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Liberia agrees to take Abrego Garcia if he's deported, Trump administration says

The new document, filed Friday, says Abrego could be deported as soon as Oct. 31.
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no respect for history or the environment whatsoever
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At least 2 historic magnolia trees, Kennedy Garden appear to have been removed to make way for Trump's White House ballroom

Satellite images show that President Donald Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom has appeared to take down at least six trees on the White House grounds
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I missed the convo earlier about whether or how comfortable we were with violence, but I feel like I can't go out anymore because it took 40 years to wrangle the fucking demon inside me and if I run into a guy like this I'm going to cripple him in the street and not even feel bad about it. So much work into trying to not be the angriest human I know and it feels like we're in a society not worth living in and making a guy like that choke on his own incisors would be worth the jail time.

(There's a line from a Patty Griffin song that always gets me: "there's a scar below your left eye / it fades away as you get older / it isn't like you never told her / what kind of man you really are" and I think about that every time I've gotta stomp my own rage back into a box and kick it under the bed before I make an irreparable mistake involving one of these motherfuckers.)
 
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I missed the convo earlier about whether or how comfortable we were with violence, but I feel like I can't go out anymore because it took 40 years to wrangle the fucking demon inside me and if I run into a guy like this I'm going to cripple him in the street and not even feel bad about it.
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My commentary earlier about "if a fool needs to get wrecked" was specifically to account for this exact species of shithead.
 
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docsilence said:
I missed the convo earlier about whether or how comfortable we were with violence, but I feel like I can't go out anymore because it took 40 years to wrangle the fucking demon inside me and if I run into a guy like this I'm going to cripple him in the street and not even feel bad about it. So much work into trying to not be the angriest human I know and it feels like we're in a society not worth living in and making a guy like that choke on his own incisors would be worth the jail time.

(There's a line from a Patty Griffin song that always gets me: "there's a scar below your left eye / it fades away as you get older / it isn't like you never told her / what kind of man you really are" and I think about that every time I've gotta stomp my own rage back into a box and kick it under the bed before I make an irreparable mistake involving one of these motherfuckers.)
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I'm sure lots of people can sympathize - but people without actual rage issues will never truly -understand- this struggle.
 
Damien said:
I'm sure lots of people can sympathize - but people without actual rage issues will never truly -understand- this struggle.
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The number of conversations that are basically "don't let this make you angry, it's not healthy" and "if you're not angry I don't trust you" I've had in the past ten years.
 
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The number of conversations that are basically "don't let this make you angry, it's not healthy" and "if you're not angry I don't trust you" I've had in the past ten years.
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The socio-cultural version of "everyone driving faster than me is a maniac and everyone driving slower is a moron". But I think coping with fascist capture of government is sort of like grief (largely because it involves grief), there's probably very few wrong ways to do it.

I can only imagine how rough it is if you've got anger issues. For me it's been learning lots of boundary setting behavior and even that has been a rough ride.
 
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The socio-cultural version of "everyone driving faster than me is a maniac and everyone driving slower is a moron". But I think coping with fascist capture of government is sort of like grief (largely because it involves grief), there's probably very few wrong ways to do it.

I can only imagine how rough it is if you've got anger issues. For me it's been learning lots of boundary setting behavior and even that has been a rough ride.
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It's why I've started just cutting off people who are okay with abhorrent things. Like, I don't want to live in a bubble and not know you think that way; but I also don't need to be your friend if you think that way. I can learn about that side of the country from strangers and not have people who think, like, some of my friends aren't humans have access to my Facebook page or whatever. It's easier to be a tolerable level of anger at assholes I don't know well enough to think they could be better.
 
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