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zoux posted:Here's an interesting factoid: the average US president is indicted on 1.5 counts of state or federal felony offense after leaving office. I told Taft he shouldn't steal the white house pool just because it was the only tureen large enough for his soup servings, but he didn't listen
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Presto posted:The frustrating thing in Virginia is that after passing a bunch of good stuff, the Dems seemed embarrassed to actually tell anyone what they did when the next election came around, and they ended up losing the state house and the governor. The gov quote about schools and parents had to be one of the most politically clueless things I ever heard.
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Desantis trying to thread that needle where he openly supports trump and trump is convicted and then dies before the first primary.
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It's Ianucci poo poo, they all have to pretend like his obvious and stupid crimes are fine! They're just fine! But he shouldn't be the republican nominee for president but not "because" of that? For other reasons, reasons that I won't say. He is easily our greatest president who should, by absolutely no means, be anywhere near a position of power, so I should be. Theoretically. Of course, I will be voting for him in this week's upcoming primary.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Desantis trying to thread that needle where he openly supports trump and trump is convicted and then dies before the first primary. Jokes on him, Trump can run his presidential campaign from prison, Eugene V. Debs-style, and will probably still get the Republican Party nomination.
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zoux posted:It's Ianucci poo poo, they all have to pretend like his obvious and stupid crimes are fine! They're just fine! But he shouldn't be the republican nominee for president but not "because" of that? For other reasons, reasons that I won't say. He is easily our greatest president who should, by absolutely no means, be anywhere near a position of power, so I should be. Theoretically. Of course, I will be voting for him in this week's upcoming primary. Asa Hutchinson says Trump should drop out after the indictment! Of course, Asa Hutchinson also had to clarify that he's a Republican presidential candidate in the press release with his presidential campaign logo on it. 
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It's interesting to see the heavy kerning and...not sure what the term is for the exaggerated asymmetric line weight, that seems common in recent Republican candidate logos.
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Young Freud posted:Jokes on him, Trump can run his presidential campaign from prison, Eugene V. Debs-style, and will probably still get the Republican Party nomination. i adore my man debs but his presidential campaigns were not a great success to everyone's shock, he made a little more impact at the local level
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zoux posted:Here's an interesting factoid: the average US president is indicted on 1.5 counts of state or federal felony offense after leaving office. "the average 21st century president is convicted of 5 felonies after being president" is actually just a statistical error. Felonies Don, who lives in a gilded bathroom and has 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not be counted
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zoux posted:It's Ianucci poo poo, they all have to pretend like his obvious and stupid crimes are fine! They're just fine! But he shouldn't be the republican nominee for president but not "because" of that? For other reasons, reasons that I won't say. He is easily our greatest president who should, by absolutely no means, be anywhere near a position of power, so I should be. Theoretically. Of course, I will be voting for him in this week's upcoming primary. Lol it is insane to watch them try to thread this needle
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James Garfield posted:Asa Hutchinson says Trump should drop out after the indictment! Of course, Asa Hutchinson also had to clarify that he's a Republican presidential candidate in the press release with his presidential campaign logo on it. rear end for America
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Unormal posted:"the average 21st century president is convicted of 5 felonies after being president" is actually just a statistical error. Felonies Don, who lives in a gilded bathroom and has 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not be counted Trump is truly the MVP and should be put into some record books as the the president with the most indictments ever. No asterisks needed.
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Just a staggering number of indictments above a replacement-level president
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zoux posted:Here's an interesting factoid: the average US president is indicted on 1.5 counts of state or federal felony offense after leaving office. Felonies Georg
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Tayter Swift posted:Just a staggering number of indictments above a replacement-level president FAR stats don't lie, Donald Trump belongs in jail
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OctaMurk posted:Lol it is insane to watch them try to thread this needle All the people Trump has insulted have to position themselves to run on pardoning him the hardest if he's arrested.
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VideoGameVet posted:The gov quote about schools and parents had to be one of the most politically clueless things I ever heard. But it was also 100% correct, and people weren't lying when they said they wanted politicians who told hard truths and tell it like it is, right?
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Yawgmoft posted:But it was also 100% correct, and people weren't lying when they said they wanted politicians who told hard truths and tell it like it is, right? People want politicians who will tell them hard truthiness.
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Even when Democrats actually do decent things, they sure as gently caress don't want to advertise it, because then voters might start expecting them to do it more often.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even when Democrats actually do decent things, they sure as gently caress don't want to advertise it, because then voters might start expecting them to do it more often. This is a genuinely very funny post.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even when Democrats actually do decent things, they sure as gently caress don't want to advertise it, because then voters might start expecting them to do it more often. Do you mind giving specific examples of them not advertising "decent" things they've done [for fear of voters expecting them to do more]? To provide examples of Democrats advertising their accomplishments (both locally to me and nationally), here are a few:
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They absolutely ran screaming away from Obamacare in 2010.
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Earlier this week Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was incarcerated in ADX Florence Supermax for being a paid spy for Russia, was found dead in his cell. Today another high profile inmate from that same cell block died. https://twitter.com/lukelbarr/status/1667571727386198016?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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FlamingLiberal posted:Earlier this week Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was incarcerated in ADX Florence Supermax for being a paid spy for Russia, was found dead in his cell. They were 79 and 81, right? Sounds about right.
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AlternateNu posted:They were 79 and 81, right? Sounds about right.
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Yeah I’m not trying to claim conspiracy, it’s just interesting how that happens sometimes
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Unabomber was hosed up from a lifetime of avoiding doctors and nutritious food, iirc. He got all hosed up/way more hosed up at like 16 at Harvard by being part of a long-term torture study and lived like a weirdo after that.
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He was an incel killer before culture had a name for it.APNews posted:Ted Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago, the son of second-generation Polish Catholics — a sausage-maker and a homemaker. He played the trombone in the school band, collected coins and skipped the sixth and 11th grades.
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Eason the Fifth posted:He was an incel killer before culture had a name for it. It doesn't excuse his bad poetry, but it's a little problematic that his supervisor would try to date a subordinate. That kind of power imbalance isn't acceptable and she probably would have been fired today. e: possibly his brother or father were supervisors to her and pressured her to do it? If they had the ability to fire him, this seems possible. mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Eason the Fifth posted:He was an incel killer before culture had a name for it. Really eliding over the whole "roped into MKULTRA" phase in that bio
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paranoid randroid posted:Really eliding over the whole "roped into MKULTRA" phase in that bio He made the classroom bomb and collected coins before his MK-ULTRA encounter.
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Metal Gear: Shapiro: The Sons Of Buckley
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He believed that the experiment didn't have any effect on him. Then again, he was so convinced he was sane that he tried to kill himself before deciding to plead guilty instead of allowing his lawyers to plead insanity.  Wikipedia posted:Kaczynski stated he resented Murray and his co-workers, primarily because of the invasion of his privacy he perceived as a result of their experiments. Nevertheless, he said he was "quite confident that [his] experiences with Professor Murray had no significant effect on the course of [his] life." wikipedia posted:Kaczynski was arrested in 1996, and—maintaining that he was sane—tried and failed to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted him to plead insanity to avoid the death penalty. I don't know much about him past pop culture and 90s news coverage, but it's hard to miss the proto awkward/smart-and-jokerfied-incel parallels, even without the experiments. wikipedia posted:In August 1978, his brother fired him for writing insulting limericks about a female supervisor Ted had courted briefly. The supervisor later recalled Kaczynski as intelligent and quiet, but remembered little of their acquaintanceship and firmly denied they had had any romantic relationship. quote:He defines leftists as "mainly socialists, collectivists, 'politically correct' types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like". He believes that over-socialization and feelings of inferiority are primary drivers of leftism, and derides it as "one of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world". He also criticizes conservatives, describing them as "fools who whine about the decay of traditional values, yet ... enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth"—things he argues have led to this decay. Eason the Fifth fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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so, which company is gonna make money on this and end up leaking the GPS coordinates for doughy SPACE FORCE recruits  Space Force takes holistic approach to fitness | Federal News Network federalnewsnetwork.com posted:The Space Force wants potential recruits to know they don’t have to be models of strength and fitness to be Guardians — they just need a healthy lifestyle. A new fitness monitoring program offers guardians an alternative to traditional military physical fitness testing. e: intended to post in a different thread but I guess it's on topic here too. also in this series: mawarannahr posted:lmao what a grift mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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It is kind of unfair to call him an incel killer if only because a lot of his loneliness came from actually being far above everyone and not just having a false sense of superiority. There is also legitimacy to his motives being neo-luddite terrorism. The FBI profile suggested it far before he had published his manifesto. He's so much weirder than incels
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Very weird feeling to be reading about the Unabomber again in 2023, with the current AR-15 hellscape we are in.
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Eason the Fifth posted:He believed that the experiment didn't have any effect on him. Then again, he was so convinced he was sane that he tried to kill himself before deciding to plead guilty instead of allowing his lawyers to plead insanity. Many of the other subjects, who were 20+ and well-adjusted, reported having problems for years and requiring therapy to get past it. It was an experiment specifically designed to traumatize adults, so I don’t imagine a friendless weird 16-year-old who was probably ignored or bullied by all the snobs going there had a very good time with it. Participants were paid $20 a month for two years to be ridiculed and then forced to watch recorded footage of themselves being humiliated.
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incel/killer, not incel-killer
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Bellmaker posted:Very weird feeling to be reading about the Unabomber again in 2023, with the current AR-15 hellscape we are in. Imagining a simpler time, when being randomly murdered with no warning while in the midst of doing something completely mundane(in this case, opening your mail) was completely abnormal and horrifying, instead of that being something that just happens weekly at grocery stores, malls, and schools across the entire country, often with much higher body counts.
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Kanos posted:Imagining a simpler time, when being randomly murdered with no warning while in the midst of doing something completely mundane(in this case, opening your mail) was completely abnormal and horrifying, instead of that being something that just happens weekly at grocery stores, malls, and schools across the entire country, often with much higher body counts. If you were white
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