MerlinYoda

IT/Programmer (Wizard-ish?), Geek, Tinkerer, Philomath, Philosopher, Autodidact, Politics junkie, #FairTax Supporter, Here to see with eyes unclouded by hate.

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As a public service announcement (and personal reminder), please totally abstain from clicking on anything in the trending section no matter how benign it seems. The thing largely serves to encourage people to compete with the worst sort of derisive commentary and needs to go.

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@LgclLibertarian I got a good chuckle out of this line:
"Last up is Paul Hoffman, representing Mr. Tekoh, AKA Goldfinger."

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I've been away from here for a good while. Did I miss anything big or is this place still basically structured insanity with a side of illumination? 😆

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@Conserv9988613 @AttyAbdul It was not a "good thing". At best, it was a situationally-necessary evil. Individuals held in bondage without a shred of liberty shouldn't have been counted at all for the purposes of apportionment so as to not benefit States who simultaneously claimed them as legal property.

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@pxtraf @RepRudyYakym That devil's a big one: the criminalization of Constitutionally-protected speech. If an AI-generated image replaced the face of a male porn with, say, a certain male member of the Biden family and was posted as commentary, that image could be found in violation of the law.

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@AEWApologist @RobMKendall I recognize it's a bit late to comment on this but at least a government run by "goofy comic book nerds" wouldn't be looking to raise your taxes year after year to fund the various pet projects of either their big-business buddies or activist allies.

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This floors me. Imagine living in Cologne at the end of the pause with little, if any, collective awareness of active construction. Everyone probably assumed they were stuck with a bit of an eyesore (though not all that bad of one), and then, bam, construction resumes again!

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Construction on this building was halted from 1560 to 1814

Imagine living in a city with a half-finished cathedral that no one had worked on for 250 years. That's longer than the US has existed for

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@TheAmishDude @politicalmath What is it with Leftists and predictable rhetorical tropes?
Similar:
1. X never happens.
2. X very rarely happens.
3. Ok, X isn't that rare, but you shouldn't care about it.
4. X happens, and it's good that it does.
5. Your a ___-ist/-phobe if you don't support X all the time!

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@LgclLibertarian True but the government can (and will) put all sorts of strings attached to those grants. If they say "you have to follow all these stipulations" and they find just *one* thing they think violates them, they can turn around and seek to have that grant pulled.

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@Noted_Desperado I definitely did not have "motorcycle company opts to make robotic horses" on my 2025 bingo card.

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Just curious if anyone else has gotten tired of the blatant script-swapping over they years. Like, the only thing that'd make this interesting was if, later on, they were like "ya, we just said all that stuff just to get liberal Democrats on-record defending our actual positions"

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

It’s going to work

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@CheeseForEvery1 I can just picture mischievous type-setters doing things like this since early in the renaissance era.

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@CheeseForEvery1 Unfortunately, yes. I'm all too familiar with the false dichotomous nature of politics and how that effects the opinions of those that don't actually attention to government policies ... especially when you try to explain to these people how you voted for a 3rd party candidate.

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@Alsadius For the record, I would have voted for "The US military base". While putting a tariff on an island entirely populated by penguins sounds ridiculous, it doesn't actually do any harm. Putting tariffs on an island housing a US/UK joint military base actually could.

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@Rob_ThaBuilder Why does it always end up being the mothers that are a driving force behind this when these stories pop up? Like, I have never heard any reporting of a father putting pressure on a daughter to transition to being a boy.

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@Junebagio @CheeseForEvery1 Wow. I'm just seeing this for the first time and every political ad I thought of as "extreme" that I've seen to-date absolutely pales in how over-the-top this one is. I mean, the ad is basically "Vote for Lyndon Johnson or die horribly to a nuclear fireball."

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@tuquoque3 @CheeseForEvery1 Heh, good one.

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@CheeseForEvery1 It would be funny if they found that William Henry Harrison had actually died of a venereal disease instead after having tweeted this.

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@davidknightsesq @politicalmath The funny/ironic part is that, despite his complete misunderstanding of the source material, he actually ended up making a decent movie ... just not in the way he intended. People rooted *for* the characters in the Mobile Infantry and realized the bugs were the aggressors.

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@Rob_ThaBuilder I don't know how it is in Canada but, in the US, it's thought the Left supports it because they think immigrants will be prone to vote for Left-wing politicians. However, the US Right, is rhetorically against it; not sure about in actually though (b/c, you know, cheap labor).

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@CheeseForEvery1 I've seen the kind of video shorts you speak of and they disturb me too. It's like, if you think your content isn't that great but adding some unrelated video right next to it will make it interesting, why not work on making your actual content better?!