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MrVilliam

@ MrVilliam @sh.itjust.works

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  • A year after his death, conservative students struggle to fill void left by Kirk

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  • If you're nice to people, they tend to do stuff for you. Like, you could watch somebody's dog while they're away on vacation, even if they're gay, and then maybe they help you move, saving you money on paying movers to help you. Maybe a first actual friendship could blossom.

    I say this mostly jokingly, but I literally get offered free stuff like half the time I go out because I put in the effort to connect on a personal level with service workers. Because they're people. And it's really depressing that what that really means is that I'm probably their favorite customer that week and not just the average guest. People should be nicer.

  • Jimmy Kimmel says James Talarico interview won’t air on TV after Trump’s FCC threatened his show

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  • Literal evidence of chilling free speech. He is self censoring in response to threats of legal consequences by the government. It's the easiest, slam dunk court win on infringing on constitutional rights, but this executive branch and these judges are so extremist that it's still not a guaranteed win. This election really could be the last chance to reclaim some semblance of freedom.

  • Jimmy Kimmel says James Talarico interview won’t air on TV after Trump’s FCC threatened his show

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  • Also, I never really thought about it until now, but in pure text form without tone of voice or body language, it's hard to differentiate whether "I don't like him" means "eh, he's not for me" or "I actively dislike him".

  • Where is ‘King of Debt’ Trump when we need him on the national debt?

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  • I like him better when he's asleep. He should do it more. Forever, even. Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

  • Don't act so shocked

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  • Well, let's not politicize this politically motivated action that it's my job as a politician to politicize in order to enact legislation to politically control. Let's just go home, pray, and fingerbang our barely legal boyfriends that we all have in our cages in the second den of our second homes. God has a plan, and it is unchristian to question God or attempt to delude ourselves into thinking that we know better. Shame on you.

  • Why Erika Kirk failed as Turning Point USA’s leader

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  • It's possible that his neck just did that. There's just no way of knowing. Maybe the thing he said immediately prior was just so stupid and absurdly racist that, justPOPY' know?

  • Jamie Raskin Warns That Trump Is Trying To Steal The Midterms Right Now

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  • Thanks! Saved this comment so I can find these links later!

  • Jamie Raskin Warns That Trump Is Trying To Steal The Midterms Right Now

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  • Ironically, my break from these truths lately has been playing MGS∆ and watching Game Grumps play MGS1 while the events of MGS2 and 4 have been playing out in real time.

    I guess I just don't understand the end goal here for them. Like yeah, total control. And then what? Do what with it? If you're already a billionaire in a system that caters to you as though you're a god among men, then what more could you possibly even imagine gaining? Whether we're talking about tech CEOs or insider trading politicians or whatever, they already have it all, so why go scorched earth to shake things up and risk losing what they have for basically the same level of having everything? The ground floor agents will definitely not be reaping the benefits, but I can understand the temptation of maybe being invited up into the inner circle, so I see why they could be tricked into executing the plan. They don't yet see that the boot they lick will stomp them too.

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    JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’

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  • As somebody who pays more attention to these things than most, I still wasn't sure which loser who debates college students he was. I thought he was the "change my mind" guy but that's David Chowder or whatever. Stephen? Who cares. He sucks too.

  • Father faces no charges for fatally shooting daughter after fight about Donald Trump: cops

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  • Or, and maybe this is crazy, "young dumb kids" should never have a gun in their hands in the first place. Maybe this take is crazy too, but you shouldn't be pointing guns at anybody you aren't intending to kill. They're not toys. They're not a rite of passage. They're not even tools as others (my past self included) would claim. They're killing machines. They wound, they maim, they kill. That is their function.

    If a person cannot sit through boring classes and pass written tests and practical tests, then that person should not have a gun available to them. Anybody's misunderstanding of the second amendment is invalid here as that clearly points to being in support of a well-regulated militia, i.e. state national guard, so my argument is actually quite charitable in allowing ordinary private citizens access to guns at all.

    And yes, I own a few guns myself. I took classes and trained with them. I store them responsibly. Because that's the bare fucking minimum.

  • San Francisco Democrats break with their party over the billionaire tax—and reveal how deeply Prop 40 has split the left

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  • Billionaires are incompatible with any leftist system, so it's nonsense to claim to be on the left without addressing billionaires not being billionaires as part of the to do list. We can disagree on how or on what timeline or what specifically to do with the billions, but it's sort of core to the whole idea to not let so few own so much. People can try to claim that the state taking the billions is just making a couple of statesmen the new billionaires, but in a proper, controlled democracy, the state taking the billions means that all of the people are taking the billions, not just a few leaders. It reminds me of the argument of expanding the scotus. Just go ahead and expand it to 300 million or whatever. Boom, direct democracy. Vote by mail.

  • infinite money glitch

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  • They think that "racism" is when you're openly lynching brown people in the town square. Or marching in klan robes. Or Nazi saluting a Nazi flag. Because they aren't doing that, it means they're not racist. They're not smart enough to understand anything more subtle or indirect like generational poverty caused by a series of intentional hamstringings from enslavement to redlining and the like.

  • Jamie Raskin Rips The Mask Off MAGA While Campaigning For Abdul El-Sayed In Michigan

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  • I would argue that it really hasn't ever been that. I think maybe the closest it ever was that was in the 1990s, but I think people in the LGBTQ community old enough to remember that time firsthand might disagree. To me, it feels like a lot of backsliding has happened since then, with a few small steps forward here and there.

    The only other period I can think of that could be reasonably argued was the aftermath of The New Deal, but since that was before Roe v Wade and the Civil Rights Act and the EPA, yeah it's kinda hard to celebrate it without mentioning a few caveats. But maybe we should bring back that 90% corporate tax rate...

  • MAGA Melts Down at Dem Star’s NSFW Fox Interview

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  • Mamdani favorability rating climbs to 69%

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  • For anybody that doubts this, I looked it up. Some polls are more in the 55%-60% range, but there are also these:Reuters/Ipsos (August 21–24): 65% disapprove and 33% approve.American Research Group (August 15–19): 66% disapprove and 30% approve.

    I looked into it because I suspected it was more like 35% approve, 50% disapprove, leaving 15% fucking clueless somehow.

  • Under Trump, hundreds of America’s wild horses are being sold for as little as $25 and being sent to slaughter, report says

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  • Thereby keeping "beef" affordable?

  • No, Keep Them

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  • They're everywhere. Nearly everybody you encounter on the internet is a bot. There are only two real people in this vast digital ocean: me, posting this comment; and you, reading this comment. We're the only ones capable of posting OC that isn't AI slop. You gotta step it up.

  • Why Democrats Must Embrace a “Mom Populist” Education Agenda

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  • The obviously good position here is "I wasn't lucky enough to get to go to college like you were. College was and still is an opportunity reserved for the privileged, and it's only been getting worse. I'd like to see that changed so that everybody who wants a college education can have access to it. When you work for the public, your job is to remove archaic barriers, not chastise people who were excluded by them. We should be seeking to make things better and easier for every subsequent generation, not forcing them to endure every hardship we struggled with. What is the point of a civilized society if not to improve the quality of life for all as we move forward?"

  • Jake Lang, a far-right agitator who calls Muslims “insidious parasites” visited Dearborn, Michigan

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  • Isn't he the guy who got his ass kicked by Spider-Man?

  • Democrats incredulous over Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meeting

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  • Nah, I readily believe it. What I'm incredulous about is the lack of certain things happening to a certain person and his property as a result. He isn't afraid enough for who he's been exposed to be.

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    MrVilliam @sh.itjust.works

    When somebody initiates a discussion, and then refuses to engage in said discussion