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IAMKOREA
Apr 21, 2007

crepeface posted:

lol doesn't pelosi have like a 33% better investment return than the best investors

Not only that but lawmakers are apparently required to disclose these things so you can also invest like Pelosi if you want to!

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A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

I would recommend watching some of this guy's videos, they are pretty great.

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119

https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1482370452089622529

Oh come on, really?

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

A Bakers Cousin posted:

I would recommend watching some of this guy's videos, they are pretty great.

Most of his videos are astoundingly perfect for this thread. I posted the most hosed up one I could find.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
To what extent does a volcanic/nuclear winter mitigate global warming?

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


Ronwayne posted:

To what extent does a volcanic/nuclear winter mitigate global warming?

it does a p good job because enough people would starve that our emissions would absolutely plummet

sort of like how helicopters are the greenest technology we have because they keep crashing and taking billionaires with them in a fiery inferno

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Aug 6, 2019

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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/15/putin-has-given-masters-war-exactly-what-they-wanted

ErrorInvalidUser
Aug 23, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:munch:

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Aug 6, 2019

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https://twitter.com/IlleniumTakeshi/status/1517986109648736256

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009


pro click

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!
Nuclear war for brunch Sunday


Venus by Tuesday

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Aug 6, 2019

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https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1540117278775300096

Zurtilik
Oct 23, 2015

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
=]

IAMKOREA
Apr 21, 2007

Lol at the idea the EPA is in any way equipped to tackle climate change at the moment.

Samuel Glompers
Nov 26, 2020

IAMKOREA posted:

Lol at the idea the EPA is in any way equipped to tackle climate change at the moment.

No doubt. This is just hitting the gas in a car already travelling 104mph downhill on three donuts towards a cliff that was visible for the entire drive

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
https://twitter.com/21stCenturyWire/status/1544473671925829632?s=20&t=TED04BKmR-uOVTMwfqTrvA

two-time fee
Jan 13, 2022

Oglethorpe posted:

learn 2 code sri lanka

TehSaurus
Jun 12, 2006

I mean in some ways that's the best news I've seen all week

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Angry crowds now chasing and killing wealthy people :unsmith:

police use live rounds :smith:

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


iirc, this video is from 2019

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https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/w9ufnt/is_it_just_me_or_do_things_feel_off/

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/31/drought-water-queues-uk-hosepipe-ban-compulsory-metering

animist
Aug 28, 2018

pro doomscrolling material

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1558850303142797312?s=20&t=7sLSaonQ3PimJrngqyzN7g

MLSM has issued a correction as of 06:12 on Aug 15, 2022

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1558223364560502784?s=20&t=-wezffvCt9wM_15ITiPwng

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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-gathering-crisis.html

A particularly good quote from the comments:

quote:

You're pretty close, here:

"...use the Blairite powers to use G4S or even Constellis Holdings (ex Blackwater) to restore control"
If you had to name the 'alarm bell' signal for me to sweep up my hard-currency stash and passport into the 'Go Bag' and get the next flight out, it would be the news that external 'security consultants' were inbound on a contract to support the police in protecting public safety...
That's a polite way of saying that the regime are bringing in mercenaries who are not subject to international law* to carry out orders that the British army and police cannot be given and would not be trusted to obey if they were.

But you also said 'G4S'.

Close, and you may well be correct, in a way. But Mrs May and her successor Preeti Patel already have a militia: the UK Border Force.

They have auxiliary forces under contract which do indeed include G4S. Which is to say: not only are you right, They are in place already.

They also have detention centres, which are not open to inspection by the United Nations and the Red Cross, in which there is no statutory requirement for an inquest into the death or disappearance of any inmate.

If you ever hear of the Home Office's immigration personnel and infrastructure being called-up to assist 'as a temporary administrative measure' - and we probably won't use the term 'Emergency' and we don't actually need emergency powers to do that) - get on the next plane or ferry out.

The Home Office militia and prison camps will be normalised into a domestic security role - not law and order! - and they will be something far worse than the existing police and prisons because they routinely defy the courts already and there are no effective mechanisms of accountability and review.

The bitter end of that road to Hell - - and I can assure you that I won't be here to see it - would be the recruitment of 'auxiliary personnel' and 'National Security Volunteers'. Essentially, handing-out armbands to the successor organisations to the National Front, and any other 'loyal citizens'; less politely, skinhead thugs with swastika tattoos, and swivel-eyed crucifix-wavers who will obey any order, no matter how inhumane, if they get a crack at sexual deviants and abortionists.

Betcha there's a lot of them working for the Home Office detention system's private sector solution partners already: the process might not even need armbands.

So yes, you're right.

I bet you wish you weren't.


* No really: look it up. US armed forces and their auxiliaries - Blackwater/Xe Services/Academi, and KBR Logistical Support - are explicitly protected by American law, so as to never be rendered to the Hague and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

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https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1564431286474792962

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

whoa, crazy that this stuff keeps happening to majority black and indigenous populations! Anyway, China and Russia is doing double tankie genocide

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1565691664416530435

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https://harvardpolitics.com/last-normal-summer/

bump, since it's relevant again.

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