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The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

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  • Guy wants to claim that bidean has morals, I point out that he's got the blood of 30k innocent people on his hands, which kind of rebuits that claim.

    • Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA

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  • Can you say Tianenmen Square?

    • Voters don't like Biden's economy — but why?

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  • Because people can't afford food and shelter. You know, little details like being able to live.

    • The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

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  • Have you heard of a little place called Gaza?

    • ‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden

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  • It's really simple: demonstrate that he has some kind of moral principles. Some atrocity he refuses to countenance, some red line he will not cross. Some point at which he'll say "you know what, no, we're not going to be part of this, we're out."

    It might not stop them, but it would show he wasn't an actual monster.

    Which is a pretty low fucking bar, tbh.

    • ‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden

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  • There's two conflicting metrics:

    • The state of the country for the next 4 years if the GOP gets in this year
    • The state of the country forever if the dems aren't held accountable

    The fact that the dems are willing to play chicken with the entire country and would rather see it fall into the hands of MAGA than let go of their precious genocide says a whole lot about their motivation.

    If that faction of the party is allowed to prevail, there won't be any point. They need to learn their lesson, fast. They can either cooperate now, or get their ass thrown out of power in november. Their choice.

    • ‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden

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  • If someone can be an evil piece of shit and still win elections, what's their incentive to not be an evil piece of shit?

    • ‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden

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  • You don't keep enabling an abuser in the hope they'll eventually reform.

    You walk the fuck out, and if that means being homeless, that sucks balls but it still beats staying.

    And if someone calls you a fucking idiot for not being grateful for a roof over your head, you spit right in their eye.

    • ‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden

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  • It's the candidate's job to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.

    If you want people to vote for you, you have to do the things the people demand. Like, oh, say, not enabling and funding genocide.

    If it's super mega omg important that people vote for you, then it's on you to you do those things really hard.

    If you consider the principle of democracy valid, then whatever the voters choose is correct by definition.

    And by the same token, if they don't vote for you, you have only yourself to blame.

    That's the game. Don't like it, don't play.

    • How do you listen to / discover music?

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  • Youtube.

    I realised a few years back that my music tastes had stagnated, that I hadn't liked any new bands in... too many years, and that I was on the way to becoming to be a stuck-in-the-past old fart.

    So I nuked my youtube data to glass and started again from scratch with The Technique.

    Open all the interesting-looking music in new tabs, don't-recommend-channel annoying crap, especially reaction videos. Flick through each tab, like and add to genre playlists anything cool, and open a bunch of tabs from the recommendations on that page. If I get three solid bangers from an artist, subscribe. Go with original artists rather than reposts where possible.

    Rinse and repeat.

    If the algorithm starts getting stale, browse and listen through playlists I want to hear more of (often using a third-party shuffle site), to dredge up the silt.

    I don't generally listen to much of a song while browsing - you can tell from a handful of samples if it's for you or not, and moving on quickly stops it from getting tedious.

    I have found and enjoyed vastly more new music in the last few years than I did in the two decades before that. It's awesome.

    • Israel agrees not to invade Rafah until consulting with US, Biden admin official says

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  • Consulting: "what are you going to do about it? Yeah, didn't think so."

    • Kristi Noem defends killing her own puppy

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  • Grab them by the puppy.

    • Message From a Gazan to Campus Protesters: You're Hurting the Palestinian Cause

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  • Obvious Israeli shill is obvious.

    • Truth

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  • (... I linked that exact video above...)

    • Truth

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  • Yep, I'm kind of obsessed with them (her? Not sure of pronouns). It's like putting your brain in a rock tumbler: weirdly soothing.

    • Truth

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  • Fuck yes, controlled chaos exactly.

    Like rocks bouncing crazily down a mountainside, but somehow precisely aimed at the same time.

    And at the other end of that spectrum, Bach and other early music. Which is maximally-bamboozling minimalism; you stare at it like a hyponitized chicken wondering how he can wrangle infinitely deep pattern out of like three notes.

    • Truth

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  • Can I recommend heavy breakcore / jungle as an alternative to metal?

    Exhibit A: Femtanyl (previously known as lilyniku, more awesomeness to be found under that name)

    Exhibit B: collection

    • Revamping my playlist - lemmels, give me all your suggestions!

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  • You're going to regret asking me this.

    I've been listening to a ridiculous variety of music over the last few years; let me dig up some particular favourites. Total mixed bag and in no particular order, you get what you get. Probably some serious misses, but who knows what it'll stir up in the algorithm :)

    ... okay, that should keep you going for a while :)

    • Scientists Discover New Antibiotic Class Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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  • Quick let's feed it to cattle by the ton

    • what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ?

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  • Old people. Cantankerous, poor old people on welfare - think Abe Simpson, but living alone.

    'Retired' suggests a reasonable nest-egg of savings or superannuation to live on, and has a whiff of golf about it.

    'Pensioner' on the other hand suggests skating the poverty line, and has old-people smell.