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i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.

they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.

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Try To Be Less White

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that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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this is ridiculous!.

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Whiteness is everywhere, and it's terrifying …

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Report Card : How’s President Biden Doing?

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i give him an f for falling down on the job..

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Nice video by Lauren Chen.

When Trump was President, there was much howling and outrage over 'concentration camps'.

Under Biden, there are more children than ever in these camps, and yet the outrage has died down a lot.

Weird, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAMnuDKsb8

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Colorado Mass Shooting

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terrible news out of colorado this morning of a mass shooting in a supermarket leaving 10 dead.. missing from the homepage of cnn is any description of the shooter.

that's because it's a muslim refugee from syria who was apparently anti-trump and not a "maga white guy" which would otherwise be included in every headline.. more kids in cages than ever before (but strangely, now no one in the media seems to care) and now this.. biden doesn't have the magic wand he promised after all, right?.

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This is an interesting video on this issue …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kud4dqW8j9o

Interesting looking at the social media comments! XD

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Colorado Mass Shooting

by Simon in

terrible news out of colorado this morning of a mass shooting in a supermarket leaving 10 dead.. missing from the homepage of cnn is any description of the shooter.

that's because it's a muslim refugee from syria who was apparently anti-trump and not a "maga white guy" which would otherwise be included in every headline.. more kids in cages than ever before (but strangely, now no one in the media seems to care) and now this.. biden doesn't have the magic wand he promised after all, right?.

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'Save a life, surrender your knife' - as if those two women were going to use their kitchen knives to kill people, lol.

Of course, all Muslims aren't violent, all black men aren't violent, all right-wingers aren't violent.

But there must be a better strategy than 'ban all knives'. <---- this is ridiculous.

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Avatar (2009) - a mixed-bag but entertaining movie

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so a few months ago i saw avatar (2009) from beginning to end for the first time.. if i'd seen this when i was ten, i'd probably have loved it.

i find the film entertaining but i do have issues with it.. the movie is beautiful to look at, and there's definitely some interesting concepts.. but star wars it ain't.. first issue, the na'vi: these are blue-skinned humanoids with tails.. my first question is: why do blue monkeys who live 5 light years away on an extrasolar moon have african accents?!.

i know what writer/director james cameron is doing in this film.

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Another thing: James Cameron portrays nature on Pandora as almost benign. True, it is explained that the Pandoran atmosphere is lethal to humans and we see Jake having a few hairy moments with some exotic monsters but that's it.

We don't see carnivores hunt and kill herbivores, etc., like we see on Earth. We don't see the Na'vi with injuries or diseases. We don't see animal carcasses. We don't see parasites.

Here's a reminder how savage nature really is.

A young cheetah is feeling thirsty and takes a drink. Big mistake! A crocodile woke up hungry that morning, and fancied a cheetah steak, done rare …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-8l-7guF84

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Avatar (2009) - a mixed-bag but entertaining movie

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so a few months ago i saw avatar (2009) from beginning to end for the first time.. if i'd seen this when i was ten, i'd probably have loved it.

i find the film entertaining but i do have issues with it.. the movie is beautiful to look at, and there's definitely some interesting concepts.. but star wars it ain't.. first issue, the na'vi: these are blue-skinned humanoids with tails.. my first question is: why do blue monkeys who live 5 light years away on an extrasolar moon have african accents?!.

i know what writer/director james cameron is doing in this film.

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I enjoyed Avatar for what it was - yeah, it was pretty entertaining.

But there was one point in the movie which was supposed to be serious but I found unintentionally hilarious.

It's the bit where Jake, in his avatar body, is talking to Eywa. It's no doubt supposed to be a very poignant moment but I nearly burst out laughing. Here's a weird blue guy, with a weird new haircut, talking to a f**kin tree! XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMepymjuPDM

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Avatar (2009) - a mixed-bag but entertaining movie

by LoveUniHateExams in

so a few months ago i saw avatar (2009) from beginning to end for the first time.. if i'd seen this when i was ten, i'd probably have loved it.

i find the film entertaining but i do have issues with it.. the movie is beautiful to look at, and there's definitely some interesting concepts.. but star wars it ain't.. first issue, the na'vi: these are blue-skinned humanoids with tails.. my first question is: why do blue monkeys who live 5 light years away on an extrasolar moon have african accents?!.

i know what writer/director james cameron is doing in this film.

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An African accent means something, it's just that the meaning is very broad.

The Na'vi in the movie seem to have African accents, rather than Welsh or Slovenian.