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then again, maybe there is something of the late-stage Romanovs to this latest attempt at accommodation with a fast-advancing appointment with unpleasant realit
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AI will buy the stuff. The resource requirements of AI are already redirecting production to its needs.
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Stephen, I think the plot here is he is creating distractions to enable the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” which will be THE BIGGEST HEIST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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Thanks for all your posts Nikki!
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ideal dem resistance fighter:
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My mom said, “come see this girl on cnn” and then I got to brag that I’ve followed you for a long time. what a day
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The irony of the Edmonton Oilers playing in the championship ice hockey series at this time is something else
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“Titanic passengers, space on the foredeck is becoming highly sought after. The opportunity to get a group photo should not be overlooked. This may be an historic event
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discussions about forcibly evacuating people who lack the means to do so voluntarily now underway
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Apprentice getting fired f&%ked
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YOU SEEM LIKE A NICE PERSON
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+1 point for fire in the sky but -1 for Jerry Maguire. Solid stack
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concept idea for your campaign:
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Galvatron Jim Lee art
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It’s funny that he doesn’t know running for congress is one of the easier ways to get health insurance
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I think the meteoric rise of personal debt links into this culture of authoritarianism; workers with the means to buy a home on credit are not easily able to go on strike or leave work they find exploitive.
Recent grads should be a fount of renewal for society but debt chains them to the past
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We’re being oppressed by “bros just doing other bros a solid” and it’s really embarrassing but imho helps contextualize our situation as one where the old power structure is permanently compromised from it’s legacy contradictions
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If he was a real man he’d pardon them first lol
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Kate is always spot on!
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I can’t shitpost in your replies anymore because I just want you to do well. You running for congress is my kryptonite. I am on a voyage of self discovery
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Check out this mutant freak
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I am not in favor of corruption but saying society can’t function without it is self-evidently false
What a democratic society can’t manage is the law applied unequally to remove political opponents. Further, the injustice of this is not a crisis but the political blowback of doing it is
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Is it relevant that America’s literal origin story is that a people went to war over an unaccountable authority imposing an unreasonable tax on them. (and that tax was an import tax, a tariff)
It seems relevant
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It’s a bit like Schrödinger’s Cake: two possible states and the likelihood of one increasing exponentially through time
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An act of congress gave the president these powers and his use of them makes a joke of the law which granted them.
Why not campaign in the midterms to return this power to the branch of government where it belongs and can’t be abused by an authoritarian?
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Would love it if the CBC could ditch its biased news coverage. Pundits with opinions might attract eyeballs but as a public service they should just report the news not tell us what we need to think about it.
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Politics is like the NY Yankees vs the Dallas Cowboys. They don’t play against one another but win by being the best in their sport
Saying Trump is bad at baseball misunderstands this. The election last year was like watching the Yankees give up on baseball to play football and being terrible
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The Democratic party had a foreign policy in the mid. east that was terrible. The mainstream pov was this didn’t matter because “Americans” don’t care about what happens outside their country
But Dem values are sold as universal, applying to all. So their position was contradictory and unbelievable
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Electrithermopunk vibes (post steampunk era)
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That if the Democrats think their opponent is so bad their base could not possibly vote for him they will abandon them and prioritize voters who normally vote against them.
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The House of Representatives can take back their power at any time. Now would be good
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Hard to tax trade that doesn’t exist. Just call sanctions an infinity % tariff