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  • Expect selective enforcement or even some kind of DHS/ICE reserve officer program as an excuse to keep MAGA voters armed.

  • How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo | The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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  • The message should have been "take accusations seriously..."

    Right. Are we doing this yet?

    Or are we still just complaining about "the left's" sloganeering and wringing our hands over false accusations and the woke mob coming for us?

  • How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo | The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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  • I was there

    So was I.

    Maybe they seized on one dude being pissed at his ex and making some accusations as a catalyst, and I'm certain well meaning folks got caught up in something they weren't fully aware of, but that's sort of the point with this kind of op. No one approaches you online and says "do you want to attack feminist game developers and entertainment journalists as the opening salvo in a culture war that will install fascism in the west?"

    Even if it was co-opted, it was co-opted very early on and that doesn't change what it was for most of its miserable time as part of the public consciousness or the damage it did.

  • How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo | The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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  • I'm still convinced that Gamergate was a trial run to see if open misogyny could win widespread support in the west and be used to indoctrinate young men into far-right ideology.

    It worked.

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse

    I use a logitech M575 trackball, people have tried to scoot it like a mouse and yanked their hand away from it as if it burned them.

  • What lyric has stood the test of time for you?

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  • Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost, Everybody knows the fight was fixed, The poor stay poor, the rich get rich, That's how it goes, Everybody knows

    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, Everybody knows the captain lied, Everybody got this broken feeling, Like their father or their dog just died, Everybody talking to their pockets, Everybody wants a box of chocolates, And a long-stem rose, Everybody knows...

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  • At this point, even if they won't admit it, I think most people understand that economic reality is the opposite of whatever Trump says.

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • Building incendiary devices sounds like it could become a fun and profitable handycraft...

  • Whats your favorite bad joke?

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  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • Where the fuck is the outrage in Washington?

    It's been Exhausted/Diluted/Usurped by a neverending onslaught of daily ragebait and all the other atrocities currently happening in the nation and world.

    Is this intentional? I can't prove it but I think to an extent it is. But it's not just about the Epstein files, it's the people who enable Trump and the people who own him keeping him in place because his a useful tool for malfeasance on many, many fronts.

    Should we be more upset about a global cabal of pedos, Gaza, ICE shooting people, Greenland, or what's about to happen in Iran? What's the biggest threat? The economy? The climate? China? Russia? Fascism? Terrorism? Antivaxxer's fetish for contracting preventable diseases? Mass shootings? Robotaxis commiting road rage? AI disinfo and job loss? Housing costs? Groceries...?

    All of this, whether by design or coincidence, is working together to force people to keep their heads down and worry about themselves as much as possible. That's why it's so important to organize, to give material and verbal support to protestors and advocates when you can, and to build a community where you live.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • They probaly thought the seller would pay without raising the price. A lot of these folks don't know how tariffs work in the first place and when the orange one said it would punish other countries for being unfair to the US they assumed the seller would recognize the error of their ways and foot the bill while keeping the price the same to stay competitive.

    Folks that make complaints like this on social media don't seem prone to thinking the consequences of an action through...

  • US Catholic cardinals urge Trump administration to embrace a moral compass in foreign policy

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  • That ought to fix it. Pack in the protests, guys, the Catholic Church has saved the world again.

  • Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution

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  • No one in office pays attention to it. Only a few of their constituents actually care to know what it says. That the state of it.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • The trouble I'd have to go through to build a dumb fridge would bother me more than people talking shit about me building or owning one.

    People can talk shit all they want, don't mean I'm gonna listen.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • Not completely, but more and more I find peace of mind in analog and offline spaces. Physical books feel better than e-books, a real bike is more fun than a Peleton (cheaper too), and cooking my own food is better than GrubHub.

    I have an educational background in IT, but I've worked as a mechanic for most of my adult life. I'm a tool using primate. Tech is a tool. If a new tool improves on the old and makes life easier, I use it. If it doesn't, it's not worth having around. When your job is fixing things, "ain't broke, don't fix it" makes a lot of sense.

    I'm not going to bend over backwards for tech that I don't need just because a rich CEO tells me it's revolutionary. I can flip a light switch, lock my doors, make a grocery list without the help of an AI fridge, and write my own emails.

  • The Far Right Is Now Transvestigating Sydney Sweeney

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  • The Satanic Panic was around long before D&D and heavy metal music and it never really left. It just moved on to new targets. Someone, somewhere has always been doing something satanic as a plot, it's just easier to find people talking about it in the age of social media.

    Same with conspiracy theories. The alt-right never invented anything new, they just recycled things that wingnuts and cranks have been spouting for centuries and adapted them to modern settings. Look at the parallels between "Hillary tortures children and drinks their blood to stay young" and the old Blood Libel conspiracy for example.

    I go back and forth as to why I think this kind of thing is so enduring. Maybe people need to believe in some kind of evil because it allows them to feel good about being on the "right" side of something. It could make them feel smart to find "secrets" that people won't openly admit (because they aren't true). Or they feel some kind of cognitive dissonance if they don't have an enemy and invent one to quiet it. Or maybe it's just a convoluted effort to take control over something they aren't comfortable with in a "he who can destroy a thing, controls the thing" sort of way. Maybe all of them even.

    I dunno, like you said, people are goddamn stupid and fucking nuts sometimes. Shame they're so often dangerous because of it.

  • The Far Right Is Now Transvestigating Sydney Sweeney

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  • One thing that gives me hope is that these chucklefucks will happily eat each other alive over the smallest imagined things. If they don't have a "big evil thing" to organize against they're just one giant fucking bucket of crabs, man.

  • Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan

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  • I'm just trying to lose a few pounds

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  • I'd follow him anywhere.