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atomheartbevo

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  1. President Trump stopped the war between Cambodia and Armenia. I don’t care for the guy, but God bless him for stopping the bloodshed. Give him the Noble Piece Prize
  2. And new rifle. Kids and SW nerds will push it close to a billion easily. It looks lighthearted as well which will get in the casual fans.
  3. Between his dad’s anccusations, and grok generating this stuff, and SpaceX not being able to get the job done on time, the time is ripe for him to get raked over the coals.
  4. Trump needs a distraction, so this is really bad timing for Leon - might just get him called up in front of Congress.
  5. Putin will slink around, but I doubt he sends any aircraft into Polish areas int he future. His talking heads on TV would have a hard time explaining to the Russian people why the Poles aren’t afraid of them.
  6. And I'm impressed they have metal and concrete buildings with glass windows; I expected wattle and daub.
  7. I'm also going to talk about all of the people I hate. When you get to your late 40s/early 50s, you are entering prime territory where you're going to be speaking at funerals.
  8. He's going to act surprised in a few years when there's another round of attacks on Israel, while the rest of us are like "well duh, you kill or starve a fuckton of people, you're going to get a bunch of people who grow up and whose life goals are to kill Israelis."
  9. You're thinking of Scotland, when Mel Gibson played Bilbo Gandalf and defeated the evil English King Sauroman II, in that movie "Brave".
  10. So are we now free to talk about tariffs at the future funerals of various family members?
  11. Screwworm confirmed near Laredo, USDA steps up defense I just really feel like we are going to fuck this up.
  12. And a whole lot of the assholes fucking us and our kids over have degrees from Ivy League schools or other out-of-state schools. The irony is lost on Texas voters.
  13. 70 miles from the Texas border, and right now, somebody in this state is writing to their legislators saying this screwworm stuff isn't real. Flesh-eating maggots spotted 70 miles south of Texas threatens livestock population
  14. In the past, when a radical cleric in Israel or Saudi Arabia was beating the drum about how evil Israel was, it was easy to get lost in the shuffle. The sky is blue, OU sucks, Israel is evil, bleh bleh bleh bleh. Now those same radical clerics have Israel publicly fulfilling the claims of what those clerics were saying. That's great for recruiting, bad for Israeli citizens.
  15. NASA safety panel warns Starship lunar lander could be delayed by years - SpaceNews
  16. Yep. Israel is way too big for their britches and things are starting to catch up to them. They are also creating the conditions for a future attack that will probably be far bigger than the 2023 attack - they are creating way too many would-be terrorists who feel like they have nothing to lose.
  17. And in 1991 when the crew were formally awarded a Presidential citation at the White House, President George H. W. Bush did them dirty and just waved at them from a distance. That little action right there sounded like somebody who sided with Israel over our own military.
  18. I've said this before, having followed the conspiracy stuff for a long time (got into JFK stuff before the Stone movie). There's always been a group of people who bought into conspiracy theories, and it seemed like early on many were pretty "damaged" in some way - a lot of the early JFK conspiracy believers were personally vested in the mythos of JFK in some way or another (America would have turned out better/life would have turned out better if JFK had lived). The UFO folks, yeah, many needed their own baggage terminal to follow them around. And there were some who just needed excitement in their lives and conspiracy theories made them feel special and "in the know". Up through the 90s, their reach extended to a small section at bookstore if they were lucky (my first exposure to the JFK stuff was to Garrison's book at a B. Dalton in the 80s) buried with the astrology stuff. Their reach outside of somebody seeing one of the few "mainstream" books was normally the backrooms of independent bookstores and student unions, found by flyers tacked up on telephone poles or bulletin boards in said bookstores or student unions, as well as physical mailing lists (which were expensive at the time unless your followers were paying you). They were mocked/ridiculed by normal society and the media. There was a barrier to entry if you wanted to peddle theories/scam people. It was hard to reach a significant number of your fellow conspiracy theorists unless you really worked at it by way of snail mail mailing lists. Fast-forward to the mid/late-2000s and the barrier entry is down to almost nothing - email lists and websites were easy to create. Search engines put your stuff out there. There was the potential for a lot of mini-Art Bells to crop up. And then YouTube ramped it up. All of the sudden "normal" people could be exposed to this stuff, and some took the bait. Jump ahead 10 years and some of it was creeping into Fox News (and eventually we'd have News Max, OAN, etc. that loved to peddle this stuff). Social media platforms that reached hundreds of millions and even billions were dumping this stuff in the lap of your semi-crazy Aunt Edna, who could, with the click of a button, forward it to hundreds of "friends". Magnify that by millions of Aunt Edna's doing the same thing. Jump ahead a little more and we get a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that we should have been prepared for - for fuck's sake, the very people who bought hook-line-and-sinker into these theories had been screaming about pandemics and being prepared, and it turns out the preppers couldn't handle staying away from Applebee's or Chili's or Supercuts. It wasn't the idea of the Chinese invading or the government putting them in concentration camps that scared these people, it was the idea they couldn't get a decent appetizer or cheap haircut. And then the icing on the cake - after we elect a President who was helped by conspiracy theories spread by the largest social media platform, we re-elect him, after he ran on conspiracy theories, including that a known pedophile and child trafficker had files on all the Hollyweird Eleet. The Attorney General of the United States of America tells us publicly that she has the client list on her desk. Our President attends a 9/11 memorial with a fucking 9/11 truther. The largest podcaster with a reach of tens of millions constantly pushes whatever conspiracy theories his guests are pushing. The world's richest man constantly pushes conspiracy theories and the 15th or so largest social media platform that he owns allows that stuff to go unchecked. And then our AG and President say there was no list and the party in power votes to keep the list(s) away from the American public. And our former heroin-addict/bushmeat-eating/brainworm-infected lawyer who runs Health and Human Services and the CDC is telling us we don't need vaccines and that Tylenol causes autism. And we have state legislatures banning condensation trails from aircraft because those contrails are secretly brain control chemicals. TLRD: 30 years ago, people with minimal critical thinking skills could get by in life just fine, without being bombarded by bullshit conspiracy theories. Now batshit stuff is dropped in their lap every day, and authority figures reinforce it.
  19. He’s been obsessed with Mars for forever. If it was all about Starlink, he wouldn’t shut the fuck op about Starlink. There’s no need to bury it or try to divert attention away from it. In fact, he’d be using that to raise funds. And if all of the stuff with NASA and the moon and Mars was all about him just trying to get more Starlink satellites up there and it gets exposed, government contracts will dry up real fast. They’ll get investigated. Probably heavily penalized probably problems with the FAA and NASA going forward for launches.
  20. Trump administration is going to link Tylenol to Autism even through they don’t have any clear proof. Epstein files ain’t going to burry themselves as long as the House keeps talking about them I guess.
  21. It’s not like you’re wearing it all day and you can see more than you think. The key is to have a fitted mask.
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