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  1. Ironhold

    Christian Anime?

    If Sentai has the rights, check HiDive first. If FUNimation has the rights, check Crunchyroll or whoever else they go through. Both companies have their reasons for keeping their licenses exclusive to their own streaming platforms. It's the other companies like Discotek, Digital Rights...
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    Christian Anime?

    Check HiDive. It was available via Anime Network on Demand earlier in the year, which is currently run by Sentai Filmworks. They're using ANoD to push their HiDive streaming service (each episode of a given show is only available through ANoD for four weeks), so it could be that they have it on...
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    Christian Anime?

    Superbook - Wikipedia The original 1980s "Superbook" cartoon is anime, with Pat Robertson's group the Christian Broadcasting Network commissioning legendary Japanese animation studio Tatsunoko Pro to produce it as part of an effort to bring a more mainstream Christian message to the Japanese...
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    Texas Disaster Day 2

    The push to update and properly winterize the system already passed a few weeks ago.
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    Drunk Guy + Bird + Uber =

    Drunk man sends injured baby bird to wildlife rescue center in Uber Yes folks, this is a real article. A drunk guy found an injured bird, called it an Uber, and sent it to a wildlife rescue facility.
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    Anime That are Definitely Safe

    That's how it works with just about any given culture or society. Holding the mindset that "If it's not like my culture, I'm not watching it" will cut people off from a *lot* of material that might otherwise uplift them and inspire them.
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    Support for Black Lives Matter has decreased

    In my town? The local BLM protests ended with a car chase. The protesters were camped on a local highway near a stoplight. They saw what they thought was a stopped driver making an obscene gesture at them, at which point several protesters rushed to their cars, chased her down, cornered her...
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    why keep violently attacking israel now? because

    Whether people want to admit it or not, Trump was the kind of crazy to where a lot of the more hostile world leaders knew not to mess with him directly. They'd try all sorts of covert things, but nothing to his face. With Biden, it's pretty clear that he has no such fear or respect going on...
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    Black Owned Business Suffer in Floyd Square

    Read up on the North Hollywood Shoot-Out and you'll understand why they're in the market in the first place.
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    Black Owned Business Suffer in Floyd Square

    Note the term "surplus", meaning "cut-rate hand-me-down". This is the only way many departments could afford to have such equipment, and even then a lot of the departments buying such equipment are doing it for their SWAT teams. It's mostly body armor, assault rifles, and armored transports...
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    Black Owned Business Suffer in Floyd Square

    Looks like an M113 transport: M113 armored personnel carrier - Wikipedia Something like this would be for a SWAT team dealing with heavily armed opponents, such as during the North Hollywood Shoot-Out: North Hollywood shootout - Wikipedia . Contrary to popular belief, most American law...
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    Colleges Targeted with Racist Zoom Bombings As White Supremacy Spikes

    As I noted earlier, the people who do these things as pranks feed off of whatever attention they get. Getting upset is the exact thing they want to see. They get bored quickly if people don't respond, and generally ruin their trousers when the police come to their door.
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    Colleges Targeted with Racist Zoom Bombings As White Supremacy Spikes

    Ask yourself why someone who isn't white is part of a group regarded as a "white supremacy" organization.
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    Colleges Targeted with Racist Zoom Bombings As White Supremacy Spikes

    Let's suppose, for a minute, that these Zoom calls are being made by internet trolls. My 20+ years of experience online says that most trolls do it because they get a sick pleasure from affecting others. The worse people react to their trolling, the more power and enjoyment they feel. In other...
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    Colleges Targeted with Racist Zoom Bombings As White Supremacy Spikes

    A few years ago, some people from 4-Chan and a few other groups decided to test something out. They typed the phrase "It's OK To Be White" in a common type font, printed it out with everyday black printer ink on everyday white printer paper, and started posting it around various locations...
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    A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

    Where does it say this about the author of the article? That's who I was referring to, unless you yourself are that author. And while the article makes the claim that this was an effort to stamp out rougher neighborhoods, it doesn't have a single citation to prove it despite the author going...
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    A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

    I'm guessing that the person who wrote this article lives in a major city and so has been able to use mass transit most of their life. Get out to the more suburban or even rural parts of the nation, and you'll see that this isn't the case. The further out you go, the more that "having your...
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    A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

    Racism? No. Absolute foolishness? All over the place. Hence the old saying of "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
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    A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

    Take a look at US Highway 190 as it runs through my part of Central Texas. The stretch of 190 that runs Lampasas -> Kempner -> Copperas Cove -> Fort Hood -> Killeen -> Harker Heights -> Nolanville -> Belton is the main through way for this area, merging into other roadways in Lampasas and...
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    A Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

    Most of the people on my dad's side of the family were farmers, ranchers, and otherwise working class. He tells a story of one uncle who had his farm literally cut in half by a highway project, which also saw his farm house and one of his barns destroyed to make room for the road. Not only...