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The X radicalization engine hasn't received a fraction of the attention of the purported Bluesky one, despite being a much more dramatic process. The amount of nominally progressive/left people who have become noticeably friendly with gutter Nazis is really hard to miss

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The geese, they soon be a-steppin’.

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To instill terror in the Polish population during WWII, the Nazis would arbitrarily round up people on the streets, and then detain them, torture them, send them to the camps ,or just summarily execute them. This, of course, is entirely different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81a...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Looks like we’ve hit ‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’ territory.

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My parents are well acquainted with military parades from their time in the Soviet Union. I asked my mother what she thought of Trump having one on his birthday. She replied "at least the communists did it on national holidays to pretend it was for us."

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

It’s my party and I’ll have goons crack skulls if I want to.

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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

submitted 14 hours ago • 91 comments

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

The Honorable Aaron Rogers, new chair presiding.

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Learn something new everyday, not always what you hoped for. There is, somehow, a ‘bleach community.’

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It’s always “I’m having a notorious conservative propagandist on my show to talk about what Democrats need to do to win” and never “I’m having a normal person on my show to talk about what Democrats need to do to win”

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is just it. So what if it is an echo chamber? Everyone needs time with just chums.

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the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

LAPD out there like

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Spanking does not produce good behavior. Authoritarian violence -- and make no mistake, that's what it is when you hit your kid, even if you tell yourself it's "just a swat" -- produces little authoritarians, full of fear & suppressed anger. (I know Kendra knows this.)

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Gamers: don't listen to the people trying to tell you that $80 isn't too much for a video game. It is too much. And they're doing it on purpose because they don't respect you or the gamer community. They're all laughing at you, and the only way to fight back is to "level up" by embracing communism

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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 54 days ago • 29 comments

One week left! 4 spots still open.

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I love the setting that this Winter Wren chose to perch in! #birds #birding #wren

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the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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“B-9. Does anyone have B-9? No? Ok. C-7. Is there a C-7 out there?”

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If they didn’t say anything when Trump pardoned criminals who gave him a million dollars, they don’t get to act like a burning grocery cart is the height of lawlessness.

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I feel like it would be useful politically to link that the tanks in the streets and the huge masses of pretend tier-one operator masked men disappearing people in the cities are also why your rural hospital will shut down.

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This left wing cancel culture is getting out of hand. These leftist snowflakes need to grow a spine and learn how to deal with criticism. s/

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The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

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