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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
Has anyone in the West ever actually voted for mass immigration? It seems instead like no population ever wants mass immigration, but whoever they vote for it happens anyway.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
Most of the criticism I see of the former Mrs. Bezos is centered around her use of the money. It's not even that she isn't being economically productive with it, she's splurging enormous fortunes on actively anti-social leftist nonsense.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
It's just progressives. They have to violently flinch from the E-word because if they don't then the technocratic element of their ideology inevitably flows into "LMAO we are so obviously the baddies" territory. Many progressives were very pro-eugenics pre-WW2, to the point where some of their organization leaders openly bragged in the 30's about how wonderful it was that a European nation had a strong leader who was taking their obviously correct ideas seriously.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
My theory was always that he was going in the opposite direction, and going to do a "White Walkers win" ending to shit on Tolkien's optimism and faith. "AKSHUALLY, people don't just come together after a hatefully bitter civil war. They just die."
And that's a thing you can do when you're writing a "Top 100 most popular current fantasy series", where the grim ending is what makes a splash, but now that Game of Thrones broke containment and is world-renowned to normies, he doesn't have the balls to eat the backlash.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
It only takes a few nonconsensual, or even just iffy, uploads to make allowing that a liability. And the stepsisters are usually engaged in such deliberately atrocious acting that even a moron could understand it's play.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Just imagine that the Studs Turkl interviewer is actually the most fair and decent man at NPR.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Well, that certainly makes fraud easier. Don't need to worry about making your fake batches seem even remotely plausible.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
At the extreme end, zero-covid loons would all vote by mail and would be overwhelmingly far-left. Very-online far-left agoraphobes would also exclusively vote by mail, which is not true of very-online far-right types (who wouldn’t trust it). More relevantly, far-left PMC types who can’t be bothered to go out to a polling station are more likely to vote by mail. Same for boomer-lib retiree types.
Every one of these types sounds like someone who would have had their ballot in the mail weeks ago. I mean, really, we're thinking the HR highlighter girls are just "whoops, three weeks past due" on voting?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
AIUI, this latest round was from the NYT, and they have been accused of actively trying to sabotage the scandal-mongering, e.g. misleading the women in the story about what would be included and leaving out a bunch of details and evidence.
Which isn't a bad play, tactically.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
I spent a few minutes thinking about that post, knowing there was a joke there, and then the second I walked away from my computer, unable to return for hours, I was struck with a severe esprit d'escalier. The proper Platner in the Senate joke:
Graham, you just raped John Fettterman!
Yeah, he was going to vote no. Don't worry, it wasn't in a gay way.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Gonna be really exciting to see that mentality play out in the Senate.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
My teen son uses "got raped" to refer to taking a heavy hit in sports all the time.
Graham definitely meant cock in ass, though.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
You get mad at some vaguely proximate white guy.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
"Incompetence" is underselling it. This looks like "failed state African shithole" levels of incompetence. Calling it fraud is the charitable option.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Raman likely doesn't rock the boat on NGO grifting, etc. Same machine, different figurehead.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Supposedly, Republicans are heavily insinuating/claiming that they have much worse stuff to drop in the general. This is just primary funtime.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
He might be the first politican I'd like to actually have a beer with.
"So run it by me again, Graham, how exactly is raping a dude not gay?"
"It's not a sex thing! It's about power. Dominance."
"But you got hard."
"Hard for power!"
"Power over a dude!"
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
Oooh, I have thoughts about this.
So, I'm roughly the same age as this guy. My grandfather was pushing me to join the military out of high school, and one of the reasons I never even considered it was because I'd absorbed nice, modern, genteel, Atlantic Democrat memes like "People who join the army are the bottom 10% of their class who just want to murder sandni**gers".
Sorry, vets.
I say this because Graham Platner struck me as actually fitting that description. Well-off prep school kid from New England joins the Marines in 2004? That's weird. Copilot data about military members from each state doesn't even bother to list Maine. Other estimates put the total Marines from the state in the low hundreds. "Well-off prep school kid from New England joins the Marines" is possibly literal one-in-a-million rarity. Maybe if the kid was a die-hard patriot, but even at 18 he was already a leftist anti-war protestor.
So it struck me that Platner might actually be the kind of guy who signed up just to kill people.
And then it turns out that he posted on /marines that he joined up because he wanted to kill people and had a hell of an excellent experience.
So now I'm thinking he's an old school style of communist. Less "soy vegan latte" and more "Soviet leader who won an internal power struggle by just killing the opposition".
I don't think the American system will give him much of an opportunity to indulge, but it's funny that he's probably a better mark for the "worried about fascism" people than anyone they've ever called a fascist.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
Yup. In regards to the Toxoplasma thesis, the Summer of Love kicked off in full spite of basically the entire right openly agreeing that the situation (as presented in the initial video) looked heinous.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
But if, in a situation of Bayesian uncertainty, you choose to prioritize neutralizing the potential threat posed by an individual over that individual's own health, and it turns out he was in fact dying, then you're responsible for his death.
It's also worth noting that the police were surrounded by hostile people yelling at them. That's going to split attention and make it difficult to stop and check the guy and do first aid. And they had an ambulance on the way. (Iirc, it actually took a wrong turn and was delayed for several minutes.)
And the concern isn't just that Floyd might have hurt others. He could very easily have tried to get up and fallen and hurt himself. Like I said, I've personally seen someone in a comparable state literally crack their own skull open by falling over and hitting the corner of the curb. And in such a case, the PD is still getting sued or worse because "He was obviously in distress, why didn't you keep better control of him!"
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
He was initially not arrested
Yes, it looked at first like a fairly reasonable self-defense. A man attacked him and got shot for it. McGlockton was guilty of a serious offense against a person as well. He was just too dead to convict over it.
That's also what is to be expected with anyone approaching in even slightly good faith, that any random conviction was done to a truly guilty person since the US legal system is generally reliable.
I eagerly await you full-throatedly repeating this argument to the African American community.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
I'm not really sure what you're saying here, the language seems a bit confused. It sounds like you think I was excusing Digwa, and speculating that Henry deserved it. Maybe I was unclear, but I was making the exact opposite point. I very much doubt that Henry did anything that could have passed any remotely sane muster for being a proper "provocation". I was allowing the possibility that some normal, mundane, innocuous thing was interpreted as provocation by a man who was already a violent asshole.
Digwa deserves to die, his family deserves to be severely punished and deported, and any of his community that has a problem with that should also be deported citizen or not.
But that consideration of moral and legal blame is separate from trying to unravel why the violent asshole picked this particular target to murder. As rafa said, he doesn't seem to match the kind of schizophrenic who is truly random in their attacks.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
18d ago
"first they came for the people who lynched Negroes in the streets, but I did not speak out, because I was against lynching Negroes in the streets"
That does seem pretty analogous to the communists. "First they came for the omnicidal would-be-tyrants".
but I would be very surprised if it looks like pinning him down in a chokehold,
Why? Every policy is written in blood. How many people going on deranged crashouts would hurt themselves or someone else if they weren't forcibly restrained?
I once called the cops to assist some delirious homeless guy who fell over and cracked his head open on the sidewalk. Do you think the cops should have let Floyd drive away while ODing on fent, which is what he would have done otherwise?
I'll go on the record and say that if I'm ever in a similar state, I would be thankful to be restrained, because I have a bare minimal "deserves to live in a decent society" level of concern for the likelihood that I might accidentally hurt someone else while out of my mind.
Even calling it an insult seems unreasonably charitable to Digwa's otherwise made-up and evil version of events.
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