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Mellow Seas posted:I expect a lot of blatantly, indefensibly false stories to pop up in right wing outlets over the next 15 months and then disappear once called out - and hey, if a few tens of thousands of people end believing, forever, that Biden forced a Gold Star family to pay for their daughter's corpse's airlift, that's just a cost of aggressive, hard-hitting journalism, right? Fox has already settled one lawsuit around false reporting and is still defending another. A few more lawsuits may curb their appetite.
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He died of pancreatic cancer, just about the worst way to go. I don't mind remembering him if it means we get a better treatment for that than the wildly expensive (and custom) treatment that exists.
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Aug 28, 2023 23:41
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Panfilo posted:They've been leaning really hard on the genocidal rhetoric. If a terrorist attack happened in the US it would be named on the "open borders" Biden allowed. If a major attack had happened during the Trump administration, it would have been blamed on Obama's border policies that Trump was in the process of "fixing".
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Oct 12, 2023 02:33
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OgNar posted:They are going of on Greta Thunberg today because she posted an anti war image that had an octopus plushie in it. So wait....now the kraken is bad? But it wasn't when Sydney Powell that said to release it re: Trump's fake election BS?
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Oct 21, 2023 04:37
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Kale posted:I'm still kind of awestruck by, especially considering how long right wing people have been going on about it, they're inability to articulate in any meaningful way what their grievance is with "woke culture", why anyone should really loving care beyond them bringing it up as a talking point at random when they seemingly have nothing else to talk about, or to even actually define "woke" other than that it apparently exists and everyone should be rejecting it. You kind of have to hand it to RWM grifters in selling people this particular grievance well and what looks to be the actual thought control being "force fed down people's throats" cause none of it makes any loving sense. It doesn't need an articulable definition, it's strictly a form of political otherization.
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Oct 21, 2023 15:09
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The Islamic Shock posted:Trump... right about something? Feels weird man. Larryb posted:Huh, I actually agree with Donald Trump about something. Not sure how to feel about that This couldn't possibly be anything to campaign against DeSantis, the only real challenger Trump has for 2024.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:06
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bird food bathtub posted:In the last three or four decades, when it comes to intel actions, the Israel alliance has been much closer to "With friends like these who needs enemies?" territory. I don't remember the specific ones but there were a few actions like, uhh, hackings or intel ops/spying, tech/knowledge thefts, stuff like that where the US has been targeted *BY* Israeli forces. Not in the subtle "friendly allied intel forces just keeping an eye on everyone, not you specifically" but stuff that really should have put a cramp in the alliance. Israeli support is just the baseline default in all situations political and going against that means pushing against the inertia of the entire system and making yourself the squeaky wheel target. A big one has been selling US military technology to China. This has been going on for years and I don't think there's ever been a major backlash.
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Oct 24, 2023 16:32
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:just imagine that puffy clownshoe trying to do MMA. Just imagine it. I'm imagining an updated version of the Steven Segal aikido video.
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Oct 28, 2023 15:44
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:They're usually too old for this to be what actually influences them, but whenever someone pulls out the "always check your corners and have a plan to escape" thing, I'm reminded of my college friends getting way too into Modern Warfare 2, it's kind of how they would talk. A big thing that 99% of people don't acknowledge when they discuss these things is reacting under normal circumstances vs. stress. Fight or flight is a powerful response, and even with training, people gently caress it up all the time. Even with a perfect strategy, most folks will absolutely gently caress it up in some way or another just by following through imperfectly.
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Oct 28, 2023 18:18
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Discendo Vox posted:What is the most elitist mustard? The least? What is the most conservative mustard, or the most leftist? Most elitist mustard is probably something by Maille. Most conservative American mustard is French's yellow.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:18
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FMguru posted:Yeah, there are five semi-overlapping reasons people are running against Trump in the Republican primary, even though they know they're not going to beat him: I don't think Ramaswamy fits into any of those, personally. I think he just wants to get as rich as possible as quickly as possible, but via private ventures and not politics or media - he wants to be a titan of industry in some way, shape or form. This is just the fastest way to build his personal brand and get the attention of other high profile Republicans who might invest with him, or get him involved in deals.
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Dec 22, 2023 09:21
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The Question IRL posted:This sounds like a combination of the AG's office saying "I just called up the Seatle hospitals and asked them to provide records. This. Paxton isn't known for making requests, I'd be willing to bet money his office was fairly aggressive - but turned tail pretty quickly when they were told to piss off.
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happyhippy posted:There's also the fact that more and more are seeing through the mega churches, 10% tithing, and 'supply side Jesus' evangelists to be the scamming bastards. This was a fairly significant moment in Houston, when Joel Osteen/Lakewood Church didn't open their doors during Harvey in 2017. It's one of the richest churches in the US, and the building itself is raised well above any potential flooding from even a major storm event. The amount of negative press they collected from that when drat near everyone else helped out if they had any opportunity to do so. It's also worth noting that Harvey was a turning point for the Red Cross, they absolutely poo poo the bed with that storm.
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Dec 29, 2023 11:52
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Space Fish posted:Speaking of fentanyl... the prescription list from the Trump White House confuses me, as fentanyl appears at least twice. Why... is fentanyl just handed out like that? I thought its use case was "gets you super high and is super addictive, but will super kill you." So, again: why was it available? Lawmakers have a history of making drugs far more accessible to themselves than anyone else. I haven't heard of previous admins making controlled substances like fentanyl accessible, but it wouldn't surprise me either - maybe not fentanyl specifically, but other narcotics or other easy to abuse pharmaceuticals.
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tacodaemon posted:I wonder what specifically Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande did Billie Eilish's breakout song was "Bad Girl" - which if you're a red blooded Republican, has some highly objectionable lyrics. Tipper Gore would not approve.
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Feb 1, 2024 03:44
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OneEightHundred posted:SF also has the NIMBY problem. "We don't want tall buildings ruining the atmosphere!" This is basically true of every rich area in the US. All the people who ponied up for oceanfront property are lobbing complaints and lawsuits to block windfarms, VC billionaires saying that CA needs more affordable housing move to block it in their town, etc.
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Feb 10, 2024 09:39
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Anno posted:I didn’t think Tucker could be any more pathetic, but this is just unbelievably sad. And all while daddy Putin dunks on him. This is possibly a direct reference to when Boris Yeltsin visited a grocery store near Houston, TX in 1989. He was there visiting NASA and a conversation was had about seeing how everyday people lived - given his experiences in the Soviet Union and the politburo vs. the ordinary citizens, his handlers took him to the nearest Randall's. He was surprised by the experience, in the best way possible.
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Feb 15, 2024 16:26
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BiggerBoat posted:Wapo article This reminds me of the show 24, where each season they would latch on to some technical object or process and try to insert it into every episode to seem relevant. I think it was season 3 or 4 where everything had to be data mined - despite data mining being a relatively specific term. Recovered hard drive from a terrorist laptop? Data mine that for me. Broken cell phone found at the scene of a crime? Data mine that for me. Chunk of metal found at the site of a bombing? Data mine that for me. Witness to a crime 7 miles away from anything relevant to the show? Data mine them for me.
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Proust Malone posted:https://x.com/marionumber4/status/1771225430730641560?s=46&t=v69FFc9gmilk6I-vYnAGzw Didn't she marry into actual British aristocracy? House of Lords style?
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"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the
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Doing a bit of Googling about the Rittenhouse thing, and apparently there are ASVAB tutors. Wonders never cease.
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I expect most of them will settle without admitting wrongdoing, while publishing a retraction in 6 point font in invisible letters on a page nobody can find on their respective sites.
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FlamingLiberal posted:He absolutely should sue Fox, I’m honestly surprised it took this long No reason to rush the lawsuit until his legal team is ready. Preparation is key.
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