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…and the government could be hiding the existence of alien life because it would change the way people view religion and threaten this control.

I feel like the headline was leaving out the main idea he was getting at.

It looks like this would apply to any item used to conceal one’s identity. So, it’s possible that all of those things could be included.

Exactly. So I think it would have been more helpful to just jump to the explanation. Just say “But protests are meant to be disruptive because that is how they draw attention to the issue being protested.” There is no need to question the knowledge of the commenter. Just present the information that you think they don’t have. Even if the person you’re replying to isn’t interested, the info will be there for others and may lead to more conversation.

do you know how protests work

This does not sound like an honest attempt at communication. Why would you even ask this unless you thought the person did not know? Yet you don’t offer any explanation of how you think protests work that might actually create a conversation. It may not be what you intended, but I interpreted your question as nothing more than a personal insult to the person who made the original comment. The equivalent of replying, “you don’t know what you’re talking about.” That sort of reply might be true, and I would probably even agree with it in the comment you linked, but it’s still not helpful in any way and kind of makes you seem like a jerk looking for an argument. So, to answer your question, I will often downvote a comment like this because it does nothing to make a positive contribution, and I would likely not explain why because I try to limit my interactions with people who are acting like argumentative jerks.

S - KEY - U - M - BAG

I think the article is fine. It’s just the reality that makes no sense. A bunch of social media celebrities agreed to join an esports league where the celebrities would manage the teams. People could buy a pass for each celebrity that would let them vote on team decisions and give them other benefits. The company selling the passes used blockchain authentication for them. They were also, separately, involved in NFTs. People saw blockchain and NFT and thought “wait a minute, the passes are NFTs? Aren’t NFTs a big scam? These passes are a scam!” Then the celebrities saw the outrage and said “What?! No one told me there would be crypto-blockchain-NFTs!” They then dropped out of the league and it was indefinitely postponed. Unless by “actual problem” you meant something that was meaningful in anyway to anyone not directly involved in this nonsense. In that case, no, there was none of that.

Totally disingenuous. He’s just being a carny. Talk shit about Shelbyville when you’re in Springfield and talk shit about Springfield when you’re in Shelbyville.

You had a major league scumbag come from Clay County.

I’m not sure obvious pandering and turning Floridians against each other is the best solution.

getting someone sacked for having a bad day is a scummy thing to do

It is, but only because losing a job means that person might now lose access to food, housing, and healthcare. That’s a really steep price to pay for what could be an isolated incident. But that’s not something to lay at the feet of the person tipping here. They are also a victim of the structure we’ve created. They need to choose between shutting up and accepting verbal abuse in their own home or speaking out and possibly triggering events that ruin the delivery driver’s life? Neither of those choices are acceptable.

Looks like this might apply only to individual tweets. If you want to view someone’s main page, you still have to sign in.

It’s also possible that the vessel is at or near the surface

NPR has someone on that had done the trip and said there are multiple systems in place to surface the sub in an emergency, including some that happen automatically. So there’s a very good chance that they’re at the surface, but still very hard to find because it’s a 20-ft sub in a huge search area. And they’re still running out of air because the hatch must be opened from the outside.

this is all pretty standard shit

But the ICWA requires a higher standard of evidence. So what might be considered typical is not enough. And those were the circumstances when the children were taken away. Her parental rights were terminated 9 months later with no consideration of any changes that had occurred.

crying racism since the state took her kids.

The state also returned her kids. Two courts ruled that they shouldn’t have been taken away. And she never cried racism. ProPublica is the one pointing out that this is an example of a systemic issue in South Dakota that is disproportionately hurting Native Americans.

This is bizarre to me. I can understand that a person could see a child that doesn’t look like what they would expect a little girl to look like. But how is the next thought I must have proof of what this child’s genitals look like instead of maybe I should reevaluate my expectations.

I think all the 24-hour news outlets are garbage, but this doesn’t seem like their regular nonsense. Even the article states that this was “unusually strong” for Fox News. So, either they are turning up the volume of their rhetoric, or someone behind the scenes let slip the kind of thoughts that are behind their presentation of events but they usually try to keep hidden in public. Both of those possibilities seem worth noting as long as these types of news sources are so prominent.

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