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Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

post hole digger posted:

he owes me $900 after inflation.

let's call it $1000 even

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Maed posted:

Nah I'm going to say that maybe the state can't be trusted to kidnap responsibly if they're gonna use that power to reprogram people they raped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Peng_Shuai

lol 'disappearance' being 'not paraded on social media 24/7 to dance for western media'

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

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Maed posted:

Nah I'm going to say that maybe the state can't be trusted to kidnap responsibly if they're gonna use that power to reprogram people they raped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Peng_Shuai

That is scummy, I just don't think its uniquely scummy or related to race and nationality.

After all, Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself (or at least did not do so without help)

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

RO YNSHO


Slippery Tilde

SixteenShells posted:

From that huffpo article

I realize that HuffPo, wanting to be a serious journalism outfit, can't just outright state as fact that there's insider trading going on. Maybe there's some technical or legal definition of insider trading that Congress-people don't fall under. But the way this is framed as a strange idea that younger voters have latched on to is hosed. Anyway, Anonymous Democratic strategist, the reason he can't talk about it is because people would start asking a lot of hard questions about the Democrats who do own stocks.

plus it seems like biden does corruption via his family and delaware

SixteenShells
Sep 30, 2021

Maed posted:

Nah I'm going to say that maybe the state can't be trusted to kidnap responsibly if they're gonna use that power to reprogram people they raped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Peng_Shuai

so how does this relate to Lime Bikes, again? we have an official of the CCP and his wife trying recruit a tennis star to be his mistress or do cuckold play or something. and we have Lime being founded by Chinese capital. not seeing a connection here

Complications
Jun 19, 2014

SixteenShells posted:

I realize that HuffPo, wanting to be a serious journalism outfit, can't just outright state as fact that there's insider trading going on. Maybe there's some technical or legal definition of insider trading that Congress-people don't fall under. But the way this is framed as a strange idea that younger voters have latched on to is hosed. Anyway, Anonymous Democratic strategist, the reason he can't talk about it is because people would start asking a lot of hard questions about the Democrats who do own stocks.

Congress is exempt from the criminal laws governing insider trading so legally they are not doing that thing. Therefore no member of congress is insider trading as a matter of law. Thus, to state that congress is insider trading would probably be a libel and get them sued.

SixteenShells
Sep 30, 2021

Complications posted:

Congress is exempt from the criminal laws governing insider trading so legally they are not doing that thing. Therefore no member of congress is insider trading as a matter of law. Thus, to state that congress is insider trading would probably be a libel and get them sued.

Ahhhhh, the "we're not a pyramid scheme" excuse.

Edit: What I mean is, your business is not a true pyramid scheme until it's decided by a court of law that it is a pyramid scheme. Until then it's just multi-level marketing and perfectly legal.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

SixteenShells posted:

so how does this relate to Lime Bikes, again? we have an official of the CCP and his wife trying recruit a tennis star to be his mistress or do cuckold play or something. and we have Lime being founded by Chinese capital. not seeing a connection here

right there buddy. come on, try to deny the connection.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Remembering the moments after the Snowden leaks where everyone was just like "well yeah of course we need a giant domestic spying apparatus, what kinda country do you think this is"

Dude misread the room so hard he had to go into permanent exile

There's a pretty funny John Oliver interview where he went to Russia to talk to Snowden and goes "hey does the NSA have a huge treasure trove of nudes that people have sent?" and Snowden goes "yes" and Oliver goes "Wouldn't that have been a great thing to open your leak with. Not that the government is spying on us in a huge non-specific way, but that they're collecting pictures of us naked?" and Snowden gets visibly crestfallen because yeah that might have actually caused an uproar.

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

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Maed posted:

Nah I'm going to say that maybe the state can't be trusted to kidnap responsibly if they're gonna use that power to reprogram people they raped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Peng_Shuai
also something that just occurred to me. I don't actually know the details of this specific case or anything like that but I also have to point out that it doesn't really have a whole lot to do with China taking over San Francisco. a member of the Chinese Communist party being a scumbag is not exactly news and it's also not particularly unique because members of the British royal family and the American ruling class are also scumbags. it's just not related. saying that the Chinese are taking over us San Francisco is race baiting and using the fact that a Chinese politician was a jerk doesn't have much to do with it.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


lmao so that's what Curtis Yarvin looks like

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

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SixteenShells posted:

so how does this relate to Lime Bikes, again? we have an official of the CCP and his wife trying recruit a tennis star to be his mistress or do cuckold play or something. and we have Lime being founded by Chinese capital. not seeing a connection here

Right, even if we were to accept the story as it is implied and every assertion is true it just doesn't have anything to do with the original claim. let's suppose the Chinese Communist party really did allow this politician to rape a tennis player and then disappeared her to torture her into recanting her story. it really doesn't have anything to do with the excesses of the tech industry that would exist completely irrespective of whether the Chinese Communist party was involved.

also, if you want to demonize China as an American or UK person, I got to say. physician heal thyself. there's a whole thing with Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton and Donald Trump doing similar things. there's also blackwater and how they used their connections with the Pentagon to cover up a gang rape and absolutely destroyed the life of the victim who came forward.

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

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mawarannahr posted:

lmao so that's what Curtis Yarvin looks like

Curtis yarvin is that weirdo dumb dumb who thinks that the United States of America should have a monarchy. is this going to be our king?

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Zoeb posted:

Curtis yarvin is that weirdo dumb dumb who thinks that the United States of America should have a monarchy. is this going to be our king?

that's frosted flake

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Zoeb posted:

also something that just occurred to me. I don't actually know the details of this specific case or anything like that but I also have to point out that it doesn't really have a whole lot to do with China taking over San Francisco. a member of the Chinese Communist party being a scumbag is not exactly news and it's also not particularly unique because members of the British royal family and the American ruling class are also scumbags. it's just not related. saying that the Chinese are taking over us San Francisco is race baiting and using the fact that a Chinese politician was a jerk doesn't have much to do with it.

unironic response of “he sounds like a real jerk!” to that story lol

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

lol based

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014



"I see you Beau! I'm coming home Beau!"

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Morehouse valedictorian calls for Gaza ceasefire.

https://x.com/Amberisms_/status/1792198517479580118

Live Biden reaction in the lower right corner.

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/POTUS/status/1792561489099842043

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

bibi stonewalling Joe, and Biden doing the redd foxx Sanford and son heart attack bit as a negotiating tactic lmao

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003


[Sounds of children screaming have been removed]

Teabag Dome Scandal
Mar 19, 2002


Probably Magic posted:

Link that poo poo, that sounds fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTpLEeDXS4

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

https://twitter.com/sleepy_devo/status/1792202987143929944

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Mola Yam posted:

didn't know i could read persian, huh

the dread at seeing Hillary Clinton's name transcends languages

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/ArtOfDialogue_/status/1792551053084299621

Maed
Aug 23, 2006



https://au.news.yahoo.com/shocking-moment-police-officers-run-from-uvalde-school-shooter-003842032.html

there must have been lots of danger outside that school they had to run towards instead

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011


diddy has eric adams footage.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

like in Uvalde?

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

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post hole digger posted:

unironic response of “he sounds like a real jerk!” to that story lol

I actually have no idea what the truth of the specific story is, point is, even if it is true, its not unique to China and its not relevant to bikes in San Franscico. I'm sure you can find some rapists in China somewhere who get away with it. Its no reason to imply that its a nation of rapists or whatever.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Uncle Wemus posted:

Biden won the race and brought the progressives into his movement with specific policy promises. He’s delivered on many of them, fundamentally challenging 40 years of economic policy consensus on issues like trade, corporate consolidation and labor rights.

https://x.com/HuffPostPol/status/1792531674728726679

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005


If he actually goes through with this Eric Adams can kiss my vote GOODBYE!

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Barrel Cactaur posted:

https://www.project2025.org/ This time the big shot fascists expect the win. They have spent the past 6 years battering the moderates out of the way. Last time 1) the fascists wern't sure the crazy guy was down and 2) they didn't have instant dictatorship in a can in stock.

They haven't all been sitting on their asses. Trump openly feels frustrated that American institutions, ugly as they are, weren't rotten enough to collapse and give him the power he thought he should have. Now groups are openly building lists of hatchet men to tear it down from the inside.

Its more than just hiring some yes men, its completely obliterating the civil service to move yes men to the top in a naked power grab. at least loving skim the byline of the manifesto. They plan to fire basically everyone not on the list, and eliminate the grade step system and merit based promotion system. Literaly gut the administrative state and make it run on authoritarian fiat.

it's nothing that both parties haven't been doing forever once in office: purging admin leftovers (within the allowable limitations), replacing them with your own people, and making appointments to carry out the wishes of the people who elected you.

a citibank exec spelled out whom Obama was to appoint at the height of the financial clusterfuck & before Obama was even elected. Most of those appointments came to fruition.

"manifesto" lol; lib rhetoric & scare tactics are ramping up even more now. SEKRET PLANS TO OVERTHROW DEMOCRAT APPOINTEES, which are available by visiting the website.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

*genocide joe appoints genocide elliot abrams*

DON'T LET TRUMP WIN OR FASCISTS WILL BE APPOINTED TO OUR PRECIOUS GOVERNMENT

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

[Succ] I was using Tom’s of Maine toothpaste in the 80s

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
im getting to the point where id prefer a red fascist to a blue one because at least libs will pretend to oppose him

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Asproigerosis posted:

The damage of the incoming trump presidency will be at the whims of the sycophants he gets tricked into putting in positions of power to do their abhorrent plans. Only thing trump cares about is appeasing his narcissism (ratings!) And doing low level mafia racket scams to enrich himself when he could just be giving himself billions. It's not like the democrat have literally ever once attempted to question the hundreds of financial crimes and abuse of power he did the first go round.

oh yah, that reminds me: unusual whales has a new list of congressional insider trading but it's paywalled; does anyone have access to it?

Al! posted:

im getting to the point where id prefer a red fascist to a blue one because at least libs will pretend to oppose him

As the saying goes, I'd rather see the knife coming toward me than find it planted in my back.

Bishyaler
Dec 30, 2009
Megamarm

Al! posted:

im getting to the point where id prefer a red fascist to a blue one because at least libs will pretend to oppose him

Removing Democrats from the White House is harm reduction

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Al! posted:

im getting to the point where id prefer a red fascist to a blue one because at least libs will pretend to oppose him

2020-2024 was an excellent example of how whatever nominal liberal/progressive support of what is assumed to be the core belief of the movement is instantly cast aside as soon as those beliefs become inconvenient to power. Liberals would have reacted very, very differently had Trump being doing the stuff Biden was doing to support Israel. Also, it can easily be predicted that liberals will rediscover their supposed core beliefs the moment Trump is inaugurated.

CaptainBeefart
Mar 28, 2016



Just change the lock

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post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

CaptainBeefart posted:

Just change the lock

to every lock in the city??

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