@Midwest_expat @DavidAstinWalsh What fucking difference does that make? They're stealing from you!
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Smonk
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@Smonkulus @DavidAstinWalsh That’s a civil matter, not criminal theft
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Is it really so hard to understand “these bastards steal from us all the time, so we might as well steal from them?”
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
This whole interview just makes me incredibly sad. Total breakdown of any moral code / sense of personal integrity / commitment to the public good. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opi…
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@Midwest_expat @DavidAstinWalsh The question was: Is it really so hard to understand “these bastards steal from us all the time, so we might as well steal from them?”
Not: what's the proper channel for dealing with the criminality of the rich.
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@Smonkulus @DavidAstinWalsh And the proper channel for resolving that is using the legal system, not an arbitrary looting of retailers
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@Smonkulus @DavidAstinWalsh Take a step back and think about it
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@EvanDShapiro @DavidAstinWalsh Why would those people ‘provide mutual aid to poor people’ when the rich stealing from the poor is what made them rich in the first place!
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@DavidAstinWalsh It is not hard to understand, that is the point. A child can understand what these two are saying. How about we try boycotting Amazon/Whole foods, and for people who have wealth to provide mutual aid to poor people so they don't need to steal to live?
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@Midwest_expat @DavidAstinWalsh What do tax rates have to do with whether or not these guys are stealing from us left and right?
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@Smonkulus @GarlicCorgi They do teach this in schools in Texas. In fact, it's the only thing they do teach
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@speechboy71 as oppose to the mature views you hold such as "genocide is good"
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I’m genuinely astonished by the stunning immaturity of the views expressed by Piker and Tolentino in these clips. These are sentiments you’d expect to hear in a dorm room as someone was passing around a bong.
Alex Christy@alexchristy17
The New York Times platformed Hasan Piker on their "The Opinions" podcast to promote theft as a form of protest. The Mao fan said, "Yeah, I’m pro-piracy all the way, like, across the board. Would you pirate a car? Yes. You know, if you could." He also says he would steal from the Louvre if he could, "I think it’s cool. We’ve got to get back to cool crimes like that: bank robberies, right? Stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature. I feel like that’s way cooler than the 7,000th new cryptocurrency scheme that people are engaging in." (1/2)
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@MaxDugganMax @MattBruenig @KelseyTuoc Don’t ever have to reach across the ocean to find this is an idea firmly planted in American culture
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@MattBruenig @KelseyTuoc The “art” from which the “term” comes is lame Marxism-Communism-Leninism.
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Piker's views on theft are bad, but they really do pale in comparison to his views on murder: that the important thing about Brian Thompson's murder is that healthcare CEOs are 'engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder' due to 'the structural violence of 'poverty'
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Feel like not enough people are pausing to appreciate just how truly deranged this is. Casablancas criticized Israel then the SF Chronicle rushed to publish an article about a 13 year old Casablancas attending a “Trump linked event”. 13 years old. “Linked”. 13! “Linked event”!
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle
A resurfaced 1991 photo shows a young Julian Casablancas at a Trump-linked event, drawing attention as the Strokes frontman faces backlash over recent political remarks. sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…
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@sfchronicle What the fuck is wrong with you? This is why people use paywall blockers. People wonder why local journalism is dying!
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A resurfaced 1991 photo shows a young Julian Casablancas at a Trump-linked event, drawing attention as the Strokes frontman faces backlash over recent political remarks. sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…
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@adamjohnsonCHI 1. Whoa that’s a hell of a leap you’re making with your first statement, might want to examine that, buddy.
2. He actually HASN’T repeatedly denounced his father’s actions. His reaction to them being revealed was “Dude, I learned a lot about my dad"
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@The_War_Economy Hopefully the next step is putting conservatives in camps
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Wow, can't believe the CIA put the CIA person in charge of Virginia, where the CIA is based, then converted the whole state into a Democrat only state through democracy pushing propaganda, wow, really makes you think.
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Abdul El-Sayed is running a competitive race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan—but his approach highlights one thing that the party often misreads about Trump’s electoral success, @jonathanchait argues: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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First clip from ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’.
In theaters on May 22.
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Smonk รีทวีตแล้ว
A real scientist admits when they are wrong.
I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE METEORS
WEIRD IS HAPPENING
nytimes.com/2026/04/21/sci…
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Smonk รีทวีตแล้ว
What's notable about the manufactured "Iran's leadership is in crisis & Trump needed to extend ceasefire for this reason" story, sourced to Israeli & US officials, is: Trump is openly in crisis, made a ton of false claims & flip flopped nonstop because Iran refused to capitulate.
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Smonk รีทวีตแล้ว
Everybody Israel kills is either a child or a PSL 8 who sacrificed everything to protect the innocent and every Israeli killed is like a revenge pornographer with an MDMA trafficking side hustle
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It's still just completely insane that Democrats were allowed to write a ballot question that says "restore fairness" and have the result create this lobster-like monstrosity of a congressional district.
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