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On 6/18/2025 at 10:58 AM, Pato del Muerto said:
The message will be “I just learned of this when told staff are not working today- we have too many federal holidays and I’ll be changing that immediately by herewith and hereby rescinding Juneteenth and mlk day as federal holidays. Thank you for your attention in this matter.”
15 hours ago, HenryJames said:Pato for the win.
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21 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
It seems to me that this is an easy calculus. Iran could soon have a nuclear weapon. It is thus possible that, at some point in the near future, Iran could use a nuclear weapon. The use of a nuclear weapon is a risk the world cannot bear. We must therefore attack Iran with nuclear weapons. It is the only way to mitigate the risk of a potential nuclear attack.
Also, as a bonus, this whole thing might bring Jesus back to smite a bunch of shit and judge the fuck out of us. Which I understand from a series of depressing Sunday morning lectures I was subjected to in my youth, is somehow a good thing.
Thank god we kept Saddam from getting nukes. Totally worth it.
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5 minutes ago, Hermanator said:
They want Netanyahu and Israel to do it? There's no guarantee Netanyahu stops at eliminating the Ayatollah. Actually, I'd be shocked if he did. You'd be looking at the prospect of an Israeli occupied Iran and all the horrors that would go with that.
That I doubt. Israel is not going to try to occupy a country of 80 some million people that is not adjacent to their borders. Israel would much more likely fuel a prolonged civil war.
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1 hour ago, GenXer said:
What vote are you talking about? Israel has never been on the UN Security Council. We didn't pay Israel for their vote; we paid them for their restraint. (Which is one of the many reasons we should stop paying them, seeing how they have chucked that restraint in the bin.)
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On 6/17/2025 at 8:29 AM, wildcat09 said:
This. Seems like enough to warrant an investigation on the technical side of things and if we could nail Peter Thiel for stealing elections I'd volunteer to be on the firing squad, but claims like "it's statistically impossible for all the blue wall states to flip" are ridiculous. Basically the same shit happens in every election, because voters in different states behave similarly. Swing voters in Pennsylvania and swing voters in North Carolina are influenced by the same media and thus tend to behave about the same. The answer to "how did he flip so many counties and she didn't flip any" is "that's what it tends to look like when one wins and the other loses." Maybe it hasn't looked exactly like it did in 2024 before, but that doesn't in itself mean anything, because you're bound to find something new in every election.
Yep. And unless all those flipped counties were in states that the same exact technology vulnerability, it is unlikely that the vulnerability is what drove the results. Hypothetically, if five of the flipped states had this issue, while two states that didn't have the issue stayed blue, it would be more likely that those five states were hacked.
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45 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:
Two state level lawmakers were shot, one killed. If anyone thinks, under any circumstances whatsoever that the State wouldn't demand their own pound of flesh, they're kidding themselves. It's really not even worth discussing, because it's happening.
Yep, NBCNews has head line that state officials are brining first degree murder charges.
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21 hours ago, Hermanator said:
It's biology. Evolution is based on survival of the fittest ensuring the dominant genes are passed down through generations for enhanced chance of species survival. Humans developed through this method of natural selection the same as all animals.
Therefore there's a natural competition instinct spurred on by natural selection inherent in the minds of all humans. It's instinct that allowed for the survival of humans until the modern industrial era where the circumstances changed and it's no longer needed for survival. It has now become the main detriment to the human race survival, but because technology far outpaces evolution it still lingers and is causing our downfall.
At this point we would need technological control over genetic code that controls the natural selection competition instincts to edit it out of the human race in order to truly realize our potential as a species. I believe at that point we would cease to be human, but we'd have been technologically evolved into a species more adapted to our current environment.
TLDR:
We are a species trying to run a modern operating system on 30 year old hardware.
I agree with the overall idea, but I will push back on the "natural selection" because I think it gets too much play as a driver anti-social/anti-community behavior. We have communal instincts that were essential to our survival as a species. Physically, we ain't much in the animal kingdom. We've got thumbs and an efficient walk, but after that it gets pretty thin. If we didn't have the instinct to cooperate, we would have never made it as a species. Unlike a lot of species that have the alpha/harem mating dynamic, we are genetically predisposed to function as a family. (We have too big of heads to go full term in pregnancy, so we get squeezed out after nine months in a completely vulnerable state, requiring a mother to stay with the infant and a father to find food.) We almost certainly needed to hunt cooperatively, because a single human ain't chasing down, or killing, shit. And that is all pre-civilization; without civilization and the effects of shared, inherited, constantly improving knowledge, we don't come to dominate the world. But, some will compare ourselves to other species with more independent life-plans as evidence that it is part of our nature. Our individual competitive instincts are balanced against our cooperative instincts. I agree that balance may be out of whack with the demands of the modern world, but honestly I think a lot of our current problems go back to our communal instincts, and the need for MAGA to be part of something.
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Yep. I would definitely want state charges to move forward in parallel. All you need is some idiotic conspiracy theory that Trump likes on Truth and the feds will drop charges.
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And this guy deserves whatever awards good journalists get. Not only does he have balls of steel, he is actually explaining what is going on as the cops clear a bridge. And the long shot is like cinematic gold. Only one criticism, and it's a big one: don't ask the protestors, who may or may not be documented, personal information. They are wearing those masks for a reason.
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43 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:
Would Mrs Wood
I love this community.
34 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:Went to both rallies/marches in Seattle - most of the suburbs also had one, including the one Rick Steves was at above. The one at the UW had a couple thousand (it was commencement today as well, so a bit more challenging to get to). The main march had 70,000 estimated; it filled the entire 2 mile route from end to end. Many, many others lined the streets and rooftops and leaned out windows cheering and banging pots. No damage, no hassle, nothing at all went awry. No cops at all visible at the UW; downtown there were none along the route as they were a block to either side keeping the cross streets closed. Trains ran every couple of minutes all day to get people in and out.
Great day, made greater by all the posts from fellow Surlyites from cities and towns far and near, big and small.
We were thinking we were going to Tukwila, but then weren't needed, and then hit the march late coming out of the Westlake station. Just step right out of the train station into a political march. Great march. In these dark political times, it's cathartic to have something that feels like a celebration with people who aren't horrible. But Tukwila went sidewise, so a bittersweet day. The sense of community these marches create is so important. But the fuckers still are running shit.
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I just don’t understand how every fucking American isn’t livid. This is fucking infuriating.
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16 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Good. Hogg should run for something or be an activist. Otherwise he’s just a noisemaker and has negative value in a party management role.
I really dislike the all the robotexts, but this one from Hogg is pretty solid:
"I am no longer a DNC Vice Chair.
"This DNC vote to have a new election comes after weeks of contention about our work here at Leaders We Deserve, especially our plan to challenge ineffective Democrats in the primaries.
"I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change our party needs. It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair - and it's okay to have disagreements. What isn't okay is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on.
"That's why I've decided not to run in this upcoming election. I need to do this work with Leaders We Deserve, and it is going to remain my number one mission to build the strongest party possible."
"I'm thankful to everyone who supported me in this role, and now, I need your support. If you're with us in the fights ahead, considering donating..." blah, blah, blah.
It actually sounds personal, it's gives information and his reasoning, it's not sensationalist. Just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:
yeah, that's how it was for decades. Before we had a complete moron as POTUS. I'm staying put where I am. Nobody is gonna tell Dotard shit about fuck, because he's a fucking total idiot and he cannot be trusted.
My theory.
Bibi tells Trump he's going to do it. Trump tells him that'd be bad news. Trump leaves the meeting thinking he had talked Bibi out of it. The Israelis see the protests in the US and knows everything is just fucking muddy. The anti-Israeli aspects of any protests are going to be lost. Any physical damage/violence in the protests will be hung on anti-Israeli protests, which they will use to drum up fear over "antisemitic" radicalism. It will be a wedge, between the left and middle america, who, for whatever fucking reason, will still fucking support Israel, no matter what they fucking do. This weekend was already going to be a mess, and Netanyahu just took a giant shit in it. This story isn't going to be on the front page come Saturday. If he was every going to attack Iran, this was the time. He wasn't going to wait for Trump to approve it. What's Trump going to do: scold Netanyahu while he trying to consolidate his base going into a political battle in LA. Trump's a clown. Netanyahu is a war criminal. Trump was never going to stop him.
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Fuck Israel. From the River to the Sea.
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42 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
They would have probably whipped those GOP "Nays" if they had to.
Ok. Make them do that. There was a reason why they didn't do it. There was some price. Make them pay that price.
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52 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:
What the fuck is this idiot trying to say here?
He's saying "I am willing to free up cheap labor for you if you appeal to me personally." It's a pretty similar message on the tariffs. The only policy now is for the king to decide who the policies apply to.
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16 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:I’m not sure where else to put this, so, enjoy
Here's a thought - maybe if you actually gave a shit about the nonsense you and your racist dad have been selling last few decades, you wouldn't be keen on having a fucking picnic with fascists.
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37 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:
So you see AIPAC money as being non Jewish money?
BTW, there is plenty of Jewish money donated to political causes outside of AIPAC. Not all of it is single agenda donations revolving around Israel, but a lot of it is.
Absolutely. I gave them money in Trump's first term. In my defense, my recollection is they were actually pushing back on anti-Muslim shit back then.
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22 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Nuclear war would be a very bad thing. Esp a totally avoidable one precipitated by broken brained neocon foreign policy objectives. I know that this is probably hard to hear for some of you.
Whose policy is more "neocon" when it comes to Ukraine: ours or Russia's?
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8 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:
For better or worse, Newsom is about to become the face of the MAGA resistance.
Paradoxically, he will also be the face of the cops shooting the protesters (and bystanders) with rubber bullets and pepper balls. It would be difficult to resist the federalization of the national guard without supporting those whose role they'd replace or augment. And to be clear, the national guard and marines haven't done shit yet. It's the cops. It would be tough line to walk for any politician, but I think Newsom will side firmly with the cops. Hell, I think half of Trump's reasoning for LA is to be able to hang the "lawless" bs on Newsom.
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16 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:like this?
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AOC would struggle to win a state-wide election in NY. She's not going to win the Presidency. That's just wishcasting nonsense.
None of this has to do with who she really is, but what the wide-spread perception is. She is the the left-wing radical poster child. Swing voters aren't watching the debates. They aren't doing research. Her negatives are well established and they aren't going anywhere.
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
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The last thing Bibi wants is a stable Iranian government that represents the will of its people and its sanctions lifted. (Saudi Arabia would also vote no on that scenario.) A chaotic, impoverished, suffering Iran makes for the best security for Israel and Saudi Arabia. So that is what will happen. Maybe they get a civil war out of it (for which we declare as progress towards a free Iran), but more likely it will just be continued bombings, destroying infrastructure and destabilizing the country. It’s harder to convert an adversary than it is to keep them weak.