2014-12-04



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1001 ways to kill anything you do not understand.

1001 ways to kill anything you do not understand.

1001 ways to kill anything you do not understand.

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It’s just like a bookstore, except really violent and paranoid and creepy and only white males who smell like old cheese and musty underwear shop there.

It’s just like a bookstore, except really violent and paranoid and creepy and only white males who smell like old cheese and musty underwear shop there.

It’s just like a bookstore, except really violent and paranoid and…creepy and only white males who smell like old cheese and musty…underwear shop there.

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The vast majority of the Ferguson protests were peaceful and full of urgency and genuine pathos. But what did media focus on? This. What did Fox News fetishize? This, times 1,000.

The vast majority of the Ferguson protests were peaceful and full of urgency and genuine pathos. But what did media focus on? This. What did Fox News fetishize? This, times 1,000.

The vast majority of the Ferguson protests were peaceful and full of…urgency and genuine pathos. But what did media focus on? This. What…did Fox News fetishize? This, times 1,000.

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Oh my God! Not Walmart, too! Isn’t that where you BUY the guns? This is very confusing.

Oh my God! Not Walmart, too! Isn’t that where you BUY the guns? This is very confusing.

Oh my God! Not Walmart, too! Isn’t that where you BUY the guns? This…is very confusing.

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Scared white guys spur Black Friday gun sales to record high

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How to unpack the creepy, disquieting factoid that gun sales over the Thanksgiving weekend shot, as it were, to a record high?

True. Upwards of 175,000 requests for background checks over Black Friday, the FBI says, which is about three requests per second, which is triple the norm but still just behind December 21, 2012, right after the Sandy Hook massacre, when gun sales freakishly skyrocketed. Because nothing says “We need to come together to stop all the gun deaths” than stocking up on bullets in case the scary black president comes to take away your Glock.

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