EdamAnchorman
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8 hours ago, ignatius said:
there's thousands of his followers and conspiracy tards getting into "go mode" pointing to the funding for the IRS in the new bill just passed as a way that they'll come take their guns. they think the IRS is going to take their guns. "america is over. this is the first move" and all that kind of shit. as if the federal gov't is going to have 20,000 IRS agents by friday this week to start collecting people's guns. wtf. it's all so dumb.
also, who puts the american flag at the head of their bed? lot's of people put the cross there but the flag? is that a twin bed in his mom's basement? wtf w/these people who need some kind of thing to latch on to to give their life purpose... to feel important.. fucking idiots.
These kinds of people have always existed, always spouting the same kind of crazy stuff. It's not like there are suddenly more of them.
The only difference now is that it's much easier for them to organize and spread ideas though social media. I hope the FBI is closely watching out for that kind of thing.
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19 hours ago, ignatius said:
this shit is endlessly bizarre. cpac is a fuckn weird weird place.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3ppy5/cpac-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-the-capitol-riot-rage-cage
Some spectators wept. Some threw money into the cage. Others came up close to mutter words of comfort and support to the emotionally distraught man inside, who was alternating sitting on a bare cot with his head in his hands, and writing sad slogans on a blackboard like “Where is Everyone?” Among those in the audience was Zuny Duarte, mother of Enrique Tarrio, the jailed ex-chairman of the Proud Boys facing seditious conspiracy charges for his role in the Capitol. One man, wearing a T-shirt saying “Correctional Officers for Trump 2020” pointed at his chest, making sure the “jailed” activist saw, and said “”I know how it works, man.”
I wonder if these people would look at a liberal gathering / conference, with all these people trying to be inclusive and making plans to help the disadvantaged, with the same kind of befuddled incredulity in which we see this.
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1 hour ago, PigeonSt said:
That sounds really lovely, man, save for infertility issues sorry that happened to you. Keep investing in that S&P and time will be your ally
Thanks. To be clear, it's more like infertility due to medical malpractice. Getting to deal with the US healthcare and legal systems at the same time was quite a frustrating experience.
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Oude geuzes were made for summer...
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I joined in 2005 when I was in grad school. At that time I guess I only wanted to end up with a good job, I had no plans on how to get there because I guess that's not how my mind worked back then. I tend to just go with the flow. Never thought I'd get married but I met a great girl at grad school and we got married. I graduated and found some cool post-docs which caused me to move around the mid-Atlantic and Northeast US a bit while she finished school. Was super lucky to get a great job by an online application, didn't even know anyone in the company. 11 years and I'm still at that job and I've been able to make a little niche for myself in an area of expertise that is needed but that almost nobody else understands. I feel like I'm just hitting my stride right now in my job and I'm really excited about the stuff I'm doing.
I guess the only part that didn't turn out as expected is that I expected to have kids at some point. That didn't happen for a reason that I covered in a post on here several years ago, but the Mrs. and I are still happily married.
I'll be 41 this month and I am trying to plan for retirement. Because of no kids and some money resulting from the incident that took away our ability to have kids, I'm trying to figure out how to best invest our money so that we both can retire as early as possible (shooting for 55, fingers crossed). Mutual funds are total shit so I'm pouring it into S&P500 ETFs. Hoping to retire to the Pacific Northwest and buy a nice, small house on a hillside overlooking the Puget Sound.
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12 hours ago, prdctvsm said:
That guy played too much GTA.
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*does a burnout*
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Let's keep going then... Picoplastics? Yoctoplastics?
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1 hour ago, J3FF3R00 said:
Who is to say that mass violence will cause Rs to break with T and come to some semblance of reason? These are the same people that are letting kids get gunned down in droves while supporting any legislation that continues to pump guns into the hands of everyone that should not have guns.
I actually believe that violence is now a part of their platform , whether spoken or not. If they can maintain chaos, they can maintain control (that’s likely why they didn’t want to put a lid on covid, as well). Additionally, if the ideological minority is armed and aligned with law enforcement then violence could ultimately be advantageous for subverting the tide of democracy that increasingly has no place for them.All of what you're saying is true, but where I see a distinction is that while violence is a part of their platform, it has always been so in a more indirect way. That's to say that violence exists and their policies on guns just amplifies that violence. They can say BS like "guns don't kill people, people kill people", and that the violence exists outside of their policies and that the freedom to own guns has nothing to do with gun violence (lol).
I see a distinction if the violence arises solely from a support of Trump. They can't dodge that one as easily. If Pence would've been captured on Jan. 6 and roughed up or beaten or worse, how could they have dodged that and still supported Trump? If Trump is indicted and his supporters start performing small scale acts of violence against local, state, and fed. gov't around the country, how are they going to dodge the question, "why do you still support Trump and cater to a base that acts like this?" Maybe I don't want to know the answer to that...
Your last point is super valid and also scary. If violence does erupt, I hope law enforcement and citizens as a whole can remain calm enough to not let things get too out of hand.
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Sad to say but I kind of hope that he's indicted and that there's "major violence". I don't want to see anybody get hurt, but we need something, some event(s) drastic enough to force the Rs in Congress to publicly break with him and his base en masse. Apparently, Jan. 6th wasn't enough, although it was enough to make them avert their gaze from the replaying of evidence during the impeachment trial (fucking cowards).
The insurrectionists came so close so many times, I kind of wish that they would've captured Pence or a Congressperson (with no serious harm done, of course). I feel this would've forced more Rs in Congress to take a stance against Trump as opposed to this whole line of, "well nothing really bad happened in the end so I don't have to denounce it".
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19 hours ago, iococoi said:
Shit I totally forgot that he played Miles... And ffs Virginia Madsen was hot.
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Well looks like the Italians have made it to Mars, there goes the neighborhood!
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https://www.newsweek.com/gop-vote-nazi-white-supremacists-military-police-1724545
QuoteHouse Republicans All Vote Against Neo-Nazi Probe of Military, Police
The House has approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to compel government officials to prepare a report on combating white supremacists and neo-Nazi activity in the police and military, despite every Republican voting against the measure.
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Is Musk's Twitter profile pic really a giant space-x (burnt) rocket dick? That he would choose that pic tells me all I need to know.
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I feel like Musk's objective with Twitter was not necessarily to buy it but to use the whole bot / misinfo thing to his advantage. Making the offer to buy was the only way he could get inside info on how much is really going on.
Now that he's backing out, he can be all like, "LoOk, ThEyRe HiDiNg StUfF! ThE iNfO tHeY gAvE mE wAsNt CoMpLeTe!" and discredit Twitter.
Whether or not Twitter deserves this is another story, but I feel like Musk was never really interested in buying it, he just spent several billion dollars to try and discredit Twitter.
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- The bill does not specifically say what will be done with survey results, but DeSantis suggested budget cuts could be imminent if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students.
Do they mean "indoctrinating" them with knowledge and critical thinking, and with the ability to see through the R's bullshit?
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3 hours ago, usagi said:
some crucial details coming out of this testimony that will surely spur the US justice system to really nail the former Transgressor-in-Chief.
Some people have begun calling him "The Hamburglar"
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4 hours ago, perunamuusi said:
As was this 7.1% 24 month barrel aged Raspberry sour.
Looks amazing. Summer is my season for sours. I'm trying to explore geuzes a bit more now that the selection in my area has been expanding. Love the sour/funk mix.
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56 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:
Hope they got a bulk discount on GAP khakis
Nah it was prob Old Navy, bruh.
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"Dr. Lyle P. Lysol MD (lab coat emoji)" sounds too much like a cartoon character crackpot doctor.
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10 hours ago, prdctvsm said:
Don't forget to point out to them that they're being embraced from behind by a Middle-Eastern Jew.
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21 minutes ago, usagi said:
^ lol
I hadn't even thought this far. it's obviously beyond just the automotive industry, power companies and a slew of related industries need to get on board. which means that no single person or company is going to be able to single-handedly change anything.
And yet another reason in the long list showing that Musk's "going to single-handedly save the world" crap is all such delusional bullshit.
Regarding solar, I would love to have solar installed so that I can charge my car from the sun and move to my utility's time-of-use program (doesn't make $$ sense without having solar), but according to my utility my neighborhood is already "solar-ed out" meaning at max capacity to feed back into the grid during peak sunshine hours. So I couldn't even get solar if I paid for it all tomorrow. Another example of how the grid will be the rate-limiting step holding back a lot of these things.
Edit: and wouldn't it be great for people in sunny parts of the world to have solar with battery storage, allowing them to be effectively off the grid? Yeah, well, the utilities basically made this illegal because then they would lose so much money by losing so many customers. Instead they let you generate all you can use and buy your excess at less than wholesale prices while selling you electricity at super high rates when you need it.
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I wouldn't say they took it over, they basically broke in and then looked around for an hour or so. And this was them disorganized, which is why I hope the FBI is looking out for organization.