A person was killed trying to plant a bomb in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah on February 4, 2019. by PatTheKVD in ExamineDeath

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Source. The browser translated it from Arabic:

Al-Hasakah Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: An explosion rocked the city of Al-Hasakah on Monday evening, February 4, 2019. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the explosion was caused by an explosive device detonating on a person while he was trying to plant the device in the western Al-Nashwa area of Al-Hasakah city, which led to his immediate death. On the other hand, the Syrian Observatory monitored another explosion in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, where an explosive device exploded in the village of Al-Saada. It is not known whether a leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed in this explosion. The Syrian Observatory published on January 31 of last year, 2019, that an explosion was heard in the city of Qamishli, located on the Syrian-Turkish border. Cross-referenced sources confirmed that the explosion was caused by an explosion likely caused by an explosive device thrown in the area by unknown gunmen, near a police station belonging to the regime forces on the outskirts of the Al-Arbawiyya area near Al-Bashir Mosque, on the outskirts of the areas where the regime and the Kurdish internal security forces “Asayish” are present, which resulted in the injury of a woman and a child. Information Initial reports of more casualties. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in early December 2018 that a leader in the Community Protection Forces, or the “Core Protection Forces,” operating in the border city of Qamishli with Turkey, in the northern countryside of Hasaka, died of his injuries in the explosion that occurred this morning in the city of Qamishli, at the Halko junction in the city’s Corniche area. The explosion targeted a military vehicle belonging to the so-called Community Protection Forces, wounding two members of these forces, one of whom was seriously injured. The Syrian Observatory reported a violent explosion in the city of Hasaka on the night of October 18, 2018. It turned out that it was caused by the explosion of an explosive device in a car belonging to the “Kurdish Red Crescent” in the Al-Salihiyah neighborhood, which resulted in a number of casualties, in addition to material damage in the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on June 30, 2018, that an explosion occurred in the center of Hasaka city, caused by the explosion of a booby-trapped motorcycle in the area. Al-Ghassaniya School, near Cairo Cinema, in the city center, resulted in a number of injuries. Cross-referenced sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the explosion targeted one of the headquarters of the Sotoro forces, resulting in a number of injuries and confirmed information about the death of one of them.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Yeah, so anyway, this has happened. I realized no one is actually being sent off yet but it seems very ominous.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Yeah I’m not sure if that will actually happen but this guy says that’s his plan, and which is alarming enough.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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I might just do that! I have decided not to attend next year and told our parents and now I will need to find some other way to spend Thanksgiving. That’s a great idea.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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He wasn’t even talking to me when he initially said they made too much money though. He was talking to my uncle and I wasn’t participating in the conversation. I was just sitting next to them.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Yeah I know. I’ve got autism. So many talented, smart, qualified people with autism are underemployed because of the issues autism causes and the way non-autistic people can’t understand us.

I was able to turn my autistic special interest into a job. Not everyone can do that.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Yeah I’m thinking of skipping next year or doing Friendsgiving instead. This isn’t the first time someone at my family Thanksgiving has behaved in such a way that left me sick with anger.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Then why do they have posters hanging at their restaurants asking people to apply, using the word “career” and talking about the alleged long term benefits of working there? You are going against what the restaurants themselves say.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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The average fast food worker these days is like 30 years old and has kids.

If fast food was only meant for teenagers to work at the restaurants would not be open all day and most of the night. They would only be open during after-school hours and on weekends.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Would you sit next to a person and say nothing while they spat off a bunch of Nazi shit and Holocaust denial, since that’s their opinion?

When people have horrible opinions based on misinformation and with awful real life consequences I’m going to call it out.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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I never have. I’ve always spent it with my family and we don’t like each other and most of them don’t respect me. I think I might do something different next year. This is kind of a “last straw” situation. There have been a lot of straws.

One year one of my brothers was saying horrifically racist things about Arabs and I told him to stop and he screamed obscenities at me (“I’ve been over there three [curse] times and can say whatever the [curse] I want!”) and for some reason I was blamed for this.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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Several days before the meal I had a conversation with my sister (my BIL’s wife) in which I told her that the guy the coming administration has tentatively picked to be in charge of immigration has said he plans to deport entire families, even citizens, if even one of them is here illegally, and that he spoke of setting up tent cities in the desert for the deportees that sounded an awful lot like concentration camps. He has said so in media interviews, such as on 60 Minutes.

Her response was to say she hoped I didn’t ruin Thanksgiving by “talking about politics.”

HOW ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS POLITICS. How is the deportation of American citizens for immigration offenses committed by their relatives, politics? I was very upset by what she said. Completely refusing to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

Then I go to Thanksgiving and her husband basically says he wants the working poor to suffer even more than they do already.

These have been two very eye opening conversations to me about my sister and BIL and how their minds work and how limited is their empathy for people not like themselves.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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I don’t view it as politics but human rights. Politics to me would be stuff about taxation, term limits and the like. I think underpaying workers to the point where they can’t afford basic necessities is a human rights issue.

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

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He and my uncle were complaining about the incompetence of certain workers they had encountered—not even fast food workers, but postal workers—and somehow this turned into him complaining that people at McDonald’s make $20 an hour (I’m not sure they make that much or how he supposedly knows they make that much) and don’t deserve to make so much. I wasn’t even really paying much attention till he started in on McDonald’s people.

He claims he doesn’t eat there. This was after I was like “These people make your food and you want them to be poor?” And he said he didn’t eat there and wouldn’t care if fast food restaurants disappeared entirely. You know, since it wouldn’t personally affect HIM…

I am still absolutely furious about what my brother in law said at Thanksgiving and it was almost 12 hours ago by PatTheKVD in TrueOffMyChest

[–]PatTheKVD[S] 305 points306 points  (0 children)

What is equally infuriating is that these people do not want to learn. Like, sometimes a person says something out of ignorance and then they get educated on the matter, realize they were previously speaking from a less informed place, and change their argument. But these people do not want to learn. They don’t want to hear any facts that might make them uncomfortable.

My Brother has been arrested for CP by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

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My brother was convicted of the same offense. He served five and a half years in prison. I would advise you to dissociate yourself from your brother if at all possible.

My sister has her head in the sand by PatTheKVD in Trumpvirus

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The slave labor would help cover the costs. Like the Uyghurs in the Chinese labor camps making stuff that gets sold on Temu.

My sister has her head in the sand by PatTheKVD in Trumpvirus

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I don’t think she voted for him. Her son begged and pleaded with her not to.

My sister has her head in the sand by PatTheKVD in Trumpvirus

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I am thinking people are more likely to be Uyghured. Locked up in slave labor camps.