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DoctorMonarch
♬We're so happy that we live in 1800's Alabama 'cause it's sunny and there is no crime!♬
1d ago
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Hanania doesn't appreciate that groypers appear to be huge to him because 1. They personally, viscerally hate him in particular and will actively seek him out and engage with him as a matter of trolling. 2. Among the groypers are relatively more experienced, serious trolls with VPNs/multiple accounts/those who automate some aspects of their engagement.
Fuentes' audience of Americans able to vote probably maxes out around 200,000 or so.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Precisely.
Whether or not that works out, Fuentes is going to have roughly zero impact on the candidate.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
If you saw that video, and thought "Ah yes, this 13 year old girl holding a knife and hatchet wrong is clearly a hardened criminal who is harassing an innocent adult male who is following her for purely altruistic reasons, like returning a wallet she dropped"
Literally nobody is claiming this.
4doorsmorewhores
1d ago
What's her twitter username
FtttG
1d ago
Yes, that was my takeaway from the OP as well. My question is who might Fuentes endorse instead of Vance?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
That’s reasonable but not guaranteed. Again, I’m just trying to game out different explanations, and fitting the (very scant) available evidence into different interpretations to see what appears most plausible.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
1d ago
I think he meant not that he runs for office but that he forces Trump to change his mind as to who to endorse
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
Exculpatory of what? If he didn’t do anything wrong, there wouldn’t be anything to film.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Because the AI generated image is a symbol that connects present events with two thousand years of Scottish and Celtic history. She could just as well be brandishing that axe at a Roman centurion, a Saxon warrior, or an English redcoat.
faceh
1d ago
LOL I was trying to find that specific one, but settled for one that was kind of close.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
You said "'the Ten Commandments were really our best guess at moral laws but we are not really the basis for goodness.
Yeah, you didn't really read this accurately. It the "we are not really the basis for goodness."
This doesn't mean God is "subject" to 2+2=4, or that it's an "outside standard he's held to", and it's utterly nonsensical to think, even if it were a standard he were held to, that one should therefore worship 2+2=4 instead. The law that 2+2=4 isn't written anywhere, it's not even necessarily a "law" at all; it's just how reality is.
Yes, God is subject to 2+2=4 here in this example. You don't see it? It's possible for God to want something other than 2+2=4 but not be able to change it. That makes Him subject to it. It's an external power He has to work around. "Just how reality is," - That is putting limits on God. There is something outside of your concept of God that is more powerful than Him. Why not worship that thing?
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
1d ago
People keep making the mistake that the "real world" is more important than a small fringe of online crazies, and they keep getting proven wrong over and over and over (e.g. with woke, the alt right, gender identity on Tumblr). The arc of MAGA is long, but it bends towards Based.
It's not though. The online-right has been calling for transparency on Epstein even if it hurts Trump, and opposed the airstrikes on Iran. The offline/mainstream-right do not care much as much about either or supported the strikes. After Trump attacked Iran, his approval rating did not fall.
Then they'd split in a second, and disappear in a metaphorical puff of smoke, not wait around until the dude pulls out a phone and starts recording. Even if he was quick on the draw, all you'd see is their backs running towards the horizon.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
Update to this from 3 weeks ago.
Thank you all for the support and advice.
The situation got worse. After I blocked the extremist content and confronted her about the bitcoin transfers, and took her to the crisis counselor, I discovered this was actually the second scam.
The first one from May-June totaled $55k and involved intimate images. Was a romance / loverboy also with an Elon Musk impersonator.
I also discovered she had maintained contact with both scammers, complaining to them that I had taken her for an evaluation.
Telling one:
I had to say multiple times that I am not in contact with THE Elon Musk Because that would be so delusional that I should be locked up and medicated I am sorry I can now and then sneak out a message when I get in a Starbucks but that will be it
At various times in the chat logs she seems almost lucid, but at times paranoid accusing one of the scammers of working with me to destroy her.
She tells the 2nd scammer, the 1st scammer confirmed his identity by
He posted on Elon main account Sending codes on Elons main account that I would understand
Contact with both scammers continued for several weeks.
She'd complained of floaters in her vision combined with everything else I thought it'd be prudent to have our local hospital have a look at her. After they discharged her, she attempted to obtain a restraining order, against me.
Last week she left for 8 days to a "safe location", she was gone when we returned from Sunday service.
She's returned but won't discuss anything.
I've filed for divorce.
Her brother reviewed her Twitter content and said "I can't believe this is my sister's account... didn't sound like her at all." Multiple people who knew her before have expressed similar shock. I've been documenting everything per attorney's advice.
Children start public school tomorrow. Continuing weekly meetings with pastor. I've seen my own therapist once and have weekly appointments. Men's bible study group has been incredibly supportive now that I've opened up to them. Kids are doing okay, all things considered. We're maintaining routines. I'm working fully remote now to be present for them.
I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Trump will still have the Republican bully pulpit for the rest of his life, and who he chooses to back as a successor could be the deciding factor in the nomination contest. Regarding his children I think he will probably try to get one of them a VP slot so they can make a later go at the White House.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Ah yes, of course. The guy filming forgot to upload all the exculpatory evidence that he filmed! Why didn't I think of that explanation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
People keep making the mistake that the "real world" is more important than a small fringe of online crazies, and they keep getting proven wrong over and over and over (e.g. with woke, the alt right, gender identity on Tumblr).
As Sagan pointed out, they laughed at the Wright Brothers but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Fuentes is Bozo the Clown.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
Well yes, my theory is that either these girls were part of a group that was harassing people, or that they were picking on other kids and that the guy filming confronted them. This would explain why suddenly they seem (or are pretending to be) afraid.
KMC
1d ago
with sabre and battleaxe
Sabres are curved and single-edged, while the depicted weapon is clearly both straight and double-edged. It looks a lot like a Roman gladius, frankly, although you could be generous and call it a seax.
Thank you for coming to my nit picks.
I know that the AI image is not real, it is operating on me at a cognitive level below logical propositions concerning real entities and events.
Of course the image is real, it's really there in front of you, really shared by you for me to see, and it really exists. Saying it's not real is like saying political cartoons aren't real: technically true but missing the point. This is depicting something real in a way that's fictional, and the more I consider it the more a political cartoon fits the description.
benmmurphy
1d ago
isn't there a sex tape of Destiny and Fuentes. wouldn't that kill any chance of Fuentes becoming mainstream in the Republican party.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Every weapon-wielding chav has to start somewhere
They usually start with people smaller than them, not twice their size.
Nope, I'm willing to bet on this. Maybe the situation is more complicated than the rightoids say, but it's definitely not what you're saying.
FtttG
1d ago
I suppose I should have said a credible candidate seeking the Republican nomination.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
Every weapon-wielding chav has to start somewhere. She’s obviously quite young and is probably just starting to carry these as a way to look/feel tough. I’d be surprised if she’s used them on anybody yet, but that doesn’t mean we have to wait around and let her keep carrying them until she finally does use them in earnest.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
I want to register my prediction that the story of this video is far, far more complicated than what is being presented by agitprop Twitter accounts. (A bold prediction, I know.)
Is there at least a decent possibility that this girl and her sister are helpless victims of harassment by scummy Pakistani men and neglect by a heartless police bureaucracy? Sure! But we have plenty of teenagers here in America who carry weapons to use on each other, or occasionally on bystanders from outside their social class.
I'll grant that something feels off about the video, but I rate her chances of being a dual-wielding chav even lower than the pure victim narrative. I've met girls who could pull a knife on you (gypsies), this one never used one in her life.
That's a bit like saying Volvo isn't even close to being a tier-one supercar manufacturer these days...
NXP has never even aimed for the high end application processor market (not that Motorola was relevant in its historical equivalent since the late 80s either). They merged with Freescale for their microcontroller and automotive IC portfolio, not in an effort to compete with Intel or similar cpu manufacturers.
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