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KnitWit

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  • Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

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  • Maybe 45 minutes from there is a little reservoir based vacation area called ‘Kentucky dam village’ that was the location of a family reunion trip that is legendarily hellish in my family from 20 something years ago. Also the moment when my immediate family more or less cut off all contact with another part of the family.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • That’s similar to what I’ve anecdotally seen. The right is absolutely locked in right now. The timing for me seems to be right around when Kamala got swapped in for Biden. Idk if that was just because election season, or if again seeing a person of color come that close to power reawakened them. That was when I saw new flags fly from previous unknowns/‘non-politicals’ as well.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • Idk, my dad is one of the classic conservatives and definitely doesn’t fall into the maga camp, even going so far as to tell my mom he hated trump (only after his loss to Biden but before j6). I see him as a pretty run of the mill republican that represents a wide swath of the voting right. Anyone that watches Fox news is actively looking to convince themselves of the rhetoric. It’s especially easy to weather all of this right now because they have another year before the migrant caravan magically shows up to distract them again before midterms. That, or the Clinton flight logs which somehow absolves trump of his relation to Epstein.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • Very well put, and a similar realization and tactic to what I tried with my dad after the first term. Unfortunately it didn’t work out for me, but I agree with the strategy. After J6 I stopped trying with my dad though, like Uvalde/Sandy Hook, if that isn’t gonna sway you, nothing will.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • Right on, yeah I meant more among the populace, or I would also accept meaningful change from the politicians on that side of things. I thought about clarifying that afterwards but didn’t want to seem like I was moving goalposts are itching for a fight or something. I just see these articles as the same as the last 10 years of ‘this time he’s really gonna have to face the consequences.’ The one I hate most of all is ‘Roberts privately expresses concern over the publics image of the supreme court.’ Like, no, he really fucking doesn’t.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • I appreciate the comment and it is certainly good to see some change among the populace. I personally haven’t seen that change and if anything have seen people who touted themselves as neutral before somehow finding all of this acceptable. But I am always happy to see that some have actually changed their opinions.

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  • I appreciate the comment and it is certainly good to see some change among the populace. I personally haven’t seen that change and if anything have seen people who touted themselves as neutral before somehow finding all of this acceptable. But I am always happy to see that some have actually changed their opinions.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • It was three actually, but if two of the people are Nancy Mace and Scott Perry, I can promise you it has nothing to do with the tide turning.

  • This is the most panicked Republicans have been in years

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  • And yet, not a single republican I know, has ever even considered changing their vote. These articles are hopium, diminishing his base is not going to happen.

  • I agree

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  • The first comment alone misrepresents beavers and elephants as poorly as that one dumbass sunfish comment from the old site that everyone reposted all the time. The widespread eradication of massive beaver populations across North America has caused untold ecological damage that we’ll never fully understand.

  • If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America

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  • Yeah, I drove through there once. Illegally pulled over and searched (oregon plates). Wasn’t even remotely surprised it happened. Fuck Oklahoma, apologies to those who have to live there.

  • Woman attacked driver that hit, killed chicken that was crossing the road, per police

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  • Yesterday while driving, I hit two different birds in the span of about 15 minutes. I was going under the limit both times and definitely wouldn’t try to hit them. The second one looked like it was going to miss me before it turned and went straight at the windshield. Real tucker and dale moment for me.

  • Trump sues Wall Street Journal for libel over Epstein letter

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  • You don’t print that unless you’ve at least seen a copy, probably not without being able to show it as well. If somehow Murdoch has turned on him, he now can access discovery, which would be wild.

  • Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein 'bawdy' 50th birthday letter: WSJ

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  • The levels of weird and gross and creepy that is is just too much. And outlined in a marker drawing of a naked woman? It sounds like he was infatuated with him.

  • The CIA reveals more of its connections to Lee Harvey Oswald

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  • I also saw something at one point that claimed the solution to the magic bullet theory was just that a secret service member accidentally shot jfk after Oswald shot. And that the conspiracy/cover up is more along the lines of they didn’t want that getting out, either to protect the agency and/or the individual. In my mind this explanation makes sense, but I’m not really invested in any of it.

  • Texas Officials Slam Trump’s National Weather Service for Bad Forecast

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  • That’s not a part of this article.. this article starts with the first paragraph, followed in paragraph 3 and five, which all do more to disparage the forecast than mention an uthing about lack of dissemination (who the person you’re quite would be referring to. This is another hit piece disguised as something else.

    Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people…

    “The original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8 inches in the Hill Country,” said Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd at a press conference Friday. “The amount of rain that fell at this specific location was never in any of those forecasts.”…

    Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic flash flooding happened because the skies “dumped more rain than what was forecasted” on two of the river’s forks….

  • Texas Officials Slam Trump’s National Weather Service for Bad Forecast

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  • Don’t fall for it. While the NWS is definitely being gutted, there was nothing wrong with their reporting. They issued proper preliminary reports and warnings leading up to the tragic event. This wasn’t an issue of not being forewarned, it was an issue of a river rising over twenty feet in a rapid timeframe. These officials are once again denigrating scientists, and not once did they mention increasing funding for these services.

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    What is a good example of a necessary evil?

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  • Agreed, just wanted to see if the OP would admit to it as well. Fully expect either no response or a passing of the buck along the lines of ‘I want to help who need it, but people hypothetically could take advantage of the system so let’s just scrap the whole thing.’

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    What is a good example of a necessary evil?

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  • And what about the less fortunate? The infirm and disabled? They can rot?