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Putin is a War Criminal
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He literally glitched out during the question "are you planning to run again in 2026" and I'm certain the answer to that is "yes".
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Actually, he said after he won this last time that he would not run for another term. I suspect, even if he were planning on changing his mind, his recent medical events have probably eliminated that possibility. And unlike Trump, he doesn't need the gig to stay out of prison.
 
EarthworldTim

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florduh said:
Me eating an edible: LOL, Cheeba Chew? More like I'm gonna Cheeba SUE these mf's for lying about the THC content! I don't feel SHIT!

Me 45 minutes later:

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Mitch voting

Can we get his decline in time lapse please? I got shit to do
 
macbill

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florduh said:
Me eating an edible: LOL, Cheeba Chew? More like I'm gonna Cheeba SUE these mf's for lying about the THC content! I don't feel SHIT!

Me 45 minutes later:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1696936240040321474
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I've heard they may be TIAs: "Transient Ischemic Attacks" or baby strokes. For example a fleck breaks off a blockage and goes to the brain to be subsequently melted away w/i 5 minutes. My Dad had TIAs and acted as if he were heavily intoxicated. It was scary.
 
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Pope says some 'backward' conservatives in US Catholic Church have replaced faith with ideology

Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church. He says they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
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Pope Says a Strong U.S. Faction Offers a Backward, Narrow View of the Church

In unusually sharp remarks published this week, Pope Francis said some conservative American Catholics wrongly ignore much of the Church’s mission and reject the possibility of change.
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Dug into this more
www.latimes.com

Opinion: Who will Catholics follow? Pope Francis or the right-wing U.S. bishops?

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' highly politicized right-wing obsessions separate the American church from Pope Francis' pastoral ministry and from Catholics like me.
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www.newsweek.com

Pope blasts American Catholics for putting political ideology above faith

"You have seen that in the United States, the situation is not easy: there is a very strong, organized reactionary attitude," Pope Francis said.
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www.newsweek.com

Pope Francis condemning gay marriage bans highlights Catholic "civil war"

"The question at the heart of the conflict, is Francis a legitimate Pope?" one conservative commentator wrote on Twitter.
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wherepeteris.com

What Scott Hahn’s public support for Bishop Strickland signifies

This week, someone sent me a link to Scott Hahn’s Facebook page, where the prominent Catholic professor, author, and speaker shared Bishop Joseph Strickland’s latest pastoral letter, writing, “I am grateful for Bishop Strickland’s inspiring words.” Later, another reader mentioned
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www.americamagazine.org

Bishop Strickland tweets that he rejects Pope Francis’ ‘undermining the Deposit of Faith’

Bishop Strickland wrote that he believes Pope Francis is the pope, but he "reject(s) his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."
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www.foxnews.com

'Red-pilled bishop' faces Vatican probe after accusing Pope Francis of 'undermining' Catholic faith

The Vatican has reportedly opened a formal investigation into the diocese of Bishop Joseph Strickland following years of public criticism against Pope Francis, whom he has accused of weakness.
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www.pillarcatholic.com

Bishop Strickland: 'They won't stop me'

The bishop of Tyler, Texas compared a Vatican-ordered investigation to a visit in the school principal's office.
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What a world we live in 🙉 🙊 🙈

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florduh

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www.thedailybeast.com

Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old

The Florida governor's operation went to extraordinary lengths to intimidate a high school sophomore—all for a question about Donald Trump.
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Meatball Ron is such a piece of shit.

At a Fourth of July parade DeSantis attended, Mitchell was swarmed by security and physically restrained after a brief interaction with the governor—with his private security contractors even demanding Mitchell stay put until they said so.

With his mother alarmed, the situation escalated to such a degree that the candidate’s wife, Casey, spoke directly with her—but to suggest her son was being dishonest about what happened, according to Mitchell.
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His security goons roughed this kid up on several occasions after he asked a simple question. I guess Rhonda really is a nasty little fascist.

This kid is just a little political nerd from New Hampshire. There's a lot of these weirdos in Iowa and New Hampshire. He asked a genuine and polite question. If DeStinky couldn't handle this fair question...from a child, why the fuck is he running for President. He's a snowflake.


What a weaselly little lying fuck. "We can't be focusing on 2-3 years ago", bitch that's your entire campaign! "Remember COVID? I was the fun-times Governor, remember? Trump loved the vaccine I hated it! I stood up to Fowwww-cheeee remember?????"

Rhonda and that wife of his are genuinely loathsome. He will never win a national election. And it's a real indictment of Florida voters and the Florida Democrats that this zero-charisma weirdo is a two term governor.
 
His_Highness

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
CANtalk said:
www.thedailybeast.com

Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old

The Florida governor's operation went to extraordinary lengths to intimidate a high school sophomore—all for a question about Donald Trump.
www.thedailybeast.com

:peace: :leaf:
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Could have been exponentially worse and I hope it doesn't get there ... you gotta give this kid AND his family credit.....the campaign thugs at least have some concern they will be seen, heard an outed. There are thousands of nut cases out there that could show up at this kids school, home, etc.
I appreciate that this kid is trying to clean up the garbage we're handing his generation all the while knowing the crazy stuff that can happen. If dog-forbid something were to happen to this kid and/or his family they'll blame it on mental health issues instead of themselves for giving it oxygen.
 
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Could have been exponentially worse and I hope it doesn't get there ... you gotta give this kid AND his family credit.....the campaign thugs at least have some concern they will be seen, heard an outed. There are thousands of nut cases out there that could show up at this kids school, home, etc.
I appreciate that this kid is trying to clean up the garbage we're handing his generation all the while knowing the crazy stuff that can happen. If dog-forbid something were to happen to this kid and/or his family they'll blame it on mental health issues instead of themselves for giving it oxygen.
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I was about to say, the good news is....no one is going to risk going to jail for Ron DeSantis. It's still scary for that New Hampshire teen and his family. With Meatball Ron's social media team lightly putting out a hit on them and all. But I don't think anyone loves DeStinky enough to do stochastic terrorism for him.

And then I saw these DeSantis Supporters:

www.businessinsider.com

Neo-Nazis parade swastika flags in Florida, chanting 'We are everywhere'

Neo-Nazi groups held Labor Day weekend rallies in Orlando. They paraded swastika flags and performed the Nazi salute while harassing passersby.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com

www.orlandoweekly.com

Nazi demonstrators wave DeSantis sign and swastikas outside Disney World in Orlando

P!nk tweeted out what we were all thinking: 'ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!!!!'
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Fascists always talk like they're big masculine tough guys. Why are their leaders always effeminate, weird pussies like Rhonda and Adolf?

I'm bummed about Jimmy Buffett's passing for a lot of reasons. But a big one is he represents the Old Florida that is well and truly dead. Florida was always a quirky place. But quirky in a fun way. Really sad that it's turned into an increasingly fascist shithole.

Meatball Ron's Florida:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698185118022611435

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His_Highness

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
His_Highness said:
Could have been exponentially worse and I hope it doesn't get there ... you gotta give this kid AND his family credit.....the campaign thugs at least have some concern they will be seen, heard an outed. There are thousands of nut cases out there that could show up at this kids school, home, etc.
I appreciate that this kid is trying to clean up the garbage we're handing his generation all the while knowing the crazy stuff that can happen. If dog-forbid something were to happen to this kid and/or his family they'll blame it on mental health issues instead of themselves for giving it oxygen.
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Just realized my reply above could cause someone to misconstrue the "They" in the "they'll blame it on mental health issues instead of themselves for giving it oxygen" to be the kid and his family....

The "They" I'm referring to is all the politicians who don't grab a bullhorn and denounce this shit as well as the racist marches this past weekend, because they're afraid to lose those votes. Ridiculous..
 
Grass Yes

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florduh

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Grass Yes said:
"... but I will sue you if you say something I don't like."

This guy is just the very definition of a right wing loud mouth coward.
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Look. I'm not a big brained business genius. But maybe instead of suing the people pointing out that your website is full of straight up 1930's Germany style Nazi shit, you should focus on getting rid of the Nazi shit?

The stupidest part is....it's not like big brands were gonna be ok with their ads running next to posts discussing "the Jewish problem" if the ADL didn't complain about it.

Someone just pointed something out to me. I feel like an idiot for not realizing it sooner. Twitter has become increasingly unusable because every Tweet has about 1,000 responses from the dumbest fucking people on the planet with a blue checkmark next to their name....

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...what I didn't realize is...these idiots are being PAID for their engagement. So there is a financial incentive to say the most outrageous, dumbest thing possible. Usually attacking some minority group. Because that outrage drives engagement.

When Saint Elon was forced by the Delaware Chancery Court to make good on his offer to buy Twitter, his bootlickers claimed he was doing so to "Save FREEEE SPEEECH". They said Twitter is "the new public square" and should be free from censorship.

Can you imagine how a real town square would be if you were paying the dumbest people in town to stand there and shout loudly about "the Jews"? Would that be a place conducive to productive discourse?
 
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Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
 
cybrguy

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Putin is a War Criminal
You know, that really pissed me off when I read about it the first time. I think it's totally fucked up and it's very unfortunate that one guy, especially this guy, has that much control over something that Ukraine really needs to fight a war with a totally heartless, cruel and inhumane enemy that is Russia. He has to be pretty fucked up to side with Russia in this war. That is how my heart feels.
But there is another side of this and I can't help but try and understand how Musk might wonder "How am I in this war?" He didn't get involved in Ukraine to fight a war, he got involved to make money. And now his technology IS being used to fight the war. It's a difficult situation to be in as one can easily understand.
To me, it is obvious that there are good guys and bad guys here, and the good guys are not the Russians. But I imagine there are few ways that Musk and I think alike as our worlds are so different. If Musk didn't want them using his technology to fight the war, he should have made that clear up front and not allowed them to become so dependent on it. And if he was going to stop an operation that was already in action, like he apparently did with the boat drones, he should have let Ukraine know that was what he was going to do rather than to do it secretly and have the operation just fail and for Ukraine to lose their drones. That is picking winners and losers and a really bad (and dishonest) approach for someone who claims to not want to be involved. That makes him involved, and on Russia's side. And it also raises a question about how he knew ahead of time what the Ukrainians were intending to do. That is also concerning.
So to be clear, I am not defending Musk in this situation, I am just trying to understand why he acts as he does. And given his narcissism, he probably doesn't respect anyone enough to take their advice. So the only way to get him to act humanely, which of course he suggests is his goal in all things, is to try and convince him that he is wrong. Good luck with that.
 
florduh

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If I was the President, I would use this opportunity to seize and nationalize Starlink. That company was created with the help of billions in public, taxpayer money. There's a real problem with rural internet access in this country. Starlink can now be run as a public, not-for-profit service for the American people.

Also...this is a perfect example of why Billionaires should not exist. Not because I'm jealous of their money. It's not even about the money. It's about the Power this insane amount of wealth buys you.

In my ideal world, billionaires would not exist because workers would get to keep enough of the money their labor creates that there simply wouldn't be enough surplus value left over for one guy at the top to leech off of. But you could also do it by reintroducing Eisenhower levels of taxation.

This isn't an isolated incident either. Bill Gates almost single-handedly fucked over education in this country. No one voted for Bill Gates or Apartheid Clyde. They should not have this much power.

www.politico.com

The Plot Against Public Education

Opinion: How millionaires and billionaires are ruining our schools.
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macbill

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nypost.com

Couple demand refund after Singapore Airlines flight ruined by farting dog

A New Zealand couple is demanding a refund after they spent a 13-hour flight stuck next to a slobbering, farting and whiny dog.
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boisedev.com

If Kroger closes Albertsons deal, it will sell 400+ stores, including 13 unnamed Idaho locations

If Kroger is able to get its deal to buy Albertsons approved, the combined company will shed 13 Idaho stores. But, they didn’t say which stores. As was previously leaked to Reuters and Bloomberg, the companies plan to sell more than 400 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers – a company that currently...
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mashable.com

X is no longer labeling ads for some users

Not disclosing advertisements runs afoul of the FTC's rules.
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