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Duzzy Funlop posted:Now, if we could get Trump to shittalk BTS, Blackpink, and Twice, I'd wager the Blinks, Once and whatever BTS fans call themselves would just turn the 2024 election into a foregone conclusion. I’m highly offended you left out Stays. Going to start a campaign now to bring GiP down.
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Sarah posted:I’m highly offended you left out Stays. Going to start a campaign now to bring GiP down. The CSPAM is coming from inside the building!
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Sarah posted:I’m highly offended you left out Stays. Going to start a campaign now to bring GiP down. Look, I know the group has been defunct for essentially a 8-9 years now, but the enduring power of Orange Caramel fans cannot be discounted.
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GoGoGadget posted:Man beheads his own father for being a federal worker under the "Biden regime" and posts video on YouTube holding the severed head, calling for militias to kill any federal official on sight My friend group has adopted a guy who complains bitterly about his divorce, is super into Tucker Carlson and dumb Biden conspiracies, and loudly uses terms like “slant eye” in the middle of dinner at a Korean BBQ joint. I think I’m going to bow out of any future meetups that involve him. Not totally related to this, just something on my mind.
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Tiny Timbs posted:My friend group has adopted a guy who complains bitterly about his divorce, is super into Tucker Carlson and dumb Biden conspiracies, and loudly uses terms like “slant eye” in the middle of dinner at a Korean BBQ joint. I think I’m going to bow out of any future meetups that involve him. Holy poo poo. That dude definitely uses the hard R when he says the gamer word while punching holes in his apartment dry wall.
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GoGoGadget posted:Man beheads his own father for being a federal worker under the "Biden regime" and posts video on YouTube holding the severed head, calling for militias to kill any federal official on sight I always love when someone puts the FBI, BLM movement, "woke", every single gay person, ICE, and the IRS (???) Into the same conspiracy, it's such a good litmus test for if someone's to loving insane to even bother talking to. Sucks for the dude's dad though, that's rough.
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Sarah posted:I’m highly offended you left out Stays. Going to start a campaign now to bring GiP down. I'll have to check with the Bunnies whether I can afford to apologize to you without ending up in a two-front war.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I know it's usually used to mean "feels good but accomplishes nothing because no effort" but I didn't intend for it to be a negative in my post. I think it (and the rally registration thing mentioned above also) show that there are, in fact, some strategies of effective action in the modern age that can be taken without un-assing your computer chair. "Slacktivism" feels like a good word to use for it. nah i wasn't aiming at you, don't sweat it. i'm just a bitter cripple who's tired of being shamed for not "doing more" when "doing more" would injure or kill me
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GoGoGadget posted:Man beheads his own father for being a federal worker under the "Biden regime" and posts video on YouTube holding the severed head, calling for militias to kill any federal official on sight How are the Swifties going to respond to this escalation?
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GoGoGadget posted:Man beheads his own father for being a federal worker under the "Biden regime" and posts video on YouTube holding the severed head, calling for militias to kill any federal official on sight I don't even know how to respond anymore
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I don't even know how to respond anymore "No YOU shut the gently caress up dad!"
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Elviscat posted:I always love when someone puts the FBI, BLM movement, "woke", every single gay person, ICE, and the IRS (???) Into the same conspiracy, it's such a good litmus test for if someone's to loving insane to even bother talking to. Once a conspiracy is big enough it stops being a conspiracy and just starts being society. That's fundamentally why they have to adopt conspiratorial thinking. They've convinced themselves that their values and beliefs are shared by the hyper majority of "real" Americans and to preserve that belief any contrary evidence has to be fake.
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GoGoGadget posted:Man beheads his own father for being a federal worker under the "Biden regime" and posts video on YouTube holding the severed head, calling for militias to kill any federal official on sight I'm sure he's sure that His President will pardon him for being a political prisoner of the radical left Marxist something something. Soylent Pudding posted:Once a conspiracy is big enough it stops being a conspiracy and just starts being society. In this case, it's all because a narcissistic Boomer is willing to take a blowtorch to this country because he really, really doesn't want to spend the rest of whatever is left of his life in prison.
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Zero VGS posted:"No YOU shut the gently caress up dad!" I was just thinking about this guy the other day
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CBJSprague24 posted:I'm sure he's sure that His President will pardon him for being a political prisoner of the radical left Marxist something something. I mean even if Trump came out and said "Alright, you guys got me. Here is video of me doing crimes, I'm sorry, I've been grifting you this entire time, the right wing is trying to make you stupid, dumb, poors into stupider, dumber, poorers and I've been tricking you the entire time into believe some really stupid poo poo." They'd just move the goal post and say that Trump was being forced to say that or was actually part of the conspiracy the entire time. Trumps a symptom not a cause.
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The only unambiguously true things that can be said about Trump and the current state of things is that he made the internal Republican processes revolve around him, and that he encouraged people to be their worst selves.
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mlmp08 posted:Look, I know the group has been defunct for essentially a 8-9 years now, but the enduring power of Orange Caramel fans cannot be discounted. ![]() https://youtu.be/JsOOis4bBFg?si=8z5_YZnnYMFShnHa
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I’m just boosting the idea of more Orange Caramel in everyone’s playlists. https://youtu.be/Med2XipHJJM?si=GsZ2aszDkzgQmpH8
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mlmp08 posted:I’m just boosting the idea of more Orange Caramel in everyone’s playlists. Never heard of them but I love it!
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Tiny Timbs posted:My friend group has adopted a guy who complains bitterly about his divorce, is super into Tucker Carlson and dumb Biden conspiracies, and loudly uses terms like “slant eye” in the middle of dinner at a Korean BBQ joint. I think I’m going to bow out of any future meetups that involve him. nah, invite the whole group out to dinner at a korean place and the first time he says some racist poo poo, stand up and go "ok, this guy is too racist for me, im out" and if your friends kick him out then good, otherwise rip them
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it appears that a CIWS got to fire shots in anger yesterday https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html quote:A cruise missile launched by the Houthis into the Red Sea on Tuesday night came within a mile of a US destroyer before it was shot down, four US officials told CNN, the closest a Houthi attack has come to a US warship.
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facialimpediment posted:it appears that a CIWS got to fire shots in anger yesterday Making it to CIWS range with destroyer is a little uncomfortable.
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Drones are this century’s torpedo boats.
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I’m no sailor, but I always took it to be a really bad thing to have to use CIWS. Misconception?
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I’m no sailor, but I always took it to be a really bad thing to have to use CIWS. Not a misconception. If you're employing CIWS against incoming, poo poo has gone sideways in a very bad way. The range of CIWS is such that if it misses, you're taking an ASM in the side in about a second's time. Gravely was very aware of the incoming and likely placed herself there intentionally, but at the same time, hearing a CIWS go BRRRT in anger would be an absolute pucker factor event.
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Defenestrategy posted:I mean even if Trump came out and said it's also a way above zero chance that he still would not go to prison or face any meaningful legal consequences
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The Messenger died today after being in business for a year and lighting $50M in venture capital on fire https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1752799170107199490?t=TAb2hy6mXlrOKFZP2eUn8g&s=19 I really do wonder why henge funds buy up newspapers just to drive them directly into the ground - like how much money do they even make with that strategy? Or do they just load the newspaper companies full of debt, due to the hedge fund, in the initial buyout?
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facialimpediment posted:
i didn't get to see this because screenings had already sold out, but apparently selling off the real estate is profitable, after which they don't care: https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/24/stripped-for-parts-american-journalism-on-the-brink-new-parkway-rick-goldsmith/ dunno how they structure it such that they can extract those profits without needing to service the debt, but financiers are creative, they can find a way
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I don't even know how to respond anymore maga
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facialimpediment posted:The Messenger died today after being in business for a year and lighting $50M in venture capital on fire e: not the right video, it's no longer on youtube, but they had one about local newspapers being bought up by a single billionaire, creating news deserts that hide local government malfeasance. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Wasabi the J posted:e: not the right video, it's no longer on youtube, but they had one about local newspapers being bought up by a single billionaire, creating news deserts that hide local government malfeasance. Now THAT part I fully understand - Baltimore has some rich douche basically doing that. Bought a paper, makes them investigate his chuddy desires. I just don't get how it's profitable for the hedge funds, outside of selling the real estate. Like do they actually make back the money that they put into these newspapers? Setting aside all the people and reporters they gently caress over, do they even make their fuckin money back?
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facialimpediment posted:Now THAT part I fully understand - Baltimore has some rich douche basically doing that. Bought a paper, makes them investigate his chuddy desires. The point is to silence local media just like that police search warrant on the newspaper, or the local politician who murdered a reporter in Las Vegas. Billionaires are largely criminals and reporters they don't control won't shut the gently caress up.
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I've said it once, and I'll say it again. You do not get that rich by being nice.
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Zero VGS posted:"No YOU shut the gently caress up dad!" Is this too dark for a thread title?
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Maybe next month, son
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facialimpediment posted:Now THAT part I fully understand - Baltimore has some rich douche basically doing that. Bought a paper, makes them investigate his chuddy desires. i am pulling this entirely out of my rear end, but my assumption is that it's a lot like the leveraged buyouts and poo poo you see tanking companies elsewhere. do funny tricks with debt, pay yourself all the money, oops the other place is bankrupt and everyone who didn't get out loses. in addition to its already stated effects on local politics. my favorite story of this kind is always the lvrj, who were bought out by ... somebody??? they had to investigate themselves to finally uncover who the mystery buyer was, and it was the lovely horrid billionaire (but i repeat myself) sheldon adelson. proper, quality journalism isn't dying. it's being killed.
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Zero VGS posted:"No YOU shut the gently caress up dad!" For the uninitiated https://youtu.be/9OYZ04mCGCo
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Zamujasa posted:proper, quality journalism isn't dying. it's being killed. funny you say that in regards to that specific newspaper https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jeff-german-las-vegas-reporter-killed-investigating-robert-telles-wrongdoing/
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# ? Sep 1, 2024 01:17 |
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2024 just keeps going. Bad story: Son of an Isreali consular officer uses a motorcycle to run over a cop, during a traffic stop. Suspectec to be intentional. https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article284905607.html Cool story: It's only infrared but, the JWST has directly imaged two planets orbiting a white dwarf. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-webb-images-planets-orbiting-white.amp
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