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Threadbane

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classical guitar, chess, golf, duplicate bridge, etymology, semantics, yoga, physics, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, Homeric Greek
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Club of Rome -> Limits To Growth
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    rbreich, to random
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    I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

    But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

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    @rbreich
    Anybody remember the Kasperzy malware protection software? Obama made everybody in the Executive Department, including the DoD, take it off their machines because it was sending dumps to the KGB. One of the first things Trump did was tell everybody to put the Kasperzy spyware back on their machines. Hopefully Biden has ordered it removed again.

    ColesStreetPothole, to random
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    1. An ex-president's lawyer is arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that presidents can assassinate U.S. citizens with full immunity.
    2. Nearly a dozen universities have called the cops on peaceful anti-war protestors, resulting in hundreds of arrests and clear instances of police brutality.
    3. Texas anti-DEI bill has led to firings of dozens of staff at public universities.

    If you don't think fascism is a real threat in the United States, I don't know what to say.

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    @lednaBM @ColesStreetPothole
    We often hear the complaint that there's no way to lock the Defendant up were he found guilty, pointing to problems about security and his SS detail. I've been saying for years now that the solution is Gitmo. Of course! It's where we've locked up terrorists since 2003. Donald should be perfectly safe there.

    JuliusGoat, to random
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    The bribed Supreme Court is ruling on whether or not, for example, Joe Biden, is allowed to order the military to take, for instance, the Supreme Court, and to have them, for example, murdered.

    You’d think this would be an easy one but actually it looks like it’s gonna be kind of close.

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    @JuliusGoat
    They're going to shove it back to the lower courts so that Biden will have NONE of the powers they will ultimately grant Defendant Trump, so that Biden won't be able to save the country before the barbarians take over the gov't. The old fixeroo is in because Red states outnumber Blue states, 27-23 and the Republicans plan to nullify the election, throwing the election onto the House floor, with one vote per state. With the help of the SCOTUS, the GOP has destroyed America.

    panamared27401, to random
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    Joy Reid is pointing out that SCOTUS has said that abortion has to be decided by the states, when the Constitution is silent on the issue, but elections can't be decided in the states, where the Constitution calls for them to be.

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    @libramoon @panamared27401
    Indeed. Also not mentioned: athlete's foot, tooth decay and incontinence.

    otownKim, to random
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    For those who are bitching about President Biden and saying the Gaza situation will cost him the election, WTF do you propose?! Third party has ZERO chance! Have you learned anything from 2016?!?!?! The Orange shit stain suggests that Netanayu "finish the job!". How dare anyone say they or both sides are the same. If that's your belief, unfollow me now!!!

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    @otownKim
    Voting for anybody but Biden will accomplish the long-sought goal of the GOP to install a king, but schools stopped teaching young people history and civics 50 years ago. The old are trapped in some Republican yesteryear, when Republicans weren't quite as horrid as they are now, and have been subjected to 40 years of ever-more-intense anti-Democrat propaganda. The young only see Biden's pigheaded, sadistic support of Israel, not realizing that the Defendant would be even worse.

    mreader, to Wisconsin
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    Kyle Rittenhouse's former spokesman turns on him

    David Hancock offered evidence that Rittenhouse not only failed the standard tests for entry into military service, but was permanently banned from applying to the Marines.

    "Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth."

    https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/killer-kyles-ex-spokesperson-spills-beans

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    @mreader
    "Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth."

    He'll fit right in when he's old enough to run for Congress on the Republican ticket, and with those kind of credentials he'll have a lock on a seat.

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    @timo21 @DrALJONES
    The Prince of Darkness even has his own army, Blackwater Security.

    tristansnell, to random
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    To pay Stormy, Donald ordered his team

    • to create a shell company
    • to come up with fake names for the agreement
    • to come up with fake invoices for repaying Cohen

    NOT to hide it from Melania.

    This was to hide it from campaign finance regulators, journalists, and all of us.

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    @tristansnell
    I do wish people would stop giving Defendant Trump credit for creating this complex subterfuge. It's on record that wanted to pay Stormy in cash, but Cohen insisted on the financial rigamarole to hide the transaction. has the mind of a child, incapable of thinking up a shadowy chain of loans and shell companies. This sort of crap was always left up to more intelligent criminals like Weisselberg and Mitnick.

    randahl, to random
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    4 out of 5 Iowans claim to be Christian. Yet going into the voting booth, 48 percent intend to vote for the most immoral presidential candidate in US history.

    Wild.

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    @mckra1g @randahl
    Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. - Barry Goldwater

    DrALJONES, to Israel
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    @DrALJONES
    "The Congo proposal "illustrates the deeply corrupt ideology that Zionism has become" under Netanyahu:"
    Zionism has always been a sadistic and corrupt ideology. You can't give Netanyahu credit for all this evil. The Zionists have been murdering and displacing Palestinians for almost 80 years, and now that the US has given them permission, bombs and ammunition to ratchet up the action, they've transformed their land grab into a full bore genocide.

    realTuckFrumper, to random
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    'Total monster' Trump hammered by Robert De Niro in rant on Bill Maher's 'Real Time' https://www.rawstory.com/robert-de-niro-critiques-katie-britt-s-lame-acting-to-bill-maher/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    @realTuckFrumper
    As DeNiro said, he's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant Narcissist, and people are (finally) saying so, but, other than a few who worked for him, like Kelly, Mattis, and Tillerson, nobody says how stupid he is. And not merely stupid, but unimaginably ignorant for a person who went to school. I want to see a meme with a list of his incredible misconceptions, like nuking hurricanes, occupying airports during the Revolutionary War, and injecting Lysol to cure covid.

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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    @DrALJONES
    We (the US gov't) has long been on the wrong side of the LAW in Palestine. The Geneva Conventions were ratified by Congress and are part of the US law code as a result. The Geneva Conventions give occupied countries the right to resist military occupation by any means necessary, so for decades the US has been breaking its own laws by supporting the sadistic Zionists' military occupation.

    Keeping a Zionist on as Secretary of State just asks for trouble in the Middle East.

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    @DrALJONES @israel
    There has never been a real democracy in Israel.

    paninid, to random
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    Imagine asserting that a literal worm ate your brain to get out of paying alimony.

    You might be RFK, Jr.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-worm-brain

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    @paninid
    Yes. I've said for years that the GOP began selecting for psychopaths during the 1990s. If you're not a Xian con artist, a grifter, or criminally insane you can't even get on the GOP ballot anymore. Domestic abuse and sexual assault are a bonus. Since the 1990s, any Republican member of Congress who shows the slightest trace of scientific literacy, awareness of history, respect for Constitution principles or social conscience is primaried out by people like Paul Gosar and Gym Jordan.

    Threadbane, to random
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    Allowing Nikki Haley to spout nonsense in front of a classroom of impressionable children should be punishable as child abuse.
    What a moron. The abominable Chris Christie is the only Republican POTUS contender with a brain. She can't even state the standard "the South will rise again" line, that it was a matter of states' rights including the right of citizens to own slaves if their state allowed it) .

    popcornreel, to random
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    When did you stop trusting the US Supreme Court?

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    @popcornreel
    1986. I was 43. No-knock search warrants and removal of jury nullification rights from federal guidelines for instructions to the jury.

    maddad, to random
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    Biden Campaign TORCHES Trump Rally In Blistering Hitler-Invoking Condemnation

    keeps ranting like and we all know how that ended for Germany.
    We can't let this become POTUS ever again.

    We can stop him in his tracks.
    All we need to do is VOTE them out. If they are not elected, they have no power.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/biden-campaign-torches-trump-rally-in-blistering-hitler-invoking-condemnation/

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    @maddad
    The only people who care or even know about Hitler are in their 80s and 90s now. WWII is as remote for most people as the Civil War. The press is really jumpin' on this as a gotcha for Trump, but it isn't. I daresay that most of the people who are aware of Hitler these days are PRO Hitler, like a considerable fraction of both Congress and the GOP base. The White Xian Nationalists are flying swastikas on their pickup trucks.

    therobburgessshow, to random
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    If even Trump, who once said he wanted to jail women for having abortions, is backpedaling on a national abortion ban, that should tell you how badly Republicans played their hand on this issue. They did so much better when post-Roe was a tantalizing dream and not a messy reality.

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    @shekinahcancook @therobburgessshow
    Just saw one of the members of Congress on TV this morning whining about how bad the GOP is now not sending money to Ukraine., he who voted against practically every single bill that Biden has signed, who actually voted not to certify the election. Sheesh. They have selected for sadistic, marginally literate Xian crazies and grifters for 40 years and that's all there is in the GOP now, stupid uneducated psychopaths.

    Gustodon, to random
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    I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity of people who fear Satan or cry because they still exist in 2024.

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    @Gustodon
    Hell, there are still people who believe in Jesus!
    As an aside, the Xians claim to be a monotheistic religion, but if Satan isn't a god, what is he? Obviously, he's powerful enough to keep Yahweh from dispatching him.

    paninid, to random
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    Kids protesting are gonna be sniped from a rooftop or droned for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

    Things are different now.

    Welcome to the New Normal™ of the globalized .

    I expected this to occur to voters standing in lines during the elections of 2020.

    My forecast was too early.

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    @paninid
    Even if the police SWAT teams don't open fire, you just know some 19 year old freelancer with an AR-15 who's bought the Golden Sneakers will. We're falling behind our record-setting pace from winter and we need a few mass shootings to get back on schedule. These protest crowds are perfect targets -> you're virtually assured of bagging an anti-Trumper and the cops probably won't do much to stop you, just take in you into custody to the cheers of the Christian Nationalists.

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    There is no reason to support any of the governments in the Middle East, including Israel and Turkey. The Middle East offers us nothing at this point but an expense and an international political headache, because we are now totally fossil fuel independent and we need the ME for absolutely nothing. (We export as much oil as we import, so we should stop importing AND exporting oil entirely.) We should do a Vietnam, declare victory and leave - completely. Let them fight without us.

    ai6yr, to random

    Hmm, some gender stereotyping at one of our local sandwich places. The only veggie option is "The Wonder Woman". Par for the course, I guess.

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    @ai6yr
    A few years back, they were interviewing a Subway employee on rsdio and asked him what his favorite sub was. "The veggie with triple bacon."

    br00t4c, to random
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    'It Literally Is Insane': Christiane Amanpour Stunned By Trump's NATO Comments

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-literally-is-insane-christiane-amanpour-stunned-by-trumps-nato-comments/

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    @br00t4c
    I wish the media would come to the realization that "it" isn't "literally insane", but the man who wants to give Europe to Russia is literally, actually, clinically insane. Reporters should be calling out Citizen Trump not simply over his "mental lapses", but his long history of criminally insane behavior, which includes rape, fraud, and the people he murdered by his intentional exacerbation of the covid pandemic.

    Just say it! Citizen Trump is insane. What's he going to do, sue?

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