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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Now if only the people of the country would stop trying to prevent others from moving there to achieve the exact same goals and wishes the current population also wants.
Sorry, but too many people have a completely incompatible epistemology and metaphysics. Please feel free to copy any of our institutional sourcing documents in your own nations if that makes your cope feel better, they're all available for free online.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
And in fact about 40% of the country can trace themselves back to Ellis Island alone which only operated for 62 years out of the 250
And 30 million of us can trace ancestry back to the 53 survivors of the Mayflower.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
It's a hatred of being "undeservedly" inferior on the hierarchy. Most leftists mad that ACAB would be far worse with any crumb of power they ever got ahold of.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
With Donald Trump, there is no fig leaf of deniability.
The counterpoint to this is that there's no benefit to actually denying. If every single person who has any trust in left-leaning media is going to interpret ant vague, unsubstantiated accusation as a damning indictment, there's no reason to consider the optics. A large chunk of the country has utterly insane beliefs that the man commmitted 34 felonies by raping middle schoolers on Epstein Island.
Still, typically politicians tried to avoid outright lies because their voters might vote for someone else if they feel fooled.
Do they? "If you like you plan, you can keep your plan." Joe Biden ran because of the "fine people" hoax (see paragraph 1), and generally, his entire life and personal story was all just lies. Mamdami just made a post bragging thjat he'd fixed the NYC economy, when what actually happened is that he got a huge bailout from NY state and stopped paying into pensions.
Trump is playing the meta. Is it a build that feels gross and stupid? Yes. But it comes with psychological invincibility to being lied about, and that's basically a prerequisite for a Republican these days.
With MAGA, there is very little in the way of acknowledgement that there exists a real world at all, that we are not free to decide what is causing autism.
Once again, let me know when the other party can figure out what a woman is. Then we can move on to more advanced topics like "the difference between spending money and getting something for that money".
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Caught my mother watching ABC earlier today. They were interviewing some black descendant who was saying that Thomas Jefferson was a monster. The level of isolated demand for morality is just utterly disqualifying.
However much you hate journalists, it isn't as much as they hate America.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
There are perils to committing yourself to nakedly tribalist, oppressive policing, especially when you disarm your officers and keep hiring frail women.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Exactly. It could be 17 or 19 and the moral arguments wouldn't change much. The important part is that there's a widely agreed line below which you are violating a social compact. This is also why a less formal environment might bend the rules sometimes, so as not to punish less anti-social cases.
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4d ago
I've actually never had that experience. The one time I was viciously fucked over by a police department, it was up north, outside a very Blue college town.
The few other run-ins were either resolved with some humanizing small talk (including a different one at the college town, in which I was a huge prick), or straight up Good Old Boy favoritism (which is basically all of my small town encounters).
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Also, in a smaller town the cops are more local. They coach my kids in peewee sports. I know some of them, and more by name. Others will at least recognize my last name. "All cops are bastards" is a bit of a different question when I'm asking "are Matt and Justin bastards?" Maybe. But they don't seem particularly more inclined to bastardry than I am.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Do you ever watch any network TV news? The levels of condescension and contempt they sometimes reach is astounding. I've gotten mad at my own mother for talking like that to an eight year old.
To the greater point, sure. This is why progressives used to love Jon Stewart, so much that he eventually cooked their brains. Even most experts in those things low-key kinda suck, and that's the real problem. TV news goes so horrendously bad about it because their remaining audience can barely imagine turning to someone else. They're boomers who've spent 60 years thinking the TV was a respectable source of information.
For all the flaws of influencers and twitter pundits, they produce a more chaotic "laboratory of democracy" effect. They can't go full ABC News without getting pushback, or turning into lolcows.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
They'd have Chris Hayes, who's clearly trying to be the leftist version of Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Carlson, addressing the camera directly, smirking, telling the audience what to think about it.
They all do this. ABC and NBC news are just the same. You, the viewer, are a dull child, prone to evil thoughts, and you must be brow-beaten and relentlessly propagandized so you know which is the Good Guy Anti-Bad Guy Club and which is the Bad Guy Club.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
It also incentivizes even more tribalistic behavior to dissuade law enforcement actions.
Sounds like a few young, white British boys might ought to take one for the team and do their peers the favor of just absolutely beating the living shit out of some of these lady cops. Not like the fem-wankers have guns.
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4d ago
I mean if an investigation was never done why would evidence miraculously appear later?
Then what was the pretext for the investigation? Surely if you had something on the level of probable cause, you could share it with the rest of the class?
Even with all that that didn't one of the Georgia cases result in something? I've never seen it posted in the MSM ("because ancient news!!") but people have mentioned it.
Probably this. And that's the sort of thing I mean. That's a good example, clear evidence of violated procedures that could have plausibly swung the outcome. But there were scores of specific claims like this and, when pressed by ymeskhout, relatively few of them even rose to the level of "specific details cited by literally anyone, anywhere".
Personally I believe that the election was stolen in the following way - if you restrict access to the public sphere (COVID restrictions) and censor the private replacements (all the tech companies uniting to oppose Trump) then you don't have a "free" election. I know lots of people feel this way and lots of people don't, but much evidence has come out after the factor about how a variety of organizations that shouldn't have been involved tried to impact the election results without touching ballots.
And I think there is merit to this argument. But it's the one people settled on after the most of the initial hopeful flurry of explicit stolen election claims faltered.
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4d ago
It's a damning argument now. Six years ago, it was still reasonable to ask, and the lack of a good answer was not nothing.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
Iirc, "light inside the body" was an experimental ventilator that was clear, with an effort at disinfectant UV light emitters on the inside. The idea was to reduce the rate at which the vents themselves gave people infections in hospitals. Never heard anything else about them afterwards, so I guess it didn't pan out.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
I agree that there was a fair bit of that. But it's been 6 years. If there was strong evidence to produce in court, where is it? Why not just publish it after the standing stuff? It can't all be hidden behind a missed chance at discovery!
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
He acted like a trial lawyer in court. That can be convincing but it's hollow.*
He did. And in so doing, revealed that a lot of the specific claims being made had little to no evidentiary backing. The "consensus" argument you're making is a final defense after many other ill-concieved efforts failed.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Fine, we're a Christian nation. Aid comes with conversion, abortion and gays are banned, leftism and the gayer parts of libertarianism are now illegal.
Meanwhile, in the real world, most actual Christians are not meme Buddhist monks. They understand that those parts of the religion are not a suicide pact or an unlimited line of credit, unlike the heretical schism branch called Progressivism.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Mostly in livestock, but it can hit humans too. And there were millions of people trekking across Darien Gap from infested areas, under generally poor and unhygienic conditions. It only needs a small number of infested people to carry larvae past the control zones into areas where it was much more difficult to lock down.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Just making fun of the reflexive, incessant, PBUH-style "without evidence" quoted in one of the linked articles. Like 10+ arrests and police reports in the first few days for attempted or successful vandalism.
FWIW, I think ymeskhout made quite a few good points in his crusade against MAGA election rhetoric, and think he provided an extremely valuable service about it. I still suspect there was quite a bit of fuckery to one degree or another, and would not be surprised if there was an eventual Johnson-style historical conclusion that at least one state was steelman stolen, but there was definitely a shitton of irresponsible claims and rhetoric being thrown around.
To @Bartender_Venator, I generally think @gattsuru is one of the best posters on this site.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
I'm not opposed to offering help under unusual circumstances. But that's a reflection of our virtues, and I want a hard cutoff (or at least intense pushback) on anyone who treats it like an entitlement.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Sure. But that same logic also applies to all positive claims that USAID was doing good.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
(Clearly the number of people who died specifically as a result of Musk's intentional cruelty is much lower than the big numbers being slung around, but Musk continues to insist that it is zero and threaten legal action against people who disagree)
Actual excess deaths appear to be something in the ballpark of zero. This is probably why Nicholas "Dog Rape" Kristoff used anecdotes.
I will enjoy the schadenfreude if the screwworms get him.
Screwworm has been a growing problem, creeping closer for years, almost certainly linked to the Biden migrant wave. The US under Trump is putting more effort into combatting it, including building a second sterile-male production facility.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Excedrin, Zyn, and Monster White: the breakfast of champions.
The actual policy was to not enforce any laws, actively decline to find people entering, and help coach illegals through falsifying asylum claims if anyone accidentally did their jobs.
Clever wording. By the time Trump was elected, most of the Bidenwave had only been here a couple years at most.
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