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    oof. bummer.
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    this was shown on TV last night during the news. not the volleyball but people on the beach getting on w/their lives.
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    US already bombing sites in syria because syria hit some US bases in Iraq. tucker carlson doesn't deserve our time though. he's a turd blossom
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    he's trying to do what that company in china does.. that platform where you can do everything from the app. i forget the name of it.. but it seems a bit much to let one entity control your life. "sorry, you made a mean tweet about elon musk. you've been suspended and you cannot use the app for anything for 3 months. we will reconsider your case at that time"
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    other journalist who reports for al jazeera left his home w/his family to a place they thought would be safe... he was out reporting nad his whole family was killed in an air raid. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/media/al-jazeera-journalist-family-killed-gaza/index.html
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    it's funny. he's talking about michael cohen. and of course there's more to it than that. he said "he told me it'd be great if this looked the way i wanted it to look then he looked at me and made sure i knew what it is he meant for me to do.. and he knew that i knew" this testimony is about damages anyways.. the case is already over otherwise.. trump lost. so, this is only about damages.
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    and thought it was meme worthy. meta-memeception.
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    zing!
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    shit. fckn legend. RIP
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    that Palestinian journalist is still reporting from inside gaza. posting to his instagram. it's brutal mostly but some moments of levity.. mostly it's all NSFL but also footage of refugee camps set up and people getting on w/their day somehow. but his instagram reels are rough and i don't recommend it unless you want to be witness to this. https://www.instagram.com/motaz_azaiza he's mostly posting things in his reels/stories feature. there's lot's of content warnings and blurred screens but not all of it is being caught by the censoring features.
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    one of my fav Ae jams is the buck tick remix. RIP
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    all our ancestors are from Africa so anyone of us can go there and claim something apparently. oh wait.. no.. apparently multiple groups of people were granted Palestine by god so idk maybe we can ask god when he sends his son back a second time what to do [christian evangelicals heavy breathing noises] edit: also.. we know chris.. we know.
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    just watched some news updates on youtube. lot's of footage of air strikes flattening entire buildings. one bomb/missle.. entire build collapses/implodes. also, CNN video war porn title "See the New Weapon Israel is using in War Against Hamas" jfc. i hate this shit. "The New Weapon Allowing Israel to..."
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    that dude is a weak pawn of someone. stripping votes away from both biden and trump but appears more from trump if polls are to be trusted. he's no outsider worth getting behind though imo. and how much of an outsider? he's got scrambled eggs for brains i think. and trump? c'mon. he's a self interested psychopath. authoritarian wanna be. doesn't give two shits about you or me or anyone. ugh. why bother.
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    wasn't that 'decade' under putin's thumb? when his crony was in power in ukraine then they had an uprising and threw that guy out and where did he go? he went to russia. .. and they turned his palace into a museum. the people's museum. not sure what it is now.. but he had a pond with floats on it where he a giraffe or something. he looted billions from ukraine. there's lot's of really good reporting on that and you should be aware of it. the ukraine of 10 years ago isn't the ukraine of today and you know that.
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    modern phone minus all the bullshit. might be cool for kids too. to keep them off the socials.
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    that guys is great as the cult leader dude in The Leftovers.. which is also excellent imo.
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    anyone want an invite code to bluesky? it's like twitter w/o all the people. https://staging.bsky.app/profile/ignatiusmusic.bsky.social
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    you're missing the point. i know they suck. they all suck. none will deliver. some will partially deliver.. so if i can vote for that person to make things suck less for some people then i will. that's all i'm saying. and yes, when possible we vote for the better candidate.. fight the battles we can fight.. look around locally, get to know our neighbors, when crisis happens it's usually our neighbors who will help us long before the government comes to action. this doesn't mean we don't take part in trying to put people in places of power who aren't total shit heads and have some idea of how things should be etc. yes. we know the dems in america. .the mainstream left in america.. is like a right center party in europe. we get it. it is what it is. we change that as we can by trying to find people to better represent the ideas many of us have. but it's a lost cause to pour lot's of faith into this system. we know the dems foil progressive plans all the time. they fight against more progressive policies and politicians. sometimes this comes back to hurt them later. that's fine. > thats a pretty high bar which is systemically never going to happen, that can only come from outside yeah.. that's the point. so what do we do in the mean time? try to manage the collapse to ease harm on vulnerable people. this can happen in various ways.. sometimes it's through voting and sometimes it's through community action/organizing and what not. also, still one of the funniest photos of the orange one.
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    yes. and somehow he was the better option. same w/obama. millions of more people got healthcare in USA because of him but he also went hogwild with drone strikes. the domestic side of things is the harm reduction in this case.. but we could look at every act of policy both foreign and domestic and tally up a pros/cons chart.. seems pointless though. just know that there's often a better choice in any election (federal, state, local).. and that no one can see the future so you do your best and hope they prove you right more often than they prove you wrong. harm reduction.. when someone makes life better for some people.. it reduces harm. things like child tax credits... that pandemic stuff massively reduced childhood poverty. i'm ok taking what opportunities come along to make things a little better and i know that i'll not get everything and society won't be greatly changed and we'll only get incremental change. i don't need to have a litmus test and i don't expect every politician in the mainstream.. part of the system or whatever.. to be revolutionary and bring on some kind of socialist mutual aid based system based on anarchic principles with no hierarchies.. that's just not gonna happen... so why not do the best we can and try to at least make life less cruel for as many people as possible? also, sometimes they do make things better longterm for some people. it happens in small ways.. sometimes by accident or the by-product of some other action. i reject the idea that we should all should abandon the system because it isn't exactly the thing we want or the thing we know is better. i've had conversations w/people who i'd characterize like that. all or nothing. burn it all down. fine. go ahead. in the meantime i think it'd be cool if some kids got free school lunches and didn't go hungry or some people got health care or tax credits or whatever... or that there was better public transportation or a few more public parks.
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    this is some really mainstream democrat talking points ball licking. i made it through some of it but couldn't listen to the whole thing. it's also full on democrat echo-chamber type stuff.
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    whoa congrats!
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    i wouldn't say he's 'great'. he's tolerable and does less harm than the other option. his admin just did approve a big pipeline in the PNW that officials from multiple states objected to as well as numerous environmentalist groups. he's firmly in the neoliberal camp which isn't really a good thing. sometimes he gets it right with domestic policy and there's been a few solid and positive legislative achievements during his turn as president so far. anyway.. he could be a lot worse but could be better. i vote mostly based on harm reduction and he's definitely pointed in the direction of reducing harm.. at least domestically. though there's a lot to debate but that's boring as shit really and is like pissing in the wind. fingers crossed the orange one gets disqualified or if he gets the nomination he gets defeated. i don't think we'd survive another 4 years of that guy.
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