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7mo ago
I'm seeing it reported that the guy was wearing a black hoodie, black pants, black sneakers with a white trim and a gray backpack used suppressed pistol and rode off on a bike.
That's like exactly what I've come up with for assassinating someone. The hard part is finding a good place to ditch the bike and change your look so they can't rewind the images from the loitering drones and follow you home.
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7mo ago
To add some more context in right wing circles (I would also assert this) many of the most prominent "kinetic" actions of extreme right wingers seem to be full of "feds" if not majority feds. Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping both probably started with more feds than not. Similar with a lot of the Islamic terrorist plots that the FBI "foiled".
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7mo ago
How much do you think is were horrible people or were marginal people that got the chance to turn into horrible people. For a brief possibly closed window fairly normal people could luck there way into a bit of fame with few guard rails. For males easy money and easy sex are hard to pass up.
Mistake vs. Conflict Theory
Left-wing doctors are playing a political game with women's lives to advance a pro-abortion agenda, helping to create propaganda.
Some doctors believe left-wing propaganda and think they’re following the law. Akin, they’re the type of people who (edit: if they disagree with the law), when the Nazis come to the door, would rat out a neighbor hiding Jews under the floorboards.
Doctors are covering up malpractice for a willing media.
The propaganda is so effective that even my religious, anti-Trump, Romney-Republican boss is concerned about his daughters getting pregnant and being unable to receive life-saving treatment. My sister had an ectopic pregnancy since Dobbs, and she experienced no issues accessing treatment.
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7mo ago
I'm struggling with this one and it bothers me. Not quite a stereotype but at work most of the time people come off as smarter and more competent when I interact with them one on one, then through project managers. So if I'm screaming at an email chain that so and so is a fucking idiot I try to go talk to them in person and things end up better.
I asked google and got these fun responses from the AI:
Many stereotypes are not true, including stereotypes about intelligence, gender, and race:
Intelligence: The stereotype that Asian Americans are intelligent is not true.
Gender: The stereotype that women are not as competent as men is not true.
Race: The stereotype that African Americans are less educated is not true.
I think you can even switch those odds, it can be a hail marry, a 30% chance she turns it around. If you're a high end exec you're going to want to be heavily compensated for the risk that you're going to get fired and that possibly ending your career. "I'll try to patch up the Titanic but you're going to pay me enough that when it goes down I'm sitting on the life boat with a smile on my face."
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7mo ago
How much of this is two neurotic people being neurotic and bouncing off of each other? I don't always trust neurotics perception of reality.
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7mo ago
One issue is grandmas getting older. At the more extreme end but probably not incredibly uncommon in the past a grandma could be in her low 30's certainly 40's. My mom, who is now a grandmother to my toddler is in her early 70's.
"I'm a free speech absolutist! [...] Of course burning the American flag isn't free speech!" Normies gonna normie, Conservatives are not Libertarians. Democrats have wanted a nice big government and now they're gonna get it good and hard... which is kind of fun but I'm gonna get it good and hard too and when the lefties take over I'm gonna get it good and hard again.
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7mo ago
He puts up much longer posts than Tyler does. My hunch is in light listening he just confirms my priors more. I think we're both keeping it a little more surface level.
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7mo ago
Taborrak
Aside is it just more or is Taborrak way better in podcast than text? I don't usually enjoy his posts on Marginal Revolution but think he's good on podcasts. I don't know what that says about me... but he's not the first person I've encountered that with.
Which one has more normie fun shit? I'm not even sure I know what normie fun shit is any more, but I'm thinking along the lines of TikTok and Reels. My impression is that Twitter will feed some level of that type of content up. Does or will Bluesky ? Or is Bluesky just going to be leftie culture war text and memes? How about softcore porn?
Is this push organic, or coordinated?
With the ubiquity of leftism among journalists doesn't seem like there's probably much separation.
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7mo ago
Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left towards safetyism. I've considered myself allied with the right against leftism for quite a while now, and everyone here could have been Blue I have no problem imagining conservatives all around... well probably not Children Services. There have always been many Karens on the right and piece of shit sheriffs who last year grilled in MAGA caps.
If Jones had killed those kids the civil suite would have been a fraction of this.
Edit: How to get the answer to a question online? Be wrong. I appreciate all the work; so what I am seeing is that if Jones did kill all these kids damages might approach this judgment which I think pretty clearly demonstrates just how egregious this judgment is.
No one cares about democracy.
When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
Except no one is actually the principled party. Democrats will shit all over democracy if democracy goes against their ends just as fast as Republicans except as Republicans make abundantly clear and get mocked for WE DON'T LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY!
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8mo ago
This is an angry special interest group casting protest votes in a safe state.
Safe state?
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8mo ago
I've got a comment saved form /r/PoliticalDiscussion:
I'm calling shootings in at least six polling locations tomorrow, if not more.
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8mo ago
As I was walking into the polling station a very unhealthy gentlemen fell to the ground. He rolled to the right.
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8mo ago
Coworker and I were discussing election betting market when a woman on the team asked how concerned she should be about Trump winning. She’s married, has a young child, and, if not outright smarter than me, definitely has better math chops. She’s the best product forecaster we have. I asked her what she was most worried about. Her answer: birth control getting banned.
In case someone doesn't know, birth control is literally the least controversial political issues there is.
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8mo ago
COVID-19 vaccines: history of the pandemic’s great scientific success and flawed policy implementation The FDA and companies delay vaccine trial until after the US election
Further discussion 25:35 from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)
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8mo ago
Trump showed up to an event in a garbage truck
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8mo ago
I agree with the points of your post. It being a drag is probably a huge part of the shift. Can I get a citation for this:
CPS has gotten involved in some liberal states because the child think they’re trans and the parents don’t agree, so the state comes in and says either get on board, or we take the child.
Building a suppressor is not difficult.
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