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[–] 154 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn't been absolute dog shit decision?

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?

    That's who you think was the last good Republican?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    He was a member of the NAACP. I don't think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It's easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with him for. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I'm unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don't ask don't tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.

    Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jGe560-Y4

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:

    “NO.”

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.

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  • [–] 93 points 1 year ago*

    Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.

    And it's not new either: this started on day one of Trump's "presidency", and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.

    Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Every country seems to be following America. It's sad really. We the rest of the world are so hungry to suck on America's test that we well do anything for it. Problem is it's going to stop being so prosperous and we fucked ourselves for a very short term goal.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.

    I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.

    If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won't excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My back was fucked. But forcing myself to do manual labor has basically healed my vertebra. I do 12 miles of walking a shift. So my whole core is in its best shape in decades.

    I need to go to the range with my rifles and shotguns. My dad was a sniper and trained me how to shoot. I hope to get something that can put a bullet through an engine block. Soon.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    On my end, I picked a shotgun for three reasons: 1, to shoot drones, because buckshot has a spread. 2, common and flexible ammo. 3, ease of maintenance. The way I figure, a novice like me won't ever be able to do sharpshooting, that requires good eyes and lots of skill.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yup, it was some rather insane actions by the right which finally convinced me to get my PAL/RPAL. I was always going to get it because I like shooting and the history, but this was the final nudge. Got myself a real beauty from the early 20th century that was once used to kill fascists.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I’m thankful for my eye sight. I’m nearing 40 and still have 40-20 vision. I used to hit running deer with my 30-30. When I lived in the Appalachians. I also know shotguns don’t do well against drones as you would hope but they are better than a rifle. Check out what they are doing in Ukraine with drones.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bird shot works on ducks, maybe it'll work on drones?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I assume both drones and armored humans would both be potential targets if fighting breaks out. If that is the case, I don't want to juggle munitions on the field, so it needs to be deadly against both. 00 Buckshot is what I use for practice because it costs me about $14 a box for 25 rounds. 000 is what I am figuring to use as 'serious' ammo for live combat, but that costs about $10 for 5 shells.

    The way I figure, 000 would be able to hit unarmored limbs, and consequently remove combatants from the fight. Dunno if a slug can beat armor, but I am almost certain that my accuracy is too crap to land a slug on a person. I can regularly land hits at 25 meters with a reflex sight, but that is with plentiful time, an immobile target, and no pressure.

    Hopefully, if I join a militia, we would be able to hire a Ukranian veteran to instruct people. My guesses about how to prepare for conflict are probably wrong.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time

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

    I don't trust Americans to fix their own problems.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah because it turns out they can't aim worth a damn.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I will never understand why that dipstick didn't just spend some more time at a range. So much so that I'm starting to believe that it was a false flag.

    Like, really, you try to assassinate someone under secret service protection -- arguably making them one of the most difficult people to assassinate -- and you don't even put in a few weekends of range time? You don't even zero your optic properly? You get as far as using a rangefinder and figuring out the distance to your target ahead of time, but you don't bother zeroing your optic. Really? Make it make sense to me.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Sell it to the ESA, if it isn't a cover-up.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead's scandals rather than any of the issues, we're going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it's different. Because that's what's really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.

    I guess Trump was right - when you're a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.

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  • The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump's cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we've ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won't release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!

    Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

    It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.

    The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    100%, people don't lead revolutions with stomachs full of food

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

    Bread and circus's is often times derided but it was exactly why Rome was so successful. Under all the glory, triumph, and corruption the Roman elite knew damned well what happened when the commoners went hungry and they didn't wanted another Gracchi Brothers incident. Shame for us the modern milksop oligarchy forgot the damned bread.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    This is some "Don't Look Up" type shit. Can't happen if you don't acknowledge it.

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    yeah all that "quantitative objective science" liberal BS

    /s

    Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that's intelligent, but isn't a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective -- sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?

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    I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    Sorry Donnie, we're gonna need a really big missile in order to take that down, could you send us some cash to build it?

    https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-05-20

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Don't look up, people.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Distraction.
    He's on the Epstein list and wants it to be buried under all his other bullshit.

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  • Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid.. if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Need to reframe this:

    "The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If we don't test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that's big, beautiful brain thinking right there.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Who would've thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I put my phone down, then picked it up a few moments later hoping I ate the onion.

    I hate him.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    if nasa really have those laser destroyer sats it's time to aim at the whitehouse

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What next? Trying to get rid of animated cartoons factually depicting Tumps penis?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    "You will serve until such a time you are no longer needed".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The question is, will americans do something about there antichrist problem before he destroys the whole world, or will they just watch and complain only if they are personnally afected. The answer is within the question.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Someone should just offer to buy it. Pakistan has the means and motive. Should be the kind of thing that fat idiot would go for. Plus he's salty at India rn...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    .... ostrich ....

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Can we accidentally leave the keys near ESA HQ?

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    Looking forward the Mad Maxy future that's coming up. Where Gasoline and Drinking Water are the primary commodities and no one truly remembers how things were in "the before times" and the "long long ago" (aka a single generation ago).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I love BBQing indoors. Babies taste best. CO and smoke detectors are just alarmist annoying hysteria that my family would use against me to value their lives over baby BBQs. BBQ hating commies in my household should not ruin my freedom with information based logic, and so tools of alarmism must be destroyed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.

    It's not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.

    Crazy, but true.

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

    I don't think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn't vote for the administration in charge, so ...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People keep saying that most people didn't vote for this, but it's just disingenuous

    2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that's the stat that matters

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    People don’t get excited to vote against candidates/platforms nearly as much as they do to vote for them. The choices may not be equally bad but that’s surprisingly irrelevant. South Park’s Turd Sandwich is pretty spot on.

    But to your point, most of them didn’t vote for the climate change apocalypse, they voted for the racism.

    Some of them undoubtedly did vote for the apocalypse, because their religious views include hastening the end so they can get to the rapture. That’s terrifying and underreported, but I suspect it’s a minority. There’s nothing Great Again about destroying the world, unless you’re a rapacious billionaire who wants to sit on a larger stack of toys in your cool bunker. Most of the idiots won’t realize how they got swindled until it’s far too late.

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

    Maybe they can fake this somewhat convincingly, since Trump and his cabinet are a bunch of fucking retards.

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