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gnurgle
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gnurgle
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gumboy. no, other one
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yeah that’s reductive. I think you can pin the irreparability of gender politics on gamergate. huge swathes of previously “apolitical” young men funneled into pua, anti-feminism, and reactionaryism. I mean bannon doesn’t exist with it. rogan, etc. lady gamer journo story was catnip for turddudes
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hmm you gotta factor in the accelerationism. it’s not really a war -on- eachother. It’s a war to -outdo- eachother. the accelerationist glue unites the dominionists, the oligarchists, and the helter skelterers
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I’ve got elder GenZ kids and - it’s hard to argue against the doomerism sometimes. Yes the planet will cook. No, oligarchy will not be reversed. Yes, scientific research is incredibly impeded and no, that won’t change. I say the things you should say, sure. But maybe they have the right of it
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Took a swig of my coffee the other day after leaving it unattended for a few minutes. Had the pleasure of an Australian cockroach as big as my finger scrabbling for purchase in my mouth. Had to hold it and the swig of coffee long enough to walk through the house, get outside, and spit. Not ideal
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give me the full gumboy
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it feels like you’re trying to apply newtonian mechanics to quantum physics here. the world we live in now has vegan sith death cult cybernetic body modification triage rental trucks in it. you’re gonna have to up your game
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TikTok euro guy with tickle my fancy bit
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white girl weed stores sure are something. never got it til I came across one and had to nope out
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ozempic came from lizard saliva
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The thing is, socialist policies don’t end up costing the rich money over the medium to long term. Yeah they get a tax hike early on, but over time as immiseration subsides they ride the wave of a massive human and economic flowering. Their absolute wealth grows significantly. Relative, less so
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Aussie calls them cookers I think
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surprising number of butterhole experts itt
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not how politics works. Reagan was the utmost right fringe for his time. Bush Sr wasn’t, hence 1 term. Bush Jr was right fringe. Trump same. Being far right did not prevent them getting elected. All it did was enervate the base and crush intraparty competitors. Message differentiation wins votes
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Tax-credit Mamdani
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I assume I’m average. Which means my lifetime is the most statistically likely lifetime. From here onwards we shrink as a species. Pretty sure that means more bananas, not less
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there’s no plan lol. no cabal. I think it’s just that our collective group dynamics emit these outcomes entirely independently. which is worse lol
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I got secure attachment, it honestly is pretty dope. That said, I still flew off the handle at 21 and ended up with an interpol warrant. So maybe give your folks a bit more credit
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Bolognese
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Needed that extra inch around the bunghole
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No, man. They made him bend the knee and hand over his campaign assets. As a member of that political party it was part of his obligations. And then spamming his supporters with mid candidates to either scrounge them for $ and or disaffect them from party participation? Bonus.
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Too much of middle politics as run by gutless strivers. People who “work the refs” are risible shits and are widely despised. If you have to appeal to authority, you clearly have none yourself. Have the gumption to be wrong once in your lives
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Triangulation strategies might have worked pre-internet. They have the opposite effect now, with the negative side benefit of reducing trust in the party’s authenticity. Stand on principle! The old “I may not agree but I defend their right” business. People like that! Don’t prevaricate or dissemble!
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The continuous self-owning of “neutralising an issue”. All appeasement ever does is cause backlash from the left (as it should) which then creates controversy and is fed into the right-wing grist machine. Which has the exact opposite effect of “neutralising”. Dumb politics and shoddy morality both
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Post do better with spelling mistakes
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I lost ability to spit properly. I do it very rarely these days. But I’d prefer than when I -do- do it, it actually works like it used to. No it doesn’t
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Time and again we elect leaders who we -know- are pretending to believe something they don’t in order to shore up political support. And that kind of politics works well on the small stage, sure. But in the big leagues it has failed, time and time again. Voters smell it, and are disgusted by it
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What I’m not ok with, is political hacks. People who abandon politically inconvenient positions and then later repudiate them. People who prevaricate about their beliefs in order to keep votes. And the reason I’m not ok with it, is not morality or purity. It’s because voters despise inauthenticity
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This is the always and forever argument about half-loaves and blue no matter who. You feel brave and stern parroting it. A grown up. The issue has never been purity. I am absolutely ok if Newsom’s views don’t align fully or even mostly with mine.
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Triangulation gives a certain caste of liberal a hardon. They -like- the homeless-bashing. Not on its merits, but its optics. They -like- the refusal to be principled, and prefer candidates and leaders who will dump their principles at the slightest political inconvenience. To them, it’s a strength
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I have this thing with “rubrics” atm. As in, just about everything we believe about ourselves, others, and the world/universe at large is rubrics. The reality of the world, its essence, is not the rubric. It’s far more complex and unknowable than that.
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0108...
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Just spitballing as I know nothing about MAHA internals it’s a) some cancers are moral, if you get those you deserve them and b) for the other set of non-moral cancers, the medical establishment is impeded by lack of belief in MAHA truths; e.g if we stop chemtrails we’ll cure at least -some- cancers
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I think we’re learning, as previous generation upon generation did, that you eventually end up having to kill a bunch of other humans to stop shit from going even further south. We got our current liberal states by killing millions of people. Hopefully next round will be less
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I have this recurring dream atm where I’m building an app at a Nintendo- affiliated supermall in Asia. It’s mildly stressful but otherwise adorable
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I’m amenable to crankhood myself but the SL4 libertarian rationalist goobers pipelining themselves into caliper-wielding Bannonites and public humiliation on a global scale has been so, so satisfying - it took 25 years but to see them eat the gravel they’re now eating warms my cockles so
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ngl my pink pony chub is fully on board
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lichen where this is going
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As always, just straight up killing people as always been effective at bending the arc of history. In the non-assassination timeline junior does -not- have brainworms
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Michael Moore
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went to an LDS church service with my school friend when I was like 7 it was six fucking hours long wtf
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it’s not great being a gullible person but also with a creative mind and no filter. my word the grief. fully believing the loss. that you’re responsible. you’re also injured terribly, so you can’t tell your partner and/or immediately end your own life by choice. Jesus fuck it was harrowing.
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used to have these nightmares where I’d do a full school morning with the kids; wakeuos, breakfast, packing lunches etc. real convincing lead-in. and then on the drive to school we’d be in a horrendous car crash where their little bodies would be pulverised in various ways. the keening horror of it
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Wasn’t this the the Uber defence
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It actually kind of sticks in my craw that those of us alive now won’t be around to fight in the battles that will matter. We just get to live in a time where the mould has escalated to an unstoppable rot and then die without any meaningful culmination occurring. Just the monotony of decline
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Xi’s autocratic turn in China will outlive him, the sclerosis will set in; the Han empire won’t save us. Europe still thinks they can bring wonks to a gunfight. I really don’t see any group or nation in the world with anything approaching a likely chance of beating the odds. it’s cool zone time 2250
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We’re cooking the planet, but it’ll take 300 years to bake fully. We’ve poisoned our minds with social media, but it’ll take generations for the psychosis to erase the cultural prior. We’ve just straight up abandoned journalists and scientists to the wolves, but the rot takes time to fester
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I truly believe we haven’t invented anything of any real significance in 50 years. Not in technology, not in science, not in politics, not in culture. Just a wasteland of retreads and navel-gazing
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They failed to steward. They failed to reinvent, to overcome. And now, they pay for that. It will take many years, but I cannot see this ship righting itself. We will enter into misery and conflagration within a generation or three. Which is common, historically speaking. Normal even
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They made the mistake of thinking they were the creators of a system they merely inherited. Their job was to navigate current circumstances the way previous generations did in order to create newer, better systems capable of facing the challenges of their time. They didn’t do that, at all
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I don’t think that’s right. The party apparatus is tens of thousands of people, many of whom are middle class, upper class, or merely wealthy. They favored third-way politics long before billionaires got involved. They have benefited from ensuring status quo and now they’re reaping the consequences
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Eastwood
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The sex pest and narcissist subgroups are a part of the broader set of malingerers. Our norms and group dynamics are incredibly vulnerable to these tactics and its people like you speaking up the way you just did who do invaluable work in holding the line - thank you!!
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I don’t know if it’s the microplastics or the covid but we’ve backslidden so much as a polity. Just rancid vibes
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Pugnacity gets results
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Whole lotta mixed race college republicans incoming for class of 2035
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Suburban black guys with white (second) wives who voted for Trump are the vanguard of blackness becoming white and Latino becoming black
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Who needs towels. The mattress stains bemark our glorious victories
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2...
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I don’t think that holds water at the C-suite level
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Can’t even take some personal time to himself without being perceived by the panopticon
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My older brother is handsome as shit but has to wear three pairs of socks every day because his feet reek like a corpse
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Working the refs is loser shit. The media is a broken, decimated industry. Asking them or congress or judges to cover your ass is an incredibly weak position. It’s politics, you gotta sell something worthwhile using avatars that are compelling. Anything else is and has been doomed, evident results
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My coworkers didn’t appreciate my position that we clearly should have been bullied even harder in school
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I’m on board too, great things happening here
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I mean we were around for bush jr and he’s like a little hamster guy now so who knows
You know, if this is how we die I'm okay with it.
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Immaculate
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I loved his books as a kid, ate them up
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wait I thought starship troopers was fascist lit
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our strongest soldier
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I want to meet the ozempic lizzard
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I’m doing my part
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can’t be the holiest of holies hauling round a dumptruck
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I’ve measured myself twice in my whole life, once when fit, once when very much not. There was a 2.5in difference.
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My Serbian ex-wife used to break kitchenware on me during arguments - I kinda loved it lol
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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I tell my South African friends that you pay for your evils for the same number of years you did them. Serbs hate Turks and will for 400 more years, etc. Wages of sin. US has done good in many ways since slavery, but the price still has to be paid
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lol I meant that jeers are the derivative also-ran of cheers. second-rate. sorry, poor form, the joke doesn’t even make sense as I forgot that jeers in an antonym not a synonym. love your posts, sorry! please don’t hurt me I’m a little baby bitch
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derivative
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Oh bless! youtu.be/N6A777FhegE?...
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In an era when the youngest Barrett brother can take a sabbatical season at Leinster, and Argentina’s Los Pumas can topple the best of the Home Nations, surely we can embrace the kind of exuberance seen in France? Georgia and Romania in the Six Nations?
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I understand a global game has to stand astride competitions in both hemispheres, but surely there’s room between Japan’s Brave Blossoms and SA”s Boks for a modicum of clarity? Squidge himself can’t articulate it
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Look if you could parse World Rugby’s stance on what constitutes jackling this season please? Their ruck and maul rulings are bad enough, let alone hinging in the scrum, and now these arcane tackle directives?
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but a kindness; an act of magnanimity to our beshackled brethren; must lady justice weep?
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Makes you wonder if the original GPT LLM alg was built at google to help them summarise everyone’s gmails for the feds
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that would conflict with their individual interests. they want to select their own people and policies. the GOP has successfully embraced new people and policies by tacking right, and throwing establishment Rs under the bus. existing dem leadership lose in a similar scenario
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quality gender. under appreciated imho
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confess your shins
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hail that mary
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meme surprise in my 1983 tv movie
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... I’m totally ok with AU ditching the US alliance and hitching our wagon to China. We’ve seen how the US treats Canada, why would expect better than a direct neighbour.
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