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The fact that they can't go to school without fearing being shot and then spending their lives learning how to accept the prospect of a low waged job and then being fleeced by a corrupt government may have something to do with it.
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If their loss to supply chains could have such a devastating effect on the economy, maybe they should be given respect and enough money to live on for their services? We all rely on countless low-paid workers for the goods and services we need. Support the workers not greedy corporations!
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I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never been bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is like that of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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I've often said, with all the problems of modern life what this world really needs is more squirrel cinemas...
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Pink Floyd are deeper than the Mariana trench, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen and more zen than 1,000 Buddhist monasteries...
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Healthcare is a human right not an opportunity for the wealthy to profit. We pay a multitude of taxes for services and infrastructure as part of a civilized society. This should include health, education, services and basic human rights or the contract between a government and its people is null and void. In the UK our NHS is slowly being drowned by for-profit organisations taking a larger piece of the budget. Most Europeans are horrified by the amount of profiteering in the American system...
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Good job America, keep manifesting that destiny and protecting the second amendment by sacrificing children and the innocent on the alter of brutal ignorance and apathy. It's a lot easier than changing legislation to improve gun controls - like a sensible, mature country...
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Now, this is a story all about how, Will's life just flipped, turned upside down. Chris made a cheap joke, about Jada's hair. Then took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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I don't seem to be able to type this without being filtered "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like..." So ill try in quotes...
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@ImperiumMagistrate He's filed for bankruptcy 6 times on his corporations. Which cost the US taxpayer and the unpaid workers. Stop trying to use semantics to try and defend him... It's just sad...
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~Just a guess but is it because America's prison system is privately run for profit and does that explain why the US has the highest incarceration rates globally? Maybe there is something wrong with your society considering all the mass shootings? just maybe because your country has been a corporation since 1913 when the FED was created is the starting point of the calamity... Like I said, just guessing...
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America the world is laughing, sort yourselves out!
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A little bit of trivia for the Americans. After the clusterfk of Brexit, the Tories claimed we could recoup some of our losses via a new trade deal with Tuvalu which is a collection of 9 islands with a population of under 12,000 and part of the British Commonwealth. That didn't age well! On a serious note, good luck Tuvalu with this project and the evacuation.
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My grandparents never used pesticides and yet they ate organic vegetables every day, straight from the garden. Although they didn't call them organic, they just called them vegetables...
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@jackaljade Reread my comment and accept it's media hype. The term is being abused to demonise anything to do with freedom, equality and decency.
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I'm glad that was to honour his father. At first, I thought America was upping the stakes on the school shootings...
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@Omar Aguirre Which one? ;-)
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@emaarredondo-librarian I'm not American and agree with you. We have healthcare, working rights, holidays, maternity and paternity leave, sickpay etc in the UK. Although the Conservatives are trying to take it from us.
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I made an invisible shield years ago, unfortunately, I can't find it...
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Some people have too much money and not enough self-control...
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Let's all worship vacuous celebs and help them overcome their poverty by rewarding them with a token of our appreciation for the groundbreaking work they do in portraying human beings. Not everyone can play pretend as an adult, it takes a special kind of person to do that. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good series or film, but I'd rather humanity reward humanity, let's put low waged mental health workers, carers, nurses and doctors on a pedestal. Let's reward compassion and decency and the willingness to do humble work like building, cleaning, serving, repairing and producing goods for society.
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Here's the complete explanation for the hard of thinking "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like.." Nothing to do with economic or political ideology, it's just being used as a catchall phrase to demonise anyone with decency and morality...
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@thebigpicture2032 lol sure... I mean seriously he's been caught out more times than a naughty teenager...
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I just wish we could find even more destructive, backward, inhumane ways to increase shareholder profits from the farming industry. Is there room for a little more cruelty? maybe we could just stick animals in their own diseased faeces and beat them relentlessly? oh no, we already do that. Maybe we could pump them full of drugs and toxins that stay in their system and end up in our food chain? nope, already do that too... and yes this is called sarcasm...
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@brandontrammel4581 It seems my second reply has been deleted. Forgot this is an American news channel and therefore censored to keep the population compliant. Check out his failures in Buenos Aries protecting child abusers and refusing to meet with the victims.
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@jackaljade lol, you have no idea about M and clearly don't understand the huge conflation and contradiction. PS Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make some a M, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... An elephant...
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@jackaljade It's impossible to argue with ignorance and a lack of logic and reason on that scale. Your conflations defy the laws of even mental gymnastics. Trying to debate you would be like trying to teach a fish calligraphy...
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@jackaljade Like I said, trying to debate you would mean correcting all your conflicts and conflations plus your lack of understanding and logic. Therefore even before I try to debate I'd have to spend 3 decades correcting your erroneous beliefs. About as pointless as an ashtray on the international space station...
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Frankie Boyle was on a comedy quiz show on British TV and the task was to make jokes about famous last words. He said the following: "Stingrays love foreplay."
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@jozz2248 He's done a lot to cover up child abusers too. Very progressive.
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Such a shame fruit and vegetables don't just grow on their own and can't be planted in neighbourhoods when they're built...
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6,000 miles from the US.
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@tonyaduvall49 My point is a general point about needing to rely on low-paid workers, whether it's manufacturing, litter collectors, waste disposal or service industries. The system would grind to a halt without any of those vital functions. Yet the US has one of lowest pay structures in a civilised society. Most of us in Europe have maternity leave, sick pay, holiday pay, free healthcare and lots of other benefits that are simply non-existent on the lower end of the spectrum in the states.
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They kicked me off Twitter years ago for using facts and stats while being mean to the right. I don't want to sound bitter but I'd be happy if it collapses under the weight of its own duplicity and biases...
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Pesticide use by country shows the USA are second only to China, you use 407,779 tons per annum... India is 13th, Japan is 14th, S.Korea is 24th.
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@amynoah1621 lol you mean ignore every relevant detail until the USA are no longer the second-largest user of pesticides by actual amount of pesticides used? The US also imports 15% of its food.
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@ImperiumMagistrate It's semantics mate, don't try and justify your comment. His corporations, his losses and he walks away leaving the American taxpayer to pick up the pieces and causing other businesses to go bankrupt. Yes, Trump is a confidence trickster, a snake-oil salesman, every venture has failed and cost the American taxpayer...
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@b.41879 You don't seem to understand words or their implications, you clearly said "you really might want to educate yourself about it rather than assuming or guessing" Implying that I'm ignorant... And yes, conversing with someone with a higher IQ than a dead possum may be pointless for you. Hope your day is as nice as you are ;)
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Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses... RATM
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@Hertz2laugh Your argument also works for humans, we are all going to die no matter what, either cancer or a car accident, or brutally murdered in a robbery... I used to work in butchers I've been veggie for 35 years. If we went back in time I wouldn't have a problem hunting animals for food out of necessity. No form of farming is cute and cuddly, farmers slaughter piglets before they are old enough to have had a nice life, suckling pig for example. I was simply pointing out the contradiction in your comment. Yes, small farms that give their animals a decent life is better than industrial farming, but the end result remains the same.
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Is Chicango somewhere near New Nyork?
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Books should be categorised to avoid youngsters being exposed to adult content and I'm sure they are even in the US. Banning books is the regressive action of people who try to control information, usually conservative, usually religious types. Have they never read the Old Testament? by their own standards that would be the first book to be banned. Such a shame that a minority of ignorant and unintelligent primatives control the narrative of a country and the availability of knowledge.
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I know this one I think. Is it because you have a society full of macho aggressive semi-sentient halfwits who drink a lot and carry a gun with them when they pop out to the grocery store?
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America sold its soul to the bible belt and gun lobbies decades ago. What's left belongs to Wall ST and corporations...
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I'm just glad she didn't get all emotional and make herself look unbalanced...
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@amynoah1621 It took the EPA 14 years of public pressure to ban chlorpyrifos in food usage. In 2016 the USA used more than 320 million pounds of pesticides that were banned in the EU. Please stop this, research is quite easy to do and I'm bored of correcting you...
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@amynoah1621 India is a South Asian country, S.Korea is an East Asian nation, Japan is an East Asian country. It is only China that uses more pesticides than the US and is 2.2% larger in landmass. You should just accept your generalisation is incorrect and move on. Anyway, I'm bored of circular debate. All the best Amy!
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@danielmiller9012 Agreed he (failed to) served 5 times despite having horrendous feet injuries (according to a pediatrist in the employ of his father) and being in college at the time. lol good one I forgot about that :)
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@theme6590 I try to keep up with news on former colonies ;) ~Yes I'm a Brit and no I don't support colonial attitudes, just joking as I've nothing better to do in feudal Britain as our new King is the only thing on the news...
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Who Dis? lol you could have typed something intelligent or witty. Instead you're happy to blame the left for the cowardice of the right, keep using children as sheilds to protect your rights, you disgust me.
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@shakalakboom Shh, if you have nothing intelligent to type then save the internet your ignorance. The virus was a travesty but is just a symptom of a larger disease...
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@shakalakboom You missed the point, everything I said went over your head and your word substitution was naive and dumb. Don't try and analyse me, I'm 51 and I've forgotten more than you will ever know. The media writes the script for society and we unconsciously play our part, with each psychological cue, each carefully chosen word and each handcrafted narrative to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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@Enigma lol you Americans aren't worth the time to type back to. It's like trying to talk a twinkie into sapience...
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@maureen669 As an ex-cocktail barman who can juggle bottles and writes political satire I am. Pity you'll never get invited to any...
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In the UK you can knock on a stranger's door for help or even just directions, no one walks around in fear of being shot. There are criminal gangs with guns but rarely do they shoot civilians. We also have guns for hunting, shooting as a sport etc. Tight regulations and careful procedures for the transport and storage of guns control the way they are used. We still have civilisation. America has lost its way to lobbyists and corporations...
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@steadly3668 We have less than a tenth of the knife fatalities per 100,000 people the US has and less than 1% of the gun fatalities per 100,000 people. That is a direct comparison per person! So go look at some stats, the reason they are in the news is because we have a civilised society... Now go do some research and stop proving your ignorance and lack of wit!
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Is the answer a huge rubber chicken that hides near the polling booths and jumps out and attacks people? Could be the Republicans, they have the most to gain as when you support the 1% you have to con the electorate into voting against their own best interests and block those most likely to vote democrat.
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Not only is it cruel but feeding people diseased animals just leads to diseased humans, physically and psychologically.
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@Hertz2laugh I understand your point, I really do but mass production is never cruelty-free. There are a few small farms that may produce more ethical products but they still have to kill the pigs and piglets to sell their product.
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Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like...
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@Hertz2laugh Every country in the world has those problems. It's only the USA that has 260+ mass shootings a year... If I want to debate at your level I'll head for the nearest nursery school and engage the children there in debate...
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@Hertz2laugh Do you have an off button or can I block you IRL? I'm not interested in debating with someone who obviously (by the lack of intellect and knowledge displayed in their comments) has an IQ lower than a crack-addicted, syphilitic hamster. Take your right-wing think tank tropes and biases to someone as gullible and naive as you are... If you climb the intellectual ladder a few more rungs, I may be able to drop down to your level for debate, but at the moment it's clear that debate is not only impossible but likely to lower my own IQ simply by reading your comments...
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@golantrevize515 Agreed, That seems evident by the fact that this article was necessary in the beginning. I'm sure YT has removed my comments but having tried to communicate with the average joe on here I eventually revert to sarcasm and ad hominems. Not that I'm an academic of any kind, I'm a poor lad from a council estate who has grown to the grand old age of 50. This was my reply to the previous commenter "Do you have an off button or can I block you IRL? I'm not interested in debating with someone who obviously (by the lack of intellect and knowledge displayed in their comments) has an IQ lower than a crack-addicted, syphilitic hamster. Take your right-wing think tank tropes and biases to someone as gullible and naive as you are... If you climb the intellectual ladder a few more rungs, I may be able to drop down to your level for debate, but at the moment it's clear that debate is not only impossible but likely to lower my own IQ simply by reading your comments..."
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@jumpingoutofairplanesmentality lol, when you learn to spell the name of the city you wish to discuss, I may treat you with a modicum of respect. Until then I will just mock you as you are very unlikely to understand why you are the butt of many jokes globally as an American and an individual. It's clear from the misunderstanding and ignorance of your comment that debate would be about as intellectually stimulating as watching paint dry and about as useful as an ashtray on the international space station... PS thank you for not typing anything witty or intelligent!
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@samueledison4676 He didn't use a gun ffs, are you sentient?
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@samueledison4676 I've already pointed out that the US has a huge problem with mass killings compared to every sane country in the world. Stop talking nonsense, I'm not American and so have a decent education. "Every country in the world has those problems. It's only the USA that has 260+ mass shootings a year... If I want to debate at your level I'll head for the nearest nursery school and engage the children there in debate..." You also don't have to give up guns, if you're a responsible gun owner then you just need tougher gun controls. No weapons should be carried in public, guns should be locked up at home and transported unloaded in a locked trunk. There should be a waiting period and a proper check for criminal offences, especially violence. Since we legislated those rules in Britain we haven't had a school shooting in over 30 years...
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I just wish we could find even more destructive, backward, inhumane ways to increase shareholder profits from the farming industry. Is there room for a little more cruelty? maybe we could just stick animals in their own diseased faeces and beat them relentlessly? oh no, we already do that. Maybe we could pump them full of drugs and toxins that stay in their system and end up in our food chain? nope, already do that too... and yes this is called sarcasm...
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lol, I think IQ45 is too generous a nickname. I've met crack-addicted hamsters with a higher IQ :)
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Cancel culture is a polarizing narrative created by the media to divide us. They promote the views of fringe groups to antagonize both sides of the political spectrum... Next!
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@jackaljade The left don't use the term and I'm bored of your childlike understanding of the world. It's like trying to teach a frog to use an Xbox...
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Trump indictment, more excitement, orange manchild, shame of mankind, running wild with orange smiles. Lock him up, before another plot to usurp a nation, aggressive flirtation, dictatorial mutation, national damnation.
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Vindictive Trump supporters care nothing for morality and decency. They just want to burn civilisation to the ground out of spite. Trump is just using this as a dog whistle to rile up his supporters who by now are foaming at the mouth with the idea of more brutality.
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lol yes neoliberalism and a prejudicial society is all part of Mar-x-ism... Seriously learn to read and research as your contradictions and lack of understanding are showing...
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Diseased chickens that live a short life of suffering while being pumped full of antibiotics and other nasties. If you don't care about animal welfare at least care about your own body...
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@Hertz2laugh They are created by how many tons of pesticides are used as my example clearly shows, using the same criteria for each country. What is wrong with you people? Can't you take simple facts when they don't fit in with your ego?
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@Hertz2laugh I'm the one who presented facts based on actual amounts used, per country, with the same criteria being used for each country and was challenged twice with nonsense arguments... I've pointed out your 'reality check' was actually the opposite, an attempt to misrepresent the data as compromised because it didn't fit in with your hilarious suggestion that the US cares about its farmland and isn't willing to use chemicals to pollute it (despite being the 2nd largest user of said pesticides/chemicals). There's nothing wrong with the American dream, but you have to be asleep to dream...
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Illegal to feed hungry people on public property? What a perversion of law, justice and morality. Anyone remember civilization?
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@b.41879 8.5% are privatised, the rest are state and federal and are also run for profit using inmates as a workforce. While technically they may not be privatised, they are contracted as slave Labour. Incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11bn in goods and services. If you want helpful and respectful, maybe admit the flaws in your society and stop assuming I'm ignorant of the facts...
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@b.41879 PS Feel free to search this and educate yourself! Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers ACLU and the University of Chicago Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, June, 2022 “Our research found that the average minimum hourly wage paid to workers for non-industry jobs is 13 cents, and the average maximum hourly wage is 52 cents.” "Incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11bn in goods and services."
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@b.41879 My tone in the original comment is sarcastic and I'm fully aware of the flaws in your prison system. The fact you seem to think I'm guessing shows your lack of ability, despite me explaining my reasoning in further replies... Bullying? Childish? Seriously? A witty quip about your lack of intellect has you crying foul...
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@b.41879 I haven't called you any names, simply pointed out the lack of understanding which is present in your comments in a humorous way. Anyway, I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate... but this wasn't it!
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@b.41879 You post on the thread 5 days after my last reply and then tell me you didn't read my reply? lol sure buddy, whatever makes you happy...
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