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Captainant

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  1. Rent seeking, but digital! It's got excellent profit margins
  2. Oh, and if anyone is upset at my characterization of the El Salvador concentration camp as a "concentration camp" - I'm simply applying the standard given by the US Holocaust museum Generically defined, a concentration camp is a site for the detention of civilians whom a regime perceives to be a security risk of some sort. What distinguishes it from a prison (in the modern sense) is that incarceration in a concentration camp is independent of any judicial sentence or even indictment, and is not subject to judicial review.
  3. unironically, this is what I think the Ahsoka show is building towards. Thrawn has been out in the unknown regions for more than a decade now, and he's coming back to the galaxy to reclaim a nascent imperial remnant that's been nurtured by Moff Gideon and Pellaeon. All the peices line up, and it would fit in similarly to how the Legends story fit after the OT
  4. The real problem is the digital "foot traffic". It's basically impossible for a small website to be discovered on its own now. Search engines are fundamentally broken in a way that they weren't up until about the mid 20-teens. It's all either SEO garbage or AI generated shit, or both. Unfortunately, the best way to build an audience is to go where the people already are - and that's gonna be at the great big troughs of social media. It's why elon bought twitter - he wanted control of a trough in order to better steer the conversation and drive "foot traffic" towards sites he prefers. The internet writ large is MUCH more prescriptive and less built around discovery than it used to be. It's now primarily a surveilance tool in order to sell more valuable ad impressions and steer eyeballs
  5. @Rex Kramer here's one for you - a student from Palestine on a refugee visa since 2015 got arrested by ICE while he was waiting for his citizenship appointment. His lawyers don't know where he is - very probably on his way to the El Salvador concentration camps https://apnews.com/article/immigration-palestine-protest-trump-deportation-columbia-fca7e73fe2cbd616c1eacf3bdececdbe
  6. They're deporting protesters at this point. Students have been getting arrested by DHS while waiting for their fucking citizenship appointments. It's gonna fuckin happen. He fired rubber bullets at peaceful protesters last time without warning. They're gonna be JHP's next time.
  7. Now what would a union-crushing oligarch with access to extralegal rendition to foreign concentration camps want with labor organization data??
  8. Godspeed, I agree there's probably some structural gremlins in your house - considering the blast shockwave was able to knock your door in. It's a damn miracle that nobody is in the hospital, I hope your family is able to find some peace and comfort in the next few days as y'all figure out wtf happened to your across the street neighbors
  9. Brown people mostly, it turns out
  10. trump? in violation of a court order??? UNPLOSSIBLE!
  11. it bears repeating that elon's personal bodyguards were deputized as Marshalls and were almost certainly the individuals responsible for it
  12. our country is literally selling people into fucking slavery @ChickenSandwich care to come comment? You've disappeared from the thread now that you're getting what you wanted
  13. They're refusing to return Abrego Garcia. And they're planning to start blackbagging natural-born citizen using the exact same method. And yet the president bent over backwards to get Andrew Fuckin Tate back into the USA.
  14. the enforcement disbandment has a bit more reasoning behind it now
  15. World between worlds is a completely different facet of Star Wars from what Andor has been exploring. I hope Andor keeps mysticism and the mytho-poetic on the shelf - I think they will. There's a nice added benefit that the show has a very definite ending and knows where it's going. I'm cautiously optimistic and 10000% looking forward to basically four feature length films in a row.
  16. Tariffs are exempted until they are not https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-admin-walks-back-tariff-exemption-on-electronics_n_67fbf396e4b06646ea60b482
  17. Nice little how do ya do with landing a few feet in front
  18. Ok as long as he stays out of the sand and avoids 2 putts he's got this
  19. Ballgame.
  20. Right back to it, yup
  21. ROOOOOOORRRRYYYYYYY
  22. Looks about tree foot fiddy
  23. Watch him boof this putt lol
  24. RORY YOU WANKER
  25. Wasn't he 279 in 2018 or something along those lines? Just below the "medically obese" line? Sure doesn't look 50lbs lighter lol
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