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Yeah, weird. If I try going to that link it just says it's gone.  Post screenshots when you want to dunk on some dumb Twitter poo poo, I guess.With ads like that Musko shouldn't have any trouble making up his billion-a-year shortfall.
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Cythereal posted:My personal log for the fire is the Affordable Connectivity Program getting tougher standards this year. It was nice for shaving almost half my internet bill off, and where I live there is literally only one choice for internet service because Florida's infrastructure is so lovely. Only the nice, built up parts of Florida have multiple choices for internet. Everywhere else is a one company show. And that's the other thing about "the economy is great, all the signs are pointing up up up!!" It will just get used as an argument to wind down financial support for people, further slash welfare, etc. After all, things are good again! Why would we ever need things like expanded unemployment? People are just lazy and not working!
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Jan 5, 2024 19:14
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The only real thing about the "American Dream" is that it was a dream.
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Jan 5, 2024 20:46
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it also didn't help at all that a bunch of houses were bought by businesses and other "investors" ‘Swapping homes like stocks’: Wall Street-backed firm buys 264 valley homes in a day quote:A Wall Street-backed corporate landlord bought hundreds of Clark County homes in a staggering one-off residential sale in summer 2023. the lvrj is trash but you know what they say about stopped clocks
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Jan 5, 2024 23:05
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Grip it and rip it posted:Stopping interstate traffic seems like a really bad way to try and shift public opinion on a topic. I can't think of a single time it was ever helpful in the US. Doing anything that inconviniences people is arguably the most effective form. They were out there, they were in the news, they caused a real, physical impact with their protests. Given that the US already seems to be wholly full-throated support of Israel, I don't think any outrage over a traffic delay is going to push the needle any further in that direction.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:06
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Grip it and rip it posted:It's arguably a great way to get people to polarize against your position. Can you name any examples where stopping interstate traffic has been used successfully to shift public opinion? A protest isn't supposed to be nice and courteous, that's why it's a protest. It's supposed to piss people off. The fact that the news isn't going to report on it fairly is whatever. They never would anyway. Going out and disrupting poo poo is how you make noise and draw attention to your cause. Nobody is going to care if 100 people walk around City Hall or whatever, but stopping traffic like that actually has an impact that people can't just ignore. It's the same with a strike; you're intentionally disrupting people. And just like in that case, people are going to get mad at the people striking because their Amazon package was delayed by five hours and they paid for that prime shipping, damnit.
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Jan 9, 2024 00:57
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We really got lucky with "just" the failure we got, christ.  Imagine if one of those fuckers popped higher up.
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Jan 9, 2024 04:10
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CBJSprague24 posted:Trump won't be on the Nevada primary ballot because his team forgot to file paperwork. Nevada's a clusterfuck anyway; aren't they still doing a mixture of primary/caucus, with one being the state-sanctioned one and the other being the state party being dipshits?
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Jan 10, 2024 23:10
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i am personally very excited for a no-longer-doped-up-on-campaign-dreams DeSantis to go home to his loving partner Disney
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Jan 21, 2024 21:55
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Shaddak posted:So, this is hilarious this is the usual part where i ask "is there a source for this beyond some random loving Tweet"
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bulletsponge13 posted:Follow up tweets have reciepts. if you don't have a twitter account you can't see anything other than the embed.
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i popped it into nitter to read the whole thread. first: this guy is a bluecheck bozo with this incredible profile: quote:News Aggregating, Information warfare, Soft power, Social engineering. the only websites he links to are https://essanews.com/putin-stokes-tensions-with-us-declares-1867-sale-of-alaska-illegal,6987041965938817a, which doesn't even have its own "about us" link, everything forwards you to an entirely different website: https://holding.wp.pl/en/terms-of-service i'm not buying this poo poo until an actual reputable source shows up.
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Jan 22, 2024 00:23
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hypnophant posted:that said it's perfectly fine to want to hold politicians accountable for their failure to do anything about these problems. If you think withholding your vote from Biden is going to hold him accountable for not fixing the housing market or the health care system, go ahead and do that. All I ask is, before making your decision, think critically for a moment about the political system as a whole this is a wild tangent because nowhere in the post you quoted did they imply they weren't voting for biden, they just said that the economy loving sucks if you are an actual person and not a corporation that said the economy (and job world) in general has changed and it sucks poo poo now. everything for actual workers has been getting worse (shittier coverage, shittier employers, no pensions/retirement, everyone's a cog to be outsourced) but that's a problem that's been building for well over 40 years the "economy" is doing fine in that well-off people are still well off and business numbers continue to go up, but everyone's increasingly aware that the bottom has been completely dug out and all it takes is one loving jostle for the whole thing to come crashing down
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that's part of what i mean, too, like. yeah, sure, some things are better for people, we all have fancier phones and better stuff, but there's no real stability to it. the instant you lose your job or you get dinged with some health care poo poo you are up poo poo creek with no paddle, and it isn't hard to look out the window and see how american society treats those that are on hard times we have almost none of the social safety nets that other countries do, labor power in the us has been gutted, and every benefits program is constantly on the verge of getting cut or underfunded. even if you were making plenty of money to live off of, the fact that you're always one month away from disaster is not going to make anyone feel good
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Jan 24, 2024 19:28
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"build more housing" only works if you are specifically enforcing building cheap, low-income housing, because any developer is going to opt for making "luxury" homes they can sell for way more. and even if the housing sits empty, who cares? it costs you basically nothing and you can make it up in volume from people who can afford it living in henderson, a ton of new housing was going up constantly -- there were multiple new apartment complexes within a single mile of where we lived, and multiple new housing developments -- and that didn't stop our rent from climbing from 1250 to 2000 in the six years we lived there fixing this issue requires a lot more than just one thing, and it's part of why things are so hosed; no single solution is going to adequately handle it without support from other initiatives. (edit: to be clear, i lived next to a bunch of underdeveloped desert lots on hills and poo poo, and the city has been increasingly branching out around the edges to build more)
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Jan 24, 2024 21:44
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stealie72 posted:"I want to die so I will just take some deep breaths and blink out" is entirely different from "they just turned on the mask of death vapor and I will die if I breathe." the third and arguably most likely possibility is Multiple people posted:the cruelty is the point the cynical side of me sees the reporting of "conscious for several minutes, shaking and writhing on the gurney" and "authorities insist the execution went to plan" and only concludes that both quotes are essentially correct
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Jan 26, 2024 22:12
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as a native vegas-born idiot the fact that he managed to bankrupt a casino is still astounding to me
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Jan 27, 2024 04:43
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those must be the "triple zeroes" i've been hearing about! 
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Jan 27, 2024 04:50
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I hope he melts down like one of his cars.
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facialimpediment posted:Now THAT part I fully understand - Baltimore has some rich douche basically doing that. Bought a paper, makes them investigate his chuddy desires. i am pulling this entirely out of my rear end, but my assumption is that it's a lot like the leveraged buyouts and poo poo you see tanking companies elsewhere. do funny tricks with debt, pay yourself all the money, oops the other place is bankrupt and everyone who didn't get out loses. in addition to its already stated effects on local politics. my favorite story of this kind is always the lvrj, who were bought out by ... somebody??? they had to investigate themselves to finally uncover who the mystery buyer was, and it was the lovely horrid billionaire (but i repeat myself) sheldon adelson. proper, quality journalism isn't dying. it's being killed.
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