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  • The American People Don’t Want a Bigger Military Budget

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  • It's also not true in a relevant way. In the abstract, on its own, sure. If a presidential candidate argued for less military spending during an election campaign they would be painted as weak , and trying to weaken American increasingly dangerous world. Probably conspiracy theories about them being a foreign agent. And they would either lose outright or at least pay a significant political price.

  • NSFW

    MDs please verify.

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  • The one thing they could have made Shepard read that would make him invite the reapers invasion.

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    MDs please verify.

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  • Related question: where can I voluntarily get a lobotomy?

  • Two Handed Swerds

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  • Bottom left is my favourite. I want two dudes with those weird things to fight .

  • fantasy rule

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  • The middle drawing appears to be the end scene of Bladerunner 2049 where the protagonist lies on the concrete steps, not a field.

    https://youtu.be/bqFwDapu23w?t=3m50s

    Meme is 0/10 literally unplayable

    EDIT - Added spoiler tag. Also Snape killed Dumbledore

  • French Anatomy

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  • You know there's a Canadian sports exec named Dick Pound?

    Mr and Mrs Pound had a baby, looked at it, and said "were going to name him Richard, and he will be known as Dick. With a hard D".

    Really makes you wonder.

  • Corruption rule

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  • I disagree but it is interesting to note that your conception of corruption essentially doesn't make the distinction between extractive and quid-pro-quo.

    Extractive corruption is where one party uses authority to essentially shake down someone else. A cop pulls you over for a spurious reason and demands $200 in cash to make it all go away on the spot, or you can fight it and maybe win in court after significant inconvenience, cost, or just be met with immediate violence. In any case, in this case there is a perpetrator and a victim and the victim gets nothing out of it other than getting screwed.

    In quid-pro-quo type corruption, both parties benefit to some degree. So for example if you're applying for a permit at a local government office and you need it done fast, you slip them $50 to bump it to the top of the queue. They get paid, you get your permit faster .

    China's anti-corruption efforts famously dealt very harshly with extractive corruption while allowing a certain degree if quid-pro-quo corruption on the basis that 1) you cannot fully eliminate corruption so you have to prioritize and 2) quid-pro-quo corruption actually meets a market demand that isn't being met within the official system, as you noted. So long as the clerk continues to eventually process permits for people who don't pay the $50 bribe , there is a certain like of logic that says that you might as well let that clerk keep doing this since not everyone needs permits fast.

    This form of "allowed" corruption itself requires monitoring and regulation, though as it can easily turn extractive and such practices essentially require that the clerk have some reasonable fear of going too far.

  • Anger Management 😌

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  • I mean it's not like the kid killed a random person. In a sense he's the only character doing any kind of root cause analysis.

  • Critics Take Hakeem Jeffries To Task For Praising Trump's Latest Pardon

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  • He's acting exactly like a current established Democrat leader. He is proudly saying he doesn't take money from PACs, except AIPAC is the exception and if you ask why you're antisemitic. He cares about keeping the democratic unconditionally and uncritically 100 perfect behind Israel as his main policy goal, far more than any domestic concern. In that he has tons of company and is doing his job just fine.

  • Trump Fan Lashes Out at Trump Over Racist Rant: ‘My Children Are Not Garbage!’

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  • The short version is that they identified with Trump's misogyny to such a great extent that they were able to overlook his racism.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]

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  • More and more products that were previously targeted at what was the middle class are now targeting solely the top 10% of income earners. It's pretty tragic, and corrosive to the long term health of society.

  • Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026

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  • The best Americans can do is an organized protest on a weekend that doesn't affect the economy, ensuring that it can be safely ignored.

  • Experts doubt the Pentagon can punish Kelly over the 'illegal orders' video

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  • Even given their horeshit premises that page is comically badly written. I don't even think they used AI, because AI could have done it better.

  • Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’

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  • So what? What is he afraid of? Just say it's AI. Whatever Putin's leverage was it evaporated the moment Trump won his second term. Trump just doesn't want to tank the week of chaos and embarrassment that it would cause because he's incredibly weak.

  • This is such foolishness. They can't demote Slavs from whiteness like Afghans [reads history] oh no [reads more] oh nononono

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  • How much does it have to shrink for Italians and Irish to get kicked out?

  • Read, piggy

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  • The theory that he can't and doesn't ever read (like, at all) could also apply here.

  • First of all, eww. Second, it's always the craziest right-wing, gun obsessed assholes proposing this kind of shit with zero self awareness of their own mental illness.

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  • They just want to criminalize homelessness and throw them in jail. That's it. That's all this is.

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign after fallout with Trump

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  • Wrong. Her stock trades were entirely legal since insider trading isn't illegal for Congress members.

  • Florida affirms Heritage Foundation education priorities, first state to do so

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  • Mostly they're having a disagreement about whether this is the right time to reveal that they hate Jews.