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To be fair, ICE are assholes dressing up like ICE with the intent to scare people.
The odds that some of these unidentified, masked kidnappers are actually civilian ride-along buddies from the local KKK chapter is 100%.
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“Boss, it’s the fascism” is a valid answer to a lot of questions, actually.
“Why are eggs so expensive?” “It’s the fascism.”
“Why do I need my passport to fly to another state?” “Fascism.”
“Why do I have to re-register to vote again?” “Also fascism.”
“Where did my 401k go?” “Fascism again.”
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The alt.tasteless incursion into rec.pets.cats. Good times, good times.
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In some ways, very little has changed since 90's USENET.
Same trolling and angry flame wars, just now it's all pervasively surveilled and monetized.
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"We would fight to defend this particular marginalized group but ... the polls! Whaddya gonna do?"
Any time you see this one trotted out, you know you're listening to someone who shares the right's aversion to the group in question but doesn't want to admit it, even to themselves.
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The blossoms that lie on the roadway *pop* under my bike tires. Riding under a jacaranda is like *popopopopopop*.
And the blossoms rot down into a real nice compost that's super-slick on corners, so you gotta watch for that, too.
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78 *million* Americans.
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for the life of me, I can't fathom how they turned the *one* incredibly good thing that happened during Trump I (mRNA vax) -- something that not only saved lives but resulted in a Nobel Prize -- into a monstrous threat to humanity
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I believe the honorable counselor was unambiguous. He even used all caps for emphasis.
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*a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire has entered the chat*
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Right? Weird. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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A core problem, IMO, is that it's near-impossible to have a Know Things job in the US that doesn't have, as its explicit, overriding function, making money for someone who's already rich. So the "knowledge" gets warped to fit the preconceptions of power, rather than reality.
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I'm not an expert, but IIUC, this is actually fairly clearly understood in the study of management and organizational behavior—the US government is actually substantially *more* efficient than corporations, not less.
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Newsom 2028: A *Real* Asshole
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Torment Nexus. These shitbirds look at the warnings of science fiction and go, "THAT SOUNDS AWESOME. IMMA BUILD THAT." Because they're the ones who think the curtains are just blue. They never understood SF. That's why one of the damned things is called Grok, ffs. Elon doesn't understand the concept
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If it’s a real officer-involved shooting, the press has ways of shutting that down.
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Congratulations, you've won a free trip to El Salvador.
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You mean by repeatedly slamming it in a car door for the admiration of legions of weird nerd fanboys?
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Maybe? I mean, some proportion of people are always going to love a grandiose narcissist.
Musk, e.g., was never more than a mediocre intellect, at best. And yet, *legions* of deranged fans, and VC's *throwing* money at him for unprofitable businesses.
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But there is not some giant swath of the public who are waiting to switch from voting for DT to voting for AOC's agenda. A lot of T supporters are literally voting for him *because* the left hates him. Owning the libs is, literally, the whole thought process for lots and lots of T voters.
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Posting links from Salon and The Nation, and then accusing *other* people of pseudointellectual circle-jerking is laughable, c'mon.
Harris spent time in swing states, talking to a conservative Republican about the horror that is DT. It does not seem to have pulled any voters away from T. Agreed.
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I was acquainted with her briefly in the early- and mid-2000's in the Bay Area, through a couple of different social circles. She was transparently a grandiose narcissist and user. It was just breathtaking to watch otherwise-sensible people fall for it.
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She just wants to "move on" from the devastation that she and Gaiman wrought on their victims, so that she can continue her career of parasitic exploitation of parasocial relationships.
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I mean, proper subset of #2.
But yes!
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One more time, for the kids at home!
Ad Hominem: "You're wrong, because you're a dipshit."
Not Ad Hominem: "You're wrong, dipshit."
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"You have the right to remain silent."
"Fuck you, you're not the boss of me!"
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I do definitely think that the Democrats have to, somehow, get serious about power—attaining it, retaining it, and using it—and stop trying to sing kumbaya with eliminationist fascists.
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I agree that it's extremely frustrating. But I don't see how it is, or ever was, in the power of a party participating in the process of democratic governance to put someone in prison just because we want them to. That's authoritarianism. That's the bad guys' game.
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There's also the delusional notion that the Democrats have, or had, the ability to indict, try, convict, and imprison Trump.
Is that the right thing to do? Yes.
Does that make it possible? No.
Dem ineffectuality drives me nuts, too. But we live in reality.
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I mean, everybody has to choose to either vote, or not vote.
If you're going to vote, there are two parties who have the potential to win. Voting for anyone else helps the "bad guys."
So there is, essentially, one option, if you're not horrifying trash.
I get that part.
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I'm super-frustrated with the Dems, the f'ing gerontocracy, and the delusional obsession with "bipartisanship."
But you can't just say shit like, "people who think Liz Cheney is the future of the Democratic Party," and expect to be taken seriously. Words mean things. Those people don't exist.
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Sometimes, you just gotta let 'em die stupid.
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Remember, growing up, most towns had that 20-something college dropout who lived in his parents garage or basement, and would have local high school kids over to get high, and then tell stories about the government covering up UFOs? Now, Rogan is that guy for everyone.
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This guy?
Come on, now. And let's not get started on Schumer.
The Democratic leadership will let get shipped off to the Bakersfield MAGA Education Camp For Librul Cucks Who Don't Think Good, while they talk about reaching across the aisle.
newrepublic.com/post/195475/...
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My guess is that, at base, she believes that if X% of this money is going directly to Hamas, that's OK and A Good Thing, Actually.