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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
13hr 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.
14hr 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14hr 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.
14hr 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.
1d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d 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.
1d 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.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Excedrin, Zyn, and Monster White: the breakfast of champions.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Unless "phones" here is being used as a catch-all for any kind of modern entertainment technology, including old-fashioned CRT TVs,
This seems plausible to me. I remember hearing the advice to not have a TV in the bedroom decades ago for reason that were, ah, directly related to fertility.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
The idea that Trump has done anything wrong ever, in his life, is a baseless, unproven conspiracy theory put out by bad actors with a reckless and wanton disregard for the truth.
This is what some people sound like.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
The US responsibility is nothing
FTFY.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Musk is a goofy autist, but he's probably well-positioned to skim the cream of the crop. This is something I feel like I should just never shut up about. There's a huge disconnect between people whose experience with immigrants is massively filtered exceptions, compared to the normies. It really makes you appreciate how much a shared cultures does to smooth the friction when dealing with someone 20+ IQ points below you, much less the horror of 50+.
If he spent a week trying to help Haitians, Somalians and Guatemalans set up Starlink, he'd probably turn into Enoch Powell.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Because they don't distinguish between value-add and metric chasing. This makes them reliable metric pumping engines, especially if they come from a culture with normalized double-speak, e.g. "Achieve great success while adhering to the highest levels of ethics and accountability" -> "Cut every corner possible to juice the KPI as long as you don't get caught".
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
This was the fracture that started with Bernie v Hillary in 2016. The progressives and socialists have all the energy, but the party is arranged so that the Inner Party controls the mechanisms, and has functional veto power over the commons. The progs and socs might not have the power to win, but they can absolutely cause a mess if they're feeling betrayed or uppity enough to cause a Democrat Party civil war.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
No, that already happened. China has something in the ballpark of a million of it's people who have American citizenship via birthright tourism - and the trend appears to be accelerating.
That seems pretty damn salient.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
The amazing thing is how the extremists really do sound like the conservative caricature of the lefties. "Surely they can't be like that in reality/Whoops..." The lead-in to the "but we hate you!" screaming by the maker of the video was 'in your wildest dreams' stuff:
AIUI, there is talk of a problem among the Republican campaign staffers that it's hard to do attack ads because people think literal descriptions of Democrat rhetoric and policies are insane exaggerations. E.g. the "Yes, fuck you, we literally mean no more police at all" candidate for the House.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
In the same way they love body- and homo-shaming when it can target the outgroup. "The Epstein Class" feels like a good soldier to send to war - same reason it gets spammed by twitter posters from third world countries with mass, normalized child rape.
Most of those same leftists will turn around and say it's a human right for 15 year olds to have access to books that tell them how to get on Grindr, even though that sort of thing is almost exactly what Epstein actually did.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
He definitely hasn't "come out in favour of tactical lying" in the sense of saying that elected Democrats should be saying more things that are not true.
He tweeted literally that back in the day. Can't find an easily linkable version now, but something like "Yes, advocates should fight dishonesty with dishonesty. That's an honest view." I mostly remember because people have been throwing it in his face for a decade.
I'm sure he deeply regrets saying it now, whatever his feelings on the topic.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
if you are in a city
Found the problem.
The second problem is that this is boring middle-class conflict, but one where it is socially acceptable for the Boomer to crash out, as opposed to being knifed and mugged by a naked, masturbating fent zombie, which they are culturally obligated to pretend is vibrant and exciting.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Eh, I can believe Matty is still trying to do the Obama technocratic progressivism thing, like a Japanese solider holding out on a remote island decades after the War, but the problem with openly coming out in favor of tactical lying is that people tend to hold it against you forever.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Purportedly, this was how they swung things in LA. Paying homeless people $5 to vote for the other socialist after the formal date, and then kept going until they had just enough to keep Pratt out of the runoff. There are videos of interviews with supposed homeless people. Believe, dive down a research rabbit hole, or press X to doubt as you choose.
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?
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".
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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