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Captainant

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  1. Anyone looking for COVID tests, don't go to the old website. It's a conspiracy site now http://covidtests.gov
  2. You're citing a pre-trump47 article to tell me how what trump47 is doing is bi-partisan, just FYI. Reframing a grant as a stock purchase is some pretty rancid deal rewriting mid flight. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-admin-in-talks-to-take-10-stake-in-intel-via-chips-act-grants-125081900100_1.html Beyond Intel, the White House official also floated the possibility that the administration could convert other Chips Act awards into equity stakes. It’s not clear whether that idea has gained traction broadly within the administration or whether officials have broached the possibility with any companies that could be affected. It's going to sour any business from taking grant money for fear of it turning out to be a baited hook. The feds operating with such dishonesty is bad for business.
  3. They're getting bailed out from decades of paying out record dividends and stock buybacks. This is more taxpayer subsidy of executive bonuses. If they're buying back over a hundred billion in stocks, maybe they are the source of their own business problems. God, I love the Almighty Free Market and it's infinite wisdom to punish inefficient firms
  4. There's a stomach bug going through Houston at the moment too I think
  5. That's great for you and all that, but the pedophile you voted for isn't releasing the Epstein files for some reason. I wonder why he's giving his co-conspirator such a good deal at club fed in aggyland
  6. Before the outbreak, most Texas doctors had never seen a measles case because of how uncommon it has become, said Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Jennifer Shuford. She credited testing, vaccination, monitoring and education with helping to end the outbreak. I wonder if that means that the previous antivaxxers changed their minds after they realized that vaccines prevent death, or if that's just preseason sunshine pumping before the next respiratory disease season
  7. The US dead-ass just copied the V1 and V2 for our first cruise and ballistic missiles - our first sub launched nuke the Regulus Missile was a first gen iteration. The base design is well-proven at least
  8. Hayden threw out the first pitch at a Cubs game a few days ago, love his jersey number lololol
  9. What are you talking about? Owning large swaths of property and extracting wealth from the poors that live on it is the basis of every modern healthy economic system.
  10. Well that sure fuckin didn't take long
  11. Release the Epstein files. This is all a distraction from his pedophilia.
  12. The feds have no control over the posses that they've armed and unleashed. https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-fire-shots-man-during-operation-san-bernardino-police-say/17562097/ Martin says he was working with his father-in-law and 18-year-old son-in-law on Saturday morning when their vehicle was suddenly surrounded by unmarked cars and masked men. "They hopped out with their pistols already drawn. Then they proceeded to ask us to lower the window and open the doors," Martin said. Martin stressed that they asked, but the masked agents did not identify themselves. Martin and his family stayed in the locked car as agents insisted they come out. Video shows moments later, the agents shattered two windows. "Once the glasses were shattered, my father-in-law feared for his life, from his perspective. And so he... I guess the car was already in drive, so he drove the vehicle away from where those agents were at," Martin said. In the video, three gunshots can be heard. "Thank God the bullets didn't go through the truck. They just went in, got stuck into the door, but they were aimed at my brother-in-law, who was in the passenger front. And so I was just glad he was OK," he said. The family sought the help of San Bernardino police, who soon arrived at their home. "So once they showed up, we made a report with them. They told us FBI was going to get in contact with us," he said. The family says instead, it turned into an hours-long standoff with several federal agencies showing up at their home. They say an officer seen pulling out a weapon on video during the vehicle stop is the same person who fired the gunshots. "He said that he didn't shoot... that those three shots were him tapping on the glass. But we have bullet holes inside of the vehicle now," Martin said.
  13. It's pretty funny how the inflation thread got real quiet in 2025 as inflation hits record highs. 40% jump for plain vegetables from the field is gonna be about the baseline, I would think. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-alarm-bells-went-off-again-and-prices-are-rising-just-how-bad-is-it-going-to-get-6659c921
  14. ICE is now hospitalizing citizens that are inconveniencing them
  15. Lol just saw a banner ad for "Texit Coin" at IAH this morning. Wouldn't you know it, they say it's going to the moooooon
  16. NASA is giving up on it's Earth science mission now. In violation of its chartering 1958 law https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chief-calls-for-the-end-of-earth-science-at-the-space-agency/ "All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA," Duffy said during the appearance. "That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences."
  17. It really is something that the current crop of fascists are still benefiting from the intellectual dishonesty of the "ur" crop of fascists. There is no humor in it, they don't give a shit about their words being lies. They know only their enemy believes in words and they are delighted by acting in bad faith. When you press them, their arguments amount to "many people are saying", but pressing them only leads to them saying it's not the right time or place to talk about it and delay infinitely. You're talking about reasoning people out of a position they weren't reasoned into, and are proud of their irrational stakeout. The only way is for the leopard to eat all their faces. In 1930s Germany all the small business owners LOVED how the nazis got the economy humming, and then they got consumed by the machine they built in the 40s, by way of private state sanctioned cartels ran by the old money they hated in the first place. They've learned their lesson. I can't help but think we're gonna be getting our turn in the barrel the more we FAFO
  18. Hitler named the nazis "national socialist workers party" as a troll against the communists - there's been a ton of academia on it. Even Encyclopedia Britannica has an article on it. Their use of red for their flag was also poking the soviets in the eye, not to mention everyone who joined the nazis thinking they were a socialist group were killed during the night of long knives. Classic leopard eating faces moment
  19. My HS had a couple of gun scares and full campus lockdowns from shootings or home invasions near the HS. And, a gunshot wound is a rather more serious proposition than possibly losing in an athletic event in the one in ten thousand chance a trans person is competing at all. But if to you school shootings and trans people competing in sports are equally dangerous to students... I simply cannot agree that both sides are the same
  20. You don't "combat" it by retreating the position and rhetorically saying "yeah you're right". I don't disagree that you should redirect to real issues though. But that doesn't mean you #bothsides and say their fake issue is real just to get them on your side. That's still pushing the Overton window farther right.
  21. Well you're using their bad faith arguments, so it wasn't clear you meant what LChorn had posted. I was getting more of a "let's just give him Poland and they'll be happy" vibe
  22. You're right, appeasing the fascists will surely work
  23. Like, what the fuck do you think will happen after they finish off trans folks? Call it a day? Historically speaking, they fuckin don't.
  24. Nobody but the republicans are making this an issue. Where it does happen it's a singleton case that is an exception. Making a rule to chase edge cases is dog shit systems management. Like, can you name an instance of it happening in your school district? Or in any way that has actually directly impinged upon your life in a non-rhetorical way? What I'm saying is you're buying into and propagating feels>realz and doing the fascists work for them by complying in advance.
  25. It's fucking wild that a handful of singleton cases is enough to convince you that you should treat millions of Americans like subhumans. By your logic, we should have never had a civil rights movement either. The average person disagreed with abolition, or something too amirite?
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