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I’ll have you know my friend does gently caress also say it to my face not online
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Dec 2, 2021 00:00
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Looks like ransomware so relatively that’s less bad
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Dec 2, 2021 00:15
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Well, ignoring how common and freakish it is to have both cops and shooters in high schools on the regular good for that guy for intervening so fast.
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Dec 2, 2021 14:06
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I see it being sold another way. That the poor are "failing at America," the "land of opportunity." Buzzwords that Boomers eat right up because the last time they were even remotely true was when they were coming up in the world. There was that article that the “respectable” conservative Claremont Institute put out arguing that most American citizens shouldn’t be considered citizens legally or ethically, and in the mind of someone like that “citizen” means “person.” Here we go: https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-claremont-institute-is-not-conservative-and-you-shouldnt-be-either/ A uniquely American fascism Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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Dec 2, 2021 14:09
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I agree. It should be treated as a matter like insanity defense if they’re really dangerous like this kid until they’re not but it’s baffling to me how you can be “charged as an adult” when you’re literally not. Like those kids parents were freaks right? There’s a chance years away with time to mature he could be normalish but that’s not likely to happen in prison.
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Dec 2, 2021 14:36
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A gun safe costs about as much as a short range day worth of ammo lol
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Dec 2, 2021 16:55
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The obvious reasonable solution is just to require some sort of locked container for storage at minimum and demonstration of some level of training but of course at least in the United States the purpose of most gun control laws is either to disenfranchise the poor or placate anti-gun donors, rather than in European countries with high rates of gun ownership where it's more like just having a car and driver's license.
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Dec 2, 2021 17:31
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That’s rad I wonder when we’ll get healthcare or not lose all our reproductive rights
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Dec 3, 2021 00:24
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Just a few bad https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia
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Dec 3, 2021 02:14
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I think voting still matters in some local stuff but I’ve totally given up on the centrist Dems after being a sucker one last time and voting for Biden. The horrors on the border are still going, reproductive rights on the way out, drug laws are still regressive, zero police reform, no healthcare, no consequences for those behind the insurrection, and no education cost reform. The mainline Dems are so loving worthless at this point that voting for them does more harm than good. Oh an insulin and epinephrine is still insanely expensive and the sackler family isn’t all dead or in prison. Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Dec 3, 2021 14:10
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A company of florida men
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Dec 3, 2021 14:32
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I don’t see how it’s better to vote for a group of people that resign and do nothing. I’ll vote for the left-wing that actually at least try sometimes but I’m done with the mainstream Dems. We already lost the Supreme Court so what’s the point? Voting third party or protest voting en masse is the only thing that’ll make them wake up. gently caress handing these cynical assholes my vote when they’re working in lockstep with the GOP as token opposition
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Dec 3, 2021 15:57
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mlmp08 posted:
Accelerationism is bad and dumb. But I don’t see any point in voting for the mainline Dems until they start doing stuff since they seem to deliberately allowing themselves to lose to rile up their base without losing their donors. I’ll vote for the independents and progressives that actually kinda try. I don’t see how enabling the Dems to play softball with fascists so they can keep the gravy train is any different than accelerationism. The only way to actually stop it is to stop enabling it.
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Dec 3, 2021 17:27
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I almost wish I was in florida because I feel like joining this florida militia thing for a few months and then leaking the hilarity to propublica or buzzfeed would be a good time.
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Dec 4, 2021 14:10
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Discussing things on discussion forum wow how cringe you have owned me
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Dec 4, 2021 19:32
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Too late anyway imo, I think the last chance was either the Dems to do something with this anti-trump wave or for another Trump term to shake them out of doing almost nothing. I’m hoping the upcoming disaster in 2022 and 2024 shakes them out of complacency and being de-facto enablers for the far right but I’m worried that ship already sailed without things getting unavoidably worse. I strongly regret voting for Biden at this point. He’s done nothing whatsoever domestically and just let the GOP strategy play out perfectly
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Dec 4, 2021 19:36
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Yeah it’s just weird to see how obvious the GOP voter suppression, judicial takeover and opposition party strategy is and the Dems to just roll over and play right into it while whining about how AOC and Bernie voters almost cost them the election.
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Dec 4, 2021 19:56
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Colorado is pretty rad but it doesn’t have an ocean 
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Dec 5, 2021 14:26
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It’s like Jimmy Carter 2.0, if he was also a sex pest. What’s the stated purpose of boycotting it anyway? The kind of poo poo the US and aligned proxies pulled on the third world when it came to giving them access to vaccines this year alone pales in comparison to anything China does internationally and the state department decided what China was doing to its minority population wasn’t actually legally genocide since probably that would bring up a whole lot of uncomfortable issues in our history and reservations that are still ongoing and the fact our corporations are still buying Chinese labor from those camps. Like it’s so nakedly a tantrum and attempt to start a phony Cold War. Ideology actually at least kinda seemed to matter last time around and it was still dumb as hell but this time around China and the US don’t even pretend to be different. loving embarrassing. Maybe this is the electoral strategy christ lol because being a fake “wartime president” worked so well for trump I guess Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Dec 6, 2021 13:34
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Okay fess up which one of you is working for the Global Times now? Lmao they’re missing that small detail that party membersship is effectively less-hereditary aristocratic class and no loving way those includes all the people living in the remote parts of the west. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/09/vaccine-apartheid-covid-pandemic-covax-us-trips-waiver/ https://www.justsecurity.org/79403/omicron-the-variant-that-vaccine-apartheid-built/ Yeah I’m just here to defend the regime I explicitly called genocidal in my post. Am I going to be a Russian influence op next? Yeah the US and it’s intermediares like the IMF is totally crushing it on all that foreign aid and loan/policy mandates though no good reason like half the world hates us they just don’t get it that we totally mean well. What does it say about the US that a lot of their would countries would rather deal with loving China than the US now?
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Dec 6, 2021 18:49
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Carteret posted:Pretty sure it's Twilight Struggle Looks interesting. Reminds me of DEFCON but with a different aesthetic Good video on it by a small time goon content creator https://youtu.be/poHX5edGkVM
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Dec 6, 2021 19:00
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Cugel the Clever posted:"take quantifiable measures to ensure this doesn't all get funneled to the elite in power" and "make an effort to hold meaningful democratic elections". Okay your turn to provide examples of this ever happening because I just linked examples of how the west has required them to take deals that funnel money back to our billionaires.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:02
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Honestly I just thought it was funny claiming 90% participation, because honestly it reminds of those Saddam elections, but even the PRC said....uhh we have to be reasonable and still came up with 90%. It's interesting that for the person making the chart turnout seems to be most important aspect, kind of a little on the nose for the performative part of elections in non-democratic states (and not unique to the PRC of course). The book the logic of political survival makes a pretty good case that China and the US are both much more similar in how “democratic” most Americans would like to they are (though still not that close) but with opposite mechanisms on how they control (China gate keeps the nominal electorate from the general population using the party, while the US has a broad electorate that can freely participate but uses the electoral college, registration/district fuckery and two party system to (less successfully) lock out outsiders). To be clear though the US is still very much a “democracy” by any reasonable definition just among the most flawed of the major ones.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:12
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:China is ahead of us in the jailing/killing billionaires categories, a statistic we probably should start catching up on. IMO this is just really just Xi consolidating power than any ideology, the exact same process played out in Russia. Don’t get me wrong I’d like the Sacklers to face justice but the “isn’t it rad that China kills some billionaires” just seems kinda not it. As Xi tightens his grip over the party and country I think China has the potential to become a much scarier thing than it already is because until Xi ethnonationalism wasn’t really part of the rhetoric and policy but has rapidly accelerated.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:16
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Selectorate theory is a game theory model of politics that I think is much better and both expands and fixes the ideas from the the more well known theory talked about in “Why Nations Fail” If you want to read more the “Dictator’s Handbook” is sorta the math-free general public explanation of the theory. Much like any sociology framework its predictive power is debatable but probably among one of the more evidence based ones. I’ll be honest I’ve also read their actual academic publication but I don’t understand most of the notation specific t game theory and barely understood any of the technical aspects beyond maybe what each variable was so I recommend the Dictators handbook instead of the actual book Logic of Political Survival. GCP grey also did a video on it but I think he Malcolm Gladwell’ed it and got a lot of stuff wrong and over-simplified.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:44
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Cool cool but that’s exactly zero times the United States “enforced democracy” or “prevented corruption” via IMF or similar loans. You’re not even responding to what I’m saying unless your point is “it’s okay for the US to do something bad because China did something bad”
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Dec 7, 2021 00:35
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I don’t understand US politics to puzzle that one. What on earth drove him to leave?
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Dec 7, 2021 05:40
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Ukraine guy on Radio War Nerd he doesn’t think Russian troops would be ready for a full scale invasion until after January since the buildup is still in early stages. Maybe they’re trying to be ready for some planned coup/assassination in the future that will give the pretext to hope to avoid intervention from the EU or US. There was already a mysterious hit attempt on a top government official recently in Ukraine that almost certainly involves Russian intelligence in some way.
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Dec 7, 2021 16:56
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Definitely typing two handed about how antifa androgynous supersoldiers are “filling up” our brave patriots in jail with CRT.
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Dec 8, 2021 04:28
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Last I checked a legal AR autosear goes for something like 25k at least. Fake Edit- possibly under 20k I guess lol I love shooting my AR but Christ what a waste of money.
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Dec 8, 2021 17:58
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MazelTovCocktail posted:This is also probably a good explanation for why most of our personal data is probably in the hands of the Ministry of state security in the PRC. Good thing we really laid the hammer down on Equifax a couple years ago, I’m sure irresponsible data vendors learned their lesson.
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Dec 8, 2021 18:01
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maffew buildings posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1468704702275670019?s=21 The entire new reactionary conception of the world is just porn genres at this point.
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Dec 9, 2021 05:51
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Lake of Methane posted:60 days might not be enough. 
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Dec 9, 2021 13:51
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There’s a small tiny part of me that despite how awful it would be to not have my iphone and inconvenient life was 100 years ago that it was sorta in a unique window where almost nobody knew a goddamn actual thing about “exotic” foreign places and they were shrouded in comical myths but you could also feasibility and safely travel there.
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Dec 10, 2021 23:06
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Well explains why he wants Gold Bond. Personally I’d recommend coconut oil for that.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:34
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Wingnut Ninja posted:My last duty station I was living in downtown Norfolk, which has a kind of hilariously hosed up take on walkability. You could walk to a million different bars or restaurants, and I was two blocks from the mall with a million clothing or shoe shops... but the nearest grocery store was over a mile away, and if you needed a hardware store or general-purpose store like Target or Walmart, that was about 10 miles down the highway. Lmao I live in Ghent right now it’s loving weird how weirdly walkable yet unwalkable this town is depending on what you’re trying to do. There’s literally one single solitary supermarket foot accessible in the entire area downtown/hospital area, and it’s still too far away to carry a significant amount of groceries. It’s also Harris Teater so it’s stupidly expensive for what you’re getting compared to Food Lion, Aldi’s or Wegmans. BIG HEADLINE posted:2022 and 2024 are going to be a loving bloodbath. Millions of Democratic voters are just going to stay the gently caress home. I sure as gently caress learned my lesson. I’m going to try to get involved in local politics when I move back to California next year but gently caress the blue dogs. I’m not voting for Biden again. They can’t think this is acceptable. How many more years of this game can they play? Just loving baffling. What’s the point of winning the house and presidency if you’re going to do literally nothing?
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Dec 17, 2021 05:32
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shame on an IGA posted:it dis Yeah that’s true I went to a meeting in 2016, probably one of the most attended they ever had, literally a week after the election and the chair spent the entire meeting rehashing some beef she had from last week with the progressive and black wings and then singled out and yelled at people for leaving when people started walking out in disgust. I’m talking more about municipal politics personally. California NIMBY poo poo drives me up a wall and I could actually do something about it.
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Dec 17, 2021 06:08
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The booster shot absolutely hosed me up my fever is finally breaking. I was hovering around 103 most of the day At least I’ve finally got that over with
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Proud Christian Mom posted:a collapsing superpower simultaneously trying to prove to itself how strong it really is while howling about the ever present threats to its continued survival? sounds bad. Lot of that going around these days
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