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Mr. Nice! posted:Abortion has more than 2/3 support in this nation, as does universal healthcare, sensible gun control legislation, marijuana legalization, and so on. We are firmly living in a world of tyranny by the minority, and they have entrenched themselves in such a way that there is no way to vote ourselves out of this mess. We need a new constitution that abolishes much of the sovereignty of the individual states with enshrined and entrenched protections against getting into this situation again.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I won’t have you badmouthing Governor Nancy Pelosi; remember when she and outgoing Governor Newsom kneeled in surgical scrubs in showing their commitment to reproductive rights? His beliefs are literally mainstream Republican views. There's literally an entire media ecosystem built around it.
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And good luck getting money out of politics, since there are increasing amounts of billionaire self-funders and politicians that can pay back favors: https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1526208287435259906?t=GTS2eIuTEEcWXwsy_wIUmw&s=19 suckpreme court https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1526215812679442435?t=nECwgGzcXrN01_U48g6U-w&s=19
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IntelBrief: Racially Motivated Violent Extremist Launches Terror Attack in Buffalo, NY Bottom Line Up Front On Saturday afternoon, an 18-year-old racially motivated violent extremist launched a terrorist attack in Buffalo, NY, deliberately targeting African Americans and killing ten people before being arrested. While much of the racist screed is directed against African Americans, a significant portion is also dedicated to anti-Semitism, perpetuating hackneyed tropes about Jewish people as an all-controlling cabal. The attacker’s manifesto referenced the concept of the “Great Replacement,” which argues that due to demographics and immigration policies, white populations are being deliberately replaced by non-whites. President Biden called the Buffalo attack a “racially motivated hate crime” and an “act of domestic terrorism” perpetrated in the name of a “repugnant white nationalist ideology.” On Saturday afternoon, an 18-year-old racially motivated violent extremist launched a terrorist attack in Buffalo, NY, killing ten people before being arrested. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Buffalo field office is investigating the attack as a hate crime and specifically as a case of racially motivated violent extremism. Eleven of the thirteen people shot were African American. The perpetrator left behind a lengthy and detailed manifesto outlining his worldview and paying homage to a lineage of other far-right violent extremists. The terrorist chose the specific location of a grocery store in a Buffalo neighborhood with a predominantly African American population. The terrorist drove hours away to specifically attack a target purely based on racially motivated violent extremism, eerily similar to the horrific attack in El Paso, Texas in August 2019, where a white supremacist murdered 23 people and injured dozens. In his manifesto, the Buffalo attacker admits that because he was “bored” early on in the pandemic, he spent significant amounts of time online and radicalized on sites including 4chan. While much will be said in the coming days about the apparent “lone wolf” nature of the attack, the truth remains that the Buffalo attacker emerged from a broader far-right extremist ecosystem that continues to flourish online. The manifesto recycles many of the conspiracies that motivated Dylann Roof, the terrorist responsible for a massacre at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2015. While much of the racist screed is directed against African Americans, a significant portion is also dedicated to anti-Semitism, perpetuating hackneyed tropes about Jewish people, portraying them as an omnipotent cabal responsible for immigration, multiculturalism, and other anti-Semitic conspiracies. In that sense, there is significant overlap with the worldview of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, who murdered eleven innocent worshippers in October 2018. At the core of the Buffalo attacker’s manifesto, much of which was plagiarized directly from the manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist responsible for the March 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand mosque attack. was admiration for other high-profile far-right extremists. Far-right extremists frequently learn from the attacks of other terrorists and in many ways, attempt to “up the ante” in terms of lethality and aesthetics. The manifestos left behind, that can live on in perpetuity online, frequently serve as an inspiration and in some cases a playbook, for other far-right extremists seeking to carry out attacks of their own. At the heart of many of the far-right extremist manifestos is the concept of the “Great Replacement,” which argues that due to demographics and immigration policies, white populations are being replaced by non-whites, including African Americans, non-White Hispanic and Latinos, and others frequently derided by extremists as “invaders.” For some European white supremacists, the primary threat emanates from the “Islamization” of Europe, or what Oslo attacker Anders Breivik called “Eurabia.” The concept of the “Great Replacement” is not merely relegated to dark conspiratorial corners of the internet. On the contrary, it is regularly mainstreamed on cable news shows, including Fox’s Tucker Carlson, who frequently regurgitates far-right talking points that focus on immigrant birth rates and planned voter replacement. The Buffalo attacker’s manifesto referenced “white genocide” as a justification for his actions. President Biden called the Buffalo attack a "racially motivated hate crime" and an "act of domestic terrorism" perpetrated in the name of a "repugnant white nationalist ideology.” Some aspects of the attack, including the livestreaming element on Twitch, and writing racist language on his firearm, were directly copied from other attacks and had a similar accelerationist motivation and violent extremist aesthetic. In an attack in Halle, Germany in October 2019, the perpetrator livestreamed his attack on Twitch. In the Buffalo attack, the video was taken down quickly, but soon resurfaced and began recirculating and spreading in extremist circles online. FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned about the growing threat domestically posed by violent extremists motivated by race, ethnicity, or other far-right ideologies, including anti-government extremism. After more than two years of pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions, law enforcement officials are understandably concerned about the potential for a forthcoming wave of violent extremism, as individuals who radicalized online during the pandemic emerge from isolation to launch domestic terror attacks.
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Bored As gently caress posted:FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned about the growing threat domestically posed by violent extremists motivated by race, ethnicity, or other far-right ideologies, including anti-government extremism. After more than two years of pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions, law enforcement officials are understandably concerned about the potential for a forthcoming wave of violent extremism, as individuals who radicalized online during the pandemic emerge from isolation to launch domestic terror attacks.
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1526017699003891713?t=n69U0aC1XCL6A3Qa3a_u-w&s=19 Well... this is a bleak outlook.
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Let's check in on Elon's efforts to shitpost himself out of the $1B acquisition exit fee and/or getting sued by Twitter to force him to buy it: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1526254994994778112 lol
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Anyone who ever had stock in twitter did so to cash out and there is nothing on this earth they will let stand in their way or care less about than what Musk likes or not. They will have their payday if it kills him
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This is one of those situations where “specific performance” is the breach of contract remedy. He’ll be lucky if this only costs him the $1bn penalty.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Anyone who ever had stock in twitter did so to cash out and there is nothing on this earth they will let stand in their way or care less about than what Musk likes or not. They will have their payday if it kills him We can only hope.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Anyone who ever had stock in twitter did so to cash out and there is nothing on this earth they will let stand in their way or care less about than what Musk likes or not. They will have their payday if it kills him https://giphy.com/gifs/avengers-hawkeye-dont-give-me-hope-Qy2VKY3xlI1QyR6Ix5
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Crab Dad posted:Gonna guess this one is a domestic dispute at its central. Much weirder. https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1526281257172275200 ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Anyone who ever had stock in twitter did so to cash out and there is nothing on this earth they will let stand in their way or care less about than what Musk likes or not. They will have their payday if it kills him Edit: bahahahahah https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1526281170371153923 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 16, 2022 |
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facialimpediment posted:Much weirder. It doesn't seem weird to me. I briefly waited tables at a restaurant in which the management were evenly divided between mainlanders and Taiwanese. The line cooks were mostly Vietnamese. Things were frequently tense.
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Holy poo poo they all left China. That whole situation is a fabrication of the communist party. Why do they have to bring that garbage over here?
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A.o.D. posted:Holy poo poo they all left China. That whole situation is a fabrication of the communist party. Why do they have to bring that garbage over here? Just trying to fit in with the rest of America.
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 ATTENTION, YOU CAN ORDER EVEN MORE COVID TESTS FOR FREE https://twitter.com/RepJudyChu/status/1526293183121989638 Just ordered my third shipment, go get them. https://special.usps.com/testkits facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 16, 2022 |
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Somewhere Black Hawk Down 2: Down Harder just got green lit https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/16/biden-approves-deployment-of-hundreds-of-us-troops-to-somalia quote:United States President Joe Biden has authorised the deployment of American troops to Somalia, reversing a decision by his predecessor Donald Trump last year to remove nearly all forces that had been operating there. I don't see the soundtrack being as good this time around.
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facialimpediment posted:
Whoa this time it’s actually four test kits.
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facialimpediment posted:
Thank you for heads up got that ordered
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Wrong Theory posted:Somewhere Black Hawk Down 2: Down Harder just got green lit drat, that’s about the only good thing Trump did.
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facialimpediment posted:
Ordered, thanks!
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A few decades late, but it's better than still not doing anything like every other administration in my life. https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1526327728819019777
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is one of those situations where “specific performance” is the breach of contract remedy. Inshallah
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golden bubble posted:A few decades late, but it's better than still not doing anything like every other administration in my life. Isn't this going back to what Obama had set up?
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golden bubble posted:A few decades late, but it's better than still not doing anything like every other administration in my life. The DeSantis administration will declare war on Cuba.
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LongDarkNight posted:The DeSantis administration will declare war on Cuba. No, he'll just do his best to be a horse's rear end (the only thing he's gifted at) and get Cuba to rescind American travel, which will be a feather in his conservative cap to run on.
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https://twitter.com/McHaloson/status/1523048955516358656 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPyMciRWQQ
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's gonna be nice to lose a war close to home for once we've been losing the war on (domestic) terrorism for a long time, feels like
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Godholio posted:
bruh half of her genes come from her DAD!!! if you think about it, you’re basically loving him. In this paper I will showcase how it’s all gay and the only winning move is not to play help why do I smell toast all of a sudden
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facialimpediment posted:Edit: bahahahahah The lower he can push the price the less Tesla stock he has to put up as collateral on a bank loan. The Twitter board would love to sell their company that's barely profitable and he wants to ban anyone who sasses him. Everyone who has a say gets what they want if the deal goes through.
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Midjack posted:The lower he can push the price the less Tesla stock he has to put up as collateral on a bank loan. The Twitter board would love to sell their company that's barely profitable and he wants to ban anyone who sasses him. Everyone who has a say gets what they want if the deal goes through. Elon's probably straight hosed: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526465624326782976?t=UXDSTK6jQINEE6bI7NMk1Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1526548290770198528?t=S9C0hg-UeDgAF-DrLN6pqg&s=19 Currently $37.39 per share in trading and he's going to pay $54.20 
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facialimpediment posted:Elon's probably straight hosed: Finally some good news
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davecrazy posted:Can some court in Delaware force him to complete the sale? Yes. And he has a bunch of billionaires on the other side of the table fighting him.
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