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What a terrible shame it would be if all those ICE agents stopped getting paychecks lol www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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Keine Wörter dafür. Nur Mitgefühl.

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Very good thread.

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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Gandhi spent years opening every negotiation by suggesting to the British that if they didn't want to talk to him they could always talk to Azad* *Azad didn't talk, he bombed

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No way!!! baptistnews.com/article/radi...

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I can’t tell you how much I hate the argument that AI acts as a democratizing tool. First of all: no technology has ever done that by itself, it always needed to be fought for. That was the whole point of the original Luddites.

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The fucking quotes and replies here. A county that voted for Trump means a majority. Sometimes even as little as 51 percent! WE LIVE HERE TOO. The fuck are we supposed to do, shit out millions of dollars to move away? Go on a pogrom? Vote harder? PLEASE TELL US. WE'RE WAITING.

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This is the tragedy of Finnish Cold War military and intelligence history: much of it will likely never be known to the wider public as the success of the ”Finlandisation” strategy depended on it being so convincing that the Soviets believed it to be real.

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The US is the land on cognative dissonance, of self-contradiction. I remember being a kid of roughly 8 or 9, questioning how Jefferson, the Founding Father and author of the sacred (ripped from Locke) "life, liberty, happiness" lines could have owned so many slaves . . .

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Seeing this old olive tree, I now have a clear and distinct idea of the truest meaning of the word, "gnarled."

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Very interesting.

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Österreich ohne #Wien wäre übrigens längst ein faschistischer Ständestaat. (2021)

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Orwell follows this up, of course, with an immortal line: "Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh."

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The footage from that parade yesterday is just "Emperor's New Clothes" writ large. If I was in a country like North Korea and I saw that I'd still be laughing. The US military looked like a joke. A joke with commercials. And the media is trying to pretend it wasn't a disaster of mediocrity.

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I don't know what this tells us, but it feels like it should tell us something. Maybe that the Orthodox communion are a bunch of stuck ups? Hmmm.

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Given everything that is going on, this line in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta feels incredibly relevant...

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Smirk

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"How bacon is a table?" That line wins Bluesky for me today.

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From the federal complaint against David Huerta. Note: DON’T TALK TO THE FUCKING COPS. THAT INCLUDES PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

South Dakota, Kristi Noem's state, has a population of 900,000. LA has 4 million, with more like 13 million in the metro area.

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BREAKING NEWS: Five-year-olds creating a rainbow fairy unicorn pony club to pursue dream steeds for all members of Ms. Johnson's kindergarten.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

Apparently the new thing I do on Monday nights is 'undercut Tuesday's column', but I think this stuff is downstream of how influential videogames are on most men under the age of, say, 50. Seeing 'having tomatoes' as a straightforward 'buying plants + time = tomatoes' is videogame logic.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

A 1 star review of one of my books: "I hated the prologue in this book." There is no prologue in this book.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

They are sending the US Marine Corps to operate domestically. This is the most aggressive, stupid thing they could possibly do. The USMC are not a police force. The USMC are the most effective expeditionary killing force on earth. This is an act of war against US citizens.

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Quite. A lot of the rockabilly and psychobilly guys wear white t-shirts and jeans. A whole lot of us Appalachian rednecks wear the same, or sometimes with overalls. Just dumb ass.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Finally. Somebody in the higher ranks of US govenment getting proper pissed off.

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This is true.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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I mean . . . if this is where things are currently, and that's without any actual major violent event happening yet, there are going to be armed government troops shooting down civilians in the street pretty soon. And then I'm not sure what happens. It's a heavily armed population.

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I was just a kid growing up in Cleveland when the National Guard attacked antiwar protesters at nearby Kent State in May of 1970. I was with my mom in the kitchen when the news came over the radio. Four years later, Nixon resigned in disgrace. One year after that, Saigon fell.

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Reading the news from LA, I reflect on the Posse Comitatus Act, US federal law first enacted in 1878, which expressly prohibits the domestic use of any branch of the US military without authorisation being given by an Act of Congress. It's short and unambiguous. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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Today on "Scenes From Our Dumb World":

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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

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