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Uh....okaaaay.
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Wow, look at black wealth rising under the Clintons. I'm glad the Bernie Bros hobbled Hillary so badly. I mean.
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But did this tragedy come out of the blue? Was it just pure bad luck? Only a question of being at the wrong place at the wrong time? To some extent, yes. But we also do not see trees in the way we see ourselves and other animals. We are for the most part in the dark about this form of life, which is profoundly social.

Charles, are you implying that the tree was driven to murder? Did you put mushrooms in your coffee?

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@4

I think he might have been saying the tree was depressed and suicidal.
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A Russian envoy was just assassinated while the shooter yelled "Allahu akbar (God is great). Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria!" "

Wonder if this is just an example of workplace violence or just the need for more gun control? Guess it can't be religious inspired terrorism.
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Charles Mudede, you are the best.
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@5, But if was just suicide, wouldn't that have been a case of "wrong place at the wrong time?" Like a pedestrian being hit by someone jumping off a building?

(I know I'm overthinking this.)
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#treeslivesmatter
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@6,
The shooting occurred in Ankara, Turkey. Not sure what their gun laws are there.
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"Trees are intelligent and have feelings."

No....just....

no.

Enough already.
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Only 5 more days of mailing it in before christians celebrate the anchor baby.
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Digests like this are what makes the Stranger so special. Thank you.
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Five people were injured when the tree fell.

Someone died.

That isn't funny Charles, it's tragic.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
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"Today In The Myth of White People Being Left Behind: The talk that's going around and around these days is that white people voted for Trump because Obama failed them. If Obama failed anyone, it was blacks and Hispanics, and still they did not vote for Trump, who will certainly make the lives of working-class whites, blacks, and Hispanics much harder. Somehow blacks and Hispanics saw this fact as clear as a cloudless day, and whites did not."

Yet somehow Black and Hispanic voters did not feel compelled to flood the polls like they did for Obama, just as rural white moderates also stayed home.

Trump didn't win, progressive politics lost because it hitched itself to sinking centrism.
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Islamists using human shields and beheading Shiites get mad and kill Russian ambassador. US embassy in lock down, even though we've armed said Islamists to the teeth. Makes sense.
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@17:

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Sunni Muslim using human shields and beheading Shiites..."? Sort of like when we talk about all the Catholics beheaded by Protestants during the English Reformation, and all the Protestants beheaded by Catholics during the Counter-Reformation?
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Is there really a WAR on women?
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Stupid.

People die all the time

I used to rescue people from major disasters

The tree IS NOT A STORY
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@18: You had to go back centuries to find a parallel.
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@18, my favorite thing about 500 years ago is when you were sliced open to bleed to cure illnesses.

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