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Narauko

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  • HELP HIM.

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  • You will never get human trials for anything that hasn't passed animal testing until we have lab grown human organs/organ systems, but that is a ways out and also somewhat controversial. Coning partial people or parts of people needs a lot of safeguards.

  • Trump’s Secretary of Defense promotes video of man claiming women shouldn’t vote

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  • Are you talking about the Donald Trump who is definitely on the Epstein list, because the only reason to disappear evidence against your opponents is because you are also on there? I am also experiencing that particular deja vu.

  • Trump’s Secretary of Defense promotes video of man claiming women shouldn’t vote

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  • I know several boomers who still believe Trump knew/knows nothing about Project 2025 and the amount of stuff getting completed on the Project 2025 is just purely coincidental. They cannot handle having been unable to tell Trump was lying about that, so cognitive dissonance it is

  • ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she ran out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.

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  • That's what happens when the left goes full divestment from and demonization of guns for multiple decades. Even Marx knew it was a dumb idea, but saying "hell yes we are coming for your AR-15s and AK-47s" was just too tempting. The far right gun nuts are going authoritarian and the centrists are still hoping this doesn't end in a shooting (civil) war.

  • Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

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  • You're either actively against them, or you're part of the problem.

    I'll take this whole section generously as a nebulous "you" and not you directly calling me either "one of them or a useful hateful racist".

    Two things can both be wrong, it's not a zero sum game between open borders and fascist police states. Treating it as such caused the Democrats to lose some amount of support base, and did contribute to Trump getting reelected. The increase in Trump support from Hispanics and other immigrant groups was partially from resentment with treating illegal immigration as equivalent to legal immigration.

    Yes, the poem on the Statue of Liberty is wonderful, and should still apply as the US is and should remain a nation of immigrants. That is not the same as having open borders for anyone and everyone, and it never has been.

  • Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

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  • So who and how many from those hostile countries to we have to kill to stop them from being hostile? Do we do it blitzkrieg style or Gaza style until all the hostiles are gone? Do you have the reeducation camps ready to ensure whatever resulted in the countries becoming hostile in the first place can't happen again?

    I don't know about you, but this is starting to sound like a lot more work (and maybe a lot more death) than just dealing with borders.

  • Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

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  • “illegal immigrants” (whatever that's supposed to mean)

    Attempting to violate constitutional law through executive order is vile, and all law enforcement should be in uniform and identifiable (and held to higher standards than non-law enforcement) so I am completely against everything Trump is doing, but let's not pretend illegal immigration isn't a thing as a knee jerk in the other direction.

    Illegal immigration is crossing the border without legally passing through customs to establish a legal right to be in that country, or overstaying your legal right to be there (Visa). People who are in a country illegally are rightfully subject to deportation back to wherever they are citizens. Pretending otherwise just helps more moderate people buy into the propaganda and let's the ratchet work more easily.

    We are all rightly complaining about Trump violating the law, so how is it also not a problem for people to violate immigration law? This is the problem I have that leaves me stuck in the middle.

    Sanctuary cities that flaunt immigration law are, while not just as bad, still bad. When Trump (lies) and says he only wants to target people here illegally who commit crimes, and a sanctuary city prevents law enforcement cooperation with ICE, that just adds to the narrative of felon illegal immigrants and then you have ICE going after those people at home and grabbing everyone around them as by catch. This only helps the Trump.

  • Lazy moochers

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  • Lazy moochers

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  • The vast and rapid modernization and industrialization of Russia at the start was a success, but my opinion is that Marxist-Leninism stopped in the USSR when Stalin seized the country and turned it into a crony dictatorship. I don't believe that lasted long enough to be truly called a success, as it immediately fell to the authoritarianism it overthrew from the monarchy.

    If you don't think that Stalinism was the death of Marxist-Leninism in the USSR then the bread lines, famines, forced labor and relocation, imperial expansionism, etc. as broadly reported by those that lived there and lived through it are a product of socialism. I also believe that would count as failures of socialism and not proof of success.

    I agree with you that the PRC is still nominally socialist, but believe they also went Stalinist instead of Marxist-Leninist. I would call them Stalinist Communist rather than socialist. I also do not think the juice was worth the squeeze with the number of dead in the revolution and aftermath, but there is no telling what an alternative would have looked like so that is just, like, my opinion man. I personally don't consider China as a socialist success story, but instead another warning example for how easily Communism can be corrupted/captured from within.

    I totally give you that Marxist-Leninism was the defining ideology of the 20th century, but I'd call it the fuse that lead to "Communism" the failed authoritarian ideology. Like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand is to WWI. That is a hell of a lot more than Georgism ever got, to be sure, but would still say there has never been a successful Marxist country because they never remain Marxist for long.

  • Lazy moochers

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  • I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but since the USSR was a historical failure and Marxists claim China isn't actually Communist but Capitalist, can't we say the same for Marxism? An interesting historical curiosity, but it was never actually implemented and thus can't be said to have ever taken off.

    Both Georgists and Marxists get to complain about how things would be so much better if someone would actually just do it the right way for once. I say this as a left leaning Georgist Libertarian, to my heart in the right place Marxist cousins.

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  • Are you saying that most Jewish people aren't actually Jewish anymore because they became white Europeans when their ancestors left the middle east, or at least that Hamas is saying that?

  • Thank god the debt got blown up so that suppressors are tax free

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  • The reason those numbers are so low is because of the hoops jumped through via NFA and the tax. If you had to fill out extra forms, go to the DMV a second time, and pay an additional fee for seatbelts, most people wouldn't have them in their car despite them being common sense safety equipment.

  • Started Degoogling last Sunday

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  • Awesome, how do yoi like the Graphene experience? I just switched from Samsung to a Pixel and installed Graphene as soon as I got it. Still getting used to things, and still using some Google services and apps. Have you found good replacements for things like Android Auto and RCS for text messages (not that I can get RCS working yet in any case)?

    NextCloud and Ente look interesting, I need to check those out for Photos and Drive alternatives.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Their singing ability was definitely a cost, never let one pick any Bard or Bard adjacent class.

  • ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout

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  • It doesn't come across as you appreciating value in artistic expression and other intangibles when you say "suck it up and get a real job". That may not have been your intention, but it can definitely be read that way. I think that is the "boomer" people have commented on.

    I don't think there are really that many people who think social media creators or better than farmers or essential services personnel, and those that do are completely out of touch, but there are plenty of people who see alternative media creators as less than any other job. I personally think A-list actors, celebrities and sports professionals are no better than grocery store worker or warehouse person, but I won't deny they work just as hard in different ways.

  • ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout

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  • By that metric do authors or poets or actors create a physical product? Do computer programers? Since the death of physical media, books and art are now far more frequently digital than paper or canvas. Applications and software is 100% digital. Newspapers are dead, so journalists don't create a physical product. Is your argument that only physical labor producing physical things is "real" work?

  • 71% of Americans say the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor". But if you use the word "welfare" that number drops to 30%

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  • Nah, gotta go all in with that Battle Pass. Unlock perks like drivers license skins, use of the HOV lane, etc. really gameify the system and get those hardcore competitive type-A executives working on high scores.

  • Anyone who doesn't support the Trans Agenda(tm) is a fucking psychopath

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  • But the gun stuff is a constitutional issue, which is the complete opposite of states rights.

    Abortion was pushed back to a states rights thing because there was no federal laws on the books and they scrapped the right to privacy interpretation it was previously under. The right wing is happy to argue against states rights for a national abortion ban, especially when they are losing at the state level.

  • How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?

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  • That would require the federal election committee to violate the constitution by putting him on the ballot, then the same for every State government. This is an order of magnitude beyond the attempts to keep him off the ballots for Jan 6, as he was never convicted of or tried for it. The Supreme Court would need to destroy the constitution to rule favorably on it, and thus remove all their own power as the third branch of government.

    The US is not yet as corrupt as the CCP or Russia, and Trump doesn't have the political and personal capital of Xi or Putin to rewrite the constitution to allow more/unlimited presidential terms.