m***a
发帖数: 13878 | 1 There we go. We used a work-friendly title and excerpt but we had to set the
tone for the rest of the article to make it clear that we won’t be using
any fucking pointless phrases like “the f-word” or “f**k”. And now many
more Japanese students of English will be able to use “fuck” properly too,
thanks to a book explaining correct usage of the English language’s most
versatile word.
How to Use Fuck Correctly: 99 Phrases Using Fuck, Shit, Damn, and Hell that
Schools Won’t Teach You that Should be... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 2 http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/when-you-see-this-happen-you
by Simon Blackon July 15, 2014
Exactly 70 years ago to the day, hundreds of delegates from 44 nations were
busy at work in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire creating a brand new financial
system.
World War II had just ended. Europe was in ruin.
And since the US was simultaneously the largest economy in the world, the
primary victor in the war, and the only major power with its productive
capacity intact, it was easy to dictate terms: the... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******z
发帖数: 83 | 3 really dont know why MITBBS put this kind of pointless posts on front page.
Go get a life, people!
You guys who look down upon so called "wai-F" get nothing and are actually
shaming yourselves here, you let people see how rude and uncivilized you are.
Like it or not, it's their own lives and you have no right to judge them.
Just like you dislike people call you a loser or ignorant without knowing
nothing about you, you should stand in their shoes esp when you are so mean.
There are so many brigh... 阅读全帖 |
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P******0
发帖数: 9787 | 4 Pointless.
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 8.2.2 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 5 Putin is just reminding the world Russia is a nuclear superpower.
A war with it would be pointless. And he intervening on behalf of whom he
considers fellow Slavs in Ukraine.
NATO will do nothing beyond bluster. |
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m******e
发帖数: 536 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 PDA 讨论区 】
发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: PDA
标 题: 靠1+1上纽约时报了，比较正面的科技版专栏文章，小牛啊。
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 8 23:09:08 2014, 美东)
靠1+1上上今天纽约时报了，还是比较正面的科技版专栏文章，小牛啊。
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/technology/personaltech/onepl
Personal Tech
Low Price, High Hopes for OnePlus Phone
OCT. 8, 2014
Photo
The One from OnePlus, a Chinese company, runs CyanogenMod, a version of
Google’s Android operating system that is flexible and easy to use. Credit
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Farhad M... 阅读全帖 |
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b***y
发帖数: 14281 | 9 Your statement is totally pointless. The argument is simple enough, while
you can't literally fire a tenured professor, you can always force him to
leave, and there are plenty of ways, which is good enough.
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 1.0.1
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b***y
发帖数: 14281 | 10 Same can be said for every female celebrity. So, it is a pretty pointless
statement.
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g******l
发帖数: 5103 | 11 没人会因为网上的一篇文章决定自己归不归。不过这篇文章根本就是pointless，堆砌
一大堆数字估计是为了炫耀一下自己的坑还不错，跟外F女在facebook上晒老外男友一
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 13 A Generational Storm Is Coming
http://bonnerandpartners.com/a-generational-storm-is-coming/
25 Years of Poverty
Under President Johnson, the government set up the Federal Direct Student
Loan Program to provide “low-interest loans” (back then, “low” meant 8%)
to students.
Private lenders make the loans, but they receive the full backing of the
feds.
The idea was to help you afford higher education… and earn larger salaries
as a result. And with your increased earnings you were supposed to be able... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3030 | 14 Pointless. Is the Mom in jail or crazy house now? Nobody knows and nobody
care. |
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发帖数: 9787 | 15 Pointless.
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k*****r
发帖数: 21039 | 16 What is it Like to Teach Black Students?
by Christopher Jackson
Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a
southeastern state. The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions are
like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions journalists use like “
chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not
capture what really happens. There is nothing like the day-to-day experience
of teaching black children and that is what I will try to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 17 黑人学校和黑人世界的真相 - Chris Jackson
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Dec 21 22:28:09 2015, 美东)
What is it Like to Teach Black Students?
by Christopher Jackson
Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a
southeastern state. The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions
are
like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions journalists use like “
chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not
capture what really happens. There is nothing like the da... 阅读全帖 |
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c******a
发帖数: 4400 | 18 http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Forest-Cixin-Liu/product-reviews
Probably the most cerebral (yet still accessable) book I've ever read. A
fantastic sequel to an incredible first book. If I say anything I think I'd
give it away. But if you want to know what our future could look like if we
were driven by fear, this is a great read. If you want to see how society
could change, how it would react differently, how the old becomes mythical,
larger than life, whilst still being just as human as any of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 19 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127056/The-real-Slumdo
The real Slumdog Millionaires: Behind the cinema fantasy, mafia gangs are
deliberately crippling children for profit
By ANDREW MALONE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 12:24 EST, 24 January 2009
View comments
Alone and afraid, Aamir was initially grateful when a ‘kind’ older couple
befriended him on his arrival in Mumbai. This chaotic urban sprawl is now
India’s largest city and home to more than 20 million people. More than
nine mill... 阅读全帖 |
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D***r
发帖数: 7511 | 20 Born to be gay?
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An Australian commission is hearing testimony in an inquiry on allegations
that military cadets were raped as part of an “initiation” going back to
the 1960s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse heard
evidence on Tuesday of teenagers being raped and forced to rape others at a
naval training center and an army apprentice school over the course of
decades. More than 100 victims have reported their abuse, which they were
told was part of their ... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 21 巴西小将奋起反击
Antonio 4 hours ago
The comments that I read here about my country Brazil, make me sick to my
stomach !!!! Americans think that they are the best of the best of the human
being. But the facts are: 1 - Americans are over the top regarding
addiction to drug prescription. A nation of druggies! 2 - Americans are over
the top regarding addiction to illegal drugs. 3 - You guys talk about the
crime in my country, but here in the USA you guys have the same problems:
CORRUPTION, COPS KILLING INN... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****l
发帖数: 7106 | 22 pointless to say how stupid LZ is
she said it loud and clear
one thing though, normally rattlesnake bite is not fatal. even in rare case
it is, you still got 5-6 hours to be rescued
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发帖数: 38600 | 23 "And the inevitable departure of the United States from the Middle East,
which is coming, just as the British, French and Soviet empires had to
depart, will likely do lasting damage to the American soul."
Pat, I've enjoyed your work over the years. Thank you.
But I'll tell you what has sapped my soul. The pointless death of millions
of women and children in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Somalia,
Sudan, Tunisia and the Balkans over the last 25 years.
The public cheer-leading of it by Hi... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 24 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 拉里挺幽默的:I believe more in karma
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 1 16:51:46 2017, 美东)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented Thursday night on
longtime NBC host Matt Lauer's firing, remarking that she believes in the
concept of karma a little more "every day," Philly Voice reports.
Clinton was speaking in Philadelphia as part of her national book tour
promoting her memoir, "What Happened," which looks at her unsuccessful 2016
... 阅读全帖 |
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t**x
发帖数: 20965 | 25 佩服， 有知识
Why China could win the West’s stupid — and pointless — war over steel
By Carl Bildt |
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发帖数: 42116 | 26 garrulous
given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity: pointlessly or annoyingly
talkative |
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s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 27 Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s
presidency
Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is based on
hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington
Post)
By Philip Rucker and
Robert Costa
September 4 at 11:08 AM
John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he
talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. So, on Jan. 27, the
president’s then-personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 28 “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s
gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us
are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.” |
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发帖数: 1 | 29 Kelly said of Trump: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince
him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t
even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.” |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 30 A major research university might get 600 applications for 30 slots, and
maybe 350 of the students would do just fine,” he says. “So how do you
choose? As a first cut, many use the GRE, which is not a good indicator of
success and also puts women and racial minorities at a disadvantage.”
In 2013, Hodapp found six universities willing to abandon that simplistic
metric and welcome a dozen deserving students with low GRE scores, most of
them minorities, who had either been rejected by other program... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 31 In fact, China made it quite clear that in its opinion, Soros is no longer
relevant saying that "statements by certain people, which portray black as
white and distort facts, are completely pointless and not worthy of even a
rebuttal."
Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum
https://www.georgesoros.com/2019/01/24/remarks-delivered-at-the-world-
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发帖数: 2469 | 32 US, China trade meeting ends with sharp response to Trump
PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 30 2019 10:21 PM EDTUPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Reuters
GP: mnuchin and lighthizer n shanghai trade talks 190731
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (R) with United States Trade Representative
Robert Lighthizer (2nd L) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (L) before
the start of talks at the Xijiao Conference Center in Shanghai on July 31,
2019.
Ng Han Guan | AFP | Getty Images
Talks between U.S. and Chinese trade officials seeking wa... 阅读全帖 |
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r*****y
发帖数: 53800 | 33 ebb and flow
http://www.kmike.com/EbbAndFlow/Ch7.htm
To protect Hamhung and Hungnam while the distant X Corps forces made their way south, General Almond had moved forces of the 3d Division into the port complex. He lost his protection on 1 December when General MacArthur took control of the 3d Division and ordered Almond to assemble it in Wonsan preparatorypresumably-to sending it westward to assist the Eighth Army. Almond complied (dissolving General Mead's Task Force C in the process) but on ... 阅读全帖 |
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t**********t
发帖数: 12071 | 34 这就是你所说的第3师主力都在咸兴-兴南的证据？呵呵。
不错，这段话是原文，我对照了一下这本书，这里也的确写的3师主力守卫在咸兴-兴南
地区。
但是这个地方写得很清楚，3师集中兵力守卫咸兴-兴南地区这一行动是12月初的前几天
。难道3师在12月初守了几天，他们就一直呆在这个地方？我贴的Clay的书里面写得很
清楚，几天后3师的主力5个营就北上去救援陆战一师了。他们居然去救陆战一师了，很
让你失望啊。呵呵。
阁下这逻辑错误，我们一般叫做刻舟求剑吧？呵呵。
way south, General Almond had moved forces of the 3d Division into the port
complex. He lost his protection on 1 December when General MacArthur took
control of the 3d Division and ordered Almond to assemble it in Wonsan
preparatorypresumably-to sending it westward to as... 阅读全帖 |
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t**********t
发帖数: 12071 | 35 如我上面所述，阁下这段话只能说明3师在12月的头几天呆在咸兴-兴南。阁下有证据证
明3师主力一直呆在咸兴-兴南没有动？呵呵。拿不出来罢？
way south, General Almond had moved forces of the 3d Division into the port
complex. He lost his protection on 1 December when General MacArthur took
control of the 3d Division and ordered Almond to assemble it in Wonsan
preparatorypresumably-to sending it westward to assist the Eighth Army.
Almond complied (dissolving General Mead's Task Force C in the process) but
on the 3d sent to Tokyo staff members who appealed and : obta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 187 | 36 (CNN) -- Famed cyclist Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of losing seven
Tour de France titles and his fabled championship legacy after he ended his
fight against charges of illegal doping.
Armstrong, who has consistently denied allegations of illegal doping, made
his announcement to stop battling the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's "one-sided
and unfair process" move against him after losing a legal bid Monday to stop
the probe.
The cyclist's decision prompted the anti-doping agency to say it will s... 阅读全帖 |
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a****t
发帖数: 7049 | 37 Again, you are arguing with yourself here. Some matters should be decided by
majoritarian principles, others should not. I never argued that majority
decides everything, so arguing against this is pointless. You should argue
with me on why gay marriage should not be decided by majoritarian principles
. What's the compelling interest in overriding the majority here? It does
not rise to being robbed and killed, so let's put that stupid argument away. |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 38 A university professor in China has estimated that 16 million women in the
world’s most populous country are married to gays.
Professor Zhang Bei-chuan of Qingdao University says the huge number of
women – equivalent to the population of the Netherlands – who have tied
the knot with gay men are struggling to cope.
Speaking to state-run China Daily, the academic said as many as 90% of gay
Chinese men marry to conform with social norms.
As of 2010, China had a population of more than 1.3 billion.
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k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 39 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
willhung (黄威廉) 于 (Mon Feb 1 15:24:47 2010, 美东) 提到:
发信人: aptget (apt), 信区: USANews
标 题: 同性婚姻受不到祝福也成了叽歪的理由了？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 1 13:38:17 2010, 美东)
不受祝福的婚姻多了，suck it up！
至于同性和乱伦的关系，人家说的根本不是法律能不能修改成允许前者禁止后者。人家
说的是，反对限制同性婚姻的微薄理由同样适用于反对限制包括乱伦在内的许多异类“
婚姻”，这是法律范畴的问题，是个很严肃的问题，直接关系到这个问题应该用粗暴的
法律手段来解决，还是让社会自己去解决。
至今为止，未见哪怕一个自私的gay和其好心但********的支持者们说出为什么同性婚
姻不能限制，但乱伦能够限制。
==注：经过作者授权，版主将原贴的不雅词汇修改.
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Ann Coulter捅马蜂窝：大多数libertarians都是胆小的假货，因为怕得罪人，而不敢
就当前重要的文化问题表明立场
GET RID OF GOVERNMENT -- BUT FIRST MAKE ME PRESIDENT!
June 15, 2011
I consider all Republican debates time-fillers until New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie jumps in, but Monday night's debate did crystallize for me why I
dislike libertarians. (Except one, who is a friend of mine and not crazy.)
They lure you in with talk of small government and then immediately start
babbling about drug legalization or gay marriage.
"Get the government... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Gary Jason
Two recent reports remind us of how ridiculous the Department of
Transportation is when it comes to passenger rail service and offer
additional insight into why this nation is heading towards bankruptcy.
The first story is that Amtrak, our socialized passenger rail service,
racked up an operating loss of $506 million this calendar year. The bad
news is that this is a considerable increase from last year's loss of $420
million. The worse news is that next year's loss is projected ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****n
发帖数: 21367 | 42 do you firmly believe in God?
great idea, why not do it? is it too expensive?
if
i appreciate your pointless bravery,
however, you are likely to be a much worse fighter (with or without
a gun) than someone who was born in slumdog. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 By Thomas Nelson
With less than a calendar year until someone from the GOP goes heads up
against Barack Obama, the focus has correctly been on which person is best
qualified to tackle the nation's problems and, of at least equal importance,
most capable of displacing the dangerous administration currently in charge.
Of lesser concern at the moment is the undercard to that event. Still that
undercard is not a throwaway. The Vice Presidential position is key for the
GOP. Allowing for a diverse tic... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 当我问英国气候变化部的人在每年花纳税人300亿的情况下暖化被遏制了多少时，在一
片可怕的沉默之后，回答是“我们从没算过”
Posted on February 3, 2012 by Anthony Watts
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Today’s resignation of Chris Huhne, the UK Minister for Climate Change,
offers the prospect of a belated return to sanity at the former Ministry of
Agriculture in Whitehall. Huhne now faces prosecution for an alleged attempt
to pervert the course of justice by asking his then wife to say that she
was driving at the time when one of Britain’s thousands of s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 Author
- Steve Milloy Saturday, March 24, 2012
Queensland has decisively rejected Labor, reducing them to a political rump
who may not even achieve party status (10 or more seats in the new
parliament). While State issues have strong influence in State elections
this is a severe repudiation of Labor and its National policies – notably
the despised carbon tax and the assault on State revenues through an
additional profits tax on mining States’ main exports of coal and iron ore
(mainly afflic... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 Jamie M. Fly — April 2012
Following the killing of American soldiers and the recent protests sparked
by the accidental burning of Korans by coalition forces, Republican
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich went so far as to suggest that the
United States should abandon Afghanistan unless the Afghans apologize,
adding that we should tell them, “figure out how to live your own miserable
life.” This is the increasingly frequent refrain of war-weary
conservatives who question President Barack Obama’... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 47 By: Ann Coulter
7/4/2012 01:01 PM
It has become fashionable to equate the French and American revolutions, but
they share absolutely nothing beyond the word “revolution.” The American
Revolution was a movement based on ideas, painstakingly argued by serious
men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous
nation in world history.
The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob. It was the primogenitor of
the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler’s Nazi Party, M... 阅读全帖 |
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b****r
发帖数: 1395 | 48
rick santorum former gop presidential candidate, house of
representatives--he already in a pretty important position.
that's called damage control and it won't reversed anything
people
this is not the point. had this been the issue santorum would
have point out that white was the majority in iowa. he didn't.
cause he knows this would not help him.
the point is he has this racial stereotype planted so deep in
his mind that whenever welfare issue was raised he would
immediately think of black. t... 阅读全帖 |
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b****r
发帖数: 1395 | 49
again, that doesn't reverse anything. cause from time to time
gop has to come out and do damage control. and man, they've been
busy doing it.
he definitely has the racial stereotype planted in his mind.
there's no doubt about it.
the part i don't understand is that you contradict yourself from
time to time. you opened up by saying gop doesn't endorse racism.
but later contradicted yourself by saying santorum was just
telling the truth.
and he is racist.
again, it's pointless to justify a racia... 阅读全帖 |
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b****r
发帖数: 1395 | 50
rick santorum former gop presidential candidate, house of
representatives--he already in a pretty important position.
that's called damage control and it won't reversed anything
people
this is not the point. had this been the issue santorum would
have point out that white was the majority in iowa. he didn't.
cause he knows this would not help him.
the point is he has this racial stereotype planted so deep in
his mind that whenever welfare issue was raised he would
immediately think of black. t... 阅读全帖 |
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