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ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Ripoff posted:

I wish the GOP would release a list of the hallucinogenics their membership pounds down every morning before going on Twitter, because I imagine it’s some wild poo poo.

It's just a mix of grey market amphetamines and Brain Force Paleo Ultra.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Kavros posted:

Sometimes it's a bad joke.

Other times, they're bad faith cons that make people associate environmentalism with annoying governmental overreach and become reactively less supportive of environmental protection as a governmental agenda.

The straw ban is an example of something so ultimately counterproductive that it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to have been a planted agenda used to benefit polluters and corporate interests.

The straw ban was for coastal communities because dipshits can't put their trash into a loving can and it ends up in the storm sewers and then the ocean. The only planted agenda is Republicans extrapolating it across the country as government overreach.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Boris Galerkin posted:

Do you not understand that one person making an individual consumer choice will affect other people, hopefully spurring them the do the same, which given enough people will start a movement, which will make their voices heard, which could affect more action like full-scale boycotting, which would force the CEOs of companies to do take some kind of action?

How many people seriously called for impeachment 2 years ago? How many called for it 1 year ago? How many today?

This is gonna sound trivial for the eco:matters: crowd in here today, but this happened to me. All I did was put a recycling bin just for used water bottles in my office and a couple people use it and I empty it weekly. One person said that the bin made her realize how many bottles per week she used (she brings in a 6 pack of Aquafina per day) so she switched to a Brita filter bottle. So that's 120 plastic bottles a month saved.

Of course this a drop in a bucket considering the single use plastic issues hospitals have, but hopefully it changes the worldview of someone, anyone, and that's a Good Thing.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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CuddleCryptid posted:

Will it save the planet? No.

Will it help? Yes

Nothing wrong with reveling in the victories we can find.

Just like signing up one (or a dozen) person to vote.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Noise Complaint posted:

Gov. Baker just unilaterally banned "vaping products" in MA.

This includes a medication I take that basically keeps me off of disability, which I had to refill today, and I now have no idea what the gently caress to do about.

I now have to take days off of work and I am going to be living hell to your offices.

Someone will sue and gum it up in the courts.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Noise Complaint posted:


I can't have the edibles because of my job

What does this mean?

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Strange Poon posted:

My guess is he's melting down because people take some media folks digging through his history and a corporation doing PR as "cancel culture" or whatever.

It's the whole, "he can't be a monster because he did a good thing once" good ol' boys mentality that middle America loves so much.

quote:

"Eight years ago, when I was a sophomore in high school, I made some social media posts with my friends that quoted and referenced the show ‘Tosh.0,’ King said. “One of those posts was brought to my attention by a member of the media today.”
...
The content of the offensive posts have not been released, but the Des Moines Register reports that the posts compared black mothers to gorillas and make light of black people killed in the holocaust.


Edgelord "16 year old on Twitter" poo poo bites again.

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Jun 17, 2002

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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

less "he did a good thing once" and more "he did this 7 years ago when he was still a child"

They're defending him for donating the money that he was sent for his funny sign. They're saying we should ignore his lovely Twitter because he did a good thing.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Ague Proof posted:

I shot JFK. 9/11? I let it happen. The Lindbergh baby? That was me. I faked my own death. Jacob Wohl paid me $5 to whack Seth Rich. So what? Those aren't crimes, and anyway there's no evidence. Except these documents here, take a look they completely exonerate me, and I have copies if you're unsure.

Wee Bey Giuliani

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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This makes it all the more obvious how bad Trump would have been if a real crisis hit. He just loving cracks under pressure.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Zophar posted:

We have had real crises and literally thousands of Americans have died as a consequence of his incompetent malevolence.

Sorry, external crisis. Think Cuban Missile.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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https://twitter.com/TeddyAmen/status/1178994657277161472?s=09

This is the type of hard-hitting journalism that I expect out of my WaPo subscription.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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AlBorlantern Corps posted:

What I don't really get is, doesn't this cost them a lot domestically? To be seen to kiss Trump's rear end? A lot of these countries don't want their president's kissing anyone's rear end let alone this guy.

Trump does it with Putin and Kim and his crowd thinks it's diplomacy.

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Jun 17, 2002

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skylined! posted:

If there are any alums/students floating in this thread, sorry about your lovely swamp school

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1179391674423922691

At least the student government is getting dragged in the comments.

https://twitter.com/accentspeakers/status/1179088417570918401?s=09

Apparently this is a year that the SG dropped funding for arts programs, so that's nice. I believe we ended up canceling the Richard Spencer speech a couple of years ago, so hopefully we can do the same here.

Edit-nm he ended up speaking, but his supporter who poo poo at protestor pled out in February, so have fun in the Florida penitentiary system. https://www.alligator.org/news/rich...1d079ba9df.html

ummel fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Oct 2, 2019

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Electric Bugaloo posted:

The “moot” tweet is gone. I never got to see it. Does somebody have a screenshot?

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1179444965899952129?s=09

Ugh, at least they were caught and dealt with.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Nail Rat posted:

Has anyone said "Get Schiffty" yet

I'm pretty sure Trump has poo poo on the floor.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Groovelord Neato posted:

the reason republicans care more about the court is they know they cannot win at the ballot box.

*checks 2016 election notes*

...?

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Arist posted:

https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1181191724133163008

The tax returns feel so quaint at this point.

I have a #resistance friend who still likes to post endlessly about getting the tax returns. Sure, there is probably some useful information in there, but who really loving cares at this point.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Guze posted:

If the texts and emails are on a personal device can they subpoena the ISP?

Whatsapp is encrypted.

You know that thing that the DOJ is railing against? The DOJ is also using it to circumvent the law. Projection, etc.

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Jun 17, 2002

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friendbot2000 posted:

Pharma companies are luring Mexicans across the border to donate blood plasma at the risk of their health
So Big Pharma is luring people across the border with a "bring a friend bonus" to donate plasma because the united states have abysmal regulations regarding blood donations. Things are so loving lovely in this country that people are draining themselves of blood to get by so companies can profit



Nothing to see here but a young woman literally draining her life force for a company's profit margins.

I feel the same way when the "blood bus" pulls up outside of work and they start hounding us to donate blood. The companies take my blood, givee a t shirt and a cookie, then sell the blood at a ridiculous margin to patients who needs it. If my donated blood was actually given to someone who needed it and not sold, I'd be game.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Herstory Begins Now posted:

yeah dude with a dbz shirt is deffo in the game

oh wow thanks dpd, that sure is a relief!!!!

https://twitter.com/DallasPD/status/1181634938300436481?s=20

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Authorities said about “12 pounds of marijuana, 149 grams of THC cartridges, and $4,157” was seized from Brown’s apartment during an initial search.


Seems like a normal thing for someone living next to a cop to have.

Also curious if those "grams of thc cartridges" is 149 carts or 3 carts weighing 50 grams each.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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BonoMan posted:

And if I'm the key witness in the trial AGAINST the local PD, the first thing I do after the trial is over is try to take part in a parking lot drug deal!

Oh, and shoot one of the guys in the chest before turning around and going back inside.

Oh, and the gun I used to shoot the guy was picked up by the guy who shot me and then they left.

Who the gently caress picks up a murder/assault weapon, with a wounded person in the car?

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Groovelord Neato posted:

american antifascists did go and fight with the ypg. that arm was even originally called the international antifascist battalion.

Talk about committing to the cause...

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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cr0y posted:

Its not, its not uncommon for electronic shows to be pretty political in message.

Bassnectar is always railing against Trump.

Dubstep warning or whatever

https://twitter.com/Camila_Claros/status/904393200483393540?s=09

https://twitter.com/caseyrrad/status/941379643134889987?s=09

His fans are pretty insufferable though

ummel fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Oct 10, 2019

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Y'all need to go to a hipster haircut place. Get there early and booze it up on craft beers for free. Helps take the sting out of the $45 base fee.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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^^^^pretty much nailed it

Nail Rat posted:

I don't think that's a thing that exists except maybe the one place you found, so good on you.

Must be my town, they're everywhere here (Tampa Bay).

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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highme posted:

:respek: I wasn't going to say anything, I figured it was mostly a phenomenon of places like here, then the OP said they were in Tampa and...

St Pete is hipster as gently caress. And a large awesome gay community too. Charlie Crist is our congressman.

To steer back into USPOL. Matt Gaetz recently tried to hold an anti-impeachment rally in front of Christ's office but forgot to set a reminder on his calendar and never showed up.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/307691-matt-gaetz-trump-rally

quote:

Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was a no-show at his own rally Monday afternoon in downtown St. Pete.

Gaetz announced last week he would be rallying voters and speaking in front of Democrat Congressman Charlie Crist’s office Monday.

But Gaetz canceled his appearance about an hour before the event was scheduled, citing a “miscommunication.”

“Due to a miscommunication on the RNC’s part, Congressman Gaetz will no longer be attending today. The event has shifted to a training and rally supporting the President,” Trump Victory Spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said.

Alvarez offered another statement later.

“Instead of focusing on what they were elected to do, Democrats like Rep. Crist, have broken their promise to voters, choosing to waste taxpayer dollars on a baseless impeachment inquiry.

“Crist pretends to be a moderate in rhetoric only, but when it comes time to act, he turns around and votes with the socialist squad,” Alvarez said.

Word of the rally spread quickly over the weekend and Tampa Bay Democrats quickly organized a counterprotest.

By the time 1 p.m. rolled around, there were at least twice as many pro-impeachment protesters as there were participants in Gaetz’s rally. A Trump supporter who attended the rally later followed up saying by 2 p.m. the impeachment crowd had thinned to just a handful of people while the pro-Trump crowd still had about 50 people remaining. Florida Politics was not able to independently verify his information, but the emailer offered a photo showing Trump supporters standing where the pro-impeachment crowd had been as evidence.

The two groups stood on either side of First Avenue North as motorists flooded by, many of them on their way to the Tampa Bay Rays playoff game at Tropicana Field, which caused traffic to be extra heavy in the area..

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Jun 17, 2002

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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1182283460137934850?s=09

I'm curious how he got that far. Do the Brits not shoot people on sight if they gently caress with planes?

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Jun 17, 2002

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https://twitter.com/Zedd/status/1182376966495838208?s=19

Lmao. China and its impotent rage is banning top 10 DJs for liking South Park tweets.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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How reliable is that account though?

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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So that's why Barr was there, huh

Efb so bad

ummel fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Oct 11, 2019

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Jun 17, 2002

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Why do people like Shep fall on the sword and step down instead of making the cronies drag them out?

It's not like his career is over or anything. Unless there's something else going on.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Inferior Third Season posted:

He's probably getting a nice severance package to go quietly.

I forgot about those, doh.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Just delete the Facebook app or turn off notifications and you'll be much happier.

ummel fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Oct 13, 2019

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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This Trump murdering people in a church fake video is really dumb. The fact that someone was so proud that they screened it at meme conference or whatever is really telling.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

what the gently caress is going on in Alabama?

[url]https://twitter.com/JohnArchibald/status/1183786143701258243[url]

Democrats have been ignoring local politics for too long and now the power structure is filled with "moderate" idiots at best, and obstructionist plants at worst.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

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Kale posted:

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-14-2019/h_d17d7000d801575575597ad603c46d2c

As soon as I saw this headline I knew it had to be this gently caress. Like who else would it be but Gaetz? This guy really needs to be removed from his office already. He's not even remotely interested in acting out the role of a house rep and frankly not even a congressperson. Since the first day he sat in the chamber all he's literally done is act like a complete and utter shithead and blatant Trump stooge. I don't even know how he got loving elected since he seems to have zero interest in acting as a representative or even following any sort of rules of congress as the role lays out for a congress person. Must have been a really chuddy district.

Fake edit: Yeah Wiki article confirms it as the reddest district in Florida. That's how these people uninterested in governing or following the rules of congress keep getting elected.

His dad was also a local politician from the area that helped him get off his DUI charge and reinstated his license earlier than legally allowed if you refuse a breathalyzer.

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Jun 17, 2002

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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

Kinda makes me wonder if the reason Facebook is tacking hard fash is because they realize that's the only audience they have left. Everyone else is deleting their account.

(This isn't to suggest it's somehow the fault of the people leaving Facebook, of course. Zuck is just a shithead.)

Its because Trump is pumping $1.6mil a week into ads, or whatever the number is. Their other customers are bootleg copyright infringement t-shirt companies from China and bands on tour.

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Jun 17, 2002

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Countdown until that background music is cease & desist'd.

Edit- federalize the education system, stop letting Bubba and Nancy run our education systems.

ummel fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Oct 15, 2019

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