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Old Feb 3rd 2025 | 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by mikelincs
The point is that they weren't supposed to be there they had no invitation and just turned up for the photo op then left, and, of course, the press etc just lapped it up.
And the weird interaction between them. Him acting as director or even creator, and her as his object to direct.
 
Old Feb 3rd 2025 | 7:24 am
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He seems to be a control freak, and I'm not sure if she is on something, as her eyes just seem to be dead, and just goes along with whatever crazy scheme he has dreamed up. If that was a male that went (un)dressed like that, then, they would have, hopefully, been arrested for indecent exposure.
 
Old Feb 3rd 2025 | 7:27 am
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At least he wasn't wearing his customary hooded bin liner/sack that I've seen in so many pictures of them together.
 
Old Feb 5th 2025 | 4:28 am
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I think this sums up the current view of what is happening in the USA.
 
Old Feb 10th 2025 | 11:41 am
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Originally Posted by mikelincs
The point is that they weren't supposed to be there they had no invitation and just turned up for the photo op then left, and, of course, the press etc just lapped it up.
Kanye West's yeezy web site currently, after advertising during the Super bowl, has one item for sale. A swastikas' t-shirt.
 
Old Feb 10th 2025 | 4:27 pm
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
Kanye West's yeezy web site currently, after advertising during the Super bowl, has one item for sale. A swastikas' t-shirt.
he needs to be sectioned or arrested. An influencer of millions...he is dangerous
 
Old Feb 10th 2025 | 5:07 pm
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
Kanye West's yeezy web site currently, after advertising during the Super bowl, has one item for sale. A swastikas' t-shirt.

It's still up. You would think Shopify would have taken it down.
 
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Originally Posted by karenkaren1
he needs to be sectioned or arrested. An influencer of millions...he is dangerous
Arrested? For what? Isn’t a swastika tee shirt free speech? I’m pretty sure America takes upholding the constitution very seriously.
 
Old Feb 11th 2025 | 5:25 am
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Originally Posted by karenkaren1
he needs to be sectioned or arrested. An influencer of millions...he is dangerous
The people that he "influences" could be as equally dangerous as him, if they listen and pay attention to him.
 
Old Feb 11th 2025 | 6:01 am
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Arrested? For what? Isn’t a swastika tee shirt free speech? I’m pretty sure America takes upholding the constitution very seriously.
The First amendment doesn't provide a carte blanche to say anything.

Encouragement of imminent illegal acts (incitement) is unprotected.
Speech that tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace by provoking a fight, so long as it is a personally abusive is unprotected.
Or, most applicably, true threats of violence that are directed at a person or group of persons that have the intent of placing the target at risk of bodily harm or death are also unprotected.

Probably still not illegal, and there are previous cases where neo-Nazis have won in court, but there are some legal limits
 
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So, back to non-politcal WTFery: I was in a recently updated supermarket here (new chilled displays for fruit and vegetables, new fridges for beer, etc,) in NC last week, a sub-brand of Kroger, that was previously HQ'ed on the outskirts of Charlotte, NC. I walked in past the displays of weekly discount fruits and vegetables, and back towards the bakery area and the fish and meat counters, and there, in the middle of the store, where there had been builder's screening made of boards and tarps, was .... a bar!

It had a counter, with bar stools, and behind the bar were beer taps and bottles of wine. A complete and fully functional bar, in the middle of an effin' supermarket!!! Not off to one side in a nook or corner, right there, in the middle.

A bit of Googling revealed that it is a new thing for Kroger, and maybe a few other supermarkets, to add a bar area to some locations.

Little Miss P finishes high school in three months, so I am just going to have to go for a pint one day, before I pick her up from school!

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Originally Posted by Pulaski
So, back to non-politcal WTFery: I was in a recently updated supermarket here in NC last week, a sub-brand of Kroger, that was previously HQ'ed on the outskirts of Charlotte, NC. I walked in past the displays of weekly discount fruits and vegetables, and back towards the bakery area and the fish and meat counters, and there, in the middle of the store, where there had been screening made of boards and tarps, was .... a bar!

It had a counter, with bar stools, and behind the bar were beer taps and bottles of wine. A complete and fully functional bar, in the middle of an effin' supermarket!!! Not off to one side in a nook or corner, right there, in the middle.

A bit of Googling revealed that it is a thing for Kroger, and maybe a few other supermarket, to add a bar area to some locations.

Little Miss P finishes high school in three months, so I am just going to have to go for a pint one day, before I pick her up from school!
Lidl opened a pub in one of its grocery stores in Dundonald, Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago!! I find it strange - I can understand a cafe or coffee shop but a pub???
 
Old Feb 11th 2025 | 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by porkedpie
The First amendment doesn't provide a carte blanche to say anything.

Encouragement of imminent illegal acts (incitement) is unprotected.
Speech that tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace by provoking a fight, so long as it is a personally abusive is unprotected.
Or, most applicably, true threats of violence that are directed at a person or group of persons that have the intent of placing the target at risk of bodily harm or death are also unprotected.

Probably still not illegal, and there are previous cases where neo-Nazis have won in court, but there are some legal limits
Agreed, obviously. But the post I was responding to said someone was selling a tee shirt with a swastika on it, and so the person is dangerous and should be arrested.
 
Old Feb 11th 2025 | 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by Derrygal
Lidl opened a pub in one of its grocery stores in Dundonald, Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago!! I find it strange - I can understand a cafe or coffee shop but a pub???
When I lived and worked in London, I did a lot of my grocery shopping in an evening, in the way home, after a couple of beers after work. Off the train one stop early, out of the station, into Sainsbury's, then onto the bus for the last mile home.
 
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
So, back to non-politcal WTFery: I was in a recently updated supermarket here (new chilled displays for fruit and vegetables, new fridges for beer, etc,) in NC last week, a sub-brand of Kroger, that was previously HQ'ed on the outskirts of Charlotte, NC. I walked in past the displays of weekly discount fruits and vegetables, and back towards the bakery area and the fish and meat counters, and there, in the middle of the store, where there had been builder's screening made of boards and tarps, was .... a bar!

It had a counter, with bar stools, and behind the bar were beer taps and bottles of wine. A complete and fully functional bar, in the middle of an effin' supermarket!!! Not off to one side in a nook or corner, right there, in the middle.

A bit of Googling revealed that it is a new thing for Kroger, and maybe a few other supermarkets, to add a bar area to some locations.

Little Miss P finishes high school in three months, so I am just going to have to go for a pint one day, before I pick her up from school!

Be sure to post pictures
 


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