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>>52775
It's fun for them to pretend they are sitting in like the protesters from the 60s but in reality these people take bathroom breaks and have subordinates and aides that bring them whatever they want.

>>52775
>implying congressional republicans haven't been doing this for the last 8 years
>once to the point that it shutdown routine for 2 weeks, and indefinitely furloughed 800k federal employees during that time

Look dad, I can do it too!

I just called my rep to say I support the sit in and gun control legislation. I wish my rep was on the floor though.

>>52783
They should just ban that shit...

>>52783
Shocking news.

>>52808

Bah dum tss

>“What is the tipping point? Are we blind? Can we see? How many more mothers, how many more fathers need to shed tears of grief before we do something?" exclaimed Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who kicked off the sit-in. "We have been too quiet for too long. There comes a time when you have to say something, when you have to make a little noise, when you have to move your feet. This is the time. Now is the time to get in the way. The time to act is now. We will be silent no more."

>Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, attempted to gavel the House into order at noon, but when the Democrats refused to quiet, he gaveled the House into recess instead. When Ryan took to the podium later, he brought the House back into session and proceeded to votes. Republicans remained mostly stone-faced throughout the rowdy Democratic spectacle.

>After the votes, the House recessed again, and Democrats returned to their protest speeches on the floor.

>Ryan said earlier on CNN that he would not schedule a vote on gun bills that have already been defeated in the Senate. "This is a publicity stunt," Ryan said. "This isn't trying to come up with a solution to a problem. This is trying to get attention."
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>Senators on Monday voted down four partisan gun measures and were trying to craft a compromise Wednesday that would make it harder for people on terrorist watch lists to get guns.

>Other House Republicans were less restrained in their response. They have opposed legislation toughening gun laws because they say the measures would infringe on Americans' rights to bear arms and to due process.

">Calling this a sit-in is a disgrace to Woolworth's. They sat-in for rights," Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., tweeted in a reference to black civil rights activists who refused to leave the store's lunch counter when they had been refused service in 1960. "Dems are 'sitting-in' to strip them away."

>Most of the House demonstration, unlike last week's filibuster in the Senate that led to the votes Monday, was not broadcast on C-SPAN. The network carries feeds from cameras belonging to the House, which are controlled by the majority party and turned off when the House is not in session. Instead, C-SPAN aired video feeds being posted by Democrats from the floor via their social media accounts.

>Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., accused Republican leadership of not allowing the broadcast, although it is longstanding policy not to show the House floor when the chamber is in recess.

>“The fact is they can cut off the mics, they can cut off the cameras, they will not silence our voice,” he said as the sit-in approached four hours.
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>Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California went to the floor and called for a moment of silence. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., led a prayer. No one appeared ready to give up anytime soon.

>“I am prepared to stay here until hell freezes over,’’ Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said. “We’re here because we can’t take it anymore … We can’t take burying our young people."

>Rep, G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., who is chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Republicans calling the demonstration a stunt, "is really an insult.’’

>“Write this date down — June 22. It’s the beginning of a movement," he said. "This is just the beginning.’’

>Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, who led the nearly 15-hour filibuster in the Senate, went over to the House floor to show his support.

>“This is an extraordinary tactic,” he said as he headed into the chamber shortly after noon. But, he added, “This is an exceptional time.”
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>>52793
You already posted this thread friend no need to post it again so soon!

>>52801
Forgot to add screenshot

>>52802
I see.

>>52970
Seconded

Here's to hoping that one small fault line under Wilshire Blvd goes off and takes out Hollywood as an aftershock.

>>52780
God I'm so sick of that nu-male bitch boy forcing his way into everything just to stay in the public eye.

If we vote leave my main regret will be not speculating on currency

probably going to try to get a job on the continent + EU passport

I don't know much about the issue, but as a Texan, I think it's unfair when people make fun of us for some wanting to leave the union (even though we never will), but when Britain is actually about to go through with it people are like, "well, okay". Fucking double standards. I think they should stay, it sounds like the main reason is because they're afraid of Muslims, when has a little diversity ever hurt anyone? Texas is actually a very diverse place, despite how others may see us, and we're better for it, so get over yourselves, racist pigs.

He was resisting arrest, in a neighbourhood full of what seems to me african Americans, it also looked dangerous, 2 cops anf there where bunch of people arround could be friends or family. What did he expect

>Shaquille O'Neil.
Classy, black folks, very classy.

>>50629
There are a lot of cops who are violent cunts. Blacks, having generally a higher rate of crime in their communities, therefore deal more with aforementioned violent cunts, resulting in shit like this.

>>50912
They claimed they were going to attack the Olympics a few months ago and all of the Brazilians on /int/ are basically telling everyone to stay away so it looks like shit will hit the fan.

>>50915
Probably for the best. Brazil shouldn't pour even more shekels after the 2014 World Cup, which itself was a controversial blow

Isn't it true that the stadium isn't even done yet?

In a paper published in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, Caroline Earwood explains that bog butter is usually found in earthenware pots, wooden containers, animal skins, or wrapped in bark and takes on a pungent, cheesy odor. Looking at over 274 instances of bog butter from the Iron Age to medieval times, Earwood concluded that early Celtic people probably sunk the butter in the bog simply to preserve it or protect from thieves. The cool, low-oxygen, high acid environment of the bog made a perfect natural refrigerator. Seeing as butter was a valuable commodity and was used to pay taxes, saving it for times of drought, famine, or war would have been a good idea.

There are other theories about the butter as well. It could also have been buried in the bog as an offering to the gods or spirits, the Irish Times notes. The Bristol researchers wonder whether burying the butter in the peat was a type of food processing that changed the chemical composition of the butter to make it tastier.

Savina Donohoe, Curator of Cavan County Museum, which accepted Conway’s butter lump before sending it to the National Museum of Ireland for analysis, tells UTV Ireland the Conway’s big pat is thought to be thousands of years old, but that won’t be confirmed until researchers test the twigs and bark stuck to the butterball. Donohoe, who handled the stuff, said it smelled familiar.

“It did smell like butter, after I had held it in my hands, my hands really did smell of butter. There was even a smell of butter in the room it was in,” Donohoe says.

Though Irish celebrity chef Kevin Thornton took a bite of bog butter in 2014, Andy Halpin, assistant keeper at the National Museum’s Irish Antiquities Division, advises the Irish Times that it’s probably not wise to sample the Iron Age delicacy.

For those curious, Ben Reade, head of Culinary Research and Development at Nordic Food Lab created his own ancient butter recipe back in 2012. Reade's guinea pigs had mixed things to say about the taste. “The organoleptic [sensory] qualities of this product were to many surprising, causing disgust in some and enjoyment in others,” he writes. “The fat absorbs a considerable amount of flavor from its surroundings, gaining flavor notes which were described primarily as ‘animal’ or ‘gamey’, ‘moss’, ‘funky’, ‘pungent’, and ‘salami’.”

>>50263
good read /news/team, keep 'em coming.

The posts rise up the ranks of r/all because the subreddit’s subscribers enthusiastically “upvote” pretty much everything posted there. Sometimes, the moderators will “sticky” a post of particular interest to the subreddit to the top of its feed, which has the effect of drawing even more votes. Redditors suspect that the subreddit is engaging in “vote manipulation,” against Reddit’s rules, though r/The_Donald’s moderators deny that accusation.

Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman told Redditors that the change was not entirely attributable to r/The_Donald and that Reddit had been “working on this change for a while.” But “I cannot deny their behavior hastened its deployment,” he added in a town hall post on Reddit on Thursday afternoon.

“We have seen many communities like r/the_donald over the years — ones that attempt to dominate the conversation on Reddit at the expense of everyone else,” his post said. “This undermines Reddit, and we are not going to allow it.”

The Trump subreddit has no official affiliation with the Trump campaign. It’s simply one point in a nexus of the right-leaning Internet literate who have thrown their memes behind Trump’s presidential run.

The subreddit r/The_Donald is generally more sincere in its support for Trump than, say, 4chan’s /pol/boards, where the alt right’s racist meme lords go for anti-Semitic jokes and smear campaigns. While there’s cross-pollination between r/The_Donald and /pol/’s membership, the Reddit community has a set of periodically changing rules that bans activity that might make their chosen candidate look bad — for instance, doxxing or anti-Semitism, one moderator said. On 4chan, Trump’s appeal is more conditional. When Trump talks and acts like a 4channer, he is celebrated.

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The change to r/all comes days after Reddit’s news-gathering subreddit, r/news, devolved into chaos during the developing story of the Orlando shooting on Sunday. Redditors looking to the popular subreddit for the latest information on the massacre at a Florida gay club were instead dragged into a storm of accusations and infighting.

Things really kicked off when r/The_Donald accused the moderators of the news community of deliberately censoring their contributions, particularly posts linking to reports that the Orlando shooter was a Muslim. That report was of interest to r/The_Donald, where discussions of Islam and immigration roughly align with Trump’s positions.

To get the rest of Reddit on board with their outrage at r/news, subscribers to r/The_Donald did what they’ve been doing for a few months now: upvoting en masse posts accusing r/news moderators of conspiring in the name of political correctness to hide the religious identity of the shooter until it was unavoidable.

Subscribers to r/The_Donald eventually mass upvoted a post declaring the subreddit the “last bastion of free speech,” after the r/news fiasco, a statement that is funny if you know that the moderators’ draconian rules have also banned all “dissenters.”

While Reddit agreed that something went very wrong with r/news’s moderation on Sunday, the site’s admins and r/news’s moderators denied that the problem was the sort of deliberate, politically motivated censorship r/The_Donald was talking about. Instead, they said, the issue was understaffing, a lack of support from Reddit and a rogue automated moderation system that removed a bunch of posts that it flagged as duplicates.
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But the battle was more or less won: Instead of coverage of the Orlando shootings, r/The_Donald managed to get a whole bunch of Redditors to talk about them.

“Does that sound like someone familiar?” asked a moderator of r/EnoughTrumpSpam in an email to The Intersect. The moderator asked to remain anonymous and has a username that is unprintable in The Washington Post. They graciously agreed to be referred to as B. Smack.

The subreddit r/EnoughTrumpSpam has been trying to draw attention to Trump’s dominance of Reddit’s top posts, an effort that caught on with a vengeance after the Orlando incident. “It is really frustrating for redditors to watch Donald Trump supporters vote manipulate Trump‘s racist demagoguery to the front page,” the group said.

Among other things, B. Smack was frustrated with the “extremely low-quality” sourcing of the news articles that have ascended through Reddit’s ranks, thanks to r/The_Donald. Those include “Kremlin propaganda pieces from Sputnik and RT, and unsubstantiated stories from hard, hard right sources like Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Brietbart, the Washington Times, or the Daily Caller.”

“r/the_donald is not letting through any other content,” the moderator added, “People can’t find anything interesting that is trending in the Hot queue because it is just Trump Spam.”

The Redditors trying to stop r/The_Donald might be delighted by the apocalyptic fury about Reddit’s decision that dominated the board this week. But one longtime moderator, dylan_w (formerly CisWhiteMaelstrom), said that while he knows Reddit is trying to directly hurt his subreddit, he isn’t too worried that they’ll actually succeed.

>>50576
Im a tree hugger, so I see this as a cool thing.
Surprised to see it on page one (I guess your board is slow, I'm a slider)

>>50576
He's a good cat, he dindu nuffin

>>50576
#notalllions

nine shots? How about once in the leg? Why does it seem that many people with guns have no training?

>>49256
One shot in the leg is a lawsuit against you for cruel and unusual punishment. Also, If you have to draw a gun, you're using it to defend life. Yours or someone elses.
A rock is a deadly weapon, if the man will not stop when asked to by police, and continues to move forward, he shows intent. He has the capability to kill, this the rock, opportunity to do so, by moving forward, and shows intent by not stopping. If he gets within a certain distance, the cop can use lethal force to put the man down.

Why 9 shots: most of the time, with adrenaline and whatnot, people will not stop after 2-4 shots. And police are trained to fire until the threat stops. Which usually means shoot until they fall down.

>>49256
They are trained: not to believe in movie bullcrap where one shot in the leg stops someone. They are shown video footage of skinny kids breaking handcuffs and ripping some schmuck's eye out. Videos of people with four rounds in them climbing out of windows and running down the street to punch a hole in some old lady. No drugs, just adrenaline.
You put someone down, right down, there's no moderate use of firearms. Center mass, as many shots as needed to stop them moving and it's a last resort to save life.

>>48304
It's been illegal for US companies to boycott Israel since 1977

Here is the site for the federal office that oversees enforcement of this:

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac

>>48324
>illegal to boycott Israel
I'm no /pol/ster but this is crazy

>>48364
you are just another shmuck goyim who is circumcised to show his servitude to the jew

>>47974
Shut up - he invented the Internet!

>>51085

umm, misquote much? you would make us all look better if you knew what you were talking about.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-misquotes-The-10-most-famous-things-never-actually-said/I-invented-the-Internet.-Al-Gore

"But it's clear from looking at Gore's whole statement that he never claimed to have invented the Internet, in the sense of writing code or laying fiber-optic cables. He meant only to take credit for the contributions that he made as a member of Congress, contributions that have been lauded by people like Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, who wrote the code that serves as the foundation for the Internet."
His comment was sloppy and self serving, but he never says, "I invented the internet," he just tries to take credit for funding those who did.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

>>47974
As someone living in a rural region, I'm not sure why the environment became something hated. This wasn't as big of a bipartisan issue during the Cold War why is it an issue now? I don't want my well fucked up with pollution. I live out in the middle of no where so I can enjoy the country, go camping, and hunt. Why wouldn't I want the environment to be protected?

>>51104
get aload of this asshole

Nothing special about it as summer solstice is when Earth is farthest from the sun. The so-called "supermoon" occurs at winter solstice ad makes a marginal difference in the brightness of the full moon compared to the average night.

OP's picture is misleading, designed for clickbait. "Strawberry" is a seasonal term and has nothing to do with color. Last night was simply the smallest full moon of the year for many decades, but it's an unnoticeable difference from any other June full moon, and cloud and temperature layers as well as relative horizon features make faaaar more difference to apparent size and brightness anyway -- anything with the naked eye you think you can attribute to the "strawberry moon" will be 99.9% due to something else.

tldr; ignore this clickbait

>>52483
welp, at first i was disappointed, but now i dont care, ty

>>52483
>>nothing special about it because summer
well played, sir...well played.