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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Full OP for caption contest is up! We also went through the Trump NFT collection to pull a bunch of examples and templates for easy use. I'll give Trump and his team this - honestly, the idea of an NFT collection that doesn't care about verified individuality but instead focuses on theoretically valuable "real life prizes" is kinda genius, in a sick and evil way. Cut off the whole blockchain vs. "right-click" mentality at the knees by just not bothering with it, and instead get the rubes to buy a bunch of lovely Photoshop JPEGs in an attempt to win a bullshit meet-and-greet or an exclusive video of Trump distractedly "signing" your NFT (a thing he definitely knows nothing about and will be very confused while doing). It makes me wonder if Trump just managed to give the whole stupid NFT fad enough of a shot in the arm to keep limping along for another few months.
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Tibalt posted:DeSantis recently announced his plan to make a federated CDC out of state health agencies with a couple of other chud governors. I believe that's the cause. So basically just a "new and improved" CDC that will agree to falsify numbers for him.
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Dec 15, 2022 20:24
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Angry_Ed posted:So basically just a "new and improved" CDC that will agree to falsify numbers for him. A Confederate CDC. Maybe they can pool National Guards next to keep the woke away at the Mason/Dixon.
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Angry_Ed posted:So basically just a "new and improved" CDC that will agree to falsify numbers for him. With what money lol? Florida might be one of the better off red states in terms of federal funding dependency but I imagine getting with a ton of other states that have no budget to recreate a fake federal agency is kind of hillarious.
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small butter posted:Thanks. Do you have any reason to believe that he "lied" about the research, other than the fact that it's frequently repeated by conspiracy theorists in support of a theory that's clearly false? There doesn't need to be anything at all to the idea. It's not uncommon for them to take vast liberties in interpreting stuff to come up with conclusions that have no actual relation to what it actually said. And of course it's not uncommon for them to rely on poo poo that's just straight-up made up out of whole cloth. This is why I generally don't see any value in digging into the fine details of conspiracy theories - the specifics of whatever "evidence" they're relying on are often so badly and incomprehensibly twisted that it's not worth the effort to decode.
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I try not to post the chud website crap too much but I just had to know how they were handling this.  
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tecnocrat posted:A Confederate CDC. Maybe they can pool National Guards next to keep the woke away at the Mason/Dixon. where... where do you think the CDC is
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cr0y posted:I try not to post the chud website crap too much but I just had to know how they were handling this. Dangerously on the cusp of getting it.
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Dec 15, 2022 20:53
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cr0y posted:I try not to post the chud website crap too much but I just had to know how they were handling this. It’s so enjoyable seeing the line where even his own diehards realize the grift. I honestly believe this and the boring re-election announcement are an inflection point where his primary numbers nosedive and DeSantis starts flexing his moronic grassroot support.
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Dec 15, 2022 21:11
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Are these stylized to look like rear end? Am I missing something? It's like, the barest of the minimum of effort.
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Dec 15, 2022 21:29
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zenguitarman posted:Are these stylized to look like rear end? Am I missing something? It's like, the barest of the minimum of effort. No you seem to understand.
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Dec 15, 2022 21:35
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zenguitarman posted:Are these stylized to look like rear end? Am I missing something? It's like, the barest of the minimum of effort. They're NFTs, barest minimum of effort is their maximum of effort.
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New Hampshire is officially rebelling against the idea of sharing their primary day with Nevada. https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/1603481253927346181 https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/1603484089071321089 https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/1603484706796105728
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Orthanc6 posted:https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1603468318706368517?s=20&t=6xpBzizAFJmFI4C9GlXD9A Correct, the Senate is going to be busy working on other things, this won't get a vote and it would need 60* votes anyway.
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Dec 15, 2022 22:23
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If you are bored and want to sort through hundreds of pages of other people's mail this holiday season, the Feds just declassified another big stack of JFK Investigation documents. Maybe you'll crack the case! https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2022
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Dec 15, 2022 22:25
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Rigel posted:Correct, the Senate is going to be busy working on other things, this won't get a vote and it would need 60* votes anyway. Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways?
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Randalor posted:Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways? They might vote Democrat.
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zenguitarman posted:Are these stylized to look like rear end? Am I missing something? It's like, the barest of the minimum of effort. They just ran "thin strong Donald Trump cowboy maga" through an AI art generator.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:They just ran "thin strong Donald Trump cowboy maga" through an AI art generator. Dang: 
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projecthalaxy posted:If you are bored and want to sort through hundreds of pages of other people's mail this holiday season, the Feds just declassified another big stack of JFK Investigation documents. Maybe you'll crack the case! It says here George HW Bush did it
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Randalor posted:Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways? I mean American politics are incredibly narrow and fragile. Anything that upsets the status quo is bad for anyone who takes advantage of the system to win, which right now is Republicans, though you can be sure Democrats would vote against it if they were trying to split up Arkansas into Arkansas and Second, Redder Arkansas.
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Dec 15, 2022 22:35
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Randalor posted:Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways? It's exceptionally poor thanks to a legacy of colonialism and endemic corruption. Would instantly be 51st in most metrics, well below Mississippi. Infrastructure has been decimated by hurricanes and companies skimming money off the top. The US government (both parties) just wants to let the territory rot over in the corner and depopulate rather than deal with these issues.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:New Hampshire is officially rebelling against the idea of sharing their primary day with Nevada. This is antidemocratic pap from a woman who thought it seemly to take her top off and let a NY State official suck on her toes (and not his wife’s) in front of children. Stop mediating liars and predators, please? Lis Smith needs to be in a cage for all our safety.
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Randalor posted:Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways? there are three choices: statehood; the status quo; and independence. for a long time there has never been a clear majority for either statehood or independence, and most votes have all three options so nothing gets a majority. they finally had a two-way vote and statehood won 53-47 but this bill doesn't implement that, it just implements another (three-way again this time) election with what appears to be a promise the results would be respected but i don't know how much that is worth
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evilweasel posted:there are three choices: statehood; the status quo; and independence. for a long time there has never been a clear majority for either statehood or independence, and most votes have all three options so nothing gets a majority. they finally had a two-way vote and statehood won 53-47 Meanwhile the most recent DC statehood referendum passed with like 84% of the vote and they've got a full constitution and framework of government set up and ready to go any loving day now. Even the local Republican Party of DC is pro-statehood. But it's a guaranteed two blue Senate seats and we can't have that can we?
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evilweasel posted:there are three choices: statehood; the status quo; and independence. for a long time there has never been a clear majority for either statehood or independence, and most votes have all three options so nothing gets a majority. they finally had a two-way vote and statehood won 53-47 To be technical, another option being bandied about was a fantasy "Commonwealth" status that doesn't exist in the constitution but would've given PR all of the benefits of statehood with none of the drawbacks (like income taxes). PR's politics have their own issues which is why there's no real consensus over it.
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Puerto Rico's passed statehood referenda three times at this point.small butter posted:So do we know what might have set them off besides Fauci's retirement? Like, there wasn't that much discussion of COVID or Fauci around the summer but now it's everywhere on right wing Twitter. re: gain of function, it's a conspiracy theory promoted by a variety of different parties, with different motivations. I tackled one of the major sources in the covid thread here while discussing how conspiracy theories work. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Vire posted:With what money lol? Florida might be one of the better off red states in terms of federal funding dependency but I imagine getting with a ton of other states that have no budget to recreate a fake federal agency is kind of hillarious. Silly, thats only if you want something to function as a real agency. When you want just some random guy to make a website and repost your lies it's cheap cheap cheap!
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projecthalaxy posted:If you are bored and want to sort through hundreds of pages of other people's mail this holiday season, the Feds just declassified another big stack of JFK Investigation documents. Maybe you'll crack the case! Enjoying the several pages of records of people from 1996 writing letters to each other saying that their fax didn't go through entirely and to please resend. Then, another letter saying it is still not coming through entirely and to figure out if their fax machine is broken. Close runner up is the report on someone's Soviet wife who is much more attractive than him, but otherwise suspicious. Randalor posted:Why are politicians so reluctant to give statehood to Puerto Rico anyways? Bad Bunny is vocally against it and has threatened to ruined the careers of politicians who support it (not a joke). Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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selec posted:This is antidemocratic pap from a woman who thought it seemly to take her top off and let a NY State official suck on her toes (and not his wife’s) in front of children. excuse me, what
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AsInHowe posted:excuse me, what https://nypost.com/2014/01/06/spitzer-and-lis-smith-caught-in-topless-hot-tub-antics/amp/ They were gonna try and make this pervert president some day
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Supposedly this bill is different from the non-binding referendum in the past. Everything I've read says that if statehood passed, then it somehow would bind the government to follow through, and there are steps and dates outlined in the law when different things have to happen on the way to statehood. It won't pass simply because the GOP is absolutely convinced that they would elect 2 democrats to the Senate. PR had tried in the past to convince the GOP that it would be a competitive battleground state, but they don't believe it. From their partisan POV, they have a massive structural advantage built into the 50 states right now. Even if they did somehow think PR could be competitive, why take the chance? In the past, states generally had to be admitted in pairs to balance the current political impact. Last time in the 1950's the partisan divide was mostly racist southerners opposed to civil rights vs northern liberals rather than Dem vs GOP. The racist southerners didn't like Hawaii's cultural diversity and the way they would likely vote for civil rights laws, so all-white Alaska was offered up to balance, and even then the southerners said no until they lost enough elections to where they couldn't effectively deny Hawaii anymore. evilweasel posted:there are three choices: statehood; the status quo; and independence. Well, to be clear there isn't a status quo option. The third option of "independence with free association with the US" would be a legal change with consequences. They would become similar to Micronesia and would likely lose automatic US citizenship. Rigel fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Could someone who delves into the chud-web verify if they are just as mad about this naked cash-grab as I would be
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Bad Bunny is vocally against it and has threatened to ruined the careers of politicians who support it (not a joke). Who?
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Prism posted:Who? He's the biggest pop star in the world. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's the biggest pop star in the world. Well now I know. I was trying to figure out which politician you were trying to insult with a nickname, not... actually using someone's stage name.
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There's an adult artist named bad bunny, naughty bunny or something similar and I have a brief moment of confusion every time I see his name in headlines
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Trump launched his campaign over 3 weeks ago and has been completely radio silent with no major events since then. This looks like a loving Onion article
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BiggerBoat posted:This looks like a loving Onion article An actual parody looks better: https://mobile.twitter.com/VoughtIntl/status/1603499559937642496
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