@extant_nz @ConceptualJames It is from 2024, and is true during the dry season, apparently.
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Brian Grattan
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@ConceptualJames Is there any kind of evidence whatsoever that this article is true?
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Let the reader understand.
I don't mean that in a superficial way, either. I mean really pause to appreciate the mentality of a government that will fabricate and lie about this kind of thing for image or whatever.
Really pause to grapple with the implications of that.
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@Northland_NZ_ @ConceptualJames He has ZERO questions about a certain government’s claims regarding the risk Iran poses.
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@ConceptualJames Governments lie and mislead people?
Holy shit James you're a genius!!
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@PhrenicG @deepwebslinger I think there is actually a correlation. Beautiful state -> more new population -> fewer people feel “generational debt” -> more people believing fantasy
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@deepwebslinger Some of the most absolutely gorgeous states run by the most imbecilic morons in this country. Go figure.
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Intel has been pink slipping over 20,000 workers.... effectively abandoning it's massive 600 acre campuses in Oregon. "Over relegation, cost of living and taxation making it too difficult to keep doing business in the state."
Intel investing 25-30 billion, basically relocating it's production to Arizona and Ohio. Oregon is, in effect, losing it's middle class income generation altogether. We are talking billions in annual tax revenues moving out of state.
The same is happening in Washington, California, New York, and other liberal states.
This is a Liberalism FAFO moment...
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@thunderdomepope @xevnoc @stelzner_n1150 So… maybe the problem is incompetent local government not pricing necessities correctly?
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@brianggrattan @xevnoc @stelzner_n1150 Look up an AI centers daily water and energy consumption. It destroys towns, especially those that are already facing drought conditions as well as rising energy costs for local residents. All just so retards can create brain rot media.
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To all my MAGA friends, can I recruit you over to America First?
Here is the America First platform:
- No foreign wars
- Mass deportations
- Reducing the national debt
- No AI data centers
- Pro First Amendment
- Pro Second Amendment
- COVID arrests
- Epstein arrests
You in?
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@xevnoc @stelzner_n1150 Yeah, I saw “no AI data centers” and lost all interest.
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@stelzner_n1150 Lol, no datacenters because...what exactly?
How about pro-innovation? Get Government out of the way of innovation.
How about we figure out a way to get people off of public assistance and turn them into productive folks?
How about pro-Constitution? All of it.
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…wish he was alive to see the news.
Scott Adams@ScottAdamsSays
@andybrohard Both can be true. But also consider that when you pay someone to identify racist organizations, they find more than if you don't pay them. And that is what has been happening with SPLC. So it might be a measurement incentive issue too.
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@peterboghossian Before you burn things to the ground you should wonder if you're being manipulated by liars who molest the truth to generate resentment that can be converted into power. But you won't because you have anti-woke autoimmune disease which is even worse than the woke mind virus
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Suddenly, the rationale for "Burn it to the ground," seems reasonable.
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I think @ThomasEWoods used to say “The demand for racism is so much more than the production that we should expect counterfeits.”
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 HOLY CRAP! FBI Director Patel says leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center, which has now been indicted, was using donor to pay leaders of the KU KLUX KLAN to stage "HATE CRIMES" "They used the FRAUDULENTLY raised money by lying to their donor network—THOUSANDS of Americans—to go ahead and actually PAY the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups. "Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center—on TOP of perpetuating this widespread decade-long multimillion dollar fraud—conducted more criminal activity. They attempted to HIDE their criminal activity from our financial banking network. They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were DECEIVED in believing that money was NOT coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud." @FBIDirectorKash
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@Eric_P8 @johnthenoticer Consider this passage from an author we’d prefer not to acknowledge:
"Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality."
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@johnthenoticer Chart is misleading.
There are no strong democrats
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@ZubyMusic I’ve shaved my head several times. Perfectly fine hair; just preferred being bald.
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I've never had this thought in my life. Not once.
Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth@hispanicnomad
Being bald sucks. You literally become “the bald guy” and it’s all people see No reason not to spend a bit of money to fix it
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@TheLaurenChen Dan Bilzerian may put your theory to the test. There is one voter bloc that will really be supporting his opponent, Randy Fine though.
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Being handsome is basically all you need to succeed in politics
I can think of no other reason why Gavin Newsom would be a top contender for President after managing to ruin BOTH San Francisco and California
Kalshi@Kalshi
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom and JD Vance are now tied to win the 2028 presidency
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@ZSquabbles @tomaspueyo FWIW, Oregon is going through an identity crisis currently because Mississippi has been outpacing them in education for a while now.
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@tomaspueyo Mississippi is one of the worst in every single thing shown on this map, been under complete Republican control for the last 16 years. How do you help people who refuse to help themselves?
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@johnrackham82 @joseph_postma One point I’d like to make: wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it “The American Secession?”
Seems more accurate.
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BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.
A National Guard task-force detailed to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault-style weapons, was ambushed by elements of an anti-Government, para-military extremist faction.
Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “treasonous criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault-style weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition.
However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed the government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the National Guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is exactly how the American Revolution began, April 19, 1775.
History. Learn it, or repeat it.
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A long time ago, I had a feeling this sort of thing was coming…
David Sirota@davidsirota
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.
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@Propii69 @OIF_Medic @HalcyonHypnotic Exactly. People throw around the term “slavery” nowadays for anything besides UBI.
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@OIF_Medic @HalcyonHypnotic “Slavery” but it’s a $100-200k salary + stock options + insane job experience to put on your resume. Ok bro
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Hot take but SpaceX is probably the best civil engineering company in the world. Somehow they are able to make these insanely complex ground system and building designs and find the perfect contractors and technicians to build out their ideas in months or 1-2 years.
I feel like we need the SpaceX methodology and their contractors across many projects. If we did we could probably have gotten so much done and in a much higher quality.
They say you can’t have fast, cheap, and good, but somehow SpaceX always manages to deliver on all 3.
Max Evans@_MaxQ_
SpaceX's Gigabay in Florida is coming along pretty well, ain't it? 😉 📸 - @NASASpaceflight
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@VinniousTGooch @0bviousish @ConceptualJames Would you consider the possibility that some people who no longer support him were so disappointed with his performance that they are now looking for someone better?
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@brianggrattan @0bviousish @ConceptualJames How about being realistic? JD is smart and successful. His new haters are just losers in woke red instead of woke blue garb.
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They turned against their boy in a hurry. That's because they're Woke. They don't have loyalty, only expedience. They did the same thing to Trump, very nastily. They're looking for a high-purity vehicle for their revolution, and they'll use these guys as excuses to attack you.
Carrie Prejean Boller@CarriePrejean1
I’m officially a #nevervance’r
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@Chuck3737 @avidseries I think you’ve hit on one of the fundamental flaws of democracy: the people who want to be in office and are good at campaigning are *not* the people who should be in office.
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@avidseries Sadly, you have to be crazy to want to run for or be president. So here we are.
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Biden was clearly suffering from greater cognitive decline than Trump currently is.
Trump's decline has more to do with deterioration in impulse control (which was never a strong suit of his to begin with) than in intellectual ability (also never a particularly strong suit of his).
This makes him a less pathetic figure than Biden, but arguably a more dangerous one.
Bottom line: People this old have no business being president of the world's most powerful country.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Trump is going mentally downhill just like Biden did at the same age. It manifests differently, but we can all see it.
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