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DeJoy tells judge mail-sorting machines can’t be reassembled

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  1. drannex
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    I have owned, managed, and ran several repair shops over the years - if you have so many, and you are pilfering them for parts, then you surely have enough machines to rebuild 70-80% of them with...

    The machines, dismantled under a DeJoy initiative, were stripped for parts to improve or repair other machines, they said.

    I have owned, managed, and ran several repair shops over the years - if you have so many, and you are pilfering them for parts, then you surely have enough machines to rebuild 70-80% of them with relative ease. This argument is in itself highly suspect and a total lie coming from him.

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    FishFingus
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    I've noticed something happeningly increasingly often of late: every time someone in this administration says or does something, straight-faced and unashamed, that is blatantly hypocritical,...

    I've noticed something happeningly increasingly often of late: every time someone in this administration says or does something, straight-faced and unashamed, that is blatantly hypocritical, illegal or in direct conflict with reality, I'm reminded of a scene from Game of Thrones: specifically, the exchange between the High Sparrow and Marjory before the Great Sept explodes.

    Call it silly, hyperbolic or catastrophizing (though I doubt you'd convince me more strongly than anyone else in the last four years could); but from an outsider's perspective, it looks as though the moral bayou embraced by the current administration penetrates a lot deeper and wider through American society than most people I know are comfortable admitting. It feels like it spreads a little further to infect a new limb of government with every passing week. It feels as though so much that was taken for granted has been stripped, looted, broken, or paraded through the gutter, and the tempo of abuses really has had a numbing effect. What's the point in participating in what's left of democracy, by exercising your right to vote, if they're just going to be thrown away? What's the point in doing things according to the law when it feels as though your reality is playing catch-up to the quagmire? How do you do it?

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      1. FishFingus
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        Mmm...thanks. I think I gave in to despair at some point during that vent. I feel so tired, I bet I could sleep like a log for about 12 hours straight. It's probably about time for me to take...

        Mmm...thanks. I think I gave in to despair at some point during that vent. I feel so tired, I bet I could sleep like a log for about 12 hours straight. It's probably about time for me to take another Reddit detox.

        Good luck, people. Get out there and vote; you might never forgive yourself if you don't.

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