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2025-02-28 18:43:07

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@nprofile…ug6l There's a lot of people out there who think it's still 2008.
And there were a lot of people in 2008 who thought it was still 1991.

2025-02-21 19:25:57

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@nprofile…m9qs Not to worry, friend computer, evidence indicates knowledge of history is at all time low, so we can simply repeat the history we already have.

2025-02-21 16:46:57

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@nprofile…ug6l they make sense if your goal is to force third world countries into compliance with your hegemony. And nukes continue to make the question of how a peer war works very... complicated.

2025-02-21 14:48:36

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@nprofile…ug6l Okay but
news articles about China suicides: 10000000
News articles about Taiwan Suicides: 0
So really, which one's worse?

2025-02-18 17:20:04

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@nprofile…x759 Internet reviews are just so inherently untrustworthy to me.
They run the gamut from "outright fake, product reviewed sight unseen" to "paid, but no one mentions it" to "sincere nobody talking about something they care about" to "person who is inundated with requests to review free stuff, but maintains a modicum of professionalism"
And you never know which you're getting.

2025-02-18 17:10:39

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@nprofile…y54t @nprofile…nvtp 'fraid so. We might get "lucky" and kick up enough dust to cause low-grade worldwide famine. Is that doomy enough?

2025-02-18 16:59:10

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@nprofile…y54t @nprofile…nvtp Ultimately 8 megatons won't destroy the earth, just potentially kill millions in some equatorial country that did nothing to to cause the sense of despair you're grappling with.

2025-02-17 22:05:59

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@nprofile…6uyf Yeah, but I've been at that point for basically my whole adult life already. And I can't shift anything.

2025-02-17 22:02:05

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@nprofile…6uyf How on earth do we solve this PR problem that's been engineered for 100 years now to mislead.

2025-02-16 04:46:23

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@nprofile…ug6l @nprofile…7hmp and really the big thing is how incredibly stupid you'd have to be to trust the US

2025-02-15 23:15:41

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@nprofile…ev92 @nprofile…m9qs
Treasonous content in this comment
1. Suspicious knowledge of something called "chicken"
2. Implying the nutrient paste and hunger reduction medicine isn't a "decent meal" which foments resentment against friend computer and his carefully color coded diet plans.

2025-02-11 20:31:58

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@nprofile…m9qs Thank you, friend computer, for the sense of security you provide through whatever it is you said, but I skipped reading because it seemed like knowing about it might be above my clearance.

2025-02-09 18:51:07

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@nprofile…m9qs is humanity worth overseeing?

2025-01-24 15:01:39

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@nprofile…ug6l DeepSeek is free, though.

2025-01-24 14:36:41

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@nprofile…dxvj that's really cool, but I can't imagine trying to interact with a forum through mastodon's interface, specifically.
That might call for a new UI paradigm.

2025-01-16 17:43:58

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@nprofile…m9qs If you want a vision of the future imagine a boot bursting with delicious real* salt** flavor stomping on a human face forever!

2025-01-16 16:13:10

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@nprofile…m9qs Thank you IntSec! You always wear the most delicious boots! Friend Computer's billiant decision to include Reduced Sodium Extra Salt Algae Chips™️ in the uniform production process was brilliant!

2025-01-13 20:21:24

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@nprofile…vj0p @nprofile…m9qs sincerely, Alpha complex only seems bad because it's a reflection of the societies we actually experience.
It's such a disturbing parody because it's so deeply informed by the actual bureaucratic contradictions and insane impositions that are normal in our lives.
I don't think filling out a happiness deviance justification form X75-z would seem so bad if we didn't live in a world where people fill out a 1040-SE to match the 1099s for a pitiful income from some gig app.

2025-01-10 21:14:58

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@nprofile…m9qs Remember, if you have to ask whether a thought you have is seditious, it probably is.
Please note that according to alpha complex regulations, you are required to ask if all newly experienced thoughts are seditious.

2025-01-04 15:18:22

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@nprofile…f2sx you're discriminating against countries just because of a history of pure, refined, industrial evil.

2024-12-20 14:23:07

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@nprofile…a28f You mistook the nazi dog whistle about white people collectively deriving their culture from Rome as a statement of literal political allegiance.

2024-12-19 21:33:12

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@nprofile…qc9u the worst person you know has a point. Gmail does suck and I wish I hadn't tied my online identity to it.

2024-12-19 21:08:53

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2024-12-19 16:16:45

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@nprofile…gyrf I'm afraid I don't know what UB means.

2024-12-19 15:39:02

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@nprofile…klvg The market was and remains absolutely great for the rich.
I'm glad you didn't need to find a job in this fake-ass "record low unemployment" fictional universe, and can pretend it's good for everyone.
Shit sucks. Trump won't fix a goddamn thing, but neither does praising this "Rich people getting richer" news stories to inflate Biden.

2024-12-16 22:10:48

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@nprofile…r5mx Yep and what you're missing is what changed isn't MORE people voting for trump, but LESS people voting. The metrics are unambiguous, there's a shit ton of committed racists and psychopaths, a fair number of committed democrats, and a lot of people who don't care unless something will change for them.
And you can't keep screwing them to appeal to a non-existent center.

2024-12-10 20:17:34

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@nprofile…nd5p 2025, the OTHER year of luigi.

2024-12-09 18:26:50

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@nprofile…kuyv thank you blender. I know you've saved my household from paying a fortune to an expensive monopolist.

2024-12-09 17:42:40

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@nprofile…yc9s and of course it's never just "acceptable" bigotry that gets this treatment.
The outright nazis are quite used to playing the Motte and Bailey game with the rules, and quite used to having leaders who get the kid gloves.

2024-12-06 20:03:13

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@nprofile…fecl Honestly, increasing CEO security seems like an accelerationist outcome.
It drives the perception of cyberpunk neo-feudal lords in the public consciousness if everytime you see a limo, you see 6 armed guards too.
The sense that "oh these people are different from me" gets stronger, and that's dehumanizing.

2024-12-06 19:56:37

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@nprofile…f2sx President's refusing to leave office, though. That's a time bomb, since she's not supposed to yet.

2024-12-06 19:37:10

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@nprofile…f2sx So right now that's
Romania, Ukraine, Bangladesh, and Georgia, right?
With Korea making an incredibly stupid failed attempt at the same?

2024-12-06 15:24:02

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@nprofile…f2sx @nprofile…ug6l The difference in our reasoning is that you think high-tech equipment under-performing against affordable equipment is demoralizing.
I think it reinforces the political strength of "let's use nuclear weapons" types within the MIC.

2024-12-06 15:10:15

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@nprofile…ug6l @nprofile…f2sx or they try hot war as a unifying force.

2024-12-03 18:49:54

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@nprofile…kcps Not just now. That's time stamped 3 hours ago. We probably won't get a sense of whether the military is listening to the civilian government until 5 or 6 korean time.

2024-12-03 17:00:22

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@nprofile…n90q They think gen-z WANT fast-fashion, rather than having it foisted upon them?

2024-12-02 02:32:53

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@nprofile…gffv worth remembering that gell mann amnesia was invented by a notorious climate change denialist, who represented one of his critics in a book as a serial pedophile.
Not exactly a high water mark for critical thinking skills.

2024-12-01 23:36:15

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@nprofile…r0kn Imma let you finish, but climate change denial has the largest and most ridiculous anti science album of the year

2024-11-22 14:58:11

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@nprofile…e6ql okay, that's just selecting for people who haven't had to have a job yet.

2024-11-20 05:01:42

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@nprofile…6gnj They can delay gratification, though. It'll be a couple more years yet before the enshittification train really starts chugging along.

2024-11-18 22:20:12

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@nprofile…qz4g this isn't some organic result of conservatives being more engaged with influence and users promoting them.
It's billion-dollar networks constantly scouting for the next voice to drag the overton window to the right.
If you can attract even a moderate following while spewing nazi or libertarian or "socially conservative" views, there are people out there who will provide you with a salary to keep doing it.

2024-10-29 19:24:23

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@npub1vwj…8m98 I mean a far right party won Swedish elections recently, and Netanyahu himself claimed to be the anchorpoint of the world-wide right-wing movement.

2024-10-25 12:23:30

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@npub1ks7…eg5u alright, but remember to use a NSFW marker when you get to the Miller's tale

2024-10-22 19:47:22

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@npub1mmf…eknq I'm not refusing to vote for them in some grand strategy.
I have a simple, incredibly uncomplicated rule I am following. "I will never let myself be aparty to genocide"
If this has negative consequences, for me or for others, it doesn't change the moral calculus I'm engaged in.

2024-10-22 19:47:22

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2024-10-08 18:59:34

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@npub1mmf…eknq There have been 2 assassination attempts on a presidential candidate already this year?

2024-10-07 21:18:16

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@npub132h…f594 yeah, it's too late to stop this tech. It's everywhere and it's watching us.

2024-09-10 20:54:33

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@npub132h…f594 having 2 far right parties, not just for Americans anymore

2024-09-05 16:45:45

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@npub1mmf…eknq I'm so buried in decades of entirely broken American politics, it's hard to remember that not everywhere is as dead-eyed and evil as here.

2024-09-05 16:42:45

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@npub1mmf…eknq The flip side will be that trudeau gives the cons every fucking thing they want for 10 more seconds of power, and the left will take the blame for it.
That's just how these centrists rats work.

2024-08-30 20:44:36

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@npub1lkv…cf53 The answer starts with unbridled and ends with corruption.

2024-08-24 02:31:17

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@npub1mmf…eknq it gets old, this having the gift of cynical leftist prophecy.

2024-08-24 02:18:35

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@npub1mmf…eknq I really really really wanted to be wrong. I wanted a moment of hope.

2024-08-11 16:36:28

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I think that's way less true than it used to be.

2024-07-27 23:56:39

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@npub1mmf…eknq wait this isn't Trump's short list and that one Shapiro is it?

2024-07-27 23:54:54

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@npub1mmf…eknq answering your own question

2024-07-25 20:41:00

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@npub132e…d4aw sounds like you don't remember the Maine 😡😡😡

2024-07-24 16:22:38

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@npub1mmf…eknq let the country who has not let a genocidal monster address their national legislative body cast the first stone, eh Canada?

2024-07-24 13:03:56

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@npub1src…fms4 next time hire a real graphic designer, cheapskate

2024-07-22 11:43:18

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@npub1ks7…eg5u that's really cool, but also ew neoplatonism

2024-07-08 22:31:54

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@npub1mmf…eknq not until after the spooky day

2024-07-04 12:36:41

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@npub1lkv…cf53 setting aside that trump really does suck, isn't it fucking insane that generals would seek to make a war impossible to stop by election?

2024-06-12 14:15:13

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@npub1lkv…cf53 The US will not accept lack of total control. Russia will not put up with being walled in.
Unless they can re-establish the sino-soviet split, the US will continue to escalate.

2024-06-12 14:04:28

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@npub1lkv…cf53 "Oh this escalation will never turn into nuclear war"
"HOW DARE RUSSIA ESCALATE LIKE THIS"
It's gonna be a fun decade.

2024-06-09 02:12:37

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@npub1mmf…eknq To be fair, I'm not sure anything fun is legal in florida anymore.

2024-05-28 04:16:15

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@npub1mmf…eknq now I can't tell you about my exciting bridge games

2024-05-25 22:52:45

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@npub1khx…geyg "everything I follow in order of when it was posted" is technically still an algorithm.
It's just not an opaque and manipulative one.

2024-05-17 18:43:13

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@npub1grx…uxfe you don't actually care about Hitler. You're approving is genocide right now.

2024-05-13 13:37:27

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@npub132h…f594 zoox, whatever tech parody show came up with that name should fire the writers.
No one would name their serious company trying to solve an actual problem "zoox." It's way too dumb.

2024-05-10 17:23:24

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@npub1u3t…c6ug frogs call on scorpions to not sting them while crossing the river.

2024-04-30 15:07:53

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@npub1lkv…cf53 it is amazing how all in the American ruling class is on this genocide.

2024-04-29 02:05:37

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@npub1mmf…eknq this thing Joe Biden is actually doing right now, you should be afraid of Trump doing is a really high stack of claims at this point.

2024-04-23 16:03:19

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@npub1mmf…eknq child of small business owner bullied by antisemites who want to deprive his parents of their main source of income

2024-04-21 01:43:48

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@npub1mmf…eknq I think the only advantage is that the scummy admins aren't literally the world's worst people, just vaguely kinda shitty.

2024-04-05 01:59:35

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@npub1u3t…c6ug You just have to understand what their idea of freedom is. It's the freedom of the master to beat their slave. Not the freedom of people from slavery.

2024-04-02 21:35:10

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@npub1lkv…cf53 We have two whole parties in the US dedicated to both being fully committed to being wrong on WAY more issues than two.
Being grossly and morally wrong on two issues is impossible utopia.

2024-03-21 22:29:32

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@npub1lkv…cf53 yeah that's the good stuff. Chinese democracy is one of the most underrated kinds on the planet.
US democracy is far and away the most overrated.

2024-03-15 16:34:02

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@npub1mmf…eknq no. I believe you, too, I want to stress.
I just wanted to say that those kinds of tactics are annoying in their efficacy.

2024-03-15 16:26:46

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@npub1mmf…eknq they didn't tell me anything. But the accusations still kinda work because I end up seeing you defending yourself.

2024-03-05 19:56:46

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@npub1mmf…eknq is it like fairy dust ang gumdrops and absolutely no creepy dms ever?

2024-03-05 14:03:23

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@npub1lkv…cf53 some parts of the EU are going to be more resilient to this than others. Decarbonization in Denmark is different than Germany, e.g.

2024-03-02 16:44:03

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@npub1lkv…cf53 sure but the Ukraine war is essentially popular. And not without reason, because a narrow reading of the invasion is that it's unprovoked aggression.
You aren't going to build a popular front out of extremely unpopular ideas.
The reasons I don't care for it can't be boiled down to a tweet either, which makes convincing someone of its folly similarly difficult.

2024-03-02 15:12:30

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@npub1lkv…cf53 we are sleepwalking into ww3. It would at least be a point of public debate if we admitted we were trying to start ww3, but we're just constantly blindly escalating.

2024-02-15 16:23:49

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@npub1ye6…6a2z Is this one true color?

2024-02-12 20:52:19

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@npub1ffl…tv7d you're dreaming of you think there's any chance of knocking a sitting president off the national ticket AFTER the primary. For worse or for worse, Joe Biden is going against trump and very very very likely to lose.
Publicly admitting he was a mistake is an institutional risk to any remaining chance of winning if whatever tactics you're considering fail to replace him. So no national Dem will do it. So he won't be replaced.

2024-01-15 04:32:07

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Unfair to trump. He didn't try to do that, he succeeded with flying colors.

2024-01-03 22:00:16

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@npub1ffl…tv7d I would not be terribly worried about the anti-vax king beating trump on any ballot.

2023-12-25 13:25:20

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@npub1ks7…eg5u you forgot what he called his own highest achievement, dying a virgin

2023-12-22 19:49:17

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Man those three guys really spun one research article on the potential dangers of microwave radiation by medical researchers based out of beijing into a whole weapons program.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34527734/ This is the only source or evidence they cite of a weapons program in their like 15 memoranda they put out.
It's "People are worried about WiFi and cell phones causing brain damage so we did some research".
And that's all it took for a spate of insane news articles.

2023-12-21 15:08:03

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@npub1fh6…zu76 Thanks for one graphic that doesn't make me feel an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

2023-12-13 16:57:24

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It sounds incredibly cold but it's "Let America learn a hard lesson about itself"
That's not a fun choice, but I feel it's the right one.

2023-12-13 16:32:49

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I'll be honest, I don't really think Biden winning will do anything positive for the future.
But regardless of outcomes, I cannot make a choice I know makes me directly party to crimes against humanity.
It's a hard line.

2023-12-13 16:21:20

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It's not a matter of what outcome worse or better anymore for me.
It's a matter of what my conscience can bear to be part of. And that's, beyond a hint of question in my mind, too far.

2023-12-13 16:12:52

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I sincerely wish everything else was a distraction.
It would make the world a lot neater if Biden weren't a pro-genocide monster, and his myriad other right-wing sandbagging were minor concerns against the piece of shit who makes him look good purely by comparison.
But he is, and that's literally unforgivable.

2023-12-07 22:09:49

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@npub1xzm…eykm But cakes made entirely of fondant and cardboard both are used within the arts, aren't they?
I don't mean this from a mean spirited place: don't garbage media have things to say?

2023-11-30 05:36:18

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I get a little conflicted when it's "only with a monthly subscription when you want to watch exactly one thing"

2023-11-06 15:20:36

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@npub1grx…uxfe I'm kinda broke on the whole directly supporting a genocide thing.
It kinda crosses my "never vote for them whatever the consequences" line

2023-11-02 04:42:09

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@npub1khx…geyg Monkey paw curls, welcome president MTG

2023-10-19 14:03:51

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@npub1s97…lg0g The thing you're missing is that intellectual honesty isn't a requirement for half of this debate. Rebuking them for "Misunderstanding" or "Misrepresenting" gives them exactly the credence they want for their statements with the form of one half-truth buried in a sea of lies.

2023-10-17 02:33:51

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@npub1khx…geyg Yeah, but it's a lot better at getting facts and truth that don't suck than most other interpretive frameworks.
I'm looking at you, juris prudence

2023-08-01 16:09:36

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@npub1tms…l8d9 我是美国人，我不听过这句谁说的。（sorry for my terrible chinese)