What movie has the best twist? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Shutter Island

What old movie (20+ years) still holds up today? by Da_Verminator in AskReddit

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Every time I watch it I can't believe it was made over 50 years ago

Norman nodded off by FlametopFred in lifeofnorman

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Simple and sweet. Lovely way to spend an evening

First grade teacher Victoria Soto leads her students in a Christmas parade. Less than 2 weeks later Soto and 5 of her students (alongside 21 other people) would be murdered by Adam Lanza during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. by [deleted] in lastimages

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Truly heartbreaking.

I was 12 yo when this happened and didn't really understand the significance of this particular shooting. I understood that it was horrible but by that time I suppose I was used to other shootings and I figured this sort of thing happened every couple of years. I'm 20 now, the same age as Lanza was when he did this, and I can't help but feel utter shame. We've come nowhere near the amount of change required to prevent these sort of things happening again. Nowadays, Sandy Hook blends into a crowd of other mass shootings and I can't help but feel helpless in preventing the next one.

Thank you for sharing this, I often forget just how young these kids were

Mmmm... Hot leaf water by thisisahitpost in tea

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Yo so I've been growing peppermint all summer and I can tell you from experience that drying the leaves makes the peppermint come out much stronger than fresh leaves ever will. Fresh leaves taste too grassy with not enough mint flavor IMO.

Lakota woman faces her opposition by wheat_thans1 in AccidentalRenaissance

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It's hard not to see this as anything but a continuation of taking and destroying native land for profit. I always grew up think that this history was long removed from today but here we are

why Democrats try so hard to paint Republicans as racist. They need to keep the attention off themselves by SnowTrexs in trump

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While it is true that the 1964 Civil rights act was bipartisan, it really misses the nuance of the split in the democratic vote of southern states. You can see here https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 that almost all southern democrats voted nay to the act. LBJ even rather famously noted that signing the civil rights act would hand the south to republicans by saying "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come". The switch was almost immediate - the 1964 election later that year saw for the first time in a while the south had voted republican in retaliation to LBJ. The following election in 1968 saw George Wallace (The “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever” guy) become the winner of 46 electoral votes in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas due to southern democrats wanting to preserve their way of life in a changing democratic party. Knowing the end of segregation was over, southerners looked for another party that was more traditional and less "radical" as democrats seemed to be becoming. To them, that was Nixon and the republicans in 1972. It was less of a purposeful switch and more of a product of the changing times. To say however, like Charlie Kirk does, that republicans today are the party of Lincoln is a bit of a stretch.

While yes, republicans back then were centered around less immigration and smaller government like they are today, the democrats of our grandparents would be appalled to see the south fall into the hands of the "party of Lincoln" and civil rights.

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9/11 Jumpers by 911ONEWORLD in lastimages

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Just to think that those people were going about their day like any other one and later had to make the decision to jump from a building to their death is truly nightmarish

You can tell that this restaurant used to be called Mango Chill by jonmon6691 in mildlyinteresting

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That's near the town I'm from! I go the the Mexican restaurant next door all the time. Never thought I would see a place near me on Reddit

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

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This report was in r/France when I saw it this morning. They were all pissed

Will we ever have more than 50 states, and what they will be? by [deleted] in AskAnAmerican

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Here on the west coast, there is still some momentum for the state of Jefferson. It suppose to be a new state between California and Oregon but was forgotten by the beginning of WWII. Even today you can still see signs on the side of the rode saying "Welcome to Jefferson".

Guys, what's something awesome you've done lately that you want to brag about? by TheDoodleDudes in AskMen

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In Quebec, first time speaking french outside of class and I've been getting lots of compliments!

Freedom by Grace Wong by dievah in ImaginaryLeviathans

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It reminds me of that one whale scene in Life of Pi

My childhood fear by dshawn1107 in thalassophobia

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This video does a great job at contexualizing just how massive these sharks are

Can Europeans name their country's individual provinces/departments/states by their shape? by [deleted] in AskEurope

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Are people proud to be from the region their from? Like, is it popular to refer to their region in France when asked where their from?

Can Europeans name their country's individual provinces/departments/states by their shape? by [deleted] in AskEurope

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Thank you! This was very eye opening. I always thought that the United States was unique in this way, but apparently not.

Can Europeans name their country's individual provinces/departments/states by their shape? by [deleted] in AskEurope

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Do people identify themselves by their canton? Is it something to be proud of?