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SweetDuckRollerskate
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SweetDuckRollerskate
@SweetDuckPod
Will not go quietly into this shitty, dystopian night. Reposts, likes, loves, sharing in the groupchat, stalking ≠ endorsement
Earf 加入时间 Ekim 2022
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“Far-right nationalism” is just code for White. When they say they’d like to stomp it out or “make things more inclusive” they mean not White. These types understand that a nation IS its people. You’d better start.
The Independent@Independent
Author and DJ Zakia Sewell is using British folk culture to challenge far-right nationalism. Sewell has journeyed around the British Isles exploring Britain’s folk resurgence for her debut book, Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain. Finding Albion builds on Sewell’s hit audio series for BBC Radio 4, which saw her seek out a different, more inclusive idea of “Britishness” beyond the usual national myths and symbols. Click on the link in bio to read 🔗
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On the news that USAID funded Boko Haram, I couldn't help but think back to 2014 when Alex Jones then alleged Boko Haram was being secretly backed by the Obama CIA
Richard@ricwe123
Did you know Washington was using USAID to fund Boko Haram a jihadist group responsible for terror attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad? Now you do..... (US Congressman Scott Perry)
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While everyone's once again on the whole "USAA is garbage" warpath (they are), it's time once again for me to share a little story from 2013:
As some of you know, I do computer security stuff. Not just professionally, but for fun.
One day in December 2013, I got some spam email. It was a phish. Purporting to be from USAA. Since I was taking 2 years off from working (voluntarily; I'd just gotten married and wanted to focus on me for a while), I had ample time on my hands.
So, I started digging.
Long story short: I located the threat actor -- full name, address, photo, front door, and all his infrastructure. I infiltrated that, and obtained full details of every USAA customer he's successfully tricked into handing over everything: PII, credentials, account details, credit/debit card info, the works. Along with his other campaigns running, pretending to be other banks.
I packaged this all up professionally and approached the appropriate people in USAA about it. Explained who I was, that I'd done this professionally for decades, that I'd been a long-standing customer of USAA, etc.
I was told, in no uncertain terms -- in fact, in these exact words -- "It's our policy not to pursue fraud".
I was a bit taken aback. I had to have them repeat, and then explain that. I couldn't've possibly heard that right.
Here I was, a security professional, handing them a fairly large threat actor on a silver platter, along with a decent-sized list of USAA customers that either had been victims of fraud, or were about to be.
And they not only said they weren't interested, but that they intended to do quite literally nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Earlier that year they'd stopped underwriting motorcycle policies, so I had already pulled my auto and bike insurance from them.
So, I spent Christmas Eve night that year (because I wasn't about to wait) sitting in the office of a local bank opening new accounts, transferring everything out of USAA.
The following week we took it to the State Police. They were interested, but had no idea what to do with the information, even after I politely suggested various avenues to pursue. And I was talking with the officer who was in charge of "all the computer stuff".
The report remains on file.
The threat actor remains at large.
His victims remain screwed.
USAA doesn't give two shits about you, and hasn't for quite some time.
EducatëdHillbilly™@RobProvince
@JBlunt1018 Just cancelled all my USAA polices and credit card because they fired all their US employees and replaced them with foreign labor.
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In 2015, Disney called 250 IT workers into a meeting.
They thought they were getting bonuses.
Disney told them they were being replaced by workers flown in from India on H-1B visas, and if they didn't spend the next 90 days training those replacements, they'd lose their severance.
Leo Perrero testified before Congress about it. Appeared on 60 Minutes.
"Someone was flown in from another country to sit at my same desk and take over what I was doing. It was the most humiliating thing I've ever gone through in my life."
Two workers sued Disney, HCL, and Cognizant for colluding to illegally displace American workers.
Courts dismissed it. Disney Magic.
Disney@Disney
“Enjoy what you do. Love what you do.” Thank you Bob Iger for over 50 years of unforgettable experiences, storytelling and magic.
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There is a dreary sort of predictability about this, isn't there?
Bruce@bruce_barrett
On today’s episode of Trains vs Indians…
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“I will not allow for one moment that American birthright is to be humbled and annihilated at the feet of a foreign interest; that it is to be trampled on and mocked by any and all whom foreign despots choose to ship to this country.”
- Samuel F. B. Morse
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Carl Jung was not playing around when he wrote:
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
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Huh, so after being convinced that they were powerless, they just laid down and whined while accepting the negative consequences rather than being ACCELERATED into a kind of UPRISING?
Very interesting. Really makes you wonder why there’s so much demoralization around here…
zhil@zhil_arf
>From these experiments, it was thought that there was to be only one cure for helplessness. In Seligman's hypothesis, the dogs do not try to escape because they expect that nothing they do will stop the shock. To change this expectation, experimenters physically picked up the dogs and moved their legs, replicating the actions the dogs would need to take in order to escape from the electrified grid. This had to be done at least twice before the dogs would start willfully jumping over the barrier on their own. In contrast, threats, rewards, and observed demonstrations had no effect on the "helpless" Group 3 dogs.
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People are acting like Tucker and Kent are some sort of CIA deep op…
Guys, a literal CIA operative just got elected governor of Virginia and she immediately banned guns and made rape legal.
Times have changed.
The current CIA wouldn’t know how to produce a “Joe Kent.”
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The right wing hippy is a much more logical archetype than the left wing hippy. Nature itself is inherently right wing (i.e. hierarchical). All left wing politics are utopian (i.e. opposed to nature); leftism is defined by the violent imposition of man-made constructions like “equality” onto a wild, unequal, raw reality; the flattening of the Cosmos. The only natural analogue to left-wing values is heat death, the theoretical end of the universe, where all structures (i.e. differences, inequalities, borders) are dissolved into a state of maximal equality (i.e. nothingness), and which all living things resist by the very act of being alive. If you love living things and desire a natural way of being, you have to be right wing
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Remember when Loomer, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss & Co. spent a literal decade sanctimoniously sermonizing against “cancel culture”? And “identity politics”?
Only to carve out a massive Israel-shaped exception & rush to practice them on behalf of their own identity group with even more alacrity+enthusiasm than the woke themselves?
Lol. Good times.
What they meant all along, of course, was “cancel culture, identity politics, and censorship for me, but not for thee”. But you already knew that.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
It’s a humiliation ritual for the White House that Tucker’s son is still allowed to work there while his dad bad mouths the President everyday and uses his podcast to undermine the Trump admin. How about Tucker gives his son a job so US taxpayers don’t have to pick up the bill? Daddy has enough money to pay Buckley and his wife Kelsey Kilgore, right? Is she still working at the White House too? How many Americans are happy paying the salaries of Tucker’s family members?
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I'm listening to Plutarch & he starts the life of Pericles with a basically unrelated ramble about how certain women buy 'puppies and young monkeys' instead of having children. Truly nothing is new under the sun
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All this retard does is lie.
He responded within 2 hours.
11 hours later Mark Levin posts saying he didn't respond.
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@escapefrommelos Can't wait for detectable levels of this to be in my testicles
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Even though Biden’s pistol brace rule was vacated, ATF is still enforcing the same legal theory.
DOJ’s response was not on our bingo card.
Basically, they're telling gun owners: “Yep, we’re still going after your braces. Nothing you can do about it.”
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They aren’t even carrying Irish flags
MichaeloKeeffe@MickOKeeffe
The Athlone St Patrick's Day parade 2026. Another parade in Ireland full of Indians.
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@klara_sjo Is that the... special... sister with a filter on or is that a different backup dancer?
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My government is fighting over whether my tax dollars should go to building cheap housing for generational wards of the state or blowing up Iran for Israel.
I hate you all.
Rep. April McClain Delaney@RepAprilDelaney
I'm a NO! $200 billion could fund five years of enhanced ACA subsidies that Republicans just let expire or nearly a million of new affordable housing units across the country. I will not vote for a bill that supports an illegal war and drives up costs for my constituents.
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