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discombobulating the synchronizing reticulator

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@Sw1ft_ELA @MattisRedacted Poor Gerald Ford, always forgotten.

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@peterrhague The German auto manufacturers should have wished really hard so China won't dump EVs on foreign markets or restrict imports into their home market.

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@AngryCops The next Patterson-Gimlin film.

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@Debradelai 19.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Those of us bitterly opposed to communism fall into two different groups.

A) Those who argue that it must be abandoned because it has show us that it doesn’t work.

B) Those of us that are so bitterly opposed to collectivism applied to dissenting individuals that we are relieved that it *cannot* work. A happy accident. Those who don’t care if it *could* be made to work: we’d continue to fight it. Working or not working is irrelevant. It’s just bad. Period. The end.

If Communism could actually be shown to deliver stable high levels of growth and innovation, broadly distributed, with low inequality,
I believe I would still fight it to my dying breath.

My opposition to communism has little to nothing to do with the fact that it doesn’t work as an economic system. So, it’s merely a relief that it doesn’t work. A convenience for its opposition.

Communism and collectivism are intrinsically soul killing for people who are hyper-individualistic . So let’s stop hiding behind the fact that they don’t work as economic or governance systems.

Some of us who aren’t the biggest fans of naked capitalism red of tooth and claw, hate communism not because we think capitalism is intrinsically fair. It isn’t. We oppose it because communism hunts the individual.

For us, It’s not communism vs capitalism. That is a businessman’s argument. Instead, it’s communism vs individualism for me. Show me a system that fights harder to let a dissenting individual thrive more than brutal market capitalism (which also barely works), and I am all ears.

Not everything is a market after all.

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@TheGlobalWarmer Because the one on the left from April is estimated based on NRT thermal anomaly detection and the one on the right from actual burn maps based satellite imagery you relentless douche canoe.

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@pureMetatron Well two of those are the same thing and all three are the misbehaved children of the Young Hegelians.

[Z Riboua @zriboua]

He gets it.

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@peterrhague The purpose isn't to be efficient but to demonstrate the great robotic future, which is the new CCP national mandate. Which is why you see dumb AI videos and videos of those stupid remote operated robots doing danced and kicking unsuspecting kids in the gnards.

[Luis del Pino @ldpsincomplejos]

Desde el 7-O no hago más que darle vueltas a lo que tienen que vivir los judíos en todas partes del mundo:

- Si te masacran, hay que comprender los motivos del que lo hizo.
- Si te defiendes, es la demostración de que te masacraron con razón.
- Si te vas a vivir a Israel, eres un repugnante sionista.
- Si te quedas en el país que vives, te tratan como si ese país no fuera el tuyo
- Y siempre, siempre, teniendo que ocultar que eres judío y teniendo que escuchar cómo se utiliza la palabra judío como insulto.

No me extraña que a los judíos se les haya llenado el gorro de pipas y hayan decidido que nadie les va a quitar el derecho a vivir en una tierra donde no les hagan sentirse extranjeros y donde no tengan que esconderse, ni soportar a todo tipo de cretinos.

Am Israel Jai.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Hoovering up digital ID for adults is the point. They want to end anonymity on social media so they can crush dissent.

Being able to keep teenagers from reading wrongthink is just the cherry on top for them

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@DToecutter @Fat_Electrician You can make a burger in ten minutes, five if you really book it. Also treating your own time as billable hours and convenience as "I'm really saving money!" is how you end up getting yelled at by Caleb Hammer.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

This take is VERY American. And that’s why our country has a history of only getting serious about threats after it’s been surprise attacked with a high casualty count.

In the post nuclear age, we as the world’s super power are in a Catch 22 of sorts.

>Ignore threats to make citizens happy. Opening ourselves up to a mass casualty event.
>Proactively engage threats and make citizens angry.

Americans HATE war. We are at our very best when we are drug into them by providence.

Anything beyond that looks like a war of choice. And coming off the heels of two REALLY shitty ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, I get it.

But you guys don’t know how bad Iran really is. Most people don’t. I mean what I say when I say that it was only a matter of time before a “sum of all fears moment” happened in the U.S.

But you, me, and every other American are never gonna know that. Because it was prevented. All you get now is the higher gas prices and frustration that we’re still entangled there.

I won’t lie, it’s messy. But what’s messier? This or a ground burst low yield nuclear detonation in a mega city?

Up to you, but I know what my answer is.

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@Debradelai @GenFlynn @DavidVance

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

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@Zehne4 @YTTheChartist @Asmongold @nicksortor I'll give you four names to start with: Neville Roy Singham, Hansjorg Wyss, Lauren Powell Jobs, Christopher Hohn.

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When you cook rice do more than you need and put the remainder immediately in the fridge. Microwave the rice from the fridge (until steaming hot), crack an egg into it and stir, and sprinkle with Furikake or Togarashi.

You can also use the leftover rice to make Fried Rice by adding frozen peas, drained canned corn, soy sauce, spring onions, and a couple eggs. Makes a great evening meal. If you want a kick then add some Sriracha or Lao Gan Ma chili crisp after serving.

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AIPAC is an American organization funded by Americans rooted in the ashes of World War 2 and the six-day war.

If you want to see what actual "influence peddling" looks like then Brookings Institute makes a good case study.

It is a think tank that is a half-way house for Democrat policy makers when they are out of power.

Brookings gets millions in funding from Qatar (they have an office in Doha). Brookings launders ideas for the Democrat Party by writing policy white papers.

When the Democrats win the White House the Fellows at Brookings move into the senior administration positions and implement those white papers.

All legal, all above board, and largely invisible.

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Are you that dumb? Everybody knew there wasn't the votes. Collins sat on the fence because she would only vote "yes" if she was the deciding vote because she's a Republican Senator in a Blue State. McConnell is non-compos mentis and the other two were never voting for it because of their own personal animosity to the administration.

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@peterrhague Total cost of employment. GBP 35,000 is a total cost of employment closer to GBP 59,000 and..

- Employer risk is higher (You can't fire them easily)
- Energy and regulatory costs are higher
- 40% of gross income vanishes in various taxes

Not much room for discretionary spending