@michaelmalice Then they fire countless "reports" to get your account locked down, then released, then locked down, then released.
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Protest Busters
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I think most people underestimate how many of those around them (including coworkers) are profoundly mentally ill but know enough to pass in public or at work
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@sethharpesq dude blot out the rest of your license plate if that's yours.
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Absolutely insane that my truck hasn’t lost ONE DOLLAR in value after NINE YEARS and 90,000 more miles on the odometer. A testament to how crappy new American cars are. People will pay MORE for an older vehicle to OPT OUT of all the janky bells and whistles new ones come with.
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@heresyfinancial i wish that more people understood that this form of money creation is highly skewed towards a certain class, making many secondary arguments moot. basically the bankers control society, metaphorically and literally. it's why debanking is such an issue/cancelled/
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Printing money is how they plan to solve the debt problem
One minor issue: money isn't actually "printed" - it's loaned into existence
So in order to deal with the debt problem, their only tool is to create more debt
The only situation in which this actually works is if the new debt increases productivity (the growth of real wealth) faster than prices
Time will tell
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@ronrule education / knowledge really. and there's a long history of this, same for the left in england historically.
basically working folks don't read theory. it's why populism has a bad taste for many parties.
doesn't help that both parties are mostly consultant class now
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I find it odd how the blue collar career paths most important to society and infrastructure are looked down on by the left, while simultaneously they praise useless degrees like Gender Studies and encourage kids to pursue nonsense like that.
What’s the explanation for this?
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@libpol_org @mattyglesias @brklynmind I am skeptical that you are skeptical, more than likely you are just being a dick.
This happened to hundreds of thousands of people. It probably would've happened to me too, but i wasn't on at the time.
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@ProtestBusters @mattyglesias @brklynmind I am skeptical that your aunt got banned from pre-Elon Twitter for saying she got side effects from the COVID vaccine.
(But, in any case, yes, a corporation being overzealous in moderation is not as bad as the federal government threatening to violate the first amendment.)
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The left has not always covered itself in glory on free speech, but Brendan Carr’s repeated explicit efforts to use the FCC to censor television news is so far beyond anything else that’s happened in recent American life.
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC
More outrageous conduct from CNN. Fake news is bad enough for the country, but pushing out a hoax headline in such a sensitive national security moment as this requires accountability. Iran put out an official statement that simply cannot be squared with the one CNN's false headline attributes to them. Time for change at CNN.
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@creatrix_ttv @newengland_npc Never mix the crowd at Diesel with the crowd that goes downtown. But I haven't lived there for a few years, and only visit about every three months so could be off.
It does seem to be less than 10-15 years ago tho. Could jus be millenials being more outgoing.
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@ProtestBusters @newengland_npc I have an apartment near Somerville. I don't think this is true, unless this has suddenly happened within the last 5 months.
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I'll probably get pushback for this, but it's also because NH is lacking the cultural vitality that actually makes young people want to stay.
NH has one of the oldest populations in the US, and young adults are the most likely group to leave.
If it was mostly because they were getting priced out, young adults wouldn't be disproportionately leaving NH for metro hubs that are even more expensive. (& even higher taxes!)
They’re moving to places with more opportunity & just more going on in general.
Third places & social infrastructure matters!
Greg Moore@GregMooreNH
Everyone in NH knows that most Granite Staters weren't born here. The flip side of that is that a whole lot of people who were born here move away. A big chunk of the reason for that is that we don't have enough housing here and young people are getting priced out.
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@creatrix_ttv @newengland_npc meh go to boston / cambridge on a summer night and see. it's far less than what it used to be on a sat or fri night. and that's with 1/3 of the places closed.
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@newengland_npc I think this is only true of Gen Z's bottom quintile. The smart and driven ones are moving to metro areas and touching grass.
Brain drain is very reaaal.
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@ScubaForDogs @ZaidJilani Probably the only way that Trump is "better" than other politicians is he usually breaks the glass and says what he / his administration thinks. It's a low bar but i'd much rather have a pol say what they actually think than cloud it in PR.
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@ProtestBusters @ZaidJilani I'm not saying he was good or even better than what we currently have. He was a monster. But he at least had a basic grasp of how politics are supposed to work. He was fundamentally good at the job of being a politician even if he was very bad at the job of governing.
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The last national Democrat who was really good at politics was Barack Obama and he had to defeat an established political family to do it. Ro is right that Dems need new blood now.
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller
🔥 @RepRoKhanna to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”
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@mattyglesias @brklynmind There was a monopoly on information sources during covid, which most cons remember if they were against the mask mandates. My aunt got banned from this site for merely complaining that her covid shot made her feel wierd for a few days.
Compared to that, the fcc thing isbullocks
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@brklynmind I think that given the overall rightward skew of the audience on Twitter it is more persuasive to try to frame things in a way that anticipate conservative objections and show that I understand where they are coming from.
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@mtaibbi too many obvious facts have been denied to make any conspiracy-minded person go back to reality. take israel, for example. the folks that believe in some big israel conspiracy controlling the world, i don't believe in it but if you look at current events, how canu convince folks
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The Top 10 Symptoms of Conspiracy Brain
Spoiler: we all have it
open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/t…
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@mercoglianos what they mean are "dime bags"
which would pay the tool better than actual dimes. big "dime bags"
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Live shot this morning from the exit or the Persian Gulf into the Strait of Hormuz.
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
World’s Shipowners Are Eyeing the Exit, But They’re Not Rushing For It Just Yet gcaptain.com/worlds-shipown…
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@krystalball neten-yahooooooiooooooo
(in the old commercial yahoooooooiooooo)
someone needs to do this to his face just to see what he does.
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Netanyahu says the ceasefire is not an “end to the war” but only a “stop on the way to achieving all our goals.” #502351832" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">haaretz.com/israel-news/is…
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@mysteriouskat twitter was used to help start the arab spring, through social media manipulation in arab countries. when you talk about 5th generation warfare this is what it is. One reason why twitter was so full of former spooks and whatnot. It's written about by yasha levine etc. on this
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Ignore the red or blue bubbles. And yes, it might not be 100% accurate. But it does represent a certain type of user that indeed does best and goes viral on the platform: sensationalist, rage baity, often spreading falsehoods...that's what these bubbles ultimately represent.
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The question is WHY are these types of voices the ones that are most amplified/popular on this platform? Is it a platform problem or a people problem?
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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@shoe0nhead @NewsWire_US netan-yahoooooooooooo
(in the 'old yahooooo commercial singing voice)
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@Stephen55857391 @ShaykhSulaiman not really about control, more about what is pushed, and what you see on the first few pages usually aren't there organically anymore on reddit, xitter, etc.
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@ProtestBusters @ShaykhSulaiman You don’t have content out there which is engaging. They don’t control everything
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PROFESSOR JIANG TELLS SNEAKO U.S WILL BOMB PLANTS & DO GROUND INVASION
“I think that they are definitely going to bomb the power plants. They're definitely going to bomb the desalination plants. And they're definitely going to send in ground troops.”
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@LibertyLockPod @shoe0nhead This guy has a pretty good lecture on this. I've studied media theory and on a practical level he's pretty on point, particularly on selectively remembering history.
youtube.com/watch?v=V16LTP…
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@shoe0nhead And no matter how obvious it is we will still be called hateful and crazy for pointing it out.
Good times!
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@Cappyarmy I'd say stay away from the Red Lobsters or Olive Gardens, but they don't exist anymore hahahaha
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Montana is beautiful holy smokes ! What food do I need to try here ?
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@ScubaForDogs @ZaidJilani "He was better at lying to us and making us feel better, while he didn't do what he promised, and/or the opposite?"
Seriously? that's the bar now?
I'd honestly want them to tell me the truth than lie.
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@ProtestBusters @ZaidJilani True but he at least knew what to say and how to act in public to not make his own voters hate his guts.
None of the high-ranking members of Dem leadership (or the candidates that they support) have even the remotest idea how to do that anymore. All they can do is scold.
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Great job by @Timodc -- we covered this on the show this morning, whole thing is worth watching.
@RepJoshG won't even acknowledge that Netanyahu urged Trump to attack Iran. Says he hasn't read the NYT article. Wild stuff.
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller
WATCH: “Why not just oppose this? We’re gonna trust Trump and Hegseth?” @Timodc grills Democratic congressman @RepJoshG about why he won’t oppose the war, downplays the role Israel played (even after the NYT article), etc.🤔 Full @BulwarkOnline ep: youtu.be/8jrd5UZObF4?si…
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@ZaidJilani Since this was an area of specialty for me, let me highlight just one: the arab spring was actuallythe first tactical use of twitter(social media) to help create various "revolutions" in arab countries. This was pure obama acting innocent and lying, while creating it.
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@ZaidJilani If you take a long term look at him now, he basically covered for the banks that destroyed our economy, continued wars and even started a few, and further privatized the health care system.
He was good in media - I'll give him that. But not THAT different than prior/futureprez
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