haven't.
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coh posted...

It's funny how the generation that literally fought fascism would be considered fascists by today's standards

Nobody in their 60s fought any Nazis.
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Mario+Rabbids is great
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I have about 35ish characters unlocked so far, but mainly I've been sticking to the ones I'm familiar with from Melee/Brawl (Young Link and Captain Falcon seem to have clicked for me better than most others).

I'm not looking to be "competitive" by any stretch, but I would like to improve. What should I be doing with these characters or just in general beyond my current approach of "hope my opponent walks into a smash attack?"
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What you chose not to copy and pasting seems noteworthy

Instead of characters driven by real feelings, therefore, the guiding hand of normalcy pulls the characters along through narratives and unsurprisingly, that idea of normalcy doesnt have a lot of room for the true diversity of American experiences.

This much is evident in the efforts to include Jewish characters in recent Hallmark holiday movies which, by all accounts, seems like a complete disaster in part because the rule of normalcy reorients everything towards a very narrow, sentimentalized version of Christmas.

In the Hallmark-Lifetime Cinematic Universe, Hanukkah and the characters who celebrate it exist only in relation to Christmas, Nancy Coleman of th New York Times complained, adding that the Hallmark movie Holiday Date could, with remarkably little editing turn into a Jewish Get Out.'

Britni de la Cretaz, writing for the Washington Post, not only complained that the Jewish Hallmark movies were Christmas movies with Jewish characters, but also that the movies rely on some of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes in the book, such as painting one Jewish character as the perpetual outsider who is sneaky, untrustworthy.

The drama hinges on Jewish characters being compelled to observe Christmas, and the tension resolves only when these outsiders learn how to participate in or appreciate the dominant religious tradition, she adds.
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If you dont believe me, listen to authoritarians themselves. At the Federalist, which is ground zero website for generating frankly fascist culture war arguments, Hans Fiene argues that, culturally speaking, Hallmark Christmas movies are noticeably Christian.

By this, Fiene isnt talking about characters who actually go to church or pray even self-identified conservative Christians dont want to see that but a set of patriarchal and authoritarian values that are more about white evangelicals defining themselves as an ethnic group, and not about a genuine feeling of spirituality.

The movies always depict a heroine who begins the story loving her self-involved life in the city chooses family and a life of self-sacrifice in her hometown, he writes, arguing that its the last remaining hideout for those who want a fantasy of a world where the cynicism and immorality of modern life arent allowed. By cynicism and immmorality, Fiene explains hes talking about fornication and acceptance of sexual deviants, by which he means LGBTQ people.

None of this, of course, means that everyone who watches Hallmark Christmas movies is some kind of fledgling fascist. These movies are not for me, but I believe people when they say they find it relaxing to watch these predictable movies that have low stakes because none of the characters feel like real people. Ive got my own flavors of trashy entertainment I fully enjoy without mistaking it for high art. (Baby Yoda, whats up?)

Still, its critical to be mindful of the role that Hallmark movies are actually playing in our society. The very fact that theyre presented as harmless fluff makes it all the more insidious, the way they work to enforce very narrow, white, heteronormative, sexist, provincial ideas of what constitutes normal.

Its easy to spot fascist propaganda when its goose-stepping Pepe-the-frog memes. Its a lot harder to notice how its working when its tied up in Christmas cheer and suggesting grinchhood of anyone who questions the rigidity of its worldview.

As University of Richmond communications professor Nicole Maurantonio wrote in a recent piece exposing the sneakily racist propaganda of Confederate-themed Christmas ornaments, seemingly apolitical objects like cookbooks, toys and Christmas ornaments commemorating Confederate history serve to normalize, and in doing so, make white supremacy seem less harmful than it actually is.

Decide for yourself whether any of this critique is unreasonable or not, but it's not based on nothing.
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78291386/932211865
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