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Deacon

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  • agagaga

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  • I used to run into axaxax all the time on this Mobile game I used to play. It was a PvP space colonization game and there were stark parallels to real world geopolitics.

    We hated the Russians in that game, not for ideological reasons but because they and the Chinese would always attack any fleets not in base while we slept.

    Obviously we did the same to them, and recruited a European shift for our guild.

  • Kristi Noem ‘blindsided’ by report about her cross-dressing husband

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  • She may be stupid enough to:

    • Believe this will change the narrative on her relationship with Lewandowski, her profligate spending, and the fact that it all led to her firing
    • Believe this will make her more sympathetic with the public to lay the ground work for having some kind of political career in the future

    Or she may be getting ahead of something, maybe her husband was starting to change his tune on the idea of being a loyal cuckold.

    If you assume these people are completely vapid, self-serving, and totally incapable of actual loving relationships, and above all - operating with a real deficit of intellectual and emotional intelligence; all of which appear to be rock solid assumptions, none of the options I proposed seem very far fetched.

  • Kristi Noem ‘blindsided’ by report about her cross-dressing husband

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  • (Not actually blindsided because she almost certainly had it leaked)

  • ‘No Kings’ Protests Span the World, in Places Big and Small

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  • My personal favorite, from the Chicago march.

    Also these two were incredible

    It’s bracing to be around so many like minded people, but it’s important to remember that the hardest work is ahead of us.

  • Question to the people of lemmy that got a pp. After peeing do you wipe your pp with toilett paper or do you do the shake and dance?

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  • Yep, saw a comment like this on Reddit and as I’ve aged it’s become critical.

  • Are you a principled person?

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  • Yes, I believe I am very principled. I struggle to live up to them, but it gives me something to strive for.

  • Sunglasses

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  • It certainly resonated with me. I think I’ve said verbatim what the guy in the last frame says.

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  • Just in case you did bail before it loaded, it is a painting, not a photo, and it is unhinged but not gross. Per se.

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  • This is how I got rid of mine but it was thanks to mice, not birds in my case. I felt like Cinderella!

  • If. I. Fits...

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  • It is not your place to ask. It is your place to admire.

  • Do you accept?

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  • Gimme dat belly

  • Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

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  • In a functioning society I think that would be criminal.

  • Types of Podcasts, a guide

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  • Dua Lipa’s book club seems like it would be that top-right one but she seems to put real effort into it and she is actually a pretty good interviewer.

    But I’m a fan so I’m probably exactly who the agent is thinking of in this scenario.

  • Pleasantly Vanished

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  • I used to moderate a subreddit about talking to Trump Supporters, and my mod team was pretty small but we were close even though not all of us were Trump Supporters. I think about them a lot.

    I also had this dynasty team on some mobile space war game, with so many branches and feeder teams and tons of in-game and real life geopolitics. It was wild, and again, I was really close with my fellow team leaders.

    And in both cases I’ve never said a word to any of them since leaving basically. No Ill will, just going to a different school now, so to speak.

  • Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News | CNN Business

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  • Whether or not you are illegal is a second order problem for these dudes.

  • Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday if funding deal isn’t reached

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  • To what?

  • Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday if funding deal isn’t reached

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  • Any airport in the US is effectively federal property because the TSA does security in all airports, the FAA controls most surface movement and all takeoffs and landings, and in International airports, the CBP controls the port of entry.

    And I hate to break it to you but removing the TSA doesn’t mean we revert back to pre 9/11 days. Security at airports is still governed by the Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program which defines the screening requirements, but not necessarily who must complete them.

    Trump will be under a lot of pressure from capital not to do this, I suspect, because it would absolutely crater tourism.

    Assuming he TACOs, and dems hold strong (sob), I would be looking for one of two scenarios.

    Most likely, airports revert to post 9/11-pre TSA setup. Same basic experience, and probably even the same people, but a different uniform. Remember Huntleigh? Argenbright? You may still see these logos on the arms of wheelchair pushers or janitorial staff, but for a long, long time, they operated the checkpoints too. Between maybe the late 80s and up until 9/11, there was still screening but it was much more lax. Basic screening was likely introduced after Pan Am flight 103, and while there were metal detectors and x-rays, anyone could go through, which is what made all the sappy last minute airport reunion scenes possible.

    After 9/11, the AOSSP was updated again with much more stringent security requirements, but at first the screening was still done by those vendors - provided at least one specially trained airline representative Ground Security Coordinator was present at the checkpoint. I was a GSC once upon a time, and I don’t think the TSA took over all of the checkpoints until maybe 2005. Though I’m not still current on the AOSSP, I’m fairly certain all of the policy that would enable a complete reversion back to this model is still in place. Airlines at each airport would share the cost of the contract.

    Back then, a bunch of Huntleigh Employees suddenly became TSA employees. We might see a bunch of TSA employees become Huntleigh employees.

    Or potentially, Trump will split the difference and just make the TSA screeners ICE employees. That’s probably a LITTLE less likely to spook travelers, so it could be a face saving compromise, but more likely he will do something like the first option and spin it as cutting government bloat and a partnership with job creating business leaders.

  • MAGA gov thrown out of restaurant after customers say she made them uncomfortable

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  • I’ll be honest, especially outside of their typical context, like the White House or haunted houses, ghouls would make me feel threatened too.

  • ‘Nightmare!’ CNN Data Chief Stunned by Whopping 71-Point Anti-Trump Swing Among Indies on Prices

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  • He is making the classic mistake of thinking that he would be Trump in this scenario, and not the casino employee who lost their job