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I really wonder how Soros is simultaneously at the heart of every single thing. Like dang, does that guy sleep? Does he have like his own private Shark Tank-esq thing where people just pitch him various components of the gay agenda and he gives a thumbs up/down like some sort of ultra leftist emperor? Is it like speed dating? I suppose maybe since he's old as gently caress he just manages things and bankrolls it. Kinda like setting up a franchise maybe.
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Hexyflexy posted:That is making GBS threads amazing. Soooo, are they using "Fake News" like Trump is, or are they warning about actual fake news? I can't loving tell
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Apr 1, 2018 19:27
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Soooo, are they using "Fake News" like Trump is, or are they warning about actual fake news? I can't loving tell Like how Trump is. Think of Sinclair being like the equivalent of local Fox News, just not branded as such. Sinclair news stations present general coverage of local events like normal, with sprinkled-in pro-Trump propaganda pieces mandated in the newscasts by the network overlords.
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Vasudus posted:I really wonder how Soros is simultaneously at the heart of every single thing. Like dang, does that guy sleep? Does he have like his own private Shark Tank-esq thing where people just pitch him various components of the gay agenda and he gives a thumbs up/down like some sort of ultra leftist emperor? Is it like speed dating? Friend of mine used to always put off his sort of girlfriend by telling her he had to work and finally our other friend blurts out "does she think you work 100 hours a week or something?" I guess what I'm saying is that some people are stupid.
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Vasudus posted:I really wonder how Soros is simultaneously at the heart of every single thing. Like dang, does that guy sleep? Does he have like his own private Shark Tank-esq thing where people just pitch him various components of the gay agenda and he gives a thumbs up/down like some sort of ultra leftist emperor? Is it like speed dating? Soros is Emmanuel Goldstein.
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Apr 1, 2018 19:51
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I haven’t truly felt like there could be a civil war until now. That’s not just being broadcast on rigtwing type news stations. I thought I saw CBS and other on there too. I loving told everyone that the telecommunications act of 1996 was the root of this and that video is loving evidence. poo poo is for real scary. Sorry about not it being a joke.
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Apr 1, 2018 19:56
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Soulex posted:I haven’t truly felt like there could be a civil war until now. That’s not just being broadcast on rigtwing type news stations. I thought I saw CBS and other on there too. Dude I can't say I'm shocked that a bunch of broadcasters from the same broadcast group are using the same pre-written verbal diarrhea.
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Considering the message and it reaching up to 40% of the population, I do. Don’t forget, I was a propaganda machine for the loving military. I fully know what a bad message looks like. This is one.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:06
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i don't think it's any worse than anything else that was going on in the right-wing media prior to that video being released. facebook reaches a lot more than 40% of the population of the US, and what was going on there was way more egregious in my opinion.
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Apr 1, 2018 20:07
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Recognized one of my local affiliates in there. Good poo poo.
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Arrath posted:Recognized one of my local affiliates in there. Good poo poo. I didn't. By some miracle Minnesota has escaped the wrath of Sinclair Broadcasting, but goddamn they are some scummy bastards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Political_views quote:Sinclair often mandates its stations to air specific reports, segments, and editorials, referred to as "must-runs". The practice has been criticized by some of Sinclair's stations' news staff due to the viewpoints they propagate; in 1996, after CEO David Smith was arrested in a prostitution sting, he ordered Sinclair's Baltimore station WBFF to produce reports on a local drug counseling program as part of his community service sentence. The order was criticized by WBFF reporter LuAnne Canipe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Smith quote:In a speech to business executives in New York (on December 16, 2016), Jared Kushner said that Donald Trump’s campaign had struck a deal with Sinclair to provide extra access and coverage. Kushner said the agreement gave Sinclair Broadcasting stations special access to Trump during the campaign and in exchange, Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary.
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Is anyone in doubt anymore that Russia has successfully co-opted the GOP at this point? We're sort of lucky in a way, imagine if they'd managed to do this with a competent president.
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boop the snoot posted:i don't think it's any worse than anything else that was going on in the right-wing media prior to that video being released. The largest issue here is the local news is highly trusted by the public. These anchormen and journalists are involved in the community. People know them. They see them live their lives. It’s a massive erosion into a long-built relationship.
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holocaust bloopers posted:The largest issue here is the local news is highly trusted by the public. These anchormen and journalists are involved in the community. People know them. They see them live their lives. It’s a massive erosion into a long-built relationship. This, and it's hitting newstations on both sides of the spectrum. This is why people have a "the worlds on fire but my house isn't so gently caress it" attitude. These messages being mandated. It's not crazy yet, but this is a definitive warning sign, strictly because it ignores affiliation on political spectrum.
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holocaust bloopers posted:The largest issue here is the local news is highly trusted by the public. These anchormen and journalists are involved in the community. People know them. They see them live their lives. It’s a massive erosion into a long-built relationship. Fair point
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sharknado slashfic posted:Is anyone in doubt anymore that Russia has successfully co-opted the GOP at this point? We're sort of lucky in a way, imagine if they'd managed to do this with a competent president. Not Romney at least. I still think he would have been real bad but not like this.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:Not Romney at least. I still think he would have been real bad but not like this. He's an evil rich fucker but he seemed sort of honest at least. We all laughed when he said Russia was our greatest threat 
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Apr 1, 2018 21:29
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I remember thinking him being a vulture capitalist was one of the worst things imaginable but somehow Trump is worse in every single way.
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Life would be A-OK if Romney were president. The basic functions of governance would go on. I wouldn’t be concerned with State Dept staffing issues or know the name of the deputy AG.
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Apr 1, 2018 21:39
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https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/980529046542077953 Gonna quote my favorite parts of this article: quote:... Bolded mine because to me it's the most laughable part of it, but the whole thing is cringe-worthy.
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Apr 1, 2018 21:45
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boop the snoot posted:Bolded mine because to me it's the most laughable part of it, but the whole thing is cringe-worthy. These are the kind of articles that show up when all of the usual tricks stop working and they know they're getting beaten by a bunch of high schoolers. Probably drives them nuts when all the insincere arguments that usually work fall flat like rocks because the kids have way more experience detecting that poo poo and being counter-assholes. Or it could just be their usual rile-up-the-supporters schtick.
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Apr 1, 2018 22:05
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Collectively most of the nation is no longer capable of empathy. To me this is the biggest single problem for the USA now. Like, sure you might not agree with the kids take on gun control, but it should be pretty simple to realize how someone who had their friends violently murdered might have a different point of view on the topic and feel that they should be able to voice their opinions, concern on that subject.
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That Works posted:Collectively most of the nation is no longer capable of empathy. To me this is the biggest single problem for the USA now. To paraphrase Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, when an individual, a community, a nation, or a planet unlocks the energies of love, it will be its greatest discovery since the making of fire.
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That Works posted:Collectively most of the nation is no longer capable of empathy. To me this is the biggest single problem for the USA now. Imo that's the end result of neoliberal / cyberpunk / whatever it is we're living in social policy. Political and moral authorities just hammer home in every facet of life that the proper response to someone being in trouble / pain is welp sucks to be you. The most powerful country in the world can't be expected to provide welfare or healthcare, firms can't be expected to provide sick leave, billionaires can't be expected to pay taxes so how can a guy be expected to accept restrictions to his gun hobby so school kids maybe don't get shot at as much. Expecting anything but a gently caress you is entitlement.
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mods change my name posted:I HAVE ARISEN He is risen, indeed
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boop the snoot posted:Hot take: I think defeating Fox News would be more beneficial to the world (or at the very least the US) than defeating terrorism. Was FN always owned Murdoch or was it a later acquisition? boop the snoot posted:https://twitter.com/Stallone/status/980461360516513796 What's this then?
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FN was always owned by Murdoch. He started in Australia (and has had a similar effect on news in Oz) and started FN in '96.
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Crakkerjakk posted:FN was always owned by Murdoch. He started in Australia (and has had a similar effect on news in Oz) and started FN in '96. More specifically Fox News gets its name from 20th Century Fox which begat the Fox TV channel. From Fox News has sprung Fox Business Channel. But Rupe is confronting his mortality, and his sons are not as hands off as Rupert was. They’re far more hands on and have a different set of priorities, which why they’re selling the film unit to Disney or Comcast. I’m not sure how the sons will play things going forward, but they were linked to the ouster of Roger Ailes from FN among other things.
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quote:1 dead as outbreak related to synthetic pot use hits 38 people in Illinois Someone died from fake weed because real weed is still illegal.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Someone died from fake weed because real weed is still illegal. I met a couple from Austin who told me that they had smoked spice because the available weed was brown, impotent dirt weed.
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Apr 2, 2018 02:25
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quitting that poo poo was probably the single brightest decision ive ever made. Far as im concerned these people are victims of the drug war since they can't just smoke the real thing
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Last time I smoked spice was back when K2 was breaking news cycles about 9 years ago. Made me super anxious and sketchy feeling. It was awful. Of course, that particular chemical was banned and they're onto the billionth version now. Just smoke a weed. Even if it's brown, just smoke more.
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If you live in a city as big as Austin and kind find real weed it's your fault Edit: I smoked spice like 4 times. Each time I was impressed with the potency and the intense feeling that my lungs/veins/heart were all on the verge of vibrating out of my body. After realizing that effect wasnt going anywhere I dumped the rest
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Thing is, spice poo poo has killed before. Granted, I think it was the kind of situations where overconfidence and drug use mixed too much and people have fallen off balconies or died doing something physically harmful. Similar to salvia related deaths. Holy poo poo, it's been ages since I've thought about salvia.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Last time I smoked spice was back when K2 was breaking news cycles about 9 years ago. Made me super anxious and sketchy feeling. It was awful. Of course, that particular chemical was banned and they're onto the billionth version now. Yeah IIRC "spice"/K2 can be a ton of different things, basically whatever crazy chemical they've come up that has an effect that hasn't been banned yet. So if you smoked some 5 years ago it's almost certainly not the same thing as what's available now, except that maybe they were both sprayed on some oregano or whatever.
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China's response to US sanctions: They're putting sanctions on 128 imports from the U.S., including pork and fruit. As these tariffs are explicitly a countermeasure to the steel/aluminum tariffs (not the $50 billion from a couple weeks back), the trade war is both officially on and only getting started. Meanwhile, White House officials "have routinely discounted the likelihood" of the Chinese simply buying stuff from places besides America. Edit: VVVVV 
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Hremsfeld posted:China's response to US sanctions: They're putting sanctions on 128 imports from the U.S., including pork and fruit. As these tariffs are explicitly a countermeasure to the steel/aluminum tariffs (not the $50 billion from a couple weeks back), the trade war is both officially on and only getting started. Government pork is gonna make a comeback!
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Here is where this gets funny. A good amount of pork farms in the US are chinese owned. Chinese trust food with "made in america" more than anything that says "made in china" Being chinese, they will probably ship it to a nearby area, buy it there, and ship it into china So it is largely a 15% tarrif on a bunch of nuts, some metal products, then 25% on pork. It is mostly a non thing that is being done to save face. And here I wanted chaos and destruction, not this weak crap.
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