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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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There's actually a lot worse stuff already going on in that article.

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According to a memo first published by the Washington Post, business services officials of the National Park Service in 2017 warned that four people nominated to serve on the panel had potential conflicts of interest.

Three of them were selected as members: Crandall, whose association includes some of the largest concessions management companies in the U.S.; Jeremy Jacobs Jr., co-chief executive of Delaware North Cos., Yosemite National Park’s former facilities operator, whose family has donated at least $167,700 to Trump’s campaigns and political committees; and Bruce Fears, president of Aramark, which holds a $2-billion contract to run hotels, eateries and campgrounds at Yosemite.

In 2017, Delaware North hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the Denver-based law and lobbying firm where Interior Secretary David Bernhardt previously worked.

A few years ago, Delaware North became infamous for changing the name of a historic landmark in Yosemite, the Ahwahnee Hotel, to the Majestic Yosemite. The company made the change after losing out to Aramark in a bid to renew its concessions contract in Yosemite. Delaware North claimed it had intellectual property rights over the Ahwahnee name that could not be transferred to Aramark. Finally this year, the hotel’s name was restored after the U.S. government and Aramark paid the company $12 million to settle the legal battle.

Other committee members include Jim Rogers, former president of Kampgrounds of America, the largest privately owned campground system in the world, and Brad Franklin, government relations manager at Yamaha Motor Corp. USA, a producer of electric-powered bicycles.

Earlier this year, Bernhardt signed an order that allows electric bicycles to be used for the first time on federal trails in national wildlife refuges and national parks, a move he said will create “opportunities to explore areas of the great outdoors that were previously unreachable.”

...

Each year, roughly 1 million Americans purchase senior passes, which allow people 62 and older to get free access to national parks and other federal recreation sites, and various discounts inside those public lands. In 2017, the Trump administration increased the cost of a lifetime senior pass from $10 to $80, and now it is mulling limitations to their uses.

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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Corporations suck but if CDW works in a black cat into their next ad campaign then the world will be a nicer place

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Proud Christian Mom posted:

oh cool more voter shaming

maybe next we can blame the working class again for not trusting Clinton after getting sold out by both her husband and Obama

Don't forget to blame women for not voting Hillary

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Billie Eilish is a kid who literally started by writing songs with her brother who is a producer so there's the indie cred and her latest single is about climate change and (boomers) can go gently caress themselves if they start panicking about it now

So yeah, she's good (even if she's not your thing)

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Also, jump on the Bill Gates discourse train everyone!

https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1192218814643089408?s=19

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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The simple answer is you can't be a good person and also be a billionaire.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Re: Gates

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1192234979029323777?s=19

If you're making it your life's goal to make the world better by leveraging your wealth then your billions should be shrinking because you spend more than you keep and a good person couldn't possibly blow through like 50m lifetime max including on their family? So again, can't be a good person if you're a billionaire.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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pantslesswithwolves posted:

Looking forward to the multi-page debates about what’s grosser- goon homegroan porn or all the weird “I banged my stepsister” videos on those sites.

Hate to bring this up cause it's a super downer but:

Pornhub removes Girls Do Porn, finally drawing a line at sex trafficking charges

Online porn videos led police to a missing 15-year-old girl and the arrest of a Davie man. The girl’s mother found images of her daughter that had been posted on Periscope, Pornhub, Modelhub, Snapchat, and other websites months after she went missing.

gently caress Pornhub for letting that poo poo fly until the law is involved

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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I mean in the case of the kidnapped 15 year old it's literally both. If I remember the details correctly (and I'm not sure I wanna keep looking it up) there were something like over 50 videos over a year on PH and he took her to have an abortion at some point?

It's all hosed.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

There have been about 5 full page editorials about it in our news media, no joke

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12283710

I haven't seen madposting like this since the 2000s

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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In current events the Hong Kong police have allegedly arrested and gang raped an 18 year old woman who later had to have an abortion so that's great

Details are actually mostly on Twitter and Facebook for obvious reasons as this being a confirmed thing would be incendiary but this is the closest official source https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/11/09/woman-files-complaint-hong-kong-police-alleged-rape-station/

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Epstein was absolutely murdered and the meme is that people think he killed himself

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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MA-Horus posted:

Canada's Racist Grandpa, Don Cherry, has just been fired from Coach's Corner for saying some pretty racist poo poo on live TV

The CHUDs are out in loving force.

Like 20 years too late but at least they got 'im

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Ah ok this is from a no poo poo real law firm and a judge had to step in to protect the victim's identity

https://twitter.com/sumlokkei/status/1193857368645226497?s=19

Good poo poo HK police

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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redneck nazgul posted:

leftist politician in south america

comes from the indigenous people in bolivia, fought to reduce the country's reliance on the IMF and world bank, instituted a bunch of leftist and socialist reforms and firmly stated that bolivia was a nation of both bolivians and indigenous people. most recently, he worked to nationalize the lithium production.

ran for two terms and won, said he wouldn't run for a third, ended up running anyway and won. the conservative opposition starts to protest here.

earlier this year, the constitution said he couldn't run for a fourth term. he lost a national referendum asking if he could run for a fourth term but his party nominated him anyway.

the supreme court came down and said "actually, term limits are dumb and we can't say if the vote hadn't been tampered with".

he wins the election anyway, his conservative opposition protests even more, the OAS steps in and says that the election was fraudulent.

the conservatives get the military and police on their side and protest even harder, morales declares new elections, the military say "nah, not good enough" and remove him entirely.

he's now in asylum in mexico.

edit: this is all from wikipedia, i'm trying to stay as apolitical as possible here. twitter and other places are being overrun with a metric fuckton of bots all chanting "THERE WAS NO COUP".

https://twitter.com/halaljew/status/1193654843581325312

https://twitter.com/mljabbur/status/1193654296509857792?s=19

Also Bolivia has 43% of the world's lithium reserves and the coup happened less than a week after he canceled a deal with a German corporation and said Bolivian lithium belongs to Bolivian people.

Eej fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 12, 2019

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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How is military coup ever a justified response to "broke term limit by winning an unrigged popular election"

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Chichevache posted:

Who in this thread said a coup was justified? I missed it. Can you please quote them?

Cugel the Clever posted:

If your team's elected representative has nominally fought for causes you care about, they destroy everything by malfeasance, whether disregard for term limits, corruption, or sexual harassment, and if you just handwave it away you're going to be unpleasantly surprised when the rug is pulled out from under you.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Just another normal day in Hong Kong

https://twitter.com/leolodo1226/status/1194366771509235712?s=19

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Cugel the Clever posted:

The very first sentence of the post that you so generously omitted stated that this is a right wing coup that must be condemned. That doesn't change the fact that fragrantly violating democratic norms actively undermined the goals Morales asserted he was pursuing. Contorting yourself to apologize for his actions just because he was on your team only enables others to either make the same possibly-well-intentioned mistakes or, worse, actively con you with leftist rhetoric while pursuing only their own aggrandizement.

If you start out with "thing is bad" and then follow with a paragraph about "all these things that they did means it only makes sense a bad thing happens" is actually justifying and not condemning.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1194100981644111873?s=19

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Guy barging in to post about how actually the coup is cool and good with no previous post history in the thread :discourse:

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Can't wait for people to jump on the "actually, Epstein DID kill himself" train because MAGA nation is catching on

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1196533734926770176

thank you for your service

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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That specific chart

quote:

INCLUDES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS IN THE ARMY, NAVY, MARINE CORPS, AND AIR FORCE. THE COAST GUARD IS GROUPED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

that was totally swallwell ripping that phonebook with them cheeks

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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I saw it for what it was immediately but I figured since it wasn't actioned that's just how it is on this bitch of a forum

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://twitter.com/bIoach/status/1197311865522704385

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Does it count as yellow scare? I was posting more for the angle of finally we can do something about the whites

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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I'm still reeling from a black guy posting we should let HK go so China can focus on developing the Whitey Virus being considered yellow scare

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://twitter.com/theage/status/1198028438495547392

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Signing up cause you gotta eat is far purer than signing up to pad out your political resume

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://twitter.com/InfoSnores/status/1198729704993370118

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Patrocclesiastes posted:

Eat the rich imo.

While that amount of money awarded from divorce makes me feel weird, we have to remember that the husband is rich as gently caress and a woman shouldnt have to sell assets to survive a divorce.

18k a month is a lot but you have to consider she was married for 7 years and has twins. They were accustomed to a certain lifestyle so how do you decide what is an appropriate "cap" for how much money is appropriate to raise a child without a significant decrease in quality of life?

If you capped child support based on "reasonable living expenses" the following would happen:

Women would stay in lovely relationships longer because their quality of life would decrease significantly for themselves and their children

Filthy rich men would divorce women left and right when they get tired of them cause they can afford to pay whatever pittance support would be

Kids get hosed

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Proud Christian Mom posted:

These will also build illegal settlements in the West Bank

I'm not American but today I give thanks to this thread

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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DOC dog rescued after 36 hours alone on subantarctic island

A conservation dog has been rescued after spending 36 hours alone and muzzled on a subantarctic island.

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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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LingcodKilla posted:

Oh no someone wanted to be president and worked towards it.

Could you imagine if some rich gently caress decided one day to try to become king because some POC said mean things about him?

tbf anyone who has singularly focused their entire life on being president is probably going to be pretty bad at it

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