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Captainant

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  1. fortunately, the director of the FBI has experience writing childrens books
  2. good lord the chuds are literally calling the shots Absolutely a great thing that these very fine people are deciding who gets higher education and who doesn't based on their lawful speech
  3. How did he have a room mate if he was living at home with his parents? I missed the explainer for that
  4. There is a weird subculture of blackpilled incels called "transmaxxers" that feel like they failed at being masculine (failed "chadmaxxers"), so they'll go female to reap the perceived social benefits. It's not LGBTQ, it's more so an expression of body dysmorphia and incredibly antisocial behavior. There was a decent explainer linked in another thread, it's a weird weird world of angry young men with deep seated antisocial rage. It's not left or right, it's just antisocial behavior
  5. One of my favorite youtube channels put out a great analysis from a civil engineering and hydrology perspective. The host lives in Central Texas, and has a ton of really interesting videos on all the engineering that holds our world up
  6. I wouldn't hold my breath for NYT. Between their storied history of toadying up to and downplaying the danger of fascism (insert 1924 Hilter headline), and trading away all their ethics for access ala Haberman, they have done the yeoman's work to get their messaging out and sanewash it to push the overton window ever further to the right. I don't think it's intentional on their part, but they sure do find it happening over and over and over again
  7. In fairness, this thread has been home to quite a bit of rampant speculation and conspiracy. It's just that it's coming from the FBI and journalistic entities that are really shitting the bed. This story has been a complete boondoggle from the jump, and I'm not holding my breath for the facts to get any more clear after today's presser
  8. Really interesting video came across my feed wrt/ farmers voting for trump and now enjoying the economic consequences TLDW: farmers knew trump was going to do all of this, they voted for him anyways because they were CERTAIN there would be some unquantified benefit to having him in office. This famer's opinion was that the farmers were mainly tunnel-visioned on tax breaks because of their large estates, and completely ignored the downsides that were on-the-tin. "We were lied to" is a lie. edit: just saw it was posted in the Leopards Eating Faces thread last night, derp
  9. Pistols have way different ballistics than rifles, a .223 can make a pretty gnarly exit wound channel, and 30-06 even moreso. Theres a ton more velocity and so exponentially greater kinetic energy is delivered
  10. Here's a source to my claim: https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year 2010: $895 2015 $994 2020 $1,185 2025 $1,650 % increase: 65% over 10 years, 85% increase over 15 years. So mea culpa, it's a greater than 50% increase that's still far ahead of baseline inflation. So if you want to nitpick my specific number but ignore the overall trend that worker wages have definitely not gone up 85% in 15 years or 65% in 10 years, that's your perogative.
  11. My apologies for being a dick, it's just maddening to see a serious person act like the explosion of extractive and exploitative leases is simply because people have more money to give to their land lords. Sorry for treating you like you were posting in bad faith, though
  12. BTW as a follow-up for @ChickenSandwich, Lisa Cook did NOT break any rules. I wonder why else she might have been illegally fired https://www.reuters.com/world/us/no-evidence-primary-residence-violation-by-fed-gov-lisa-cook-says-michigan-2025-09-16/
  13. The resemblance to some of the shit coming out of RT is uncanny. From set design to facial expressions and tone, it's pitch perfect Russian State TV
  14. Kirk is a public figure insofar as he fomented and funded an armed insurrection that disrupted and delayed the peaceful transition of power on January 6th. We should only shoot fascists when we're at war with them, and EVERY PERSON in the United States is owed due process. I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.
  15. Yeah, gotta drive some homelessness to really get the goosed rent numbers going, I gotcha. Heaven forbid we have enough housing that everyone can afford to stay in, what a terrible idea Median incomes have not doubled in the last decade. Hell, they haven't doubled since the 80s. Despite the "economy" (read: stock market and shareholder value extraction) adding on a few zeros in the same time interval. It's not incomes increasing that's driving the rent increase, it's been illegal collusion via Realpage and the other rent collusion platforms. Edit: just to really drive the point home, the meteoric rent increases STOPPED when propublica published their initial reporting and got DOJ sniffing around in 2022. It lines up quite nicely with your rent increase timeline through 2020-2021
  16. Well they've nearly doubled over the last decade so I'm not sure if there's any blood left to suck for the landlords
  17. Our morning ritual is a latte and a flat white out of our Bambino Plus - a $40 2lb bag of beans will last us damn near a month and it's waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy cheaper than Starbucks with a shorter wait. But its a whole thing and not just slapping a pod in and pressing a button. Our toddler loves to watch coffee get made while she has her first breakfast (she's on the hobbit meal schedule atm)
  18. Tbh, you're better off with those reusable pods and grinding your own fresh. It's way better and way less plastic waste
  19. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
  20. "pray for his repentance" is something I hear """leftists""" saying all the time, now that you mention it... The President and Vice President were right, it's all leftist violence
  21. Like, the fucking Vice President of the United States just went onto Kirk's platform to threaten anyone making light of his death, under the the guise of "promoting violence" WITHOUT A SHRED OF IRONY FOR KIRKS ROLE IN JANUARY 6TH
  22. it's a really interesting parallel - Kirk and "their" favored "debate" style is to stake out an unsupported position and challenge all comers to "prove me wrong". Similarly, our elected officals are staking out their unsupported position of it being "LeFtIsT vIoLeNcE" and challening everyone to prove them wrong - and any counter-assertion is literally being prosecuted both socially and criminally
  23. Love free speech so much, they're arresting people for their speech! And Governor Abbot is cheering them on https://www.chron.com/politics/article/abbott-texas-tech-charlie-kirk-21049063.php They have apparently been expelled from Tech
  24. Not for the Israelies, nevermind his PC or other digital footprint. Or ya know, the fact that he used his bullet casing as a shitposting opportunity
  25. It's wild to see them just using the same tactics as they ever did: filter their talking points through an overly credulous news organization and then present it to the public as fact. This was the EXACT mechanism and tactic used to gin up the concern that "many people are saying" about the election in 2020
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