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Captainant

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  1. It's almost like they're just using their christianity as a mechanism to launder their ultranationalism, or something
  2. I grew up riding 16 hours in a car to visit my aunt and grandad and ski in Crested Butte every winter. Jokerville was my first BD! Man, I am smiling ear to ear. Thanks for the shot of nostalgia
  3. Pretty funny - it's ROTS dubbed in English... translated from a bootleg Chinese copy lol. Sounds like early 2000's internet talk
  4. My wife has been itching to play The Sims again and didn't want to deal with a desktop computer, but surprise surprise her M2 backbook air runs those games like a CHAMP! It's pretty amazing how much a "basic" computer can play if you're looking to play games that are 10+yrs old
  5. Payouts to donors and their companies. Same shit as a toilet seat costing $10,000 to the army. Buying thousands of trump bibles, or brand new textbooks with slavery and the Civil Rights era erased. Easily steered contracts with little to no oversight controlled by people looking to profit, not further the mission.
  6. You could just say you're happy about the cruelty and get it over with
  7. And please don't derail the thread @52-80 and give the mods a reason to do your dirty work and remove this thread.
  8. Lol there you go again, making shit up and putting words in my mouth. Conflating the epidemic of school shootings with a service member's PTSD from deployment is a new one for me. Look man, I know if it doesn't fit on a chart you have trouble understanding things. Maybe leave your penthouse sometime and observe the world from the ground floor.
  9. It's almost like we have an entirely different justice system depending on how rich or poor your are, or something.
  10. Wow what a completely unpredictable and unforeseeable outcome of trump becoming president
  11. Hey man, I'm just posting the headline that our armed forces newspaper went with. Take it up with our service members if you don't like it. Some other details you seem to have forgotten from the article: Nevermind that he had PTSD from his second tour in Iraq and suffered a flashback, and was following the rules with citizenship and got early parole, deport that brown man!!!! Cruelty is the point, after all. And besides shouldn't the oligarchs call all the shots anyways?? They're the ones with the economic interest, so they should be the deciders. Fuck the law amirite? The president alone interprets that!
  12. To make up for my last post, here's the white house Twitter account posting ASMR deportation. Pure uncut deportation cruelty. And yes, it's real.
  13. It's not deportation, but it's definitely cruelty. Another win for the """good guys""" https://www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-texas-girl-bullied-over-familys-immigration-status-takes-her-own-life-575984 Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On February 3, Carranza's single mother, Marbella Carranza, received a call notifying her that her daughter had attempted to take her life inside the family's home in Gainesville, Texas. Her 11-year-old daughter was rushed to an intensive care unit in Dallas but died on February 8, according to a GoFundMe page. "I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately nothing could be done," Marbella told Univision. "My daughter will always live for me, and I will always love her." The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified. Now, Marbella, who discovered her daughter was being bullied only after she died, is working with investigators and the school to determine exactly what happened and why the young girl's family wasn't made aware of what was happening.
  14. Well he did just sign an executive order that says he alone interprets the law, so I'm sure everything is gonna work out just fine
  15. Newest EO straight up says that the executive is responsible for interpreting the law https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/ I can't wait to see Roberts overturn Marbury v Madison to roll out the modern American version of the Enabling Act of 1933
  16. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-ukraine-should-never-have-started-it-remarks-war-russia-rcna192710 Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of the country three years ago, arguing Kyiv could have made a deal to avoid the conflict. “You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine while criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had expressed concern that his country was not included in talks between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia. "I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal." US, Russia meet to talk end of Ukraine war — without Zelenskyy Trump went on to say: "I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down. But they chose not to do it that way."
  17. First the people that maintain and ensure the viability of our nuclear arsenal, now the folks who are trying to contain the avian flu outbreak https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716 The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings. "Although several positions supporting [bird flu efforts] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters," a USDA spokesperson said in a statement. "USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service frontline positions are considered public safety positions, and we are continuing to hire the workforce necessary to ensure the safety and adequate supply of food to fulfill our statutory mission."
  18. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
  19. Truly a Brave New World. What a fucking Orwellian nightmare - the ruling oligarch has a 24/7 shoutbox into literally every pocket in the country by virtue of FCC-mandated emergency messaging systems. It never ceases to boggle the mind how much an antisocial fucknugget can take useful mechanisms for a healthy society and twist them into another expression of their power over everyone else.
  20. "I am not going to accept ultimatums. It’s interesting — if we didn’t accept these ultimatums in our most difficult moment, why would anyone think we would accept them now?" — Zelensky about US/Russia negotiations (quote translated by my browser) Zelensky recently commented on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Trump-Putin talks while on a visit to Ankara
  21. My wife and I moved from FB messenger to Signal years ago before RCS messaging fixed our iOS<->Android messaging woes. Signal is great, easy to use, and works across multiple devices seamlessly
  22. Ya know, when I see Rex/Porterhouse/Beeper have made massive contributions to the climate thread I just know it's valuable insights and not just "anyone who disagrees with me is Greta" Never change, you gasbag.
  23. Hey where are all the former free speech absolutists of surly? They sure have gotten quiet and disappeared completely after all the censorship has been happening under the command of their culture war avatars
  24. Also didn't have nukes in 1938.
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