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Charlz Guybon posted:I believe their profit last year was $1.5 billion, so $787.5 million was about half that. Not a small number, but is it really a deterrent? I guess it depends on how the other lawsuits shake out, but by itself, I'm going to say no. Supposedly they did it to avoid permanently losing their audience to the fringe upstart media, so probably a good deal for them.
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Sax Mortar posted:"Desalination is absurdly cheap" says the billionaire who hasn't figured out a way to turn that into profit despite water shortages worldwide.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:The right wing is going to have some real conflicts when Hunter Biden is using a second amendment defense in front of SCOTUS because his plea deal was imploded. Man conservatives are going to be pissed when this forces them to abandon logical consistency.
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Jul 28, 2023 18:45
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William Bear posted:https://crisismagazine.com/editors-desk/a-movie-isnt-worth-sinning-over quote:To make this clear, imagine asking a decently-formed Catholic of Michelangelo’s time, “Do you think it’s a sin to watch two people fornicate with each other?” The person would likely think you are the devil himself for just asking the question. But we’ve become so desensitized to this particular sin that we diminish, even deny, its intrinsically evil nature.
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Jul 28, 2023 18:49
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When did people get too cool for the word “alleged”? It’s literally one weird trick to talk 24/7 about someone’s crimes without anyone being able to say boo about it. Nobody hears “alleged rapist” and thinks “hmm, sounds unproblematic”. They think “probably a rapist, and on a side note the person telling me about it obviously hews closely to the truth”.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1695141385068806601?t=t33xZmkFW4yd9ypvSwg6_A&s=19 In the mythology of the urban black community the Gangsta (“gangster”) Messiah is always preceded by a herald, often incarnated as a precocious, white 17 year old essayist or a priggish, Indian-American conspiracy grifter. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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Aug 27, 2023 10:12
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Panfilo posted:"You want to be a real rebel, kids? Try being conservative!" This guy has serious loving Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook energy.
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Sep 5, 2023 07:02
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Willatron posted:I mean, the whole premise of "America fell into crisis because the dumb poors outbred the wealthy professionals" thing was pretty stupid too. The stupidity of America’s public discourse is to do with the power of money and the deliberate subversion of that discourse. Also there is a real social issue of people (especially women) who want to live lives of accomplishment having to sacrifice reproduction (which is painful for them but can’t necessarily be linked to some concept of “worsening the gene pool”). There is a phenomenon of millions of dollars’ worth of education gathering around a table to surgically assure the reproductive success of someone can’t hold down a job (which is fine and good and what they signed up for as compassionate professionals, and actually there’s probably not enough of that in America due to the structure of its health system). I’d bet that if you asked Mike Judge why public discourse is so poo poo you’d hear something about the erosion of education and the role of the wealthy in perverting the media. But a dickhead on an ATV impaling his balls, and a sad couple progressively explaining why they can’t reproduce yet as they age and die, is funnier than a montage of money flowing through every tiny crack in the edifice of society and government.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1748138686112465353?t=_tXszh4e08PntWlnSVZmZg&s=19 I like how he says "without objection", clearly in order to be able to handwave away renowned, business-repelling Democratic backwaters like New York and California. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Jan 25, 2024 04:19
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I ask my students one good thing that happened over the weekend and one student said that the greatest thing that happened over the weekend is that “Tom McaDonald came out with a new song called ‘Facts’ which includes a surprise guest.” Just because you knew about this song doesn't mean I had to. Ben Shapiro raps like Jorma in Lonely Island's "Just 2 Guyz".
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Shooting Blanks posted:Republican…Tipper Gore And people say Democrats have just marched endlessly to the right.
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selec posted:I have seen people bitch about disaster funding going to red states any time there's a flood or hurricane in them. I dunno what to tell you man, it's definitely A Thing that people view their political opponents as undeserving of what they themselves feel entitled to. It's not that nuts of a concept--people pick teams for politics, much more than they examine policy and values. How many people do you know who have the exact same politics (or near enough) as their parents, vs. people who have gone completely in a different direction? I'd say in my experience the ratio is like 80/20. That's not evidence of people carefully considering the issues. I’ve seen liberals saying some version of “these red states always complain about paying for disasters in blue states but have no trouble putting their hands out when they get hit”, usually with a dose of “I don’t want anything bad to happen to them but I wish they’d just stop the mean spirited bullshit towards blue states”. I don’t really see examples of what you’re claiming. Do you have any?
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Feb 9, 2024 23:58
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Mantis42 posted:The Soviet Union was not only socialist but it was the greatest force for decolonization and anti-imperialism in history outside of the PRC. Yeah, like their senpai the British Empire they eventually decolonized dozens of countries.
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Feb 16, 2024 12:55
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OgNar posted:Don talking about his wife, Mercedes. The democrats need to take a leaf out of the Karl Rove book and just go straight at Trump on age. “Trump’s too old to be president, he’s senile” etc. If you’re perceived as weak on something attack the other side for it. It makes their strong attack look like meaningless tit-for-tat, instead of the media always and only asking “Is Joe Biden too old”.
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Feb 25, 2024 07:58
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Panfilo posted:These losers whining about Why are these modern Western slatterns putting on cowboy pants and bumping and jiving in rows in the outdoors when they could be line dancing like proper 1990s ladies?! Edit - if contemporary girls love joyful self expression then I HATE it!! Edit edit - what kind of sick gently caress looks at those girls in silly costumes throwing ankles with childish grins on their faces and thinks "sluuuuuuuuuuts" The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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THE DECLINE OF THE WEST crack me up but there is a nugget of truth buried in the vat of this diarrhea. The right really has no answer to things like fun dancing. They condemn it but concede they themselves don't have a counterpart to prop up as a superior cultural alternative. We're not living in a spunky eighties teen comedy where the heroes dance like this and the villains dance like that and we're all gonna have a dance off to see who is the coolest.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Ok the guy reposting Belorussian propaganda to compare to a random rear end vid from somebody's instagram has got to be Peak Chud. He really sincerely believes everyone in the first video has already had 20 abortions and everyone in the second were chosen by God to save Christendom, and have a real shot at doing it.
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bird food bathtub posted:Boomers aren't dead yet. They remember, they just don't care. If you're deserving of an abortion in their hosed up worldview you can pay to get safe ones in states that aren't christofascist hellholes. If you're poor then gently caress you die none of them care. You know boomers fought for abortion, right? Roe was a boomer, one of her lawyers was a boomer and the other was effectively a boomer.
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Mar 1, 2024 01:33
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BiggerBoat posted:I can't believe were still in "Elvis, Little Richard and Jerry lee Lewis are making these kids dance all sex crazy" mode but I guess the nature of conservative is the idea of never changing and speaks to the idea conformity as a virtue of sorts.
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Mar 1, 2024 12:55
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OgNar posted:Another speech, more mangled words. Biden: [rushes his words a bit and makes a few slips] Media: Is the oldest president’s brain just a wordless mush?! Trump: [exhibits productive aphasia and word salad] Media: Look at his stamina! This is bad for Biden…
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BobHoward posted:Ignoring the outrage machine's takes, there's real ethics concerns with the DA. She charged Trump in a very convoluted way using one of the most complex parts of Georgia law, its RICO statues. Back when that case was announced, there was lots of expert legal analysis which amounted to "why is the Georgia DA's office making this so unnecessarily difficult for themselves", and now it seems likely that at least part of it was the DA wanting to give her BF a way to rack up a shitload of billable hours. IIRC the cost for his services so far is a substantial fraction of $1M, which is a bit more serious than a few trips and dinners. They weren't dating until after he was hired.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Listened to that video on Harry Potter. It was a good video and pointed out a lot of things that I didn't notice as a kid reading the books. I can’t really provide the evidence without technically doxxing a bunch of people but have you tried…googling terms like “Cho [Chinese surname of your choice]”. It’s pretty clear that the name “Cho Chang” is not so absurd as to count as automatic proof of JK Rowling’s racism. Edit - sorry I know you’re taking a pretty even handed approach but even so it seems to me like you’re kind of reserving judgment on whether the name is inherently stupid and impossible. It clearly isn’t. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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FFT posted:They were probably invented in France, though, if Spain didn't do it first. That’s what the Russians want you to think.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Attacking Democrats from the left is not right wing and it's really aggravating how many people don't understand horseshoe theory
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skeleton warrior posted:
Multiple countries around the world quelled multiple episodes of sustained transmission through lockdowns and social distancing measures. This had the side effect of crushing influenza basically out of existence as an afterthought requiring no additional effort.
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