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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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)
  6. Tbh, you're better off with those reusable pods and grinding your own fresh. It's way better and way less plastic waste
  7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
  8. "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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Definitely don't keep the app(s) on your phone, they're surveillance capitalism tools. Their whole business model is selling access to their user profile of individuals so that advertisers can further microtarget their ads
  15. wow I forgot he was trying to start beef with Miss Rachel - what an absolute culture warrior.
  16. They (Steven Miller) already told us: they don't give a shit about facts, they're using this murder as their cudgel to do their fascism
  17. He literally bussed several hundred people to the Capital on January 6th that went on to assault and injure police officers and interrupt the peaceful transition of power?
  18. He just kept doing what he was doing. And nobody stopped him. You're describing consequences, not cancellation. And it wasn't the office of President advocating for specific, targeted actions
  19. "Being fired for their beliefs" is a weasel word way to conflate then and now. Biden firing people for saying "COVID isn't real" is not in the same solar system as "Kirk supported what happened to Kirk". There are beliefs that are actually WRONG and dangerous to hold in a leadership position. If you dEePlY bElIeVe that injecting yourself with bleach is a cure for COVID, should you be allowed to hold a public health related office? I think "cancelling" is bullshit in general and used as a false grievance by shithead culture warriors. Shane Gillis was cancelled? Suuuuuure lol
  20. I don't agree with your framing at all. For one, it's republican administrations in both cases not #bOtHsIdEs. For two, there were not members of the Bush administration going around giving statements and speaking from the White House about how they are going to use this to crush their political opposition with force. You're comparing apples to assholes
  21. It cannot be overstated how Miller is the modern Goebbels. They both just have opinions and want to share them with the world! And punish you if you don't tow the Party line
  22. Gotta say, it's chilling to see the fascist thought police and state sponsored cancel culture in action. People are being tattled on to employers for perfectly legal statements, and the employers are going along with it and punishing anyone who thinks contrary to the Party line. It's downright Orwellian and the height of irony to be coming from the Party that claims to love free speech and hate cancel culture
  23. Hey wait a minute, whatabout freeze peach and CANCEL CULTURE (!!!) ?
  24. It's highlighting a historical parallel? And please, elucidate for me your point because you're building up to something but won't say it
  25. What's my obvious political purpose, then? The IDF is literally doing a lebensraum to Palestine
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