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chuckleslord

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  • Nobody wants to haunt a McMansion

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  • We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.

  • A spoonful of sugar

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  • I don't know shit. It... it's a real problem, actually.

  • UFC Fighter Declares “Michelle Obama Is a Man” After Winning Match at White House

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  • Jesus, man. What the fuck are we doing here?

  • You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires

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  • If you could define fascism, you would know that they're very compatible. In fact, liberalism turns to fascism to save capitalists from Consequences™

    NK isn't fascist, buddy. Authoritarian, yes. Communist, mostly. Feudal, quite a bit. But not fascist.

    Fascism is the marriage of the state and corporations to protect both from growing resentment, using nationalism to distract the public from their actual troubles.

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • Yeah, he just bailed out the auto industry instead. Totally different and definitely not just cronyism pretending to be Keynesian economics, just like bailing out the banks. Wonder why people keep confusing those two things?

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • Not what they were comparing. Saying the relationship between x and y is like the relationship between m and n, doesn't mean that were comparing x to m.

    Reading comprehension is important. I will allow that the comparison was made to shock, but that doesn't mean you can miscategorize what they said

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • Obama was better than Trump. No fucking shit. Congrats? That doesn't mean that Obama doesn't deserve criticism, or even deserve criticism at the same time we're talking about Trump.

    Saying "you can't compare Trump to Obama", however, is shielding Obama from criticism because of Trump's actions. There are degrees, no fucking shit, but they both belong in the Hague for war crimes. Pretending otherwise is part of the problem.

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  • That's always team Blue

    Yeah, and that's the permission structure I'm talking about. By refusing to hold one side to account so long as "they're the lesser evil", you get the ratchet effect. One team comes in, blows things up. The other team promises to fix it, gets elected, barely changes anything, and then loses again cause the other team correctly calls out that they aren't doing shit. Then the more blowing up of shit occurs.

    In the lead up to 2020, Dems ran on a platform of campaign finance reform, addressing health care, addressing covid, and affordability. They failed to address the first, second, and fourth. They technically eeked by on the third, in that they failed in an unspectacular way (COVID became endemic, with a vaccine).

    In 2024, after failing to address anything they were elected for, they simply said "we're not as bad as that guy".

    After LOSING 2024, their postmortem was basically "We did everything perfect, it's hard for returning parties to win without an incumbent"

    Obama is a war criminal and should be in the Hague. Trump is also a war criminal, in addition to a bunch of other fucked up shit, and should also be in the Hague.

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • Surprisingly enough, I vote in every primary and general election. Just because I don't agree with your "but our guy is better" thinking doesn't mean I opt out. You just need to hold yourself to a higher standard than you currently do. And stop thinking of politics as a team sport. Everyone in the ruling class needs to be held to a high standard, not just the guys wearing the opposite team colors.

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • Stop using Trump's bad actions as permission for less bad actions. Trump is fully crap, but neoliberalism isn't going to fix the problems he's making. If you can't admit that, then we can't get any better than whatever the last worst thing was

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • No, but we can and should criticize all abuses by the ruling class, not just the egregious ones. If you can't abide by that, you create an environment where everything is permissible, so long as there is someone doing something worse. Trump has a purpose in that world, to be the sin eater for the rich and take all of the negative attention away from them.

  • UFC Fighter Declares “Michelle Obama Is a Man” After Winning Match at White House

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  • Yes, and while you're dutifully keeping track of the other team, during those same 50 years, the Democrats have backslid into conservativism light. I'm not saying "they go low, we go high" I'm saying that the rules need to apply to everyone. I'm saying thinking of politics like sports ball makes everyone kind of suck. Go out, talk to your conservative friends, make them understand that it doesn't matter who leads, we need them to actually talk about and do the action of leading. If their politicians choose whipping people into frenzies about literally anything other than the job of running the country, they need to go.

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  • I'm not talking about that. It is telling that that's where you went, though.

    No, you see, there are rules and none of us are above the rules. Rules that are unimportant must be dropped (not prosecuting cause it "could look bad", not using the majority in the senate "cause what if they get the majority?") and rules that are important must be enforced (antitrust, holding people in power accountable).

    Kindergarten insults just reinforces us vs them thinking. They, the people elected to rule, are not us. We, the people, we're the us. I don't care if your propaganda exposure made you pick team blue or team red. Largely, neither of those fucks want to actually lead, they just want to sit on the heap. If the red team makes someone actually interested in leading, great, but they're too busy indoctrinating racists and religious nut jobs so they don't actually have to do their jobs. Team blue is similar, but their vector of control (minority groups who "have no other choice" and white people who are scared of seeming racist) at least makes them attempt to do the job they're elected to do. But they will wiggle their way out of it at their soonest convenience.

  • TIL that nearly half of US adults struggled to afford healthcare last year

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  • Yeah, and all that has since been rolled back, cause the shareholders got scared for their dividends. Clearly far more valuable than employee lives, regardless the flavor of employee.

  • UFC Fighter Declares “Michelle Obama Is a Man” After Winning Match at White House

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  • I think sports team thinking might've gotten us here in the first place, I don't think it'll get us out

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  • Speed isn't the factor being multiplied here, it's fuel efficiency. It would be much faster to give the probes enough delta-v to handle flying straight (via a parabola) to their ultimate destination than to bother wasting time with gravitational assists. But the cost in fuel would be astronomical. Literally, even.

  • The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point | CNN Business

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  • It doesn't matter if peace is achieved this second, this shit is still coming.

  • AI is hitting employment among young software developers hard

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  • One hundred percent. They gave me a crash pad through them, I could bring anything up to them without needing to go to my ultimate employer. Yes, I was a junior in the suit of a senior and I'm very much aware of that fact.

  • AI is hitting employment among young software developers hard

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  • ...I mean, the company I started for gave me a 6 month crash course, and then hired me out as a senior dev. Does that count?