• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    “The communist states are getting earthquakes. Look at California. You can’t have more earthquakes than California. You want to figure out why?”

    Californian here, the answer is “plate tectonics”, and “fault lines”.

    Source: I graduated the third grade.

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    Yeah, and witches cursed my pants to not fit anymore. NOT all the non-stop sitting and snacking. Definitely witches.

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      Communism is when you… Wait okay let me start over. If someone else is doing something and… Hold on. So you know how theres capitalism and then there’s… Please don’t do a communism.

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      It means any place where total oligarchy is resisted in any way whatsoever.

      It sounds like a stupid comment to rally the hogs, but in reality these types of things are a mask-off moment.

      “We hate it when people attempt to better their lives because it threatens our wealth”

      EDIT: I mean yes, it’s all those other things too. America’s Mayor would, be definition, have to be a dumbass bootlicking yes man who swindles for votes AND also be a fascist culture-warring capital defender.

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        I really just wonder how easy it would be, psychologically, to start a Red-Blooded for Jesus organization, rake in profits under a non-profit tag, then “have to close because of the economy” and retire.

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          I’m on board. We make some up some bs but close enough Biblical quotes and bad AI images, put them on t-shirts and flags, charge too much. Couple that with a poorly produced podcast. Tell them that we “support” (in really vague terms) a variety of groups (that we have made up) and infer that monthly subscriptions will help stop communism and wokeness - again couched in vague terms.

          Of course, it’s a for-profit corporation. Jesus specifically said that getting a high ROI is divine.

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      Depends on which tier of republican you’re referring to. People like Trump and Giuliani are defective in the sense that they’ll happily lie through their teeth for personal gain without that pesky conscience getting in the way.

      The voting base is defective in that they have no critical thinking skills to see through these obvious lies.

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      Different priorities. If your goal is to see your stock portfolio go up and ignore everything else, voting republican makes sense because that’s their goal too.

      Not saying it’s right but that’s what it is.

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          Definitely not facts

          Usually republicans make things go up for a while, then they pass a bunch of stupid shit, destabilize the economy and cause a crash for democrats to clean up.

          It’s more about control of congress than anything else, the president doesn’t have a huge impact on stock prices on the whole

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            If you are comparing the orange traitor to Brandon (not sure that’s what you’re intimating), consider both data points at the same time in their presidential trajectories.

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    Look at California. You can’t have more earthquakes than California. You want to figure out why?"

    I think they’re called fault lines. This is on the level of “tides go in, tides go out, you can’t explain that!” Followed by an “are you fucking kidding?” face

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    Maybe the home of Wall Street, the world’s largest market, isn’t Communist.

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    If these dudes are going full clown mode, then the media should stop reporting on them. There’s no value in anything they say. These aren’t alternative viewpoints, this is just babbling in an attempt to be relevant.

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      Is there some kind of brain fungus going around in the US? This guy, Trump and Musk and many others seem to have it.

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      I feel like we have a lot less reporting of the Trump drama of the day than in the past. It’s still a lot and still way too much, but less?

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        Definitely less. I hardly ever see anything about him now. I do have filters in place to block anything about him, but stories still slipped through all the time in the past. Nowadays it’s rare for something about him to slip through. My wife has no filters in place and she also commented that she’s glad she doesn’t see shit about him every day any more.

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          It’s redemption time and safe to tune in again.

          His first criminal trial is starting in April, the judge just ruled.

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      That is still one of the most surreal moments to come out of that whole mess.

      I just don’t understand how it was allowed to play out. At some point, someone had to decide that going ahead with it was more important than waiting a day and finding a suitable location.

      For the life of me I can’t remember what the press conference was about, only the screw up.

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        Extreme ego and narcissism allowed that to happen. It was a simple mistake in booking that they refused to own up to because that would be admitting mistake which is something fascist leaders are completely unable to cope with

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    Well by this logic, hurricanes and tornadoes must be targeting republican states. What’s the message being sent there? 🤔 At least you can somewhat design and build architecture against earthquakes…

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      I’ve noticed that people from tornado states are most afraid of earthquakes. Makes me think they believe that an earthquake is scarier than a tornado. The amount of fear I see suggests that tornado’s must be terrifying to live through.

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        Tornadoes don’t really affect large areas like earthquakes do. It might wipe out a neighborhood, but that’s usually about it. Very few people actually die from them.

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        I agree, but I guess it has to do with their relative unpredictability (as far as I understand). Hurricanes you can prepare for days in advance. And at least tornado’s you can ‘see them coming’ to the point where if you’re unlucky you might lose your house, but not your life. Not sure how the numbers back that up (or if they can even be compared), but emotionally that feels like the answer.

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          Funnily enough, looking at the stats for the US from 2020 onwards to now (averaged to annual data), 272 deaths per year were caused by Storms, 63 by extreme temperatures, 56 by wildfires, and only 0.5 (so in the last 4 years only about 2 people) by earthquakes. source

          So statistically, they should be more afraid of hurricanes and tornadoes (But to be fair, the odds of dying to these are extremely low to begin with, car accidents are probably far more common)

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    Republicans are supremely confident in the stupidity of their audience. Giuliani is a terrible no-good person, but I seriously doubt he’s this dumb himself.