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Left includes the authoritarian left, as much as we’d rather they go away.

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Thanks to the stairs people would go up there at night and do fire juggling. Impressive as hell! I had to pat a guy on the head once to extinguish his hair. That’s a fun memory, he hadn’t even realized yet and looked at me like a puppy-twink getting pet by a bear. X´D

It’s really sad that the festival became a place for binge-drinking and then the municipality shut it down in 2010. I think my first visit was 2003 and my last was 2008.

I’ve been to a big pagan festival, there was a huge bonfire in the middle of the campground and about two dozen people were sitting around it playing mostly drums but also other instruments. Then a woman with a fiddle started playing this really catchy tune and people just started dancing, and jumping around the fire, barely clothed and just… enjoying themselves. Sure, MJ and alcohol might have been involved with some few people, but most of us were just high on the moment, watching the sparks of the fire float into a clear, starry, warm night sky.

All of it in front of this backdrop:

We were all so happy, so light, so warm, everybody was friends with everybody, even though nobody knew anybody else, you could drift through the little groups, share a story with a stranger, go to another one of the small fires, share a beer with them, learning and immediately forgetting their names and all the eyes around you were soft and friendly and curious. The passion of life ran through our veins and the feeling of being young and alive was overwhelming. Me and my GF fucked like rabbits that night in our tent, still listening to the music and the noise of people singing and laughing and I can still feel her lips on my collarbone when I think back to how we sat at the fire and just… existed.

Obama replaces Melania

She hasn’t really gotten away with anything, ever. And she’s not going to get away with this either. The judge was onto her bullshit from the very beginning.

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No, they really can’t, but they would like everyone to think so.

Only good mosquitoes are Toxorhynchites. Gotta love midges that can’t suck blood and instead eat the larva of other mosquitoes.

I made a delicious, filling and nutritious pot roast FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

Also: Big animals can be surprisingly stealthy. Elephants can sneak up on you when you’re not looking.

Everytime you leave that hut and don’t look at the Rex because you are busy digging or doing something else, you’re in grave danger that it sneaks up on you. It’s not gonna boom with every step like in Jurassic Park.

Yeah, but you know. I personally believe that if someone believably has paid their dept, sought to better themselves and make amends. They should at least have a chance to plead their case.

Forgiveness isn’t something someone is owed, it is earned. But as a society, we should embrace those who do the hard work to earn it. Reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration make for a better society than telling somebody they will never ever, ever be forgiven and there is no way back for them.

So… not reporting them would be better in your opinion?

If they change, really change, pay their dept so society and become a better person, they can still go on to those offices. But at least their behavior is on record and people can check IF they actually have become a better person.

If you don’t report them, you don’t trigger that mechanism, they don’t change and we don’t check as thoroughly. Report them. If it ruins their life, then it’s because they remained a shitty person.

That’s it, that’s exactly it… Stephen Miller, ordered on Wish that’s what he looks like. It was driving me crazy!

Doesn’t accepting a pardon, especially a blanket pardon, also mean that you lose your Fifth Amendment protection to not incriminate yourself? You can not be punished for what you did, that means you have nothing to fear and can be made to confess everything and incriminate accomplices. Wouldn’t that be some way to have a go at Trump?

Effect of a Pardon

The Fifth Amendment privilege exists to protect the witness from providing self-incriminating testimony so long as, and only so long as, the danger of prosecution persists. As a result, according to at least one Supreme Court case, when a “witness has already received a pardon, he cannot longer set up his [Fifth Amendment] privilege, since he stands, with respect to such offense, as if it had never been committed.”

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Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future.

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Well, the one supporting a Republican over a progressive primary-winner who is not supporting Israel, got kicked out of the party and abandoned by her staff…

Isn’t this actually a good example of “blue no matter who” working in favor of a progressive Candidate not supporting Israel? Isn’t this an example of exactly how you want the democratic party to handle these types of people?

I’m pretty sure he got the color wrong. And I know it was build to guard the Gap of Rohan and the Fords of the Isen River.

Urgh, that’s disgusting. Thanks for telling me.