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MRH, the anthem of the French student riots: “Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras at the Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.” Mohammed Merah executed three French Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8 years old. He chased the 8 year old French Jewish girl and grabbed her by the hair, paused to reload, then shot her in the head. Salah Abdeslam meanwhile was the only surviving member of the 10-man ISIS cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks including the massacre at the Bataclan. Murdered 130 people, injured more than 490. Get this absolute SCUM out of your country, France.

Have you ever considered how much time and effort you expend each day just to not be scammed? You assume every call from an unknown number is a scam, so you don’t answer. You can’t even answer calls with your area code, because you know the scammers spoof those. Any e-mail from an unknown sender, especially if it contains links or attachments, is probably a scam, so you have to mark as spam and delete. How about the insane number of text messages you have to delete and spam block each day? And then there’s the mail, which is nothing but scam solicitations for car warranty service or absurd attempts to buy your land for a dollar per acre. You probably also get hit up by beggars outside stores or on street corners as you drive to work. Or if you have to get a ride, you suddenly have to worry if the Uber or Lyft or cab driver is a scammer. If you order food for delivery, is it going to show up or will you be extorted into an exorbitant tip to make sure it’s not cold and an hour late? Did the post office really try to deliver that package while you sat in your living room waiting for it all day, or did a lazy driver just lie about that because he didn’t feel like working today? But wait, there’s more! Every idiot and his cousin now seem to have their own crypto scam coin, not to mention all the precious metal hustlers offering you pennies on the dollar. And don’t get me started on the reverse mortgages designed to steal your parents’ or grandparents’ homes from them. Plus we have all the new Medicaid and Medicare and hospice and Quality Learing center scams run by foreign gangs and bubblehead cartels, all of which are supported and enabled by the politicians whose palms are getting greased by the scammers. I swear it feels like half of American life revolves around avoiding the scamming behavior now endemic in our country, and the other half is spent working so half my salary can be sent right to the tax leech scammers responsible for all the insanity. It wasn’t like this 20 years ago, and it sure as heck wasn’t like this 40 years ago. The politician who runs for office promising to nuke the foreign call centers, execute the scammers, deport the foreign leeches, and to cut off the 4-5 countries everyone knows is responsible for all the scammery from the Internet entirely would instantly be the most popular American leader in history. A massive chunk of daily American life revolves around avoiding foreign scammers, and it has to stop. Close the borders, deport the scammers, and nuke the call centers. It’s the most simple formula to political victory possible. We just need someone to finally do it and end the madness.

u cannot call urself a farmers market and most of the ppl are selling trinkets. why is there only two food stands……where are the farmers.

Most Americans have no idea just how two-tiered the justice system is.

Try finding details of happened at Bataclan theatre massacre. Mass media made it seem like a mass shooting. The jihadis walked around castrating men and sodomizing corpses. They were skinning people alive. You won't find this reported anywhere.

They have one or two children because their children are like this and because they don’t want to have pop tarts for breakfast. This is just selection bias.

I never really thought about how social security, its mere existence, gave permission to an entire generation to mistreat their kids. Boomers knew they were getting government handouts, and knew that even if they mistreated their children they would still get money and the government would “take care of them”. This removed their incentive to keep their extended families intact. For human history the elderly were taken care of by their families. So people had an incentive to not burn bridges. Then the government came along and destroyed that incentive. It was likely an unintended consequence but it’s where we are now as a society. An entire generation demanding handouts from the children they neglected, with no interest in legacy, seeing their bloodline succeed, or dying surrounded by people who love them. They just want more money, less responsibility, and more resources when they aren’t actually contributing anything back to society anymore all because of a government program. They put their faith in an institution that doesn’t even care about them instead of their own children and families.

"The rise in sexual assaults by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism." This is not a joke. This is a real article, published by a black-led publication company. It suggests that a rape can be viewed as quasi-consensual because of "language barriers" and that a migrant raping you can be viewed as a "romantic gesture". Also, the sexual assault of a white woman can lead to "lasting love". We have DEI rape now. And you're racist if you're against migrant rape!

Found my husband’s alt

Tired of this excuse. First of all, social security is not something you “pay into.” If it were, you wouldn’t need younger people to “pay into it” in order to get your check. But you do. Because this is a Ponzi scheme, not a retirement account. What you really mean to say is that your money was stolen from you — which it was — and now you want to steal from younger people to get restitution. That’s the actual case you’re making and it’s exactly as morally deranged as it sounds. Second, your generation continually for decades voted for politicians who would keep the scheme going. You might not have invented social security, but you damn sure made certain it kept going. Why should younger people have to pay the price for the shitty policies you supported? Third, you “paid into” social security in a different time. The country is now bankrupted and 40 trillion dollars in debt, and basic things like housing are prohibitively expensive. It wasn’t like that when you were young, because your generation of leadership created this problem. So the theme here is that there are a bunch of problems you guys either created or contributed to. You can choose to pay the price for that now, or force your grandchildren to pay the price so you can live comfortably until you die and leave them holding the bag. You’ve chosen the latter, and I think that’s wrong. Simple as that.

🚨BREAKING: The Congolese migrant who beat the Swedish off-duty policeman Christian Zedig to death in a FIFA World Cup fan zone in Copenhagen has been sentenced to 1 year in prison. He gets 1 year A family loses their man for life How is this fair?

6-year-old after shooting his teacher: “Fuck you, nigga. Shut the fuck up, ho. I stole dat gun from my mama. I don’t care if I go to jail.” This person cannot be rehabilitated and is guaranteed to kill in the future. This mother and absent father deserve the death penalty.

Where did you think the term budgie smuggler originated from, huh?

You guys talking about the old folks again, I always just remember this that someone told me once: "When you're talking to young folks, they will tell you the days they have conflicts. When you're talking to retirees, they'll tell you the days they are free"

On average, Boomers are getting paid more from Social Security than they “paid into it.” A lot more. Like double, and that’s counting inflation and interest. In raw dollars, they’ll get four to seven times what they paid in. So what about this compromise, to at least stave off insolvency and save billions: you get back what you paid in, but no more. Young families won’t be forced to finance a 250 percent return on your “investment.” That seems extremely reasonable, doesn’t it? It doesn’t go nearly as far as I would like. But it’s a very fair compromise. It completely negates any claim that you didn’t get the money back that you “paid in.” And yet I suspect that this comprise will not be satisfactory. Why is that? Because this debate actually has nothing to do with “getting back what you paid in.” The REAL demand is for a lot more than that.

Irish state media turns off comments because they don’t want folks to know that a Nigerian asylum seeker who’d been in Ireland less than a year, was able to afford a BMW which he then crashed and caused the death of a local Irish man.

Let's turn this around and see whether you feel the same way when you're old and decrepit and you need someone to help feed you and bathe you. "Daughters are not free eldercare. They have their own lives to live. Just because they're there doesn't mean you have 24/7 access to their time." The utter disdain that boomers have for their children and grandchildren is despicable and must be studied. I don't know the OP but I highly doubt this is a situation in which she is taking advantage of her mother and demanding free childcare on a regular basis. Your generation is just allergic to helping family members in the most basic of ways. My parents are unicorn boomers who lend a hand on a pretty regular basis, but I'm hearing more and more stories like this one.

Where the flip did this narrative come from that grandparents don’t help with grandkids? I’m a historian, and I can assure you, grandparents have been an integral part of child rearing for centuries. This “grandparents don’t owe you shit” is a distinctly 21st century narrative.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles