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@PolitiBunny Dude's a mess.

What? lol

@brhodes You're still here?

Making yourself feel powerful by sending special forces to arrest a 94 year old former leader of an island nation impoverished by U.S. sanctions doesn't exactly suggest a strong, self-confident and ascendant superpower.

@JaimeKing1989 @forallcurious "Event Horizon" comes to mind...

@forallcurious Nah i played them video games. You wake up and the ship has been transformed into something grotesque. Now you have to go around figuring out what happened while dodging eldritch horror creatures.

🚨: Engineers just proposed a 36 mile long spacecraft called 'Chrysalis' that could carry 2400 people to Alpha Centauri, just 4 light-years away from us, on one way trip. The journey will take 400 years! The passengers who board it will never see Earth again. Neither will their children. Or their grandchildren.

@GeeScottSr What would a booming economy have to do with needless spending?

Weird, wonder why we keep seeing all of these post about making inexpensive meals. The economy is booming, right?

@jwright377603 @harryjsisson Sue on what grounds? How dare they cancel a show that was costing them $40M/yr to produce with no profit to show for it? You must work in government...

@harryjsisson Stephen will go on to do something bigger and better. I will follow him wherever he goes. CBS is going to lose money, and I hope their shareholders sue them.

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

Pourquoi on n'a plus eu de Michael Jackson, de Freddie Mercury, de Beatles depuis 40 ans. Tout le monde a une théorie. "C'est les réseaux sociaux, les stars n'ont plus de mystère, plus de vie privée, avant c'était caché donc ça créait du mythe." Foutaises. Le problème n'est pas que les stars sont trop visibles. Le problème est qu'il n'y a plus rien à voir. Le monde est devenu chiant à mourir. Plus personne n'a de couilles. On a émasculé l'Occident. Ça a commencé dans les années 70. Sous couvert de "protéger les gens", on a anesthésié une civilisation entière. Principe de précaution, normes, conformité, comités d'éthique, sensitivity readers, HR, compliance, ESG. Chaque décennie, une nouvelle couche d'ouate. On a transformé des hommes libres en patients sous sédatif. Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Lennon, Bowie — ces gens étaient des aberrations statistiques produites par une époque qui tolérait encore l'aberration. Aujourd'hui ils seraient cancel à 23 ans, médicamentés à 25, et finiraient consultants en bien-être à 30. Le système ne produit plus de génies parce que le système a été conçu pour rendre le génie impossible. Peter Thiel l'avait théorisé il y a longtemps : le projet mondialiste/progressiste n'a jamais été autre chose qu'un communisme qui n'osait pas dire son nom. Même obsession de l'égalité, même haine de l'excellence individuelle, même bureaucratie tentaculaire, même mépris pour celui qui dépasse. Juste mieux marketé. "Inclusion" au lieu de "collectivisation". Même came, packaging premium. Et ce système est en train de crever sous nos yeux. On vit la fin d'un cycle de 50 ans. L'Occident — qui a porté à peu près toute la culture, la science, la liberté humaine depuis 500 ans — a éteint sa propre flamme. Volontairement. Par culpabilité, par lâcheté, par confort. Mais l'Occident va se réveiller. Bientôt. Les signaux sont partout : retour du builder, mépris croissant pour les intellos de salon, montée du e/acc, effondrement de la confiance dans les institutions, génération entière qui ne veut plus jouer au jeu débile que ses parents ont accepté. Et le vrai accélérateur, c'est l'IA. Pas parce qu'elle va remplacer les gens. Parce qu'elle va WIPE la bureaucratie. Chaque norme absurde, chaque commission, chaque couche administrative, chaque rente parasitaire qui empêchait les gens audacieux de construire — tout ça va sauter. L'IA est l'arme de destruction massive du conformisme institutionnel. Ce qui arrive est une Renaissance x1000. Une explosion qu'on est littéralement incapables d'imaginer depuis le marasme dans lequel on baigne. Quand tu retires les chaînes à une civilisation qui a inventé l'imprimerie, le télescope, le moteur, l'ordinateur et internet — tu n'obtiens pas un retour à la normale. Tu obtiens un Big Bang. On va avoir des centaines de Michael Jackson. Des centaines de Freddie Mercury. Des centaines de Newton, de Mozart, d'Edison. Pas parce que les gènes auront changé — ils n'ont jamais changé — mais parce que le filtre qui les écrasait aura sauté. On va vivre dans un monde complètement fou où l'intensité, le dépassement de soi, la création pure redeviendront le jeu par défaut. Pas le confort. Pas la sécurité psychologique. Pas le wellness. Le DÉPASSEMENT. Les gens qui pleurent qu'on n'a plus de mythes n'ont rien compris. Les mythes reviennent. Mais pas pour ceux qui regardent. Pour ceux qui construisent. Build.

@SeanMcCarthyCom Why'd you delete this follow-on?

The message from the post 9/11 years is that you’re a sucker if you sacrifice anything for this country. Pat Tillman learned the hard way. Decades of criminals getting rich, never being punished, endless wars for weapons contractors and Israel. What is there to celebrate?

I foresee a real problem with people anthropomorphizing these machines.

The free market is undefeated.

@neoavatara Procedural vote. Mostly symbolic.

I guess America doesn't really support Trump's war...

@buskbusk @MichaelKarlis “Community psychology”? Sounds like a euphemism for localized propaganda.

@MichaelKarlis Maureen Galindo, 38, is a marriage and family therapist who has a master’s in community psychology from Concordia University in Portland, Oregon.

TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists." "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.

@jarvis_best Should maybe we wait for him to *keep* his first job ever?

Everyone please congratulate Siraj on obtaining his first job ever

In 2019, seven years ago, when he was 34-years-old, Graham Platner logged into reddit and posted a response to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban. Platner wrote: "This video never gets old. Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat." Think about each line. "This video never gets old." Platner's implying he's watched the video several times and enjoys it. "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt." That's what Platner thinks about his fellow Americans at war. If they're not good at killing or broader tactics, he has contempt for them. He displays no empathy. The opposite, in fact. The man that Platner is commenting on, by the way, is Pfc. Ted Daniels, who was a 37-year-old father of two serving in Afghanistan at the time of the incident (2012). The bad tactic Platner enjoys mocking? Daniels stepped into the open deliberately to draw Taliban fire away from his fellow soldiers so his squad could get to safety. Daniels was shot four times in this video and, ultimately, earned a Purple Heart. When the video was initially released (2013), Pfc. Daniels was critical of himself in interviews, saying, "It wasn't the most tactically brilliant thing to do." He described that he was embarrassed by the video; that people could hear him screaming for help. But, also, he said: "I put my ass on the line for other guys." Then, we have, again, Graham Platner, logging into reddit, in 2019, to comment: "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live." For all those who say, "That's just how Marines talk," I'll tell you: Platner's comment got downvoted by the military community. Even if it didn't: We're not talking about the military anymore. We're talking about a 34-year-old man, years after service, logging in to mock another man who's being shot on video. We're also talking about the U.S. Senate, not boys-will-be-boys or Marines-will-be-Marines. We're always told to view Platner as a changed man. 2013, when he made the rape apologia comments, was the "darkest point in his life," or so we have been told. So what was going on in 2019, such that Platner enjoyed watching a video of a man getting shot and mocking him? How many arcs of change are there in Platner's life? Was there a specific point where he discovered human empathy? I couldn't help but think of that specific reddit comment while watching the video below. "Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles away from home," Platner says. Didn't he log in to reddit seven years ago to say, "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live" ? I don't like being lied to.

A CNN reporter, a BBC reporter, and an Israeli commando are captured by Hamas in Gaza. The leader of the terrorists said he'd grant them each one last request before they were beheaded. The CNN Reporter said, "I’d like one last hamburger with fries.” The leader nodded and said it would be done. The BBC Reporter said, "I want to describe the scene here and what’s about to happen so my government knows I did the job until the end.” The leader nodded and said it would be done. Then he turned to the Israeli commando and said, “And what is your final wish?” “Kick me in the butt,” said the soldier. “Do not mock me, Jew.” “I’m not kidding. I want you to kick me in the butt.” So the terrorist leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the behind. The soldier went sprawling but rolled to his knees, pulled a pistol they hadn't found, and shot the leader dead. Then he grabbed a rifle from another terrorist and suddenly they were all dead or fleeing. "You could've done that all along?" asked the Brit. "Yeah, why did you want to be kicked in the butt?" asked the American. “If I hadn't," replied the Israeli, “You two would have reported that I was the aggressor."

Women: “If we ran the world there’d be no more war!” Also women:

@Olixius2 @esjesjesj Other than all the stories about it.

@CollapsblePiano @esjesjesj This narrative that social services are mired with fraud is a conservative dog whistle that has no basis in reality

The idea that poor people want to be poor has to be one of the stupidest thoughts you can possibly have

@RobProvince I had to explain to my 23-year-old who she is/was.

Fans?

This one is too accurate! 🎯

@PopBase Nope.

Today is the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.

@Olixius2 @esjesjesj Read it again, zippy.

@CollapsblePiano @esjesjesj You clearly think that everyone is scamming the system