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Here's a fun thing out of Arizona. One of the media's election experts is Garrett Archer (maricopa incoming), as he used to work elections before working for news in the area. One of his favorite (?) hobbies is to kindly yell at idiots in Arizona, such as the Cyber Ninjas or Mike Lindell, that don't know what they're looking at or don't know election law. So every now and then, some chud will try and own him with some in-the-weeds Arizona elections procedural thing, even down to the database level. Which he knows, because he was an Actual Election Expert. Enter Jordan Conradson, Gateway Pundit chud. In his goal of owning Archer, he committed a Class 6 felony (basically a heavy misdemeanor): Here are the general rules: https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1669507638311424001 Here's what the idiot posted (the felony, retweeted by Kari Lake): https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1669496778549518336 and the big kicker: quote:@MaricopaVote has confirmed the signature example @ConradsonJordan illegally published DID NOT PASS at level 1. So in an attempt to own a reporter, this idiot committed a felony and proved that the process actually worked - a signature mismatch was found by the county elections board, they contacted the voter, and fixed it. Also the idiot is a woman-beater. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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I have some cool and good news to post https://i.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/300906128/historic-waka-unearthed-from-ptea-river-after-being-hidden-for-153-years
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Do any Texas cities have polluted rivers and lead pipes in their water infrastructure? Propublica did a thing looking at cancer rates and air pollution/environmental regulations or something and found Texas bad.
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lightpole posted:Propublica did a thing looking at cancer rates and air pollution/environmental regulations or something and found Texas bad. I was born and raised here and I could have told them that.
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Some idiocy from my neck of the woods: Polish authorities are refusing to let the South African diplomatic delegation off their plane without a strip search? https://twitter.com/PieterDuToit/status/1669459446303531008
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https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-worldquote:the ban imposes huge economic and humanitarian costs on Afghans War On Drugs: Officially Bad Hannibal Rex fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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Jun 16, 2023 13:11
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Everyone knows that one of the reasons Texas wanted to secede from Mexico was because Mexico was going to outlaw slavery. However, there was a new mandate that said the Mexican national government would have total control over all of the land owned by Mexico, including the land of Texas. This was a secondary reason why Texas wanted to secede from Mexico. Siete Leyes. Anyway I bring this up because I find the new law hilariously ironic.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Some idiocy from my neck of the woods: Polish authorities are refusing to let the South African diplomatic delegation off their plane without a strip search? This may not be entirely Poland's fault. https://twitter.com/PieterDuToit/status/1669683740044324865
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:This may not be entirely Poland's fault. What the absolute gently caress is going on?
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I was just in South Africa in March for two weeks for a grad school program and it was very obvious the country does not have a functional government.
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Mustang posted:I was just in South Africa in March for two weeks for a grad school program and it was very obvious the country does not have a functional government. Did it feel like the US then or
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There is no comparison anywhere in America to the conditions South Africa is in. "Load shedding" blackouts for hours at a time every day, where even things like street lights stop being powered and unemployed people start directing traffic for tips. Unemployment is something like 30-40% and they have the worst income inequality in the world. Every property in Johannesburg is fortified with really high walls topped by electric fencing, barbed wire, or spikes of some kind. poo poo is falling apart everywhere. Cape Town looked better off than Johannesburg but still had a lot of the same issues.
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Mustang posted:There is no comparison anywhere in America to the conditions South Africa is in. "Load shedding" blackouts for hours at a time every day, where even things like street lights stop being powered and unemployed people start directing traffic for tips. Unemployment is something like 30-40% and they have the worst income inequality in the world. Every property in Johannesburg is fortified with really high walls topped by electric fencing, barbed wire, or spikes of some kind. poo poo is falling apart everywhere. Cape Town looked better off than Johannesburg but still had a lot of the same issues. One of the dead giveaways that you're in South Africa when playing Geoguessr is that you see houses that look like they could be in reasonably nice parts of the US or Australia, except they're all fortified against a no poo poo armed invasion. Plenty of homes have walls all over the world, but these walls rival the ones at the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.
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American exceptionalism, except, instead of thinking America is the greatest country in the world, you confuse the country's very real failings for being somehow worse than literal failed states.
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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1669707102120558597?t=51CBe5ljAHMqkVl6lcRqvg&s=19 Can't wait for the Not Twitter posts about how Jim UnTrusty was a plug for the Radical Left. Sad!
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https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1669749466352562183?s=20
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That's a hell of a thread.
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https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1669776085498691602?s=20 Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, passed away today. I remember weeks ago he announced he had pancreatic cancer and was very accepting of his fate. Dude certainly had a very strong moral compass.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Some idiocy from my neck of the woods: Polish authorities are refusing to let the South African diplomatic delegation off their plane without a strip search? This is cool and good. Oh wait I’m being reminded that this 2023 and not 1983.
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https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1669734526019424257?s=20
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should have waited 5 months.
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A.o.D. posted:One of the dead giveaways that you're in South Africa when playing Geoguessr is that you see houses that look like they could be in reasonably nice parts of the US or Australia, except they're all fortified against a no poo poo armed invasion. Plenty of homes have walls all over the world, but these walls rival the ones at the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan. I was in Nicaragua not too long after one of their more lawless periods and I was at the extremely humble house of one of their communist senators and even his tiny, glorified shack was surrounded by a 10 foot wall. I stopped at several other prominent political families' houses that were similarly fortified, but the image of a fortified shed really stuck with me. The US has a lot of failings and a laundry list of issues but idk states actually breaking down are a whole other beast. back around 2015 I'd sometimes get a distinctly post-soviet vibe (relative to my experience there ~early 2000s) in some rural American areas where it was clear that there had been basically zero major infrastructure spending in 20 years, but that was a lot more local and to some extent the product of boom/bust cycles. Still that was a pretty superficial, localized look much more than any real similarity Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1669776085498691602?s=20 RIP to a real one. Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of American anyone in government should strive to emulate. Minus taking home those nuclear secrets. That was bad Daniel, very bad. You did write a pretty cool book about those nuclear secrets decades later, but I’m much less interested in that than the pentagon papers. I hope the after life is grand for you. RIP to a real one.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:I was in Nicaragua not too long after one of their more lawless periods and I was at the extremely humble house of one of their communist senators and even his tiny, glorified shack was surrounded by a 10 foot wall. I stopped at several other prominent political families' houses that were similarly fortified, but the image of a fortified shed really stuck with me. The US has a lot of failings and a laundry list of issues but idk states actually breaking down are a whole other beast. In 90s in Ukraine the relatively-well off people would be buying reinforced/armored doors for their apartments.
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Nothing broke the romanticism of anarchy faster or more completely than a few days playing minecraft on a popular but unmoderated server in 2011
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shame on an IGA posted:Nothing broke the romanticism of anarchy faster or more completely than a few days playing minecraft on a popular but unmoderated server in 2011 2b2t is a hell of place. Cool history despite the pure chaos though.
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Kinda worried my anarchy in minecraft searches are giving people the wrong impression
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This is the police department that sometimes fails to get qualified immunity. Normally, police can shoot someone's dog for no reason and still get qualified immunity from a judge, but these guys are so terrible that even police-loving judges turn up their noses at them.
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consent decree when
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This is a weird take from a country ostensibly negotiating a peace deal.
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this is a looooooooooooooong thread, but god drat. it just keeps going
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Cugel the Clever posted:This is a weird take from a country ostensibly negotiating a peace deal. I mean, they're kind of in Russia's camp. It's a known thing. Their notional neutrality is a bit of a farce.
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Mustang posted:I was just in South Africa in March for two weeks for a grad school program and it was very obvious the country does not have a functional government. A gay coworker from SA who immigrated has said he has zero interest in returning, guessing probably not the most progressive. An optimistic friend did enjoy her safari there. Their luggage was immediately stolen at the airport but after that, smooth sailing.
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OR Tambo is an airport where you need a police/armed private security escort just getting out of the airport’s grounds. I’ve been to Central African Republic three times and I’ve never wanted to be armed before, but if I had to go to SA, I’d want a strap of some sort.
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I had a blast in South Africa. The people, scenery, and wildlife were incredible. As a tourist I never felt really all that unsafe, if you got any attention it was generally to try to sell you something. And with all the unemployment I don't blame them, I bought stuff from them pretty often. Even something "overpriced" was only a few dollars at most in USD. I had nothing but great interactions with people, they're extremely friendly. I highly recommend going to South Africa as a tourist, and the people could certainly use the money from tourism. But yeah I would never live there, despite how much fun Cape Town is. It's impossible to escape the effects of a failing government.
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pmchem posted:consent decree when it's happening dot gif - was part of the announcement this morning https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/03/27/explainer-whats-a-consent-decree-and-what-could-it-mean-for-minneapolis
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Zamujasa posted:this is a looooooooooooooong thread, but god drat. it just keeps going I don't think I got a dozen in before I got so mad I had to stop.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:2b2t is a hell of place. Cool history despite the pure chaos though. The administrator is rumored to have built some… Germanic pinwheels.
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oh poo poo I see where they went wrong. They spelled it mein kraft. obvious mistake
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