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25 minutes ago, Red Five said:

What is the supposed justification for this? I mean, I of course know the real reason. What's the fake one? This has nothing to do with "DEI". 

There is no fake one.  White, straight males are the only ones who ever fought and died for this country.

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1 hour ago, wood said:

Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-post-hitler-stalin-mao.html

If anyone has access to the full story, please post.

Full article from link:

Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators — then quickly deleted it after it sparked a backlash.

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, the communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, didn’t cause the deaths of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the post said, their public sector workers did.

Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after users on X criticized the post, saying it was antisemitic and dismissive of genocide. Historians have widely chronicled that millions of people died under Stalin, that millions of Jews were massacred under Hitler during the Holocaust, and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during Mao’s cultural revolution.

It was the latest post by Mr. Musk to devolve into controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth” of what Jewish people were doing, prompting advertisers to flee. And after an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last year, Mr. Musk wrote — then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mr. Musk has long appeared to favor strongmen and has promoted right wing modern-day leaders. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians like Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi of India, leaders in countries where he also has business interests. Most recently, he threw his support behind the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, hosting an online town hall for its candidate for chancellor.

“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement about Mr. Musk’s sharing of the post.

Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Musk frequently uses X as a megaphone to share everything from juvenile memes to major U.S. policy proposals, blasting his opinions to his more than 219 million followers. But his viewpoints are drawing more scrutiny since he has become a close adviser to President Trump helping overhaul government spending.

Mr. Musk has transformed X, removing many rules around hate speech and disinformation and allowing thousands of accounts banned by the company’s prior leadership for problematic posts to return to the platform — including Mr. Trump’s.

Around 2:30 a.m. on Friday, Mr. Musk shared the post written by an X user that said, “Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”

Mr. Musk in recent weeks has battled with public sector workers in Washington as part of his work with his cost-cutting initiative, known as the Department of Government Efficiency. He has accused federal workers of trying to conceal fraud and encouraged them to quit their jobs.

The post sparked backlash from federal employee unions, among others.

“America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers,” Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in a statement.

Mr. Musk on Friday shared several comments on X defending himself from accusations of antisemitism and claiming his critics were the ones aligned with Nazism. Mr. Musk also recently came under fire for a making a gesture that resembled the Roman salute, which is also known as the “Fascist salute” and was later adopted by the Nazis.

“Look at what they did to President @realDonaldTrump,” Mr. Musk wrote in one post. “He was loved by democrats until he ran for president. Now they call him Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc and try to kill him,” referring to another dictator, the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

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21 hours ago, CTC2 said:

I’m not sure I want to know what she’s thinking. 

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I'll go ahead and state the obvious, unpleasant as it it. That's the look of someone that wants to give a very aggressive rimjob. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Satchel said:

I guess it won’t be long before Fort Cavazos becomes Fort Hood again.

renamed after the "hood" worn by Klan members

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3 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

There is no fake one.  White, straight males are the only ones who ever fought and died for this country.

I would like to personally ask every single non-white straight male who voted for this insanity what they think about that.

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These people are correct. TDS is really a thing. It’s just not what they think it is:

Five Republican Minnesota state senators are set to introduce a bill tomorrow that would classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS), which they define as an "acute onset of paranoia" regarding the presidencies of Donald Trump, as a mental illness, according to state documents

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

By studying USAID memos, the NYT estimates that  “dark maga’s” demonic plan will result in the deaths of over three million people by the end of the year.

 

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I think this is the link Might be wrong because I canceled my subscription.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html

 

 

they're guessing those are mostly dem voters, so it's all good

Posted (edited)
17 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

By studying USAID memos, the NYT estimates that  their amoral plan will result in the deaths of over three million people by the end of the year.

 

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I think this is the link because I canceled my subscription.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html

Archived version of article: https://archive.is/iMLUJ

Archived version of memo cited in article: https://archive.is/JHYOU

 

 

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8 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

Inspired me to check on one bad mother fucker, Roy Benavidez-Texas' own, Green Beret, Medal of Honor.  Fucking disgraceful.

The link, and the result:

 

 

 

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anyone ok with this, needs to get fucked 

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9 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

Inspired me to check on one bad mother fucker, Roy Benavidez-Texas' own, Green Beret, Medal of Honor.  Fucking disgraceful.

The link, and the result:

 

 

 

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I feel violent. 

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Posted
53 minutes ago, speed817 said:

 

 

Distraction.  Disregard.  His administration disregarded a lawful federal court order this weekend

Focus.

 

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6 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

Distraction.  Disregard.  His administration disregarded a lawful federal court order this weekend

Focus.

 

And per usual, they doubled down on it.

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Posted
17 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

This shit is so fucking funny.  Focus on what? To what end? What do you want this group of internet strangers to do here in March of 2025 instead of the five seconds it takes to look at that and go "well that's fucked up dictator shit"?

Oh, the revolution starts on Wednesday? I actually have a commitment that day. Can we reschedule?

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I know this is the plan, but it feels like so many people have completely tuned out because there is just so much bad shit all the time, every day. I keep up, but not as much as I did in the first admin. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This is the government Schumer fought to keep open.

Also goes without saying, but you do not introduce the concept of “unpardons” if you ever plan to cede power to the opposition.

This Up Here GIF by Chord Overstreet

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

This shit is so fucking funny.  Focus on what? To what end? What do you want this group of internet strangers to do here in March of 2025 instead of the five seconds it takes to look at that and go "well that's fucked up dictator shit"?

I'm talking about the professional political influencer who has almost a million followers, not you. I know you're helpless.

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10 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

By studying USAID memos, the NYT estimates that  “dark maga’s” demonic plan will result in the deaths of over three million people by the end of the year.

 

image.thumb.png.f2622cbc4b9f9d14a57a54fefdf4173a.png
 

I think this is the link Might be wrong because I canceled my subscription.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html

 

It only really matters if you can break out how many of the dead are black, brown, yellow, women, trans, or Democrats.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This is the government Schumer fought to keep open.

Also goes without saying, but you do not introduce the concept of “unpardons” if you ever plan to cede power to the opposition.

That can be said for a ton of shit that they're doing. 

Over/under on the filibuster getting nuked? I say it happens by fall.

Posted
18 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Man, what do you have against Laura Linney?

She's a brilliant actress and seems like a lovely person in interviews. It was a drive by post and I could have been much more clear. LL is terrific at playing a a character with a certain brittleness, a woman whose socially acceptable facade is being held up only by herculean effort. I just look at #2 and think of a Laura Linney character at her worst. 

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By studying USAID memos, the NYT estimates that  “dark maga’s” demonic plan will result in the deaths of over three million people by the end of the year.
 
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I think this is the link Might be wrong because I canceled my subscription.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html
 

I grew up hearing “never forget the holocaust!” all the time. What a waste of time…
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Posted (edited)
10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I was mainly saying that LL is way more attractive, even at her worst.

Oh, she'd get it for sure, with "Business Time" level of proficiency on my part. But two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.

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SIAP but this makes me want to KMS. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-notches-all-time-high-approval-rating-as-dems-hit-new-low/

Spoiler

President Donald Trump’s approval rating soared to an all-time high in a poll conducted by NBC, while Democrats’ favorability sank to record lows across two separate surveys.

An NBC News poll released Sunday showed that 47 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job as president, his highest-ever approval rating in an NBC survey throughout his political career. The public still narrowly rejected Trump’s performance, with 51 percent disapproving.

The percentage of Americans who believe that the country is headed in the right direction also rose to 44 percent, though 54 percent felt that things are still on the wrong track.

Americans were largely satisfied with Trump’s response to border security and immigration issues, with 55 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving. This closely resembles results in an earlier CNN poll that found 51 percent of respondents approved of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The image inverts when it comes to Trump’s handling of the economy. Fifty-four percent of respondents in the NBC poll said they disapprove of Trump’s economics policies while 44 percent approved. Results were similar to surveys by CNN and Emerson College Polling, which found that 48 percent of Americans were unhappy with how Trump is dealing with the economy.

As Trump’s approval ratings rose, Democrats’ plunged.

Only 27 percent of registered voters—including 59 percent of self-identified Democrats—had positive views of the Democratic Party, marking its lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC News polling.

In a new CNN poll also released Sunday, a mere 29 percent of Americans held favorable opinions of Democrats while 54 percent disapproved. The majority of Democrat adults said the leadership was taking the party in the wrong direction.

The CNN poll was conducted March 6-9, before the Democratic Party erupted in a civil war after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer handed Trump a victory by voting in favor of a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown.

“I believe that allowing Donald Trump to take even more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option,” Schumer argued, even as Rep. Nancy Pelosi blasted him for his “unacceptable” decision.

 

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23 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

 

She is rocking those Betty Rubble sized pearls gifted her by her granddaughter of Confederate veteran grandmother at her debutant ball, doh

If you're going to snark about my family, sir, do try to get it right.



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