What if I told you there are allowed to write this because it serves an overall goal of heavily regulating (even more so) online communications

Absolutely not a coincidence that all this stuff “leaks” to small groups of “Internet friends.”

Maybe I’m being too conspiratorial, but it does seem like a narrative is being crafted to declare all the apparently not fully compromised sites (reddit, facebook, twitter being fully compromised) as “hotbeds for terror and treason!” as we enter this apparently-inevitable hot war between US/“the west” and Russia/China/Iran. They already spy on absolutely everything… but they want more.

Perhaps I missed some details, but I believe the argument was a bit different (but also probably included what you said). They wanted to use the other convicted pedophile, his buddy, but they feared a jury wouldn’t trust a convicted pedophile. I think these were both effectively speculation though since the feds never formally acknowledged much of it. We saw the evidence and we knew they were pursuing charges… and then it went poof with little reason why

He’s more than likely going to be totally deranged. The only question is how much he relies on rhetoric vs action. Incompetence is a given, but when the secdef position… he can kill a shitload of people. Of course in theory secdef answers to the president, but, they’ve gone “rogue” before to varying degrees. They hold immense authority at the end of the day and few will question their authority if they just say the president made the order. Genuinely crazy shit, but… not unexpected unfortunately

I appoint myself to be Trump’s new “Shit Czar” in charge of reversing all the EPA (or whoever makes those rules) rules/laws/whatever mandating “low flow” faucets and toilets.

A “problem” that was solved 20 years ago. Easiest job ever. Just pretend I’m still working on it for 4 years then show him a Toto toilet. The Japanese really know how to suck human feces away with minimum amounts of water usage. (No, I’m not paid by Toto… but I’d like to be)

Canada has been invading the US in the form of the absolute worst war crime loving media figures. David Frum (guilty of enough propaganda to be hanged, legally speaking only of course), Crowder (re-enacted George Floyd’s murder among an infinite well of other racist shit, Ted Cruz (Cuban-Canadian… no further comment), and a lot more that I can’t will myself into thinking about

“He’s just a fan of Latin! Guys! Can’t someone tattoo the Catholic motto used during the crusades on their arm!? CANCEL CULTURE WHAT THE FUCK???”

But for real, I thought this was a “joke” someone put out? (The guy not his Nazi tats) He’s some low level rando from Fox News…?

Immediate thought:

This reminds me of my favorite episode of Futurama entitled Godfellas.

God is represented as a possible result of a satellite that collided with God and created this binary-speaking God we see in the episode

If she sees this comment though… might speed the process up

Excellent 5D chess move

But on a more serious note, this sounds like an infinite fountain of resentment for the two of you. From the outsider POV here, it’s easy to say “just leave.” But as someone on the outside who has been on the inside… you gotta take action. Now or later, this stuff tends to explode.

Results will be a quick burn end of the relationship or she comes to acknowledge the truth (that criticism of Israel doesn’t inherently have anything at all to do with Jewish people. And also thinking it does is into itself pretty antisemitic even if tons of people think it anyway). You either save yourself years of internal torment and resentment (and probably same on her end, to be fair) or you have a healthier, more mature relationship where you can respect each other and learn and grow together.

It’s your life ultimately. Why spend it with a hovering cloud of resentment over your main relationship and source of human contact? Unless it genuinely doesn’t bother you. Then do whatever. Do whatever anyway. It seems to bother you though considering draws circle this whole-ass post.

And the sunk cost fallacy is a bad logical fallacy with investments and such. When using it regarding a relationship… it’s only going to get more “sunk.” More cats, maybe kids, who knows. I don’t want to boil relationships down to dollars, but it’s safe to say long term committed relationships don’t tend to have partners become less “bought-in” over time.

Cop unions are “fake” because cops are class traitors. My opinion anyway. But yes no one considers their endorsement because obviously they always support the most right wing candidate, usually the republican… although now days they’re literally both full pro-cop parties

And i assume the person isn’t talking about the union as an entity or its leadership but rather the unionized workers who belong to the union. Many voted for Trump. Not that surprising considering Biden offered very little to them and fully failed to communicate what he did offer (and Harris too later on). When the entire election is social issues vs social issues and class issues are effectively off the table (in any meaningful way) then people who don’t pay much attention of course vote for the hog taking a better social issues story for them to believe in.

Literally the meme of Eric shooting Hannibal then asking “Why would Donald Trump do this?” Eric is the DNC/libs and Hannibal is “the working class” which includes people who actually work for a living. They blame Trump for their own failure to reject neoliberal capitalism that has been failing 90% of the population for 40-50 years.

Vague accusations of Evans being a fed

(I haven’t seen real evidence of this being true, btw. People accuse Johnny Harris of being a fed- THAT I do believe. Evans though… meh. People should be checking sources anyway and not just believing the framing of podcasters/streamers. Sometimes a person can tell the truth while lying. That’s what Harris does. I haven’t seen this behavior from Evans. I get the feeling it’s mostly just normal online activities by bored people who want to accuse everyone else of doing stuff. Nevertheless the rumors have persisted and it’s hard to comment on him without getting told “wow, didn’t you know he’s…” so I try to pre-empt that)

Behind the Bastards (the podcast) had a multi-part look into this hangman. The conclusion seemed to be “Who knows if the Army hired him knowing he was incompetent or if he purposefully incompetent… but the result was a lot of Nazis suffering strangulation instead of the quick neck snap”

(And yes I know BtB’s lead man is the center of some amount of controversy. Most of their strictly historical output is fine though, in my view.)

God it feels good

I mean not sure how that’s how it works lmao

Does that make Tzar Nicholas II the greatest emperor of Russia? I dunno, maybe. Maybe it does.

But, I’m still ridin’ with Biden. On one policy only.

Let’s just say

SCOTUS made a pretty crazy decision in the recent past. And Biden could do a hilarious thing before Jan 20, 2025.

Time’s ticking old man! In all the ways possible!

1000 burner accounts and not behind a single proxy

It’s already effectively happened the moment Trump was clearly the winner. The “threat to democracy” rhetoric got shut off, Kamala and every media outlet swapped from “he’s literally Hitler!” to “we must accept the results of this election”.

I seem to recall something vague about taurus and star signs, but I dunno, I wasn’t really paying attention the 100th time my ex-girlfriend told me about stars and the moon

There’s also the Pokemon

This seems rather harsh towards the family-sized Ford Taurus

That already basically happened and the result wasn’t great. I forget the name of the movement or group, whatever, but a bunch of people smoked a fuckload of weed and surely used acid, etc., read Marx, and decided if we were just all high on whatever drugs then we could finally do utopian communism.

Basically just assuming people are driven by some internal desire for greed and not their environment and surroundings. (That’s what I got from them anyway. Otherwise why do we all need to be in an altered state to do good things?)

Even if there was 100% crossover from one party to another, and every voter admitted into a camera “Yes, I am a former Biden voter now voting Green” that would still mean the democrats failed to campaign to those voters.

Blaming voters is what the loserest of the losers do when they’re losing. It’s pathetic, it’s annoying, and for whatever anyone cares anymore… it’s fundamentally anti-democratic (as in the form of government not the party).

Also, why is Frankenstein so angwee? Trump will surely kill more Muslims than Biden. Or at least not end the killing. Don’t worry, Lurch. The Killing Fields of planet Earth will never be drenched in enough blood to satisfy the US government.

I took a VERY small peek at reddit stormfront just now.

There’s a Jimmy Kimmel crying video upvoted w/ 20K likes on the politics sub.

First comment is along the lines of “I saw voters interviewed and they’re so fucking dumb! They didn’t even know who was running!”

Yeah, Americans are ignorant dinguses. Welcome to America.

If they want random Bob on the street to know who is running and care then maybe, juuuuust maybe, the message can’t only be “Nothing will change. Everything is great already! And if you don’t vote for me, America will be Nazi Germany! But no, I won’t actually do anything about the guy we call Adolf Hitler. That would be wrong!”

It needs to be “Trump bad” sure, ok. Then also a few bare minimum first 100 days promises. Trump promised the hogs escalated deportations, killing drug dealers, finishing the genocide quickly so they don’t have to look at it. Adolf shit.

Maybe the answer can’t be “I will deport… less? maybe? immigrants for no apparent reason.” It needs to be “Trump is following the same fascist logic of axis leaders during WWII. He’s called fellow Americans, documented people living and working legally in the United States, vermin and poison. Instead of dehumanizing these people, I will be granting them citizenship which will be a boon to our economy and communities.”

Instead of “Trump wants to repeal (shitty) Obamacare!” It needs to be “Obamacare was a start, but it didn’t go anywhere far enough. I will be working in the first 100 days to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55. With that done, I will work with Congress when possible, but go around them when required, to further lower the age of eligibility with an aim towards everyone being eligible.”

Solid, plausible promises of things she could have forced through quickly with additional long term plans. You meet the promise, and if you get the extra part that’s just free real estate for re-election…

But clearly liberals, democrats, have absolutely no desire to improve things. They only wish to go rightward… but do it “respectfully.” When the SWAT team kicks in your neighbor’s door looking for an alleged “illegal immigrant” that Nosey Martha down the street falsely reported to JD’s Gestapo because he “looked a little tan”… liberals want the agents and cops to say “Please, drop to your knees with your hands in the air, motherfuckers!” as they flashbang the baby crib and, of course, shoot Fido 5 times in the chest with their MP5.