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Madkal
Feb 11, 2008
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I wanna get in on this. Matt Gaetz looks like the kind of person who you would expect to do Matt Gaetz kind of things.

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Madkal
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PoopShipDestroyer posted:

I imagine a big part (consciously or not) of it is that it makes their kids completely unable to escape their community. If someone wants "out," how could you possibly go anywhere else when you don't speak the language / have any skills anyone would be willing to pay for.

Pretty much this. By giving the kids a lack of education that they need to cope in the big bad secular world they are forcing the kids to stay in the community. It's pretty much cult logic at this point

Madkal
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A reminder that these ultra orthodox/Hasidic communities all follow a single chief rabbi who acts as the head of the community and his word is law. That is why the rabbi says "vote for this person/not that person" and the members will do what he says because he is the ultimate religious (and that is all there is) authority.

Madkal
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ninjahedgehog posted:



Also like half of these paragraphs have his Weird Capitalization and half of them don't, I wonder if those are ones he wrote himself or whoever's in charge of imitating his writing style sucks at their job

There are some Q followers out there who are no doubt trying to decipher the random capital letters and coming up with dozens of theories, none of which are "he is a crazy old man ranting at the clouds"

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Maybe I missed something but has Cuba even expressed any interest in helping Haiti or is this more of a "anyone but America" thing?

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selec posted:

There are tons of other countries with military and civilian aid groups that do not have a multi-century history of theft and domination over one of the poorest nations on earth. You’d literally just have to keep the US and France out to alleviate like 95% of the creepy overtones of constant oppression and theft these two nations have perpetrated. Send some Koreans! Send some Chinese! Send the Pope’s Swiss guard. Hell put Cuba in charge of a coalition.

The answer of “The US or nothing” is wildly unimaginative.

How many of these countries want to intervene though. It seems like the stuff happening in Haiti is at a crisis point (or beyond that) and it isn't like the world can volunteer other countries to go do something about it if those countries don't want to.

Madkal
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I wonder if Musk will treat Trump's fartweets as some kind of sideshow business. Wanna see what poo poo trump tweeted out? That'll be 3 bucks.

Madkal
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squibble posted:

She's a GOP official trying to imply that this was a false-flag.

It's getting harder to tell when people are pretending to be the stupidest most worthless person in the world and when they actually are the stupidest most worthless person in the world.

Madkal
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Yea my feeling is that the Chuds aren't the base....yet. They are more likely Trump fanatics who are more loyal to Trump than to the actual Republican party. That being said, the true believers are now taking over the party just like the Tea Party morons took over in 2010.

Madkal
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So in theory @Elonmuskhemorrhoids could be a blue mark account, or does it still need to be verified despite paying the 20......er....8 dollars?

Madkal
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I know the term Dunning Kruger get's thrown around a lot lately but I would fully support Elon Musk changing his name to Dunning Kruger right now.

Madkal
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With all the hate and bigotry it kind of makes sense now why Kanye was toying with running for president.

Madkal
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Synagogues? Like multiple locations? gently caress

Madkal
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Yea this is probably just to get more than usual amount of people to watch his bullshit rally expecting something. Basically giving him free air time just like what happened in 2015.

Madkal
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Timeless Appeal posted:

Trump will announce his own country

Why not? Dude has already announced his own reality.

Madkal
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

That's a joke because that's what Trump did with Stormy Daniels.

I was going to ask if Trump and DeSantis visit the same porn stars when they are cheating on their wives?

Madkal
Feb 11, 2008
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FlamingLiberal posted:

There's been an outbreak of fake accounts with the new 'Verified badge' posting all sorts of literal fake news. Some of it was sports related stuff, but at least in once case someone tried to impersonate the official Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1590386510003867648?s=20&t=iGCNZfHlxhqsAeordH16NQ

If only someone could have predicted this

Madkal
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theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/tesiareal/status/1590820573932052480?s=46&t=RQumXPSrHTWuzgFVZzUicw

This tweet is still up after two hours. No wonder Twitter is close to bankruptcy

"Why does everyone talk about the children we kill in real life and not the hundred of impact simulations we do?"

edit: just noticed the Teslareal. loving lol

Madkal fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Nov 11, 2022

Madkal
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Eric Cantonese posted:

I think Thomas and company are going to dance around Loving due to Thomas' self-interest in keeping it around.

I could see Thomas arguing against Loving and wanting to strike it down but having himself as an exception. Something like " I am sure the constitution would be against Loving except for Supreme Court Justices" or some bs. I get the vibe that he and his wife care more about owning the libs/destroying good things than care about each other.

Madkal
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rscott posted:

This is 100% what it is. The "Biden Crime Family" is aping the "Trump Crime Family" rhetoric that's been prevalent since 2017 among liberals.

The trick Trump (and by extension Republicans) do is accuse your opponent of every bad thing you have done. It is going to be insane when the Republicans start accusing Biden of sleeping with prostitutes; paying off said prostitutes; refusing to pay contractors on his multiple real estate properties; over estimating his worth to get favourable loans; being exactly like Trump but just not Trump.

Madkal
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Captain_Maclaine posted:

Oh for those days when the most embarrassing thing about a Republican House Speaker was photos of his cringeworthy form doing bench curls.

He was the first House Speaker who loved Rage Against the Machine (or at least admitted to it publicly).

Madkal
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I live a province (Canadian here) where Tesla's are ubiquitous as gently caress. The people driving them aren't doing it because they are electric but because it's kind of a status symbol. When BMW or Mercs or whatever start making electric cars as quickly and as expensive as Tesla's then I can see them taking a hot here. I don't think Tesla is worrying about the coming of Nissan Leafs.

Madkal
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Hunter's laptop is just a new "but her emails". It doesn't actually mean anything and is just something some idiot can shout about without actually knowing anything about. If you asked a chud "what about Hunter's laptop" they will probably say "it's proof of a crime" and if you ask what crime you will most likely get the most vaguest non sense making answer around.

Madkal
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the_steve posted:

Seems more like the LBJ strategy: Call him a horsefucker and make him spend time denying the horsefucker allegations.

Did Pence ever spend time denying the allegations?

Madkal
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My extremely ignorant, naïve take is that if you want politicians to actually do something and bring in gun control you just need an effective lobby that can bribe politicians one dollar more than the IRA can. As far as I can tell no politician actually gives a flying gently caress about guns, just that they know that it gets them votes and cash. So by being a pro-gun group who will bribe politicians (or "donate") you get rid of one of those problems, and who are actual gun nuts going to vote for if not the R anyway.

Madkal
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Elephant Ambush posted:

Not a shitpost. To people like Biden, antisemitism mostly means "opposed to apartheid imposed by the Israeli government" and he's making sure Israel knows he has their backs

Do you have any proof that Biden doesn't care about anti semtisim and will only play lip service to Israel, or is this a "he is bad at one thing so he must be bad in everything" thing?

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Verus posted:

Israel is an apartheid nation and should be an international pariah state.

Know how people hate it when some equate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism? Well saying the Holocaust happened and that Hitler was a bad person isn't doing this. In fact denouncing anti-Semitism is seen as a good thing and doesn't mean you support Israel. Equating the two is just some more anti-semitic bullshit.

Madkal
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I remember hearing somewhere that Trump did something similar with the initial Walker campaign before the run off ie Trump was sending out mailers saying support and donate to Walker via a link but about 95% of those donations went to Trump and 5% to Walker.

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Jarmak posted:

Can someone please explain to me the Leftist ideological underpinnings of saying a young, black, gay women doesn't deserve any sympathy for being locked in labor camp for a decade over some bullshit weed charges? She's the epitome of a disadvantaged background; a gay black women from a 95%+ minority, 70%+ economically disadvantaged high school. She has managed to acquire wealth principally on the value of her own labor; she doesn't own the any means of production that she's taking the value of other's labor from, she's not part of management, she's a worker.

I fail to see how hating workers for retaining the value of their own labor is leftist, even if that value is very high.

Apparently she has money and is therefore the enemy. At least that is the vibe I got.

Madkal
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Jesus III posted:

She makes 221k a year as a salary. We shouldn't have wasted time saving someone who made a dumb decision at a dumb time.

Take away the salary and your exact words have been used by every single person justifying locking up people on drug charges.

Madkal
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Jesus III posted:

If they got there through their own greed, sure.

How was it greed? Athletes travel all over the world to play their sport. This just comes across as "someone tried to earn money and deserves to be punished as harshly as possibly for political gains".

Madkal
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Jesus III posted:

You just want to be outraged. I allow you to continue. If I go someplace dangerous on purpose, that really doesn't like me personally or my country, so that can make money I don't need, with a controlled substance (in that country) I don't expect my country to save me.

This is some comment board on a news article level of posting. No one anywhere should be arrested on bullshit charges because their country is in a pissing match with another country. This is just victim blaming and the idea that going to another country to earn money all of a sudden makes you worthy of being sent to a penal colony on made up charges isn't some leftist ideal but one openly praising authoritarianism.

Madkal
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Trump launched his campaign over 3 weeks ago and has been completely radio silent with no major events since then.

He finally made a public statement and is holding a press conference tomorrow. Time to start the wild speculation.

I think the most likely scenario is that he is just looking for attention for something minor. Still unclear why he decided to announce his campaign so earlier and then refuse to go out in public for nearly a month right after you do.

https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1603057785901617154

Writers for The Boys probably want to see how this goes before plotting and writing the next season. They can just lift dialog word for word from Trump to give to Homelander.

Madkal
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This cannot be real?

edit: did someone tell Trump that kids trade digital trading cards at the playground or something?

Madkal fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Dec 15, 2022

Madkal
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Trump bragged about not paying taxes during the presidential debates. Clinton kept hammering that Trump hardly paid taxes and Trump said he didn't pay taxes because he is smart. The guy wasn't really shy about the idea that he never paid taxes. I think the reason he was so against releasing his tax return is because it will show he isn't as rich as he wants people to think he is. He will happily admit to any crime without shame, just as long as people think he is rich.

Madkal
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Push El Burrito posted:

Monty Python is now NC-17.

90% of Shakespeare's comedies are now deemed unsuitable for anyone under the age of 21.

Madkal
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So will performances of As You Like It and Twelfth Night be banned in these States?

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The law says that it only applies to performances with "prurient interests" and Shapespeare wouldn't count.

So somehow Shakespeare wouldn't count but a drag queen reading a kids book to pre-schoolers would?

Madkal
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the_steve posted:

In light of Tate getting arrested by way of pizza box, I gotta wonder: What would we consider to be the biggest Self Own of 2022?

Obviously recently we have pizza box narc, but let us not forget that this was also the year that a man tasered his balls to death, and those are just two examples on opposite ends of the year.

Some dude paid 44 billion dollars to get owned. That's pretty big.

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Madkal
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His mom clearly died FROM 9/11, not IN 9/11.
I'm sure at this point the dude is just a compulsive liar and that is probably why he thought he would be so good at politics.

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