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Bel Shazar posted:So, I don't know if this is helpful or not, but it helps me to remember that we aren't becoming horrible... we've been horrible for forever and are just becoming increasingly bad at hiding it. We have been in big trouble, so we are not currently in some worse situation, we're just more aware. We've always been horrible, yes, but things are reaching critical mass to my eyes and ears. I do what you do, like you said, and try my best to survive and treat my fellow person with a modicum of respect and kindness no matter who they are, but there's less and less mileage to be gleaned through that approach and everyone seems to want some form of direct, big and immediate action that it's hard for me to imagine a good turnout with no real leaders in sight and how much people think the answers are found on the radio and FB feeds. It feels like a balloon is about to pop and the tension in the air is absolutely palpable no matter how many sunsets or constellations I look at, tides I watch flow in or how cool I am to people. You can see the strain on their faces and often also a lot of anger. January 6th just about bothered me as much as 9/11. People are mean, getting meaner and, worse than anything I can say about that, seem to like it.
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# ? May 15, 2022 20:06 |
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BiggerBoat, you really should move already. I vaguely recall some reasons you couldn't in the past, but at some point something's got to give.
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# ? May 15, 2022 23:02 |
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Believe in strength and endurance. Not the strength of a gun (necessarily), but your own personal being. Be prepared for less, be physically and mentally durable/capable. Life is bleak and difficult and uncaring. It's weird for people to decry our modern life yet depend on it. This is certainly also me as well, I need asthma medicine, if I get sick I will eventually succumb and die without pharmaceutical intervention or personally undiscovered natural remedies. Unironically, "that's how they get you". We have the technology resources and wealth to support people, but can only do it in service to them being serfs and batteries for capital. I personally would rather we change course even if it means my demise, rather than this be both the future and end of humanity. As far as solving problems and setting aside thr obvious material benefits of physical agency, people are more inclined to listen to somebody they assume or appraise as healthy/strong/attractive. To be completely machievellian, its easier and more constructive to coax people into the fold than to intimidate, beat, or kill them.
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# ? May 16, 2022 00:32 |
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“The only possible reason for immigration is to supplant the white man!” Uh? Cheap labor for our corporate masters so that they can continue to suppress wages? That’s without getting into how providing for the motivated poor to come to America has resulted in innovation and mobility historically. I assume many of the ‘white replacement’ types will tell you at length about their poor great grandpa who came over and worked his fingers to the bone to make a better life for his family.
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# ? May 16, 2022 00:35 |
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Murgos posted:“The only possible reason for immigration is to supplant the white man!” And since they're opposed to socialism but also are big ol' racists, they have to explain why the market doesn't care about skin colors, so they resort to all sorts of contrivances. It usually ends up with blaming the Jews and pretending that white people are so glorious they can bend the laws of capitalism to their will by invoking phrases like "nationalist" or "America First." A lot of these people not coincidentally have a fairytale version of capitalism, where every white man will own his own business (or could if not for "the globalists" or "the Jews" or whatever), where white families can find financial security in moving to rural areas and homeschooling their children away from the decadent hell that is urban life, etc., all the while being like "haha stupid leftists you don't understand how the world really works. "
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# ? May 16, 2022 08:09 |
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Ted Nugent: Still a Huge rear end in a top hat https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ted-nugent-donald-trump-supporters-violence/ quote:Former Amboy Dukes member, Ted Nugent, has called for supporters of Donald Trump to seek violent retribution against their political “enemies”, who he named as “the Democrats and the Marxists and the Communists.” “I love you people madly,” he continued, “But I’d love you more if you went forward and just went berserk on the skulls of the Democrats and the Marxists and the Communists.”
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# ? May 16, 2022 11:26 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Ted Nugent: Still a Huge rear end in a top hat He’s benefited enormously from capitalism so at least from him it’s a logical, if deranged, rhetoric. The people who buy his tickets though? They got no excuse.
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# ? May 17, 2022 02:10 |
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Reminder that Ted Nugent is a pants making GBS threads coward pedophile. All verifiable fact.
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mds2 posted:Reminder that Ted Nugent is a pants making GBS threads coward pedophile. All verifiable fact. Didn’t know that but, uh, of course he is.
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# ? May 18, 2022 03:44 |
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Murgos posted:Didn’t know that but, uh, of course he is. The short version is that he ducked the draft by faking mental instability. Which involved a whole act that included but was not limited to making GBS threads himself in front of army health screeners.
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# ? May 18, 2022 03:49 |
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DarklyDreaming posted:The short version is that he ducked the draft by faking mental instability. Which involved a whole act that included but was not limited to making GBS threads himself in front of army health screeners. Also he Agents are GO! fucked around with this message at 05:20 on May 18, 2022 |
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If you just assumed every male lead singer from the 70's or 80's was a pedophile you'd probably be right. Nobody likes to hear it but it's true. Also every other decade, except for John Prine who was pure and good
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# ? May 18, 2022 05:21 |
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I know it's kind of a lovely attitude but I'm glad Bowie died when he did SHUT UP I'M NOT LISTENING
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# ? May 18, 2022 06:51 |
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Agents are GO! posted:I know it's kind of a lovely attitude but I'm glad Bowie died when he did SHUT UP I'M NOT LISTENING David Bowie saw everyone around him getting outted as rapist pigs in 2015-2016 and went "Alright lads, I'mma head out. Cheers. "
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Agents are GO! posted:Also he He bought a 14 year girl from her parents.
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# ? May 18, 2022 13:13 |
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So now that one of the bishops in San Francisco has said that Pelosi is going to be denied communion over abortion rights, then surely they're going to start denying communion to Republicans over the concentration camps at the border, right? Just kidding of course, I was pretending that they aren't actually in favor of a fascist theocracy.
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# ? May 21, 2022 01:44 |
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havent extremely catholic Ireland and other South American countries literally legalized abortion in the last few years? lol at fcuking pos regressive bishops and priest making the bed with american (protestant) regressives.
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# ? May 21, 2022 06:07 |
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PhazonLink posted:havent extremely catholic Ireland and other South American countries literally legalized abortion in the last few years? We have abortion* in Italy since the 70s I think? We literally have Make of that what you will. *With caveats because Rome but still E: the law is from 78, a referendum happened in 81 with 79% of the population voting and 85% of the voters pro choice. Omobono fucked around with this message at 06:47 on May 21, 2022 |
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drat, that’s a hell of a mandate. I actually think it might have been equally popular at that time in the US. I have heard that abortion restricting laws were on their way out in the states prior to Roe, and the court thought they were slam dunking something so popular that it wouldn’t be controversial. But someone on the right wing figured out that the unborn were the perfect group to advocate for and basically started stirring up evangelicals and, here we are today.
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# ? May 21, 2022 07:04 |
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PhazonLink posted:havent extremely catholic Ireland and other South American countries literally legalized abortion in the last few years? Ireland was historically extremely catholic, which has created an ongoing problem of the church having far too much involvement in the education system and in owning hospitals, but the actual population is largely secular - church attendance has plummeted in the last 20 years. It was happening anyway, but all the abuse scandals that came out accelerated the process. People still do stuff like church weddings, communions and confirmations - but that's mostly because hey, fancy clothes and a big party! The boring parts of religion are mostly ignored. When we were finally given the chance to vote to make abortion legal, Yes won by a 2/3 majority. The No campaign was heavily funded by the US anti-choice crowd, and it still lost very very badly.
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# ? May 21, 2022 08:40 |
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Pookah posted:
Unsurprising given how the American Taliban* love to do things like help countries create and pass laws that make homosexuality a capital crime. *of course the real Taliban is less lovely about Abortion than the fascist theocrats in the US
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# ? May 21, 2022 14:31 |
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Angry_Ed posted:Unsurprising given how the American Taliban* love to do things like help countries create and pass laws that make homosexuality a capital crime. Hey now, Gileadeans take offense to that term. Don't go breaking decorum!
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Lawdog69 posted:drat, that’s a hell of a mandate. Correction, it was 68% to keep the law as is, I was reading the wrong line on wiki (4 referendum that session). Still a strong mandate. That same session 88% of voters said no to the Radicali's proposal to, basically*, remove all compromises in the abortion law and make abortion always legal no questions asked. *the actual proposal needed to be Sovereign Citizen tier legalese except it would actually work, because in Italy referendums can only abolish laws.
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# ? May 21, 2022 16:38 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:So now that one of the bishops in San Francisco has said that Pelosi is going to be denied communion over abortion rights, then surely they're going to start denying communion to Republicans over the concentration camps at the border, right?
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# ? May 21, 2022 17:13 |
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I just wished real life was like my video games and the Pope should Excommunicate, Expel, Execrate, and Erase that chuds name and existence under all of heavens.
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# ? May 21, 2022 20:34 |
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I've heard entirely too much Mark Levin over the last week, and I'm legitimately baffled as to why anyone listens to him, since he seems to have zero actual entertainment value. Aside from having a worse radio voice than Ben Shapiro, the dude is also lazy as gently caress, since probably half of his actual content is just him pausing between sentences, repeating himself (sometimes more than once), asking if "Mister Producer" agrees with him, replaying bumper music, or interrupting audio clips to yell some version of "You idiot!" at random points in the middle of them. For the five minutes an hour he actually says anything, it's just the same crap about everything being Marxist and/or Socialist, reading from/plugging one of his stupid books (about how everything is Marxist), or insisting that *news item* is proof that the "Democrat party will do anything for power!" I can at least see why people find Ben Shapiro or Sean Hannity entertaining, but Mark Levin is just 180 minutes of "old man shreiks at cloud", so I'm baffled as to what the appeal is.
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# ? May 22, 2022 23:16 |
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My grandma likes him because cold war brain worms
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# ? May 22, 2022 23:58 |
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Jesus Guns Babies Buzzwords of the deranged https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528441681191788544
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# ? May 23, 2022 00:22 |
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OgNar posted:Jesus There is no way to even parody this anymore.
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# ? May 23, 2022 01:10 |
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That photo is going to show up prominently down the line in a text called, “The History of Fall and Collapse the United States”.
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# ? May 23, 2022 01:32 |
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OgNar posted:Jesus So I'm genuinely confused at this point - is it the candidates that are getting dumber and dumber or are they the smart ones and they just know their audience are dumb? Because goddamn this is dumb.
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# ? May 23, 2022 08:30 |
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Yes
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# ? May 23, 2022 09:18 |
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Mike Lindell also spoke at that rally. This time he stated that Jan 6th was a setup specifically to kick Trump off of social media.
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# ? May 23, 2022 09:39 |
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Murgos posted:That photo is going to show up prominently down the line in a text called, “The History of Fall and Collapse the United States”. You say that like there's going to be any room left after Trump.
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Jagged Jim posted:You say that like there's going to be any room left after Trump. "The man pictured in this image is the former, and future, President of the United States of America."
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# ? May 23, 2022 09:50 |
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Jagged Jim posted:You say that like there's going to be any room left after Trump. "Jesus, Guns, Babies and use the promo code to save 66% off MyPillow" is just a chapter heading. "We Run the Church, We Run the State" is the name of my new Punk Album, we're bringing back the sound of Minor Threat.
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528443821293461505
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Area woman passionate defender of what she imagines Consititution to be.
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Georgia Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Promises She Will Murder Police Officers wait
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Lindell TV
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