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Two straw hat pirate flags being waved by protesters in Manilla, Philippines

Large anti corruption protests in the Philippines are underway.

Triggered by deadly floods which exposed $2billion lost to corruption in flood defence projects some of which didn't exist at all.

www.rappler.com/philippines/...

And a familiar flag is being flown at the protests.

It's interesting to see the continued pessimism about the economy. NYT just had a panel where various leading economists talked about how the economy is holding up well in spite of all the headwinds. But under both Trump and Biden voters seem to have a much more negative view than the media.

This is exactly what people warned about with the War on Terror...eventually these policies carving out a loophole to take away rights will be expanded to other groups.

This Meta VR event is a clusterfuck. Half the demos aren’t working. They’re blaming the wifi. If these devices don’t work for the dude who’s learned to type 30 words per minute with his wrist what about the rest of us???

Meta’s investment in VR and smart glasses on track to top $100bn Tech group reveals it put $19.9bn into its Reality Labs division, which develops its smart glasses and headsets, last year

Apparently Zuckerberg invested over $100 billion in VR/Metaverse related tech! Imagine what else that money could have been used for.

www.ft.com/content/c513...

Tucker might be worried that the MAGA censors will eventually come for him. Within the far right there's a split between people who are fanatical supporters of Israel and others who criticize Israel (often on conspiratorial grounds) like Tucker and Candace Owens.

Tucker has actually gotten a lot of criticism from the right for being critical of Israel. A common thing you hear is that he's being paid by Qatar to attack Israel. Of course he also pushes insane conspiracy theories but there's some internal disagreement there.

That explains why Biden had terrible numbers on inflation and why Trump now also does. In spite of presiding over a propaganda empire Trump wasn't able to convince people he was lowering prices when he wasn't. It also gives Democrats an opening if they can present a credible solution to this issue.

I agree it sounds weird at times but you have to compare that to the alternative...the authorities for unknown reasons fabricated a conversation between these two people and no one involved has spoken out to say that it's made up.

I'm sure this is true overall, but when it comes to inflation and cost of living it feels like we're ignoring the much simpler explanation: prices went up a lot. Although inflation has slowed they stayed at an elevated level. People were mad about that under Biden and they still are under Trump.

That's how you know it's real. Who would make that up?

Harry Joe Brown Jr., 71, Innovative Developer, Dies (Published 2005)

It looks like "Coco Brown" is a nickname for this person, Harry Joe Brown Jr.

www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/n...

Your article doesn't contradict what I said. Here's what Julie Brown, the journalist whose work triggered the entire Epstein investigation, had to say about it.

This is also what I worry about with Gavin Newsom becoming the default nominee for 2028. Yes his team may be more combative than Harris' was but it's hard to see how he makes a credible case for bold policies when he never implemented anything like that in California.

People love to repeat this line but there's actually a very simple explanation...it was an ongoing investigation during the Biden admin. They couldn't have released the case files from an open investigation.

It seems like all of this is the result of a cynical political calculation by Trump and the GOP...RFK Jr. has a captive audience of fanatical followers and they're determined to keep them in the GOP camp.

We're not just talking about a single controversy but major events in recent history that right-wingers have a completely false understanding of....who won the election? What caused the pandemic?

So my criticism of liberals is...let's not go down this road. Don't be like Trump supporters.

There are two many examples to name. Many right-wingers are convinced that USAID was mostly a "fraud" when in reality it provided almost half the humanitarian aid in the world. They think Fauci created the pandemic when scientists strongly believe it had a natural origin.

Grasping at every crumb of info that supports your view while aggressively denying anything that refutes it might make sense if everything comes down to a propaganda war. But if you want to actually figure out the truth that's obviously not a smart approach.

The engravings are somewhat debatable IMO but the roommate + friends of the shooter were known a couple days ago and it seems like a lot of people just chose to...completely ignore that information? Admittedly there were a lot of claims flying around but that's not an excuse to flat-out deny things.

Also there was a recent incident that was basically a mirror image of this where a right-wing shooter in Minnesota murdered Democratic politicians and conservatives are still unable to accept that he's right-wing. Lots of examples!

Many of them still think Joe Biden stole the 2020 election through mass mail-in ballot fraud in spite of not being in the government at the time and no real evidence ever emerging of this.

What are you talking about lol? Every day is a coordinated hallucination for them.

I'm pretty sure that post is satire if you look at their other comments.

Andrew Dessler on X: "@AtomsksSanakan FYI, here's a video about Matt Ridley that's worth watching (haven't watched all of it, but what I saw seemed reasonable): https://t.co/cUaP1x87vP" / X @AtomsksSanakan FYI, here's a video about Matt Ridley that's worth watching (haven't watched all of it, but what I saw seemed reasonable): https://t.co/cUaP1x87vP

Linked Youtube comment providing a timestamps for the video:

"Matt Ridley is Lying to You About Climate Change"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-gd...

x.com/AndrewDessle...

And yet had near-perfect grades at school. Bizarre that he seemingly did not think through the consequences of his actions at any point.

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

Ken Klippenstein just published some messages and comments from his friend that shed some light on things (or maybe not).

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

It was a real possibility because this is a group that really hates Charlie Kirk, and who else cares enough to try to assassinate him? But (assuming the shooter is not a Fuentes follower) apparently some people did.

Yeah but anyone can post anything on that site so it could just be circular. I saw a poll just now that said a majority of young people thought he was right-wing so this idea seems to have really gotten traction.