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Captainant

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  1. You're right, the Internet is much better when hate and racism and dehumanizing speech are left unchallenged to crowd out other discourse. We should just let magicsoccerspray and pronghorn post whatever disinformation they want because we don't want to be divisive!
  2. I think that's a bit of embellishment, considering that it's in response to some pretty outright horrible things being posted. Your framing is impressively inequitable in that the inciting trolls get a pass, while the ire is saved for the response. Because truly, policy-wise the left had more to say and propose for economic issues. And yet, of it's as important as you claim, they choose tariffs and shrinking the economy with trump? Make it make sense, aside from "strong man"
  3. My thesis is: what if that """dem division""" is outside agitation to incite divisions? Much of this insanity is faceless online people thrashing up an online shitstorm, and then that being used to characterize the entire "left". Conversely that is working to favor the right, in which their evils and wrongs are actively hidden by the firehose of falsehood and simply moving on to the next thing, rather than trying to address everything in good faith. I feel strongly that the magnitude of unity of the right and disunity of the left is synthetic, or at the very least being artificially amplified. It's the same algorithmic playbook we've been subjected to since 2016, just applied across LLM's and more mechanisms of evangelizing that worldview. and "sizzle" is exactly how we get into this mess - easily faked and promised up-front, and just as easily betrayed and never delivered on. It's trump's entire election strategy, and we've seen multiple cycles of the pattern of all sizzle no steak... But people keep thinking uncritically and ignore that it's ONLY sizzle because mAnY pEoPlE aRe SaYiNg
  4. I'm sure there's SOME asshole out there saying that, but do you really think that's the tenor of this board or progressives in general? I feel like progressives are defined by whatever charicature is most absurd, not by objective reality. Feelz > realz I guess
  5. like I said - it all fits together nicely when you frame is a work. A dude fucking died, so I'm inclined to believe it was a shoot. But bruh. That whole thing played like a custom show from WWE 2k
  6. In WilCo, police fucks you!
  7. Being on the "other" side of that push onto workers, I don't see it lasting much longer. Most organizations have dismal uptake and usage rate for all their $20-30/head tools. I think we're still in the hype cycle of idiot MBA's playing buzzword mad libs to their BOD's and senior leadership, and they're all polishing up their resumes to leave before the chickens come home to roost. In my anecdotal cases, it's the same idiots that are always pushing the next big thing pushing AI assistant services. And for me the frustrating thing is, the botched rollout of AI assistants is going to harm other actually valuable AI projects that are already delivering value, like a contract analysis stack that reads decades old PDF's to true up rates on existing contracts that never got adjusted to match the paper. Just very very annoying that there's so much noise and so little appetite for stopping and thinking critically about things.
  8. WWE hall of famer taking a blade job to get put over? Yeah that would certainly add up
  9. I did a quick search and the spread is bigger than that https://www.statista.com/chart/34534/median-house-price-versus-median-income-in-the-us/
  10. It really is insnae the degree to which perception trumps objective fact, pun intended. Trump's whole image of success is completely fake - it's gilded paper mache. He's destroyed basically every enterprise he's ever touched, but because of his reality TV show people think he's smarter than god. That sort of idiocy is how you fall into despotism. Which is exactly where we're headed.
  11. The Pacific Railway Act signed in 1862 by Lincoln would disagree that roads and airplanes was the basis of our national infrastructure. Where are you getting your numbers on rail expenses? Upfront costs are indeed higher for a railway, but the throughput is much higher at a lower cost per ton of cargo. It scales better Edit: ah twice clarified it for me, high speed rail not just rail. Derp. That said, of course a single run isn't efficient! Rail lines benefit from network effects, and being isolated really reduces the utility of a specific line
  12. Crazy how the mods encourage this sort of strife by allowing their preferred trolls to have a free pass on TOXIC(!!!!) behavior
  13. drive-by rage post.
  14. he's not breaking any rules - he's just doing a bit
  15. Yes, but since the (R)s currently hold power they'll just change the federal rules to overrule anything the states do that they don't like. And to really think cynically, like a republican does, they would 100000% use the (D) tit-for-tat as justification for that massive escalation
  16. Thank goodness the army is there to protect feds from dangerous sandwiches https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-throws-sandwich-border-patrol-officer-dc-faces/story?id=124624818
  17. No, dehumanizing other posters is what earns you the trumper cred. That's some real classic fascist shit, what a fun silly joke teehee!
  18. Fuck yes, get fucked Jones https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5501648/alex-jones-infowars-receiver A state judge in Texas Wednesday ordered Infowars' assets to be turned over to a newly-appointed state receiver, who will sell them to pay the families of the Connecticut children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. They won a $1.3 billion defamation case against Jones after he spread bogus conspiracies that the shooting never happened and the grieving families were actors. His listeners harassed the families for years. The move paves the way for the receiver — or sheriffs — to start the process of seizing cash and property owned by Infowars and its parent company, Free Speech Systems, within days. The families, who've spent some three years in federal bankruptcy court trying to collect what Jones owes them, could start seeing their first payouts through the state court in weeks or months. "The families are pleased that the court has placed InfoWars parent company into receivership, which will finally lead to accountability for Alex Jones' monstrously cruel harassment" said Mark Bankston, one of the attorneys for the families. ... The newly-appointed receiver has the power to "collect all accounts receivable… change the locks to all premises at which any property is situated… access all storage facilities, safe-deposit boxes, [and] real property… and exercise control over any website [of Jones]" according to the order. The order adds that "any Sheriff, Constable or officer of the Peace shall assist the Receiver in carrying out his duties and exercising his powers under this Order." "Now that there's a receiver in place, Alex Jones is no longer going to control the Infowars brand. It's time to shut it down," said Avi Moshenberg, one of several attorneys for the families. Legal experts agree, a sale to The Onion is more likely now that Infowars' fate has shifted to Texas state court.
  19. Putin isn't doing anything wrong, he's just doing a bit
  20. Going to be? It's a Tijuana donkey show already
  21. Turns out the new BLS guy was literally on the Capitol Steps on Jan6, I'm sure he's a real straight shooter
  22. This crop of youths have strong fundagelical vibes, which strongly contributes to the regressive posture towards sex
  23. what is it with chuds telling people to "cope" or "cry harder" and whatnot? Saw it a ton yesterday from imma's buddy stassney and it's like they're spiking the football on being a shithead. Really strange antisocial stuff.
  24. it's so funny to me that Elon has burned tens of billions of dollars to build data centers to train a bespoke LLM - and it STILL tells him he's an asshole
  25. Good context from Chad Fuck Lee HS was built in 1962 and almost certainly named as such as a "fuck you" to desegregation and integration, considering the "black" HS was named after George Washing Carver. Separate but equal and all that very fine stuff.
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