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MazelTovCocktail posted:And Catholic too. Like I don't mean to imply there aren't tons of crazy Catholics into Q stuff, but I suspect it follows more with Protestantism and Evangelicals. Conservative US Catholics just pretend they're evangelicals on everything. There's not actually much difference in belief, even on the big things like biblical literalism and "are vaccines good"
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I'm eager to find out if the machine Dem wins, which means centrism is the way forward, or if he loses, which means the progressives have gone too far
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Nov 2, 2021 23:08
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Best Friends posted:I'm eager to find out if the machine Dem wins, which means centrism is the way forward, or if he loses, which means the progressives have gone too far It begins https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1455696272489422849?s=20
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Nov 3, 2021 01:47
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shame on an IGA posted:look to your NC neighbors for a taste of what to expect, especially last minute lame duck session bills to strip powers from the governor after they lose the seat again Hmm but if it was possible to use power to reinforce your party position, Dems would have done it. Snopes rates this article false
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Nov 3, 2021 18:15
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maffew buildings posted:Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good Everyone is cherishing wherever small consequences the commoners face because the lords are above the law. Flashback to a year ago when liberals were convinced Trump would face consequences for his corruption once he left office. Like almost everything liberals predict, that hasn't happened, but there's no time for introspection - we're only a year from the next election day, and it's the most important election in our lifetimes
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Nov 4, 2021 19:21
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I feel like dems losing the average dumb horny pill popping idiot demographic is where they started their slide into irrelevancy. Morons like that are America and they're all republicans now.
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Nov 5, 2021 00:22
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I am not really following the rules or standards. Am I, a healthy guy who does not work with the public, allowed to get the booster? Is it still restricted to people with special needs or risk factors, or is that by state?
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Nov 6, 2021 19:57
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If it wasn't China or Satanism, then it's American capitalism and first responders, and that's a hard no go. Plus you're allowed to say any goofy poo poo about China and if someone says "no I don't think China did that," bam, you got em. That's a tankie.
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Nov 8, 2021 19:19
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I feel like just days ago the liberal and legal (but I repeat myself) online take on the Rittenhouse case was that it was all normal and fine.
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Nov 11, 2021 17:46
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I realize this sounds like a troll but I fully mean it: if you're watching hours of youtubes about when you should and should not be shooting people, go to therapy instead. I guarantee your life is not that dangerous, and fixating on the use of lethal force is not doing your mental health any favors.
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Nov 12, 2021 01:05
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When my unit was deactivated I went from patrolling the streets of ramadi to living in my hometown US city in about 6 weeks, and very regular things got me very amped up and feeling like I needed a weapon. I could feel the siren call of becoming a gun guy, jumping into the welcoming arms of a multi billion dollar industry that sells its product with a culture of constant fear and constant ideation of lethal circumstances. I'm v glad I resisted that and think if I had turned down that path my odds of offing myself or God forbid feeling like I needed to "defend myself" would have been much higher. They're selling crazy. It's as bad as the nicotine industry imo.
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Nov 12, 2021 01:23
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stealie72 posted:Because their knowledge of history comes from the history channel and whatever dumb poo poo tucker is saying. Right wing problems with the third reich 1) socialism in name 2) there's a meme about how the Nazis did gun control 3) killed the Jews (note to self: do NOT vocalize how this was part of God's plan to create Israel outside of level 1 trusted associates) The yellow star thing is cause Nazis were bad (socialist) and telling people to wear masks is also bad (socialist). That's it. Thank you for participating in my guided tour of right wing thought
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Nov 13, 2021 19:59
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Platystemon posted:Buttigieg has the “High Hopes” crew, but does anyone like Harris? A legion of conservative white middle aged dems who believe they speak for black America, and who have the black lady gifs to prove it. They are 1% of the electorate and 25% of the internet, and if you've never encountered these people, be grateful.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:17
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Thinking about it, the dems got hosed as soon as well educated well off homeowners became the base. You cannot be the party of both blue state high income homeowners and the party of the lower half - those are a directly contrary set of interests.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:28
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It does feel like there is a ossification of politics and the old compromises are thinning to the point of breaking, very much like the mid 19th century. Unlike back then though, it's unimaginable that a new political party will form, let alone take the presidency and reshape America in short order. The dems are just going to resolve to do less and less to maintain their tenuous coalition of the haves and have nots, and the Rs are going to get even deeper into culture war stuff to maintain their own tenuous coalition between haves and have nots. All this madness and slow motion collapse imo comes from political factions being divorced from material interests. It's what makes the dems completely disfunctional and the Rs forever doubling down on crazy.
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Nov 14, 2021 18:44
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The only way to represent employees and employers at the same time is to either do nothing (d) or do stuff that doesn't actually change material $ reality (r) Somewhat related, it's darkly funny that we're in a legitimate crisis of transportation infrastructure and Buttigeig is basically invisible outside of getting documentaries about his personal life. Consultant through and through. But, the entire managerial liberal class that he epitomizes just doesn't believe government should be able to do much. I'm not sure he even conceptualizes that he might have a role in this crisis.
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Nov 14, 2021 19:31
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Centrists to leftists: it's because of pieces of poo poo like you that we have Trump Centrists to actual Trump supporters: hey man how's it going. You catch the big game this weekend?
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Nov 15, 2021 08:50
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I may actually vote for Biden again, simply because he actually ended the war Same. He's earned my vote for that alone. But I'm a weirdo who votes on foreign policy. Most people don't vote for that reason though. if you're a regular person on the lower half of the income and wealth distribution, life has probably gotten worse for you in the past year. Your costs are up at the grocery store and pump, your income may be higher but probably still isn't and almost certainly not up as much as prices, and if you were looking forward to any of the good things that economically comfortable upper middle class people told you joe was going to do - well, he hasn't, and isn't planning to anymore if he ever was. People like me who have worked from home at a white collar job have built up savings. Our lives are actually better this year (and my material interests are going to bias me in that direction - maybe my vote for Biden was going to happen no matter what). I don't think most people in this economic and social position, which includes most vocal online liberals, understand that that's not the average experience. Best Friends fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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Nov 15, 2021 17:40
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Stultus Maximus posted:The expansion of the child tax credit has been really great for me and my family. I think that's the other big good thing he's done. It's set to expire, currently.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:51
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Re: Evans, he supported the coup in Bolivia and supports most of our awful foreign policy generally, despite being an "anarchist." He does this by saying "oh I'm not actually for our against anything here, but" (series of rumors that align entirely with the us state department propaganda campaign here) Case in point https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1194094729962672128?s=20 He sure wasn't doing this for all the stuff the far right pro coup forces did. As I recall he was very similar on Syria and libya, one of the guys who's big on the "moderate rebels" and then you look up the groups in question and it's guys with names like The Righteous Sword of Islam who were big friends with al Qaeda. I see him as much more of a propagandist than a journalist, which isn't necessarily bad, but I see him as a propagandist for the same folks who supported gunning down trade unionists in Central America, invading Iraq, and turning Libya into a mad Max hellhole with open air slave markets. Edit: I did like it can happen here, which led me to looking up his other work and that led to a giant yikes from me. Best Friends fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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Nov 15, 2021 18:04
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Assange is a rapist but they're putting him in jail for doing journalism, not rape. Every national security reporter has also relied on classified sources (foreign, domestic or both) for their reporting, which often undermines the policies of foreign governments. I don't think if Putin arrested a NY Times reporter for divulging classified Russian information people would be cheering. The precedent of arresting assange opens up all sorts of domestic reporters to arrest, both here (very likely we'll have a new R admin in three years) and abroad.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:34
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Okay I don't think people here would be cheering. But if it comes down to "reporters I don't like should get arrested for their reporting" then that's saying a free press shouldn't exist. Which is prob the consensus national take currently, sure (just not when put like that)
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Nov 15, 2021 21:46
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Bored As gently caress posted:Assange isn't a reporter, he's basically a GRU mouthpiece / asset. If he had any journalistic integrity, he'd criticize Putin and leak poo poo about Russia, too. But he's about as impartial and has about as much journalistic integrity as Glen Greenwald. "Digs dirt on some but not others" describes the output of almost every reporter. The things he's being charged with could be applied to almost any reporter who interacts with information the government wants to be secret. More broadly, from Obama on there's been a crackdown on the idea of press freedom and leakers within liberal administrations. Just in time to build these rails for Trump, Trump 2 and Trump 3 and so on. Trump himself is too lazy and stupid to realize he can press the "imprison inconvenient national security reporters" button but the next few trumps might not be. Best Friends fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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Nov 15, 2021 22:14
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MazelTovCocktail posted:https://twitter.com/cpac/status/1461154311006834690?s=10 I don't understand how dem officials who see this stuff and go "we can't stop this. We can't even slow this down" and still manage to look themselves in the mirror. All the Rs have is insane week to week culture war flare ups that are completely stupid and completely meaningless, and the dem response is basically a slow motion managed surrender.
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Nov 18, 2021 18:16
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Wapo editorials run the wide ideological range from Clintonite centrist to torture loving war loving conservative who doesn't like Trump. I presume that's the range of opinions you're allowed to have in East coast wealth/power. They had Liz bruenig for a bit, but obviously that couldn't last, esp once it became clear Bernie would not be the nominee.
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Nov 19, 2021 00:00
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Is the giant tax cut for selected rich blue staters still in there?
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Nov 19, 2021 02:13
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The precedent of "you're allowed to kill the people society thinks are bad" has been there the entire time. He's not a trailblazer, he followed the instruction manual.
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Nov 19, 2021 19:42
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Milo and POTUS posted:Yup. If you're going to protest you may as well go strapped If you think the law will apply the same to "antifa blm radicals" you are very mistaken.
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Nov 19, 2021 19:43
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Platystemon posted:We need to get the writer of this 1997 WIRED graphic on the line to tell us what’s happening next. Mad credit for 9/10, but I think #3 was already reality by 1997. Tho from what I recall that was very not apparent in the media of the time here.
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Nov 20, 2021 05:20
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I mean the parallels between state sanctioned violence at crowds and non-state sanctioned are pretty hard to not draw. I don't understand getting outraged at the statement. Prob not great to air those thoughts as a politician but his career is over anyway
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Nov 22, 2021 02:45
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There's a whole bunch of laws the gop has passed in various states saying it's legal to drive into protests, also
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Nov 22, 2021 02:53
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Our next car will be electric so I'm following the market (it will absolutely not be a Tesla). But the reason our next car will be electric is 95% of our car drives are just within the city and usually pretty short. Which also means our current gas cars will last till we die of old age at this rate. So basically our next car is electric, if we ever are able to justify buying a new car.
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Nov 24, 2021 19:12
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Stultus Maximus posted:Director of the DIA. The thing about q that gets me most is it's literally fan fiction about how the deep state is good and did a coup (which is good), but all the fans insist they hate the deep state. I thought the whole point of politics in the past few years is at least people could be honest about what they wanted, but no. Even the 'deep state coups are good' q people won't just openly say their beliefs and allegiances.
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Nov 25, 2021 17:51
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pantslesswithwolves posted:babe wake up new COVID variant just dropped We're going to 'trust the science' here in America and wait until we've already got it for sure before doing a (too late) half hearted lockdown.
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Vax doesn't go to large parts of the world > new variant > new vax > rich govs shell out for new vax for their own people > repeat
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Nov 27, 2021 06:39
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Modern democracy just can't handle viral pandemics imo. Everyone is too atomized, you can't reach everyone with information. You can't make people get vaccinated. Not every person on Earth can have their government afford vaccination in a market-based, closed IP system. And capitalism likes fostering far right movements and parties that will inherently agitate against any mass action, even ones that don't impede capital, like masks, let alone making meaningful shut downs impossible.
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In America at least, even if you made a law saying everyone had to be vaccinated, the conservative movement would prevent that from being implemented at every level and it would formally die in the courts. But such a law wouldn't happen in the first place either, because the liberals also work at the beck and call of capital. There is nothing here preventing capital from getting what it wants at all times, and capital has decided covid is fine. Other countries that have some small smidgen of socialism still may have better luck. (In time, there will be "reforms" until every democracy has our free market paradise)
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Nov 27, 2021 19:06
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Gabbard is just a republican who happens to be part of a political dynasty in a very blue state and so has to be a democrat. Glenn is a libertarian who is married to a socdem. I don't think he's ever claimed to be a democrat at all.
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Nov 28, 2021 22:11
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The proud boys are probably 50% fed at this point but for ~some reason~ they're still out there doing street crimes without impediment or jail time. It was the same deal with the KKK. Left groups get infiltrated and destroyed. Right groups get infiltrated and allowed to continue doing terrorism. Almost as if... https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/dec/08/fbi-kkk/ quote:
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Unrelated to anything, but can we get fewer stickied threads? On awful app on this forum I have to scroll down to get past them all
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