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@grapesmoker
trauma ride on energized obliques, сотрудник НИИЧАВО @[email protected]
Joined January 2011
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    socialism is when train, universal health care, free education, workers own the means of production, pick up garbage, bike lanes, nuclear power, abolition of the family, gov't run cafeteria, public housing, sports palace, dictatorship of the proletariat, no prisons, eat hot chip
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    i've said this before but the joke that i view as the rosetta stone of american society is when agnes skinner demands all the groceries in one bag and also that the bag not be heavy
    What Simpsons joke have you appreciated more over time?
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    this guy is, and I cannot stress this enough, australian
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    I think if your family has hundreds of years of history in America you are frankly more American than somebody who migrated to America in 2015.
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    ok everyone has already done the dunks so maybe it's time to a slightly more serious response than this actually deserves. here goes:
    Biden's collapse with young voters is kind of mysterious. I've heard a lot of theories, but I'm not sure any one of them is all that convincing.
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    one of the absolute worst things to have come out of silicon valley is this overwrought, aggressive philistinism, a genuine pride in ignorance of anything other than how to move bits and dollars around
    Most english majors lack a goal or a purpose. Why else would you major in your native language
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    these people are impressed by the simplest parlor tricks. you could make them cry by stealing their nose
    Joe Rogan asked RFK Jr. how it feels to be treated like a conspiracy theorist by his own family, and his response was to give a short lesson on Albert Camus’s The Plague, the Myth of Sisyphus, and the Stoics. I think the reason people are drawn to RFK Jr. is because he's a
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    Replying to @ettingermentum
    not even a single Taylor Swift album about the polity that completely reconfigured the demography of the entire Eurasian continent
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    why do I need an ad blocker for the Internet to be even marginally useful
    This is wrong in several ways. A few: - silicon valley isn't a monolith, there is no They - instantaneous communication is a miracle, as with computation - tech isn't forced on us, we choose to use it as consumers
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    Replying to @grapesmoker
    "what is the point of electing democrats if a conservative minority can stifle everything" is a legitimate question that you actually have to answer when you're trying to convince voters, many of whom barely know who joe manchin even is
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    Replying to @grapesmoker
    this whole business about "why are young voters so down on joe" is perfectly understandable if you just grasp that people are looking for action and results and are not interested in reading 10 page long vox takes about why none of that is possible
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    Replying to @grapesmoker
    and you cannot escape this bind by saying well the real problem is machin and sinema. yes, they are terrible, but the inability of the party to overcome their intransigence in fact constitutes a point against the party's abilities as such
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    i can't wait to see who comes up with the most cynical weaponization of social justice language to defend private jets
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    Replying to @grapesmoker
    but the thing is, the existence of those bullet-pointed lists is itself a symptom of the problem. through a process of historical encrustation we've accumulated a system in which nothing can happen and no one can be held responsible
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    everyone is having a good laugh about this but real heads know that this office already actually exists. it's called OIRA and under Obama it was run by cass sunstein who used it to kill regulations that would have prevented the dumping of coal ash in rural black communities
    NEW — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are formally co-leading the Department of Government Efficiency.