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Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]

@ Philosoraptor @hexbear.net

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  • How is this all so stupid

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  • Also even if his user name was "JeffEpsteinILoveKids" that could just be a dude with the same name who actually just loves kids in a non-sexual way.

    Jeff Epstein the young goat specialist really has had a rough few years.

  • [CW: Epstein stuff] Elon doesn't understand coded language

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  • Real-life Tony Stark.

  • That little girl? Albert Einstein

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  • He is, unfortunately, the US Ambassador to Malaysia.

  • That little girl? Albert Einstein

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  • He's been nominated as the US Ambassador to Malaysia. This 1000% did not happen, but it's not a bit.

  • Let's check on how Bari Weiss' free-speech Chud-U is doing

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  • It would be pretty funny how

    we remain in their heads despite having no power at all if I wasn't absolutely sure that by "Communism" they mean "Joe Biden."

  • Set the countdown clock to the dems caving.

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  • Unfortunately my timer doesn't do Planck time.

  • that's ok, i love not being able to own a home anyway.

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  • This is slightly less effective now that interest rates have come up some, but for people who bought at like 2% in the 2010s, yeah: it was basically just the bank (and government) funding the most profitable investment possible for you with no downside or risk at all. That's how a lot of boomers see their house.

    That other half of this "trick" is to then leverage your (now more valuable) asset to buy another house and rent it out. You take your $100,000 in profit that you made from sitting on your "asset," pull it out, and use it as the down payment on another property, then get some poor desperate person to pay the mortgage on that while you pocket the appreciation and get the property at the end. The faster prices go up, the easier it is for people who already have their foot in the door to just keep doing that over and over. It's braindead easy if you have no soul.

  • From our favorite succdem rag

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  • Gun deaths can (and should) be treated as a public health matter. This particular epidemiologist seems to have a bad take, but that's definitely a productive way to frame the discussion in general. Of course, the rising tide of fascism also impacts public health.

  • They IDed the Ilhan Omar's attacker: Anthony Kazmierczak. [More inside]

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  • Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called the attack “unacceptable.” He said he was relieved that Omar “is OK” and thanked police for their quick response, concluding: “This kind of behavior will not be tolerated in our city.”

    The city has been reeling from the fatal shootings of two residents by federal immigration agents this month during Trump's massive immigration enforcement surge. Intensive care unit nurse Alex Pretti was killed Saturday, less than three weeks after Renee Good was fatally shot behind the wheel of her vehicle.

    Kinda seems like you're tolerating it!

  • I think it's because the author is an asshole

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  • Young people on both the right and left are also less wedded to political institutions. Those of us born in the 20th century had grown used to the idea that the right stands for tradition and the left for reform. In the liberal era, everyone was expected to hew quite closely to the status quo.

    But what we see now is that both factions stand for revolution.

    The conservative writer Rod Dreher recently asked a young man in Washington to outline the demands of his generation’s right-wing radicals. “They don’t have any,” he replied, “they just want to tear everything down.”

    The Zoomer left is no less radical. In Harry Potter, the good guys do not deliberately kill, but instead stun or disarm their opponents. Here Ms. Rowling endorses a liberal commitment to nonviolence that appears to be falling out of favor, particularly on the left. In a recent YouGov poll, the respondents most likely to endorse the statement “political violence can sometimes be justified” skewed young and left wing. We saw a glimpse of this change in norms after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when some young leftists responded with indifference bordering on glee.

  • Keir Starmer warned 'do not get naked' and 'change in bed' as Chinese spies will be watching

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  • Greg Bovino Loses His Job

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  • Definitely not even close to solving the problem, but I think it is important to recognize that this is a victory.

  • Paradox must be made to pay for the damage caused by HoI4

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  • The stretched supply lines of walking out your front door to yell at the pigs while they brutalize your neighbor.

  • 'Barely made it out alive': James O'Keefe attacked in Minneapolis and gets threatened, 'You have 1 hour to leave or you're dead' They have his license plate and his hotel. He was in a no-police zone.

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  • Project Veritas dude. The one who does "undercover hidden camera investigations."

  • Kamala Harris's two cents

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  • Asking your politicians to call for action is basically slavery

  • POLL: does trump cancel the midterms…. Or do they just rig the votes for a massive republican landslide. What do u ppl think ?

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  • This is the one I see as most likely. Post an ICE squad outside random polling places in big cities throughout the day (and every day in states with early voting), ostensibly to "ensure vote security" and "make sure illegal immigrants don't vote like they have before." Move them around throughout the day so you never know when or where they'll show up (I don't think they have the manpower to really sit a squad at every polling place in every big city). That will discourage some non-trivial number of people from showing up to vote for fear of getting murdered or disappeared. Given the margins for everything, that's probably enough to ensure a landslide win without actually "rigging" anything or cancelling the elections.

  • I'm tired of the "It's a distraction from the Epstein Files" line. No, Trump's a man who abuses others continuing to do so.

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  • Liberals can only think about one thing at a time--a kind of extreme single action bias. If they thought about more than one thing at a time, they might start to draw connections between events and policies that would suggest the shape of deep systemic issues. Then they wouldn't be liberals anymore.

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  • No, see, he wasn't protesting: he was protecting property. Keeping people from being killed by the government isn't what the 2nd Amendment is for. It's for making sure Target doesn't have to file insurance claims.

  • getting banned from the lemmy db0 stable diffusion bullshit comms revealed to me there are even more worse comms using this AI shit

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  • ChatPPB