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I want to punch this guy
I'm homeless. I have a PhD and I guarantee I've contributed more to society than this fat cat.
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I want to punch this guy
I'm homeless. I have a PhD and I guarantee I've contributed more to society than this fat cat.
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The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳
An attractive girl talking to me for more than a few sentences is automatically sending mixed messages. Obviously they don't like me, why are they talking to me? I'm confused.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America
Corrupt hack should eat shit.
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Trump’s Acting A.G. Says He Won’t Release Even One More Epstein File
We already know Trump rapes kids, murders infants, and was heavily involved in human trafficking. If what we know isn't enough to take him out, he'll never be held to account.
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Compare them on the issues that matter
DS9 has the whole range of politics. Odo the Fascist. Kira the Terrorist. Quark the capitalist. Rom the proletariat. Garak the gay spy. Bashir the other gay spy. The whole range.
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When the Iranians try to assasinate you vs When the Iranians try to assasinate you
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Fake cut on his ear thing too. I have no idea if the shooting itself was fake, but everything else around it obviously was. If it wasn't fake, the bullet missing might well make me believe in the devil. Live video of a bird landing on Sander's podium in 2016 remains best evidence for god. Humans clearly closer to the former than the latter.
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[Discussion] Are you pro or anti nuclear energy? Why?
Anti-nuclear. Used to be pro-nuclear because the energy density would allow for very compact energy production, but I don't trust the government (or corporations) to have any meaningfully concentrated nuclear material. Maybe solid-state nuclear batteries can be made to work and we can use that to dilute the nuclear material -- not sure about that yet.
These days I favor local solar and wind.
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It will magically disappear
Wasn't this was the original idea behind cryptocurrency? A lot of government legitimacy rests on currency and contract enforcement. If one of those was underminded, it'd go a long way towards eroding the government.
Don't get me wrong, cryptocurrency fundamentally misunderstood money, so it didn't work... but it's a really interesting idea. It'd require a lot. Decentralized conflict resolution (to prevent scamming/theft), some means of managing inflation without destroying supply-demand responsive markets, a way to manage wealth inequality without destroying savings / retirement. I can think of some mechanisms, but it'd probably take many tries - parallel systems and institutions are the effective path to change anyway, but after crypto it'd probably get the scam label. Plus writing the code in the first place would be a massive pain.
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Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
The billionaire families are "Bradley, Coors, Koch, Scaife, Seid, and Uihlein".
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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat
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I'd be shocked if it wasn't illegal to hack your own car by now. People are very authoritarian about vehicles. They're fine with unreasonable prices, mass surveillance, facial recognition, endless registries, and forced subscriptions (yes, that's insurance) and eat up any justification the government gives them for it.
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These heroes stole 5 flock cameras before they got caught
Sounds like they're gonna get charged with theft because they didn't destroy the cameras.
If they would have, hypothetically, used low-recoil subsonic rifles with suppressors (basically silent) to blow the cameras apart from a distance, they wouldn't be as much evidence against them. Maybe add an unregistered barrel and casing collector to prevent the bullet being used as evidence. Also, you can shoot from within a vehicle if you get the right angle and cover your plates. Hypothetically.
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Screwdriver logic
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Sounds kinky
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An election without a lottery option cannot provide consent of the governed. Oligarchic Elections are the governmental equivalent of a rapist asking you where you'd prefer to take it, which honestly explains a lot about the current rapist ruler.
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Based
Start a fight with the statue of liberty - for symbolic reasons.
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its the best we have
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Maybe if you don't know what capitalism is. A lot of people seem to confuse capitalism with markets. It's had to imagine a world without markets, but capitalism is just an ownership system. It's easy to imagine a world made up of cooperatives. It's basically the same world we already have but everyone gets paid more and there are no shareholders.
There's nothing stopping people from working for or with cooperatives or not working for or with corporations. It's just that most people can't be bothered to care. If everyone stopped buying from corporations, corporations would die pretty quick. If everyone bought from cooperatives, they'd be a lot more stable. We're only picking winners and losers via government contracts. The res of the economy is a free for all.
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ben folds five
Nah, that brick is being used to build a wall. Anarcho-Isolationism is where it's at.
Edit: After going down a rabbit hole of polcompball definitions, maybe Non-Interventionistic-Egoism is more where I'm at? Labels are hard, but I like term spooks.
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These heroes stole 5 flock cameras before they got caught
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People who advocate shaky cameras while screaming stop resisting and beating the shit out of someone already on the ground claim cameras are objective.
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When the Iranians try to assasinate you vs When the Iranians try to assasinate you
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Keep him off the seats.
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BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat
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Wasn't the EU going for cameras on drivers at all times?
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A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry
The wealthy will turn it into a bailout. The US government isn't gonna 'seize' anything. They'll "compromise" by buying the companies directly from the wealthy, and when it all comes crashing down the tax payers will be left holding the bag.