Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Captainant
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Hunter “Big Gun In His Pants” Biden - Mastermind of the Biden Family Crime Syndicate
All gas, no brakes. Channel Five all day!
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities. The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees. Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them. “We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.
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Trump’s America
He ain't got no spine, lieutenant Dan!
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Youth Minister's (and other pervs) Thread of Shame
CBP getting in on the action https://www.kvoa.com/news/in-depth/in-depth-willcox-border-patrol-agent-charged-with-child-sex-trafficking-defrauding-government/article_07a91993-9bf5-4ed1-b524-90a715105712.html According to the indictment, Yager repeatedly engaged in sexual acts with a minor between July 2023 and February 2024, while the minor was between 15 and 17 years old. He also faces multiple counts for allegedly pressuring another person into prostitution. Ciera Dobell, a former Willcox resident, said she is not surprised by the charges. "Overall just being around him just didn’t feel right, I didn’t feel comfortable being around him," Dobell said. "I have two kids now and if he was still out I wouldn’t feel comfortable with my kids around him, an off vibe I just get."
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Star Wars Nerds
Lucas has said multiple times in interviews that Star Wars (1977) was his Vietnam protest film. The rebels were modeled after the Viet Cong and the Empire was modeled after the Americans and their allies in Vietnam He wanted it to be clear that empires, not only like that in Star Wars but also (in his own words) the real-life English Empire and American Empire, were in the wrong. According to Lucas, "That was the whole point."
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Epstein and Maxwell
Those were payoffs to the president to curry favor. The trump suits were plain as day SLAPP suits and the defendants had truth and facts on their side. They didn't want to be in court against the entire US government if they were to carry forward against trumps lawsuit. Trump is now realizing this is starting to REALLY throw his weight around with cancelling Colbert and suing WSJ for billions.
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Trump’s America
I understand that if you're operating in good faith you can see it like that, but you MUST remember. None of these goddamn fucking fascists are acting in good faith. This is a means to re-arm their street fighters so they can use more violence to meet their political means.
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Trump’s America
They love women and children, which is why they want to arm them all and ensure their abusive parents/partners also have access to deadly force
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
And released a 10:30 on a Saturday night on Facebook.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Oh wow deporting the chaplain from a children's hospital is a cruelty I hadn't even imagined. What creativity from the new generation of fascists https://www.wlwt.com/article/protest-ayman-soliman-ice-cincinnati-arrests-roebling/65442510
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
Never believe that the fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.
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Astronomer CEO and HR chief busted in 4K
What if frogs had wings so their ass didn't scrape the ground when they hop? It blew up BECAUSE they are both executives and public figures at a pre-IPO company. It isn't hard to validate that they aren't married to eachother, considering they're both on their public "about us" page lol The internet is going nuts because this is FAFO. Degenerates love seeing some good FAFO play out
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
More people died in this single flood in one night than died in Hurricane Harvey over a week of continuous flooding in the area in Houston you're ID'ing. I don't think the stakes or the risk is as directly comparable as you are asserting here.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
Because Zeus thinks that everyone is as base and transactional as he and trump are. He can't imagine a world where someone would have incriminating evidence and NOT break all the rules and norms to release it
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
Sounds like sirens would have saved some lives and given them a few critical minutes of warning to get uphill
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Epstein and Maxwell
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-birthday-letter-jeffrey-epstein-wall-street-journal-2100495 Some of the details are pretty wild:
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Trump’s America
Performative victimhood has been their thing for a couple decades now
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Epstein and Maxwell
The fired SDNY prosecutor who prosecuted Maxwell and Epstein released some sobering words: "Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power."
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
approximately one bombing run on Iranian nuclear facilities, and then the conversation moved right along
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
https://apnews.com/article/camp-mystic-floods-state-inspection-ef17d51dc7868fa9cc5c3076c31ed98a (published July 8th) HUNT, Texas (AP) — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children. The Department of State Health Services released records Tuesday showing the camp complied with a host of state regulations regarding “procedures to be implemented in case of a disaster.” Among them: instructing campers what to do if they need to evacuate and assigning specific duties to each staff member and counselor.
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Epstein and Maxwell
The "media" writ large just got done paying off several specious SLAPP cases from trump, I don't think they're looking to cash in those goodwill chits just quite yet.
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Holy shit balls is Intel (INTC) Fucked?
Hits keep coming for intel... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/firefox-dev-says-intel-raptor-lake-crashes-are-increasing-with-rising-temperatures-in-record-european-heat-wave-mozilla-staffs-tracking-overwhelmed-by-intel-crash-reports-team-disables-the-function “If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you’re in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat,” says Svelto. “I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.” The engineer even added that it has gotten so bad that the team disabled the bot, which filed these crash reports automatically, especially since these events almost exclusively happened to Intel Raptor Lake PCs — specifically, the Intel Core i7-14700K model. The instability issue exploded around the second and third quarters of last year, and it took several months for the company to find its root cause. Since this was a physical degradation problem, no amount of patches can reverse the instability — Intel’s microcode updates only mitigated it and prevent the conditions that triggered the instability from occurring. Just last month, Intel released microcode update 0x12F to address the Vmin shift that’s happening to Raptor Lake CPUs that have been running for several days in a row. However, Svelto says that this version also caused the bugs to “come back in full force”.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Yes, it's easy to argue that inflation has been defeated since January 20, 2025 if you ignore all the reality surrounding your claim. Prices are going up, and tariffs are driving that. https://www.reuters.com/business/us-inflation-expected-rise-june-with-tariff-driven-price-hikes-2025-07-15/ (apologies for using this rag of a publication, next to no factual reporting from them unfortuantely) Further, you didn't bring any data or anything aside from your assertion, so I'm not sure how you'd like me to respond aside from going "ahyup okeydoke". Most tariff regimes take months to show impact, we're only just now seeing the first wave of price pass-throughs. But yes, of course. Anyone who disagrees is mentally ill. Such incredible community building that's not toxic, wow.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
No, I'm saying that the stock market is decoupled from reality, so arguing that the "economy is fine because stonks go up" is not really a thorough analysis. Oh, so prices aren't significantly higher than they were five years ago? I must have missed that the house I bought this year was literally half the price in 2019. Or that my same $150 grocery cart is now $250. I'm sure all the attacks on farm workers and invasions of build crews will definitely help with bringing those prices down too.
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UT Pro-Palestine Protest Thread
Related to the protests, abbot has signed into law new speech restrictions on campus between 10P and 8A. So much for campus free speech, huh? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2025/06/23/texas-passes-bill-limiting-expressive-activity-campus What starts here changes the world.