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jpreston2005

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  • Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week

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  • with republicans, and the orange rapist especially, the cruelty is the point. Jesus christ, this is some next-level heinous bullshit. We're not even people to them

  • America Has a Rogue President

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  • By removing military leaders, and the JAGs that oversee them, he's setting the stage for broad usage of the US military on American citizens. The orange rapists next target is selling our natural resources and parks off to the highest bidder for his "Sovereign Wealth Fund." This can be expected after he fired a majority of parks staff. So basically setting the stage for a blow out sale of America et. large. Soon other countries will be enticed with offers of buying up huge swaths of data on all of us (if they haven't just given it to them outright). The red line has been passed, and there's no turning back, because republicans refuse to see the emperor has no clothes. A two-party state can't exist when one of the parties is batshit insane, and focused solely on accumulating personal power and wealth.

    I had plans for my life. Hopes, dreams. I thought America would get up to the edge of destruction but ultimately turn away, because of all the knowledge, data, and communication available to us. Instead, we're mid-step marching off the cliff into global ruin, and there appears to be nothing I can do about it.

  • New Mexico Supreme Court overturns murder conviction of woman prosecutor called a 'witch'

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  • Holy shit, this woman should be behind bars. The article indicates she had a child with the other confessed murderer, is that child at least OK and out of her hands?? Jesus christ.

  • AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

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  • When AI decides to destroy the human virus, it now knows exactly how to create a bug capable of it. Probably more likely than pumping out a bunch of humanoid robots with guns, just create a bug, spread it around, and mess with our ability to communicate in time to stop the spread. BAM. Easy-peasy, humans are now down to a manageable 1 billion or so individuals.

  • Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who forgave gunman's mother, dies at 43

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  • The Body Keeps Score.

    Anne Marie is getting all the rest now that she was never able to find after that tragic day.

  • Georgia publicly touts its Medicaid experiment as a success. Numbers tell a different story: Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million.

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  • putting work requirements on healthcare is what damned it.

    Right now, Georgia is the only state that imposes a work requirement for Medicaid coverage. But more than a dozen largely Republican-led states already plan to seek approval from the Trump administration to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees.

    Even moving it to an annual work verification isn't going to help. People are struggling to find and maintain work, so why apply for something that's going to be stripped from them in the future, through no fault of their own?

    Thousands of others never finished applying, according to the state’s data, as reports of technical glitches mounted. The state also never hired enough people to help residents sign up

    the Pathways program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants

    The whole thing is a republican boondoggle. They imposed requirements that doomed sign-up, then funneled money to their friends companies, all so they could performatively throw up their hands in despair and say "well, I guess government provided healthcare IS just a waste of tax payer money!" Fucking grifters getting people killed because they'd rather play politics than help people.

  • US aid freeze: how many dead?

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  • Once you get enough money, you begin to equate having it with being significant, or of importance. This leads you to, conversely, believe that those without it are insignificant, and of little importance. Thus, in his mind, he is like a a great cosmological wheat thresher, separating the wheat from the chaff of our genetic pool. Thus self-aggrandizement naturally walks hand-in-hand with a want to practice eugenics.

    This is a man who saw Idiocracy, and his take away was to focus on removing the over-reproducing "idiots" from the gene pool by removing any support they would need to reproduce. His only measure of whether or not someone is "good enough" to reproduce, is their ability to obtain currency.

    Instead of focusing on social programs that would educate and raise the tide (thus lifting all boats), he'd rather a bunch of people die needlessly, never once imagining that the next Einstein, Picasso, or Tesla might be among the culled.

    Here is a partial list of great scientists that arose from poverty to achieve great things

  • Trans Mexican woman responds to Emilia Pérez by making ‘French’ film without a French cast or crew

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  • Eyo that parody film is fantastic. I don't speak Spanish or French with any fluency, and that shit was still cracking me up. The musical pieces are even better than emilia perez I dare say 🤣

  • Removed

    Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses?

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  • I know they will be there for me when I need it

    Here's the thing, relationships take work. Not just marriages or romantic ones, they all take work. Effort needs to be made by both parties, or else the relationship will die. I had a friend that affectionately called it "friend work," where they would spend a bit of time each day putting in the effort needed to maintain a healthy friendship, because if she didn't, then the relationship would suffer for it.

    Not wanting to engage in the world right now is very common, and downright reasonable considering the general state of things. If a relationship you have with someone is mentally stressing you, or sapping your energy, consider whether or not that relationship is valuable to you, and act accordingly. If the relationship is important to you, and you want it to continue or grow, then you have to put effort into it. If the relationship is one-sided, and feels draining, and you want it to end, then put forth zero effort into it, and it will naturally go away.

  • MAGAs Are Trying to Make Barron Into a Mythological Figure, But His Classmates Think He's Weird, 'He Doesn’t Really Belong Here'

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  • Weird, is something most people can be called, I'm more concerned with the other linked article in the story, citing a former behavioral specialist of barron's recounting stories of animal, physical, and sexual abuse...

  • MAGA melts down at Tom Hanks playing Trump fan on SNL50

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  • just watched it, that was so milquetoast I can't believe anyone was actually offended. Shit, they just reused a couple jokes from the last time. That was it. He's scared of black people, that's the joke. magats are scared of anyone with more melanin than milli vanilli, so, uh, rings true to me

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • right, the only person in washington trying to get money out of politics is for the oligarchy. the one person who brow beats against the oligarchy, is actually for the oligarchy. you're a straight up moron, my dude.

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • here's the truth you can't take, you're an asshole and a moron.

  • my version is better

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  • I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying "cut your balls off" during the refrain

    Billy Idol - Mony Mony

  • Trump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefire

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  • Ukraine would have to cede territory and reject Nato membership in order to reach a deal.

    wow so exactly what putin wants. what a fucking moron.

    "If one side will just bow their head and give in to all the other sides demands we'll surely reach a deal!" fucking dipshits. art of the deal my ass.

  • When you get the joke, try to just give a subtle clue for the next person?

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  • yay! I got it! I just wasn't sure I got it until somebody said it explicitly 😅

  • TIL The Icelandic translation of Dracula, Makt Myrkanna, or Powers of Darkness, published in 1901, differs significantly from the English version and no one noticed until 2014.

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  • Adding to OPs note:

    In Makt Myrkranna, Dracula comes to England not alone, but rather with a deaf-dumb woman who is apparently his slave and together with another beautiful aristocratic female vampire, Josephine, who flaunts her sexuality.[20] Josephine is described as having her "neck and upper chest revealed" while wearing a "necklace of glittering diamonds", whom Harker finds "something indecent" about, despite his evident attraction to her.

  • Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the trump administration?

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  • protesting is where you meet these communities and working groups.

  • Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the trump administration?

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  • Same. I was there for the Women's march, there for BLM, after George Floyd, and most recently for the 50501 (which was surprisingly well attended despite it's quick set-up). Let me know if there's another one, and I'll be there too. All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.