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Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!

1小时前

YSK that every single thing Donald Trump is doing was predicted in this article published right before the election
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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1小时前

Absolutely, but I think right now it's important to be able to show that this behavior goes back decades and isn't some new phenomenon that so many people act as though it is.
The NSA story they sat on was in 2007 when they published it, so literally has been 20 years this year.

2小时前

Trump DOJ Files 9/11-Era Charges Against Leftists Across the Country | Under Trump, the DOJ has changed how it brings terrorism cases, and is training them on the opposition

Oh gee shocker it looks like those of us who tried to sound the alarm during the Bush and Obama years that these laws and these surveillance systems could be and would be turned on us were right all along!

It fucking sucks being right all the time. I can't even get any enjoyment out of being able to say "I told you so" because most don't even remember being told fifty fucking times.

I think a lot about the day I argued with my coworkers that if we allowed Bush to give Hank Paulson a cool $700 billion to bail out the banks no strings attached that we were just kicking the can down the road and the economy for regular folks would suffer over time because we enabled bad behavior and taught banks that as long as they were too big to fail they would be bailed out by taxpayer money. I wonder if any of them even remember being told what obviously has come to pass as the lower classes have been increasingly hollowed out during the time since then.

I just can't even anymore living among all these fucking dimwits who aren't even paying attention and just drifting through life like none of this even matters. I'm not smart enough for everyone else to be this fucking stupid.

2小时前

YSK that every single thing Donald Trump is doing was predicted in this article published right before the election

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2小时前

NYT also sat on the story about NSA wiretapping US citizens for over a year at the behest of the Bush admin. Later, DNI Clapper would deny that spying on Americans happened "wittingly," a denial which would push Edward Snowden to leak information thst proved otherwise.

3小时前

The wealthy ramp up spending while other Americans tread water, new study finds

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3小时前

Misleading as a college diploma isn't as much of an indicator of this as this article pretends. Plenty of college degree havers are just scraping by, too.

Like, I have a degree, but I've been fucked out of even using it for anything because the healthcare system is so fucked up and I have cancer and it makes more financial sense to be in abject poverty and have Medicaid cover my treatments instead of working and going deep into debt trying to pay for the treatments.

7小时前

YSK that every single thing Donald Trump is doing was predicted in this article published right before the election

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 7小时前

I worked in news media in the Bush years and I got to see first hand how our national news promoted the lies coming from the Bush administration and helping spearhead support for an Iraq invasion.

The media has been a problem for a long time.

9小时前

Many Americans aren’t buying Trump’s affordability message, polling shows

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 9小时前

Insert Lucille Bluth quote here.

19小时前

Whats something new thats actually good?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 19小时前

You're gonna have to link that Parkinson's news.

1天前

'Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1天前

Why am I completely not surprised that he was speaking to Bobby Kotick?

2天前

Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

"I want that report on my table first thing tomorrow morning, Cloth"

"But sir-"

"On my table, Cloth!"

2天前

Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

I'm not a UK native, so that's very likely, I always thought it was just any situation where your poo is touching your underwear.

2天前

They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

Six Degrees of Investigation

2天前

Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

I'm not from Britain but I've heard the phrase "touching cloth" from over there.

2天前

What else should I selfhost?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

Isn't wireguard already pretty easy???

Also unless it changed I thought Plexamp was only available to Plex Pass subscribers.

2天前

Wrong community?

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

I mean, he really is though.

2天前

All take, no give

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

2天前

Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

Thankfully turns out he had a leash that ended before statuatory rape. Good dog.

2天前

Permanently Deleted

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

There's a fart sound around 33s and then a mushy plop sound around 44s when he's shaking hands with Mehmet Oz.

2天前

They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

Including finally admitting that we need to hold those who failed to do their duty in holding these people accountable just as accountable.

Obama was a good President in a lot of ways, sure, but he didn't dismantle the surveillance state under which we are now living. He paved the way for someone like Trump by not wanting to look political in pressing his DOJ to prosecute the architects of the US extraordinary rendition and torture networks. Biden is culpable in handing the reigns to Merrick Garland and never replacing him with someone who was going to take this threat seriously.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the people who frankly abdicated their duty to hold these people accountable are absolutely just as accountable because their lack of action led us down this dark path just as much as the horrible actions of those directly responsible.

2天前

They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

I mean, I'd have to dig up the article, but Slavoj Zizek posited that this was the case around the time that Edward Snowden leaked all his information, and Chelsea Manning had already released all hers, and the evidence of the USA committing torture in the middle east was readily available. He made the case that for some reason, putting the truth out there just didn't matter anymore. It didn't cause revolutions, it didn't cause people to rise up, and it didn't change anything. A small number of low level soldiers were imprisoned for the torture, but the architects of the program and authors of the legal reasoning all still walk free and are often writing Op-Eds, such as John Yoo. The first post on reddit ever was The Downing Street memo which laid out the US and UK's plans to manufacturer a reason to invade Iraq. Obama himself said "we need to look forward, not backward" in regards to the idea of prosecuting the Bush administration officials with signing off on torture, which they most assuredly did. Nothing fundamentally changed after the Snowden leaks, either, we're literally living through the mass surveillance of Americans being turned into a sprawling plan to control and abuse the populace right now. AT&T never got in real trouble for handing over their communications to the NSA without a warrant. To quote Joe Biden "Nothing will fundamentally change."

Outisde of the USA it happens, too. Nothing really happened to all the people in the UK government who were breaking COVID quarantine protocols partying it up while their citizens were being forced to shelter in place. Nothing really came of all the evidence that they were having full-on parties during this time.

I don't think Zizek ever came up with a reason why this is happening, but was rather just noting that it was happening. That at this point in history, leaking information on corruption by governments by and large didn't change anything about how those governments operated. I agreed with him then and I agree with him now. I'm a little surprised that people continue to be surprised.

It's really rather that with each disclosure the powerful get more brazen in what they can get away with, Trump himself seems to be a symptom of that.

2天前

They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2天前

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.