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Internet fundraising is a bit like class action lawsuits. One person gets the benefit of the lawsuit, but everyone else gets to send a message.

I donated a few bucks to the guy, but I intended it more as a fuck you to his parents since he was already in ridiculous range when I did it.

My hope would be he'd donate some of the money himself, but maybe he'll buy a car.
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Astute observation Dan. What's the best way to protest the incredibly wrong and misleading headline about Almond Milk?
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Re: Severe threat level

Must be time to pass more legislation that fucks over the 99%.
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"ace any criminal charges. The single mom whose daughter was playing in a park is black and poor, the parents of the girl who was playing with an Uzi are white and middle class."

I've got a great way to reduce the numbers of people of color and raise the number of white people in jails. Let's make murder legal and make yoga pants on fat women illegal. Bingo.

Because ..... Same same.
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I guess the logic goes we have a second amendment right to bear arms, but we don't have a constitutional right to have children without nannies.
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In a way that asshole Ben Carson is correct in comparing the US with Nazi Germany. After all it was the United State's methods of genocide towards Native Americans that Hitler imitated.
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My husband drinks almond milk because of lactose-intolerance; of the non-dairy milks, he likes almond milk best. He's not a hipster, but that column made him sound like an ecological criminal. He just has it on cereal, and not very often, mmmmkay? let's all relax a little.

Re 20 yr old kicked out of house and internet fundraising for him - it was an awful scene; great that people want to help him; but at 20, at least he can work, live on his own, etc. What about the kids in their early teens who have to run away? so yes, donate some to the 20 yr old who exposed the ugly side of religion. but let's not forget everyone else.

This is like the ALS challenge - quite frankly, that charity now has probably more money than it knows what to do with and now a lot of other charities will get less. Spread it around, everyone!
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Let ISIS and Assad fight it out without our interference. They will both be diminished. As Assad loses his grip, he'll be assassinated and the Syrians will be begging for our help.
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NEAR the Seattle Art Museum, not BY the Seattle Art Museum.
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Sweatpants on Air Force One, how shocking!
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How is almond milk more wasteful or damaging than, say, cow's milk?
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Actually they use the Americans and Canadians that volunteer for ISIS as cannon fodder.

About as many delusional Canadians volunteer there.
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I like almonds but had no idea that they are so ecologically damaging. I guess I won't be eating them anymore.
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Here is more on Daniel Pierce.

This was in intervention by Pierce's mother, father, step-mother(!), and grandparents. Yep, dad's not a widower and is on at least his second wife.

The link above has a link to HuffPo that is worth following, even though it's HuffPo. Apparently his family left him a voicemail asking (probably demanding) him to take down the video. (Good luck with that, family.)

Pierce might want to looking into getting a restraining order against his family and giving their photos to campus police.
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i'd like to see more almond ladies in white yoga pants, frankly.
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Just eat almonds...doesn't take so many, so yay for harm reduction.

The Colbert Report will be missed.
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I really don't understand the concern with almond milk. As the article states, it's just almonds (not even very many of them) pressed with filtered water and maybe some carrageenan. So? Water conservation is a real issue, but people still need to drink the stuff. Who cares if that water comes nut-infused or not? If I drink a tall glass of water while eating a few almonds, would you really have a problem with that?

The whole article really amounted to little more than, "I don't like almond milk, so I'm going to make up a bunch of ham-fisted arguments for why you shouldn't like it either."
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Oh, and less than 27% of the money donated to ALS research with the "Ice Bucket Challenge" actually goes to research.
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I'm pretty sure making almond milk requires less water than feeding a dairy cow to make the same amount.
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Now Almond Milk is bad?

That's it. I've had it.

You know how it's harms civil society when right wingers obsesses on and fetishize sexual morality? You know that thing?

Well the left does the same annoying sanctimonious fetishizing bullshit with food.

So I'm just going to tell Mother Jones to go ahead and fuck themselves.

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@ 19 - It's not the water in the milk he's talking about, it's the water needed to produce almonds.
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@17: when you say "ladies in white yoga pants", I get a mental image of the prancercise lady. And that is not something I want in my mind's eye.
25
Daniel Pierce's family proves that Christianity is a mental disorder - one that is chosen, as no one is "born Christian", hence the "born again" bullshit.
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Why is that young man showing an armpit covered in hair? How disgusting is that?
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@23,

Dairy cows are still much more damaging to the environment and wasteful of resources than almond milk.

Moreover, every vegan alternative to milk that exists is a bean/nut/seed that's ground up and soaked in water. That Mother Jones writer is a moron.
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I buy almond milk (white guy, no yoga). I'm lactose intolerant and the estrogen mimicking compounds in soy milk creep me out. Sometimes I drink coconut milk instead. True story.
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@28 ... seriously? I could live under his arm very happily. Oh, yes. I surely could.
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How did I miss APOTD? Simply delicious!
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@23 Yes. His problem is at least partially with almond production and almonds themselves, which is fine...complain about the almond industry. But you can't rationally pivot from complaining about almond milk because almonds are a huge waste of water to complaining about almond milk because it doesn't have many almonds in it. He may as well just go on to rant about people who drink water with their handful of almonds next. What are they, savages?
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Give up my vegemite and move to the US, asks Colbert et al. Yeah right.
And a nine yr old playing in a park, other children around?
Nine is not five. And the mother gets charged and looses her job?
Think I'd be loosing more than Vegemite if I moved to the US. I'd be loosing my fucking temper a lot of the time .
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@31; it was a Joke, Joyce .. Just pointing out how men's armpit hair is seen as sexy( which it is), but women's ..
36
Jesus fucking Christ while fisting the Virgin Mary, can Dan Savage be more idiotic?

First, South Carolina and Nevada are two completely different states with different state laws, so they are not comparable. And the instructor was a dumb fuck anyway and he should be nominated for a Darwin award. And who the fuck uses an Uzi anyway? That's the biggest, most worthless piece of shit creation to come out of Israel since that Don't mess with Zohan movie.

As for almond milk, news flash: WHITE PEOPLE IN YOGA PANTS ARE HIPSTERS! I guess Duck Dynasty isn't about Rednecks, but is instead about white homophobes with beards who live in the country...
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i would say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that youthcare does "great" work with LGBT youth. i mean, i'd say it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that youthcare does "great work" full stop. :)
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care to explain that, lucida?
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Dear Dan Savage et. al: We are a financially secure middle-aged couple living in South Florida. We wish to do something about intolerance, and are willing to stand behind our words. Rather than donate money to Daniel Pierce, the 20-year old who suffered horrific treatment by his family for being gay, we are willing to offer him a place to stay in our home in Palm Beach County, Florida, until he can find his own way in life. This is serious. If anyone knows how to contact him, please write to:
wavesnmocean@gmail.com . We will stand behind our offer, and give him the love his family cannot.
Peter and Susan
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[EDIT: I wrote this this morning but failed to complete posting]

@13, almonds use up 10% of California's water, which is in severe drought. They're the most water-wasteful food crop; each and every almond takes more than a gallon of water to produce. And almost all almonds come from California -- 82% of the world supply. It's not almond MILK that's the problem, it's almonds themselves.
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As for beef, the best figure I can find for beef is 440 gallons of water to produce each pound of beef, which is about 53 gallons, or the equivalent of 48 almonds, or about two ounces.

Almond growing in California uses 1.1 trillion gallons of water a year, twice as much as all the people's personal use combined.
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My first instinct when I heard the story about the kid was to donate to the Ali Fourtney (sp?) Center if I had the cash-flow. I'm glad this kid is getting support, but it sounds like he's good now. He's 20, he's got a boyfriend and friends to live with. But what about the kids under 18 who get kicked out (and how is that not illegal child abandonment?), or who run away because their parents beat them or rape them to "cure" them? (A friend of mine was repeatedly molested by his MOTHER to train him to be straight.)
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He's been putting updates on his fundraising page asking people to donate to a shelter. And has said that he'll be passing some of the money on.

And, yeah, I tossed him a couple of bucks, mostly because it's a way to say something, to show him that his family is wrong. That there is a world of people out there that think he's just fine the way he is.

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