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[–] 159 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Of all the insane shit that's spewed out of that godforsaken country these last 10 years, watching this man try to talk about ensuring victims of bestiality related sex trafficking were still able to apply to the FBI with a straight face was amongst the most insane things I've ever seen in my fucking life

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago* (10 children)

    Am I misreading the "victims of?" Did he say animals can apply to FBI now?

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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    A Republican asked, when Patel said both sides, "you mean the animal? " Patel give a small smile and said something to the effect of no, we got some great canines. Patel goes on to say there's victims of sexual trafficking forced into bestiality and candidates have been automatically disqualified even though they are victims, but we all know it's cause they're letting in weirdos and sexual predators that are like minded and loyal to the regime.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Either that or they're exceptionally desperate to make a distraction.

    All of this shit is less believable than the oil crisis and the price of food.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Completely. This is distraction attempt equivalent to "trans kids taking over sports!!!" claims when A) quit fixating on children's genitals you actual pedophiles and B) actual number of trans kids in these sports is like -4 out of 3 million kids in youth sports. They are getting desperate...

    Next up, "Victims of bodily probing by aliens should not have to shop at grocery stores with tall people in green/gray clothing!!!!" "ALL kids in public elementary schools are being forced to use used Capri sun pouches as catheters and then they feed the collected pee to conservative seniors who vote by mail"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    It's fascism. It starts out insane and then just gets crazier from there.

    These are people that shouldn't be operating a hot dog stand, but the dumbest among us elected a felon rapist conman and these are the people he identifies with, so that's who gets to run the show.

    You can thank our dipshit conservatives and the dipshits that didn't vote.

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  • [–] 128 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Understanding this immediately as a European makes me realize I'm wayyy too chronically online. USA is the only reality TV show I need.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Right?

    I'm constantly amazed how many foreigners are aware of what's going on in US politics and even details about how our government works.

    1. It shows how much our shitty politics affect the world. I'm sorry.

    2. It highlights how bad Americans are at paying attention and doing their homework because most Americans have no fucking clue what's going on or how their own government works.

    To be fair, I'm barely aware of what's going on in other nation's politics, but that's largely because I'm hyper aware of what's going on in U.S. politics and, unfortunately, that takes up a lot of my time and patience and sanity.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Honestly, I know more about US politics than about my own country because I spend more time on Lemmy than reading newspapers. And any time on Lemmy automatically exposes you to US news day in day out

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's by design. It's the same reason you aren't required to take Statistics in high school. If people knew the actual odds of winning the lottery they wouldn't play. Since the poorest Americans and typically only high school graduates play the lottery religiously it make sense.

    I don't think it's just not knowing their rights and such. It also needs to get worse before it gets better. Ever maybe change in government across history wasn't done with protests or signing petitions. It was done with a physical revolution. Until we got that point it will be the same shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The 68's movement, MLK, German unification come to mind. What they, however, had in common was that violence was on the table or at least a plausible development. Those in power just figured that gunning down citizens wouldn't be in their best long term interest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Blocking US centric instances will do you a lot of good, similar to blocking tankie instances, especially close to election season.

    The good memes and big news will seep through other instances.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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    Thinking about how there's gotta be some dogfucker out there going, "Hell yeah I voted for this!" and how he probably has one of the most coherent and internally consistent reasons for voting Republican out of anyone who did.

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    ...angriest upvote i've ever made on the fediverse...fuck you

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    I’d like to measure my love for dogs on some z-axis which is unassociated with the dog-murder-to-dog-rape spectrum please

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Youre assuming that cashmoney isnt the one getting knotted by a big lab.

    I think this is my top 5 for worst sentence Ive ever typed.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Fucking dogs is inherently non-consensual (no matter how sexy they are) so it's rape and we don't usually talk about rapists loving their victims.

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  • [+] -28 points 1 month ago (10 children)
  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    No but it's been a minute since I fucked a steak either.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well yea with the price of beef the way it is. I can barely afford to eat steak let alone fuck it.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    And then everyone clapped😎

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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    I love that the glib, completely gibberish response was enough to "slam dunk" a reply for crybabies full of cope.

    Don't get me wrong, I eat meat. But everyone equating beastiality to human rape needs to also own up to the billions I guess they are saying they genocide. Not to mention the farmer-rapists jacking and jilling off the animals for forced breeding.

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  • [+] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    Oh, it's not the sex with dogs, it's the watered down use of "rape" to mean everything from someone taking a picture of you in public with your clothes on that you didn't approve, to seeing an ugly man in a thong, to apparently fucking a dog.

    I understand that it comes off as weird in this instance. Luckily I'm in a shitposting comm, shitposting with a bunch of wannabe vegans who are cucked by their own pork chops.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Can someone please explain to a non American (there are dozens of us! Dozens!)? I understand the Kash Patel reference but who is the lady on the left (even though judging by her Mar a Lago face she’s on the right too) is and why she hates doggos?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Kristi Noem, used to be secretary of homeland security ... she shot her dog.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Why did she do such a thing? Did it come out as trans?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    She sucked at training the dog and got frustrated... For a more nuanced take you'll have to look it up yourself.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    That's Kristi Noem, a Republican who wrote in her autobiography about how she shot her dog after failing to train it and claimed it showed she was capable of doing "dirty, messy, and ugly" things in politics too.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Dog lover, but I'm going to park at a 9 here just to be clear.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago*

    "They're eating the dogs" has a whole new meaning now 😨

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    What did Kash fuck to earn that #10 spot?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    He was at a congressional hearing yesterday. I don't know the context, I just saw the except where he explain the FBI hiring practices and a senator questioning why there are legal consequences for the animal in cases of bestiality.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It gets so much worse than any comment can explain but an important detail that has not been brought up here yet is how Patel argued they had to protect individuals on both sides of beastiality. After being asked for clarification on that, he stated that he would not discriminate against his canine officers over that subject.

    The head of the FBI basically admitted to raping canine units in the FBI.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I read somewhere that the same provision that forbade bestiality also disqualifies people who have been found to have paid for sex three or more times in the last ten years. I think that what's actually happening is that Patel, or a buddy of his, got caught hiring prostitutes a few too many times, and now want to repeal the rule so they don't get kicked out.

    But someone saw 'bestiality' and decided to make it about that to distract people.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    plz explain, I am not american, all I know about the us is trump and 9/11

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Kristi Noem, on the left, is the former Director of Homeland Security. She was behind a lot of the ICE bullshit, and was fired by Trump a few months back. She bragged in her book that she shot and killed her dog because she couldn't train it.

    Kash Patel, on the left, is the current FBI Director. He's terrible in every way. But the current news on him is about him changes in the FBI hiring process that include removal of automatic disqualification of those who had previously stolen from their employers or engaged in prostitution or beastiality.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Holy crap had no idea she was that bad. Just the logistics in assembling an Evil League of Evil like this just boggles the mind

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Great news for me! I was ready to congratulate all the people I know who have committed acts of bestiality, even set aside a couple hours on my calendar for it. Didn't need even a moment of that two hour block because I don't know a single person who's ever done that sort of thing.

    Now I got two hours to kill and started thinking about something my uncle used to say "I'm fucking this cat, you just hold the tail." Which was a pretty vulgar thing to say to a 10 year old but also what the fuck Uncle Mike?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's easy to forget about traitors like Kristi Noem once they're out of the spotlight. Hopefully this country doesn't forget to dispense justice to that particular traitor when this is all over. Same goes for traitor Greg Bovino.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    This is likely gonna appear in south america (the show not the continent), it's basically a free goal.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I guess I don't love dogs as much as I thought I did.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Bros crying

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I feel like they're trolling SNL and South Park America. How do you parody that which is already a joke?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Where do we count the meat, dairy, etc. industry lobbyist and legislators making exceptions to the laws in almost every state in the US?

    As state legislatures began proposing anti-bestiality laws in the 1990s, the agriculture lobby repeatedly opposed the bills

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    Of the 27 states that have enacted bestiality statutes since 1990, 24 include nearly identical exemptions for animal husbandry. (Kansas, Iowa, and Delaware’s laws do not.) With the exemptions included, agricultural interests in many states have gone from covertly opposing anti-bestiality bills to either staying mum or even lobbying for them

    https://newrepublic.com/article/160448/meat-bestiality-artificial-insemination

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    A farmer may want to make sure the law lets him fist his steers or whatever the farmer lingo is, whilst holding a fancy turkey baster with cow batter for the oven, for money. For more cows.

    Does his nephew diddle the sheep? I dunno. What happens in Kansas and stays in Kansas affects me a lot less on the day to day than...

    The director of the FBI seemingly and very vocally suspiciously trying to make his dog whistle sexy.

    These sick fucks would bring back the coliseum if they could, and make sure they bold on the marquee in big bold letters how the show features wild beasts sating their every appetite.

    So yeah, I personally count AG carve outs a few rungs beneath the wtf ladder from googly-eye. The horror machine AG exemptions can and do empower as far animal welfare goes non-withstanding.

    Because these weird fascist fucks always project their desires that they want to push on the rest of us in advance and this one is just fucking weird.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What's wrong with his eyes?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    So like, for real though, the justification for this was that there are people who are victims of trafficking that are forced into this, right?

    At face value, that makes sense. I'm not sure whether every state that convicts for beastiality would also create exceptions for victims of trafficking who were forced into it, they certainly do not when it comes to other offenses.

    Is there something I've missed?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes, you missed that it wasn't for the victims, they're probably already covered for that. It was for people involved in bestiality in general.

    While Patel characterized the change as nondiscriminatory toward victims, Durbin refuted the notion and claimed it was a way to protect those who engaged in bestiality.

    “You dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have been engaged in bestiality, not victims of bestiality, applicants who have engaged,” Durbin said to Patel.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/kash-patel-fbi-hiring-policy-bestiality

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    they're probably already covered for that

    Can you ELI5 how an automatic disqualifier based on a conviction that doesn't account for whether or not someone is a victim doesn't automatically disqualify those victims without just saying they're "probably already covered"

    Edit to add: I don't see the relevance of what person C says if person A and B aren't going to be taken at their word, either. Durbin's words on the topic matter only as much as anyone else's in a vacuum, and his claim as to what is and isn't currently policy is as meaningless as anyone else's if it's unsubstantiated

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    there are people who are victims of trafficking

    You think that's who Kash is hiring?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I don't think Kash is attending most interviews, and I while I use someone's name as a reason to raise an eyebrow and look into something more than I typically would, I don't base my reason for it being bad solely on the name of the person who did it.

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