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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

If this Senator had any knowledge of Central American history, he'd know that .most people down there have a pretty low opinion of US government officials, with Trump and his team being a possible exception - and even they likely don't get a total pass.

We meddled down there for over a century, interfering with their elections, overthrowing their governments and letting our corporations rape their economies. He's lucky they didn't throw him in with the rest of their gangsters until they put him on a proxy trial for past US actions.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

If we're going to make stuff up, let's make the pilgrimage destination something fun like an amusement park or maybe Graceland.

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orangetastic1 25 points ago +25 / -0

You'd think Jesus would have mentioned that requirement while he was here. Must have slipped his mind.

Or maybe Mel Brooks was right - there were really 15 commandments and Moses dropped one of the tablets on the way down from Sinai.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

If I could predict the future, I'd already be Bezos-level wealthy.

You can probably glean clues from the past about how things might go.

I think you're right, humans seem to have the ability to push the pendulum too far in both directions. We've swung way to far "left" and now see the beginnings of a swing "right" (I hate those terms, but just go with it). Most people really do want the pendulum to stay in the middle - tolerance and equality for everyone as much as possible. But once that pendulum is in full swing, sometimes it's hard to stop it going too far.

Positive things habbening: the traditional mass media, which can push the pendulum in whatever direction is expedient (and history has shown they'll flip sides in an instant), seem to be getting systematically neutered. Corruption, the proceeds of which have been the weight behind the pendulum swinging, is being exposed and (hopefully) rooted out.

Negative things: There are long-growing and deep animosities under the surface. Wrath and Envy are two of the seven deadly sins that we all struggle against. The longer the pendulum stays on one side, the more likely the people affected will be all too willing to push it along past the center once they get a chance to turn the tables. It will feel like justice at the time, but it's something else entirely.

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orangetastic1 8 points ago +8 / -0

Looks like we're going to have a bunch of .gov workers looking for jobs.

Couple seasons of mass weed-pulling might do them some good.

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orangetastic1 11 points ago +11 / -0

There should be a checkbox on our tax returns that entitles you to receive one of the guns the IRS bought that you already paid for.

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orangetastic1 13 points ago +13 / -0

That's a shame.

Anyway...

Salvadorenos have little tolerance for gang members. They lived under their spectre for too long and made too great an effort to deal with them to humor sympathizers. Too many memories are still too fresh.

Bukele even had gangster gravesites removed from cemeteries. They're not messing around anymore.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Maybe I missed it, but are they leaking to the press, or to foreign operators?

Although, TBF, they're basically one in the same.

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

"Trump and Putin will work to box in Zelenskyy while simultaneously Trump will threaten and even bash Putin a little. Actually, when you stop pretending this is a little fun to watch unfold."

Almost like we're watching a movie...

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

How many times do you have to run the length of a ship to rack up 3 miles?

I guess fewer laps on a carrier...

Must suck in a sub.

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

If it had the Trump logo on it, it would be bigger and more beautiful.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Have to ask one of the guys who knew her as "Stretchin' Gretchen"

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