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Post by refill on Jun 15, 2020 20:39:26 GMT -5
The thing that got me to deactivate my o-count was FB constantly showing me comments on news articles from CHUDs. Like they’re actively trying to get you to hate your fellow man. FB is a convenient tool for staying in touch and the groups are actually alright. We should nationalize it or break it up. yeah I nuked my FB because I was spending too much time harassing people in the comment sections of local newspapers and shit. definitely not healthy or productive behavior.
I've been spending far too much time on Twitter replying to ammosexuals talking about storming CHAZ with an enlarged version of their profile pic. It's empty calories, but it's got a short term gratifying effect.
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Post by immortalrites on Jun 15, 2020 20:40:15 GMT -5
I'll never understand why people care how other people cast their vote. Not like you get to decide for them. You could argue about it for forever and at the end of the day... You maybe secured one single vote? when you think voting is the most important part of politics you get really hung up on how other people vote.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 20:41:26 GMT -5
Voting sux man
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Post by 2006 Gucci Mane on Jun 15, 2020 20:41:46 GMT -5
yeah I nuked my FB because I was spending too much time harassing people in the comment sections of local newspapers and shit. definitely not healthy or productive behavior.
I've been spending far too much time on Twitter replying to ammosexuals talking about storming CHAZ with an enlarged version of their profile pic. It's empty calories, but it's got a short term gratifying effect. "If they ever come to my town of 3000, they'll get what's comin to them! Hells Angels with the police and QAnon will have our backs!"
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Post by lobsterdog on Jun 15, 2020 20:43:21 GMT -5
also LOL if youre still crying about bernie bros not voting for biden a better use of your time would be to pick up your phone and start phonebanking for your blue rapist. go court the suburban moderates they want and stop bothering people who just wanna grill in peace. Except you don't want to just grill. You want your snark, your privilege and your privacy. There are no innocent victims in internet arguments. ETA: stupid homophones... heres the link you were looking for joebiden.com/make-calls-for-joe/
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Post by refill on Jun 15, 2020 20:45:00 GMT -5
I've been spending far too much time on Twitter replying to ammosexuals talking about storming CHAZ with an enlarged version of their profile pic. It's empty calories, but it's got a short term gratifying effect. "If they ever come to my town of 3000, they'll get what's comin to them! Hells Angels with the police and QAnon will have our backs!" That pretty much nails it. The visual of them saying it makes it way funnier though.
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Post by meatballmaniac on Jun 15, 2020 20:47:07 GMT -5
We're all barzoic haywire that Bernie didn't win and Biden is a disheartening alternative but another four years of Trump where he'll very likely get at least 1 more Supreme Court nomination that could set us back decades is far and away the worst case scenario. I think it should be noted that given the current trajectory of climate change, setting us back a few decades could mean the end of humanity. Edit: not to say that Sleepy Joe will do shit about it.
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Post by meatballmaniac on Jun 15, 2020 20:47:47 GMT -5
Lol, Dustin
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Post by ITID on Jun 15, 2020 20:50:26 GMT -5
Except you don't want to just grill. You want your snark, your privilege and your privacy. There are no innocent victims in internet arguments. ETA: stupid homophones... heres the link you were looking for joebiden.com/make-calls-for-joe/Bruh, you know that's not even my point. Nor do I need any help or direction for how to do outreach in my community. You're just trying to build some weird moral high ground while making a bad faith argument.
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Post by stephanie on Jun 15, 2020 20:51:49 GMT -5
Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump AdministrationCritics argue the rule could further harm an already vulnerable group — transgender people — in the midst of a pandemic and historic unrest spurred by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. "I can't help but wonder if the timing [of this rule] is by design so that this is something that people won't pay attention to," says Tia Sherèe Gaynor, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati. www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/868073068/transgender-health-protections-reversed-by-trump-administrationThey're all the same! For real though this sucks. Trans friendly doctors are already difficult enough to find.
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Post by ITID on Jun 15, 2020 20:53:07 GMT -5
I'll never understand why people care how other people cast their vote. Not like you get to decide for them. You could argue about it for forever and at the end of the day... You maybe secured one single vote? Do you want an answer or is this rhetorical?
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Post by Reasonablepizza518 on Jun 15, 2020 20:58:12 GMT -5
Bruh, you know that's not even my point. Nor do I need any help or direction for how to do outreach in my community. You're just trying to build some weird moral high ground while making a bad faith argument. This is what I don't understand. Trump just made a change to an existing ruling that will adversely affect tens of thousands of transgender people three days ago. He's actively making decisions that are dangerous for people right now. Biden sucks but there's no question he'd better overall or at the very least be less destructive than Trump is.
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Post by lobsterdog on Jun 15, 2020 21:03:53 GMT -5
my vote doesnt matter! most leftists' dont! bother the people the party wants you to court.
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Post by ITID on Jun 15, 2020 21:05:32 GMT -5
Bruh, you know that's not even my point. Nor do I need any help or direction for how to do outreach in my community. You're just trying to build some weird moral high ground while making a bad faith argument. This is what I don't understand. Trump just made a change to an existing ruling that will adversely affect tens of thousands of transgender people three days ago. He's actively making decisions that are dangerous for people right now. Biden sucks but there's no question he'd better overall or at the very least be less destructive than Trump is. Because some people have the ability to refuse to compromise or participate without being adversely affected. I wonder if there's a word for that?
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Post by theywalkedinline on Jun 15, 2020 21:08:34 GMT -5
As a straight white male in his mid 30's, I'm not voting for myself. Honestly, shit probably won't change much for me either way. However, when it comes to access to reproductive rights, trans rights, gay rights, rights for racial minorities, etc there are things at stake and I'm not enough of a nihilist to think that those things don't matter or that it's an all or nothing situation.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 21:19:07 GMT -5
I will vote for twen'ty dollars
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Post by bonerinsweatpants on Jun 15, 2020 21:23:58 GMT -5
The thing that got me to deactivate my o-count was FB constantly showing me comments on news articles from CHUDs. Like they’re actively trying to get you to hate your fellow man. FB is a convenient tool for staying in touch and the groups are actually alright. We should nationalize it or break it up. yeah I nuked my FB because I was spending too much time harassing people in the comment sections of local newspapers and shit. definitely not healthy or productive behavior.
oh that was straight fun to do. did my fair share and always had a hoot doing it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 21:28:50 GMT -5
I had to stop doing that a few years ago when I realized the townies from my high school did the same shit
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Post by immortalrites on Jun 15, 2020 21:39:28 GMT -5
I will vote for twen'ty dollars you joke but this country would probably be a much better place if you got 20 bucks when you voted.
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Post by immortalrites on Jun 15, 2020 22:05:53 GMT -5
As a straight white male in his mid 30's, I'm not voting for myself. Honestly, shit probably won't change much for me either way. However, when it comes to access to reproductive rights, trans rights, gay rights, rights for racial minorities, etc there are things at stake and I'm not enough of a nihilist to think that those things don't matter or that it's an all or nothing situation. I sympathize with your sentiment and I assume this will make people mad but harm reduction is just rebranded lesser-evil voting. The goal of pushing back against this line of thinking is pushing back against the vote, the lowest effort least effective political action you can take, as the ultimate and most effecting expression of political participation. I'm sure someone else that isn't a dumbass could put it far more eloquently but the notion is stop settling, stop accepting being treated like a captive voting bloc for a party that basically has total contempt for working people and is completely supplicated to their donors i.e. capital.
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Post by Ass Dan on Jun 15, 2020 22:32:12 GMT -5
Elections have consequences.
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Post by theywalkedinline on Jun 15, 2020 22:56:21 GMT -5
As a straight white male in his mid 30's, I'm not voting for myself. Honestly, shit probably won't change much for me either way. However, when it comes to access to reproductive rights, trans rights, gay rights, rights for racial minorities, etc there are things at stake and I'm not enough of a nihilist to think that those things don't matter or that it's an all or nothing situation. I sympathize with your sentiment and I assume this will make people mad but harm reduction is just rebranded lesser-evil voting. The goal of pushing back against this line of thinking is pushing back against the vote, the lowest effort least effective political action you can take, as the ultimate and most effecting expression of political participation. I'm sure someone else that isn't a dumbass could put it far more eloquently but the notion is stop settling, stop accepting being treated like a captive voting bloc for a party that basically has total contempt for working people and is completely supplicated to their donors i.e. capital. It’s possible to do both. You can work toward something more revolutionary while not putting marginalized communities more at risk.
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Post by theywalkedinline on Jun 15, 2020 22:59:35 GMT -5
Elections have consequences. Yes. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t be seeing conservatives desperately trying to suppress the poor and marginalized vote by adding more hurdles.
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Post by Porch Honky on Jun 15, 2020 23:06:42 GMT -5
The thing that got me to deactivate my o-count was FB constantly showing me comments on news articles from CHUDs. Like they’re actively trying to get you to hate your fellow man.FB is a convenient tool for staying in touch and the groups are actually alright. We should nationalize it or break it up. I contend that social media and the internet have done more to drive wedges between us and lubricate our innate tribalism than performed their advertised function of uniting the world. I again call for a full and complete ban of the internet. BIL will transition to dial-up BBS format exclusively. It's still literal fake news more than social media itself. Things got bad around 2010-ish once mom and grandpa got on Facebook.
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Post by Porch Honky on Jun 15, 2020 23:11:03 GMT -5
I will vote for twen'ty dollars you joke but this country would probably be a much better place if you got 20 bucks when you voted. People would vote if it meant a fucking tax credit.
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Post by theywalkedinline on Jun 15, 2020 23:40:42 GMT -5
If a building is going up in flames you don't refuse to shut off the gas until all of your demands about how it is going to be rebuilt are met.
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Post by meatballmaniac on Jun 16, 2020 0:48:26 GMT -5
I contend that social media and the internet have done more to drive wedges between us and lubricate our innate tribalism than performed their advertised function of uniting the world. I again call for a full and complete ban of the internet. BIL will transition to dial-up BBS format exclusively. It's still literal fake news more than social media itself. Things got bad around 2010-ish once mom and grandpa got on Facebook. Still, band the internet. I’m stockpiling 14.4k modems, so we can all get into the BIL BBS. I’m accepting trades of beaver pelts, coffee beans, and wool yarn.
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Post by Ese Ese on Jun 16, 2020 2:11:36 GMT -5
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry says the destruction of the building at the North Korean border town of Kaesong happened at 2:49 p.m. Tuesday.
North Korea had earlier threatened to demolish the building as it stepped up its fiery rhetoric over Seoul’s failure to stop activists from flying propaganda leaflets across the border.
Some experts say North Korea is expressing its frustration because Seoul is unable to resume joint economic projects due to U.S.-led sanctions.
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Post by Ese Ese on Jun 16, 2020 2:24:58 GMT -5
Hey hes just supporting Oklahoma BOOMER SOONER MOTHERFUCKER Ignoring new data showing a dramatic spike in new cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are pressing ahead with a planned rally on Saturday in Tulsa. “Oklahoma has really been in the forefront of our efforts to slow the spread, and, in a very real sense, they flattened the curve, and today their hospital capacity is abundant,” Pence said Monday at a White House roundtable discussion with the president on senior citizens. “The number of cases in Oklahoma is declining precipitously, and we feel very confident going forward.”
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Post by Frederik on Jun 16, 2020 7:09:39 GMT -5
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border. Seoul’s Unification Ministry says the destruction of the building at the North Korean border town of Kaesong happened at 2:49 p.m. Tuesday. North Korea had earlier threatened to demolish the building as it stepped up its fiery rhetoric over Seoul’s failure to stop activists from flying propaganda leaflets across the border. Some experts say North Korea is expressing its frustration because Seoul is unable to resume joint economic projects due to U.S.-led sanctions. I don't think this complex has been used in years. Ironically enough, it's also a portrait of how a reunified korea would probably look (cheap NK labor, SK management).
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