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Platystemon posted:I am confused by why Kanye West needs to open image “ye24.psdc” to display the Raëlist logo. I wouldn't try to follow the logic of what Kanye is doing too tightly
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Ye's definitely nazi adjacent but he's also batshit crazy so it may well be all of the above. I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I honestly think Kim K (oh god what's her middle name) was a good influence on him
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Milo and POTUS posted:I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I honestly think Kim K (oh god what's her middle name) was a good influence on him Noel, thankfully.
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Elmo “free speech” musk personally removing posts he thinks are too much for advertisers. Love it.
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Well I didn't have Kanye pursuing the Tila Tequila career path on my bingo card
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Platystemon posted:Blending in with the Greek marbles and getting hosed down by some guy on a yacht is one of the least embarrassing things that Musk did this year. “some guy” is lol as gently caress to me.
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Oh huh it’s Rahm and Ezekiel’s li’l bro.
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Generation Internet posted:what a loving day for the internet 
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facialimpediment posted:$44B to have problems like these: Account Suspended. Whoops, looks like we have a billionaire slapfight on our hands! For posterity: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1598493460327124992?s=20&t=OJrXMcwhw39cB3wFX2c3PQ
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Generation Internet posted:what a loving day for the internet I really gotta hand it to him https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
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Milo and POTUS posted:Ye's definitely nazi adjacent Does he need to have been born in Germany in 1910 to push him over the edge of adjacency?
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Jesus Christ, Sovereign Citizen https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1598368502557167616?t=0LgsrplmP6IDHar5BF6jLA&s=19 https://twitter.com/dnlbrns/status/1598370268795338754?t=9WT1L5Mem40q8PsU_xmATQ&s=19 https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol...resent-himself/ Red ink fingerprint and everything!
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WTF is that seal at the top? House of Edwards?
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that dudes so far up his own rear end that he should buy a social media company about it
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Do they actually believe that if they say/do the right magic combination of words and actions that the rest of us NPCs are just going to shut down like the robots we are and let them continue on their sovereign ways?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Elon paid $44B to get brutally owned on his own website Vox Populi Or whatever
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Dum Cumpster posted:Do they actually believe that if they say/do the right magic combination of words and actions that the rest of us NPCs are just going to shut down like the robots we are and let them continue on their sovereign ways? It seems to depend. Some sovcits truly believe their bullshit and will to go prison for years longer than their charges would actually merit. Other sovcits are just copy/paste magic word-finders when they either know they're hosed or have a public defender that they don't want to listen to / can't afford better. Internet poisoning!
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it's just another version of the chain copy/pasta that used to go around to get old people to post these nonbinding screeds about the TOS on facebook and their photos and advertisers.
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mlmp08 posted:it's just another version of the chain copy/pasta that used to go around to get old people to post these nonbinding screeds about the TOS on facebook and their photos and advertisers. This was my first thought upon seeing the license plate example on the Wikipedia page.
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Dum Cumpster posted:Do they actually believe that if they say/do the right magic combination of words and actions that the rest of us NPCs are just going to shut down like the robots we are and let them continue on their sovereign ways? Yes. Yes they do. As always, here's a great primer from a Canadian Judge: https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Dec 2, 2022 |
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Dum Cumpster posted:Do they actually believe that if they say/do the right magic combination of words and actions that the rest of us NPCs are just going to shut down like the robots we are and let them continue on their sovereign ways? Many of them do - plus when you're told by your actual attorney that you are absolutely hosed its comforting to think that there is a magical way out. Sov Citizens are loving idiots and awful clients but as an observer in this case I'm excited to see how it works out for Mr.Beeks. lol did this dude sign with a smiley? :james beeks:
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It's always fun to dive into the depths of another world. It's hard to believe there are people so detached from reality despite the constant evidence of them around. I worked with a guy a few years back who talked about some of that bullshit but never had a response to "so why aren't you doing it?"
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I'm always amused by the Sovcit thing. Like, the idea is that there is this massive conspiracy to defraud and delude Americans, for apparently evil ends. BUT, this incredibly evil and amoral conspiracy is incredibly legalistic, and if you say the right words they'll be forced to back down. This is an evil cabal, and all the judges and law enforcement types must either a. Not in on it so following the 'normie rules' for normies, or they are in on it and... well if they're in on it and they have all the power, why would they reveal their secret rules to follow their secret rules to let you, an existential threat to their hold on power, get away with a traffic violation? At least QAnon is internally consistent. I mean I know that the reason for this is related to the way a lot of thse people call the conspiracy a 'cabal' and the people who launched this whole thing probably had Ideas about a certain ethnic group that has a reputation for esoteric legalism and is assumed by these sorts of people to be running things. But, like a lot of anti-Semetic stuff, the dogwhistle has so attenuated that there are probably a lot of sovcits who dont have anti-semitism at the front of their beliefs but have somehow kept the 'say the magic words, force the all encompassing evil to play by the rules.' I think for the less anti-Semitic folks (I wont say not anti-Semetic, just those who dont make it the core of the whole thing) it really comes down to an assbackwards understanding of how laws relate to power. Power = ability to enforce = the law is what power says it is. In their head it's like law -> power, which is a nice fiction rooted in the civics 101 theory of American politics, where the people consent to be governed and that is crystallized by divine will in this magic US Constitution. So you've got these folks for whom this used to work or for whom it used to work for people like them. So they really believe in the civic religion of AMERICA. All caps with an eagle either side. BUT the lives of these believers still sucks, and the police and government violate the people's will and civil rights all the drat time. So in order to keep believing in the magic AMERICA that clearly isn't working, they have to construct an evil conspiracy. Nothing new there, it's just that sovcits believe in AMERICA so hard, they're convinced that the evil people cant have defeated AMERICA, they at most could have harnessed the true divine power of AMERICA with tricky rulings*, and if a sovcit can lift the evil veil true AMERICA will shine through and mystically force the evil judge to rule in their favor. I think theres a reason the black branch of the sovcit movement is distinct, and honestly it makes slightly more sense. Those folks are looking at America and saying 'hang on, it seems like this system is capricious and arbitrary, but some people have a cheat code. Maybe I can say some magic words and I'll get to slip through the cracks.' That's dumb, but it makes more sense than sovcit bs. * and I think some of this stems from the way sovcits view people not them and not like them getting hosed by the law, which they're fine with. Like, very few sovcits are looking at this supposed conspiracy twisting the law to legal ends and get all hot up about prison abolition and open borders. When a technicality in the law (or yet another Supreme Court ruling that nah, your Nth Amendment rights dont matter to the police) fucks a young black kid or DREAMer, well, that's not a problem, they want to keep THAT. So they LIKE capricious and arbitrary justice, they just think there should be a capricious and arbitrary loophole for them to wriggle through.
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Alex Jones filing bankruptcy https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/02/alex-jones-bankruptcy-sandy-hook/
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I haven’t been following it closely and am not a labor or rail expert, but couldn’t they go on strike anyway? Would guess it’s not possible to replace skilled labor on short notice and they probably couldn’t have the National Guard operate the trains. Would guess the union leaders would risk arrest but assuming Biden wouldn’t go for mass arrests of picketers especially as that wouldn’t make the trains move anyway.
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If you wildcat strike you lose all the protections. Its definitely an option, but if you have a mortgage or kids or debt (as everyone does), 30 days without a paycheck and the risk of being fired is a very anxiety inducing option. Our hellscape works by making you aware that things can always be made worse, as an implied threat.
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There’s also the part where the railroads are plenty financially solvent and own a shitton of their physical assets outright, particularly ROW. They could park their trains for a quarter, write it off, and wait till public sentiment goes down the toilet and the government does what they want anyway.
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Coasterphreak posted:There’s also the part where the railroads are plenty financially solvent and own a shitton of their physical assets outright, particularly ROW. They could park their trains for a quarter, write it off, and wait till public sentiment goes down the toilet and the government does what they want anyway. I don't know poo poo about poo poo for logistics, rail transport, or any of that but the literal bare bones minimum is enough to grasp that the consequences of a quarter-long PARTIAL rail shutdown are so loving mind-bogglingly bad. What kind of crack do you have to smoke where you think the rail company shrugs, sits on a dragon's hoard while it slightly shrinks, and nobody does anything about it while half the country comes to a screeching halt?
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Diarrhea Elemental posted:I don't know poo poo about poo poo for logistics, rail transport, or any of that but the literal bare bones minimum is enough to grasp that the consequences of a quarter-long PARTIAL rail shutdown are so loving mind-bogglingly bad. What kind of crack do you have to smoke where you think the rail company shrugs, sits on a dragon's hoard while it slightly shrinks, and nobody does anything about it while half the country comes to a screeching halt? That's my point: much as it really loving sucks, Biden and Congress didn't really have much of a choice but to force the issue, because they can't force the rail companies to operate, they can only force the union workers to accept a contract. Unless we nationalize the rail system, which I'd love to see but lol that ain't happening. I'm incredibly pissed at what this does to worker rights, because gently caress being forced to come in on your day off or lol you lose your job and now all your buddies have to work harder.
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if the rail workers are supposedly so loving important then maybe they should be paid better. biden and congress teaming up to gently caress over employees is exactly the kind of poo poo that will gently caress over everyone. maybe we can come up with a catchy tagline: "too big to bargain".
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Zamujasa posted:if the rail workers are supposedly so loving important then maybe they should be paid better. biden and congress teaming up to gently caress over employees is exactly the kind of poo poo that will gently caress over everyone. The point of contention isn't pay (so much) it's that if you work for a rail company operating the actual trains your time is not your own outside of federally mandated rest periods.
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sorry, strike "paid" and replace it with "compensated (to include time off, health benefits, et cetera)"
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Zamujasa posted:sorry, strike "paid" and replace it with "compensated (to include time off, health benefits, et cetera)" almost like that's what a union is supposed to be for
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i'm not sure what you're getting at here because, yes, that's exactly what a union is for, and consequently exactly why i am against the government stepping in to force something past the union
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Coasterphreak posted:That's my point: much as it really loving sucks, Biden and Congress didn't really have much of a choice but to force the issue, because they can't force the rail companies to operate, they can only force the union workers to accept a contract. Unless we nationalize the rail system, which I'd love to see but lol that ain't happening. It’s funny that congress can go after workers but not corporations. They could force rail worker salaries/rest periods/PTO just as well as they could force the unions to accept the deal. It’s just easier to punch down on the worker instead of the company
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Naramyth posted:It’s funny that congress can go after workers but not corporations. They could force rail worker salaries/rest periods/PTO just as well as they could force the unions to accept the deal. It’s just easier to punch down on the worker instead of the company
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wtf are you guys talking about the rail workers got a HUGE pay raise! how is this punching down? if they were trying to HURT the workers then why would the deal have paid them so much more? and we can't cripple the economy over this, the PTO issue will have to be addressed later when we have more breathing room. to frame this as anti-worker and not what it is, massively beneficial to these workers financially while ensuring our nation keeps our supply chain going, is disingenuous to how pro labor Biden's actions have been through this is me paraphrasing a twitter response I read like 100 times that made my brain loving hurt
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Naramyth posted:It’s funny that congress can go after workers but not corporations. They could force rail worker salaries/rest periods/PTO just as well as they could force the unions to accept the deal. It’s just easier to punch down on the worker instead of the company It's hosed.
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