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Golfer. Perpetually semi-retired rugby player. Christian anarchist(?) Very retired Army NCO. Cyber operations professional. Guitar player. Views are mine, likes/RPs/quotes != endorsements
Love that they felt the need to show the highly relevant and recent protest footage from...2019...to justify their position.
08.10.2025 19:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 058% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.
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Country legend Dolly Parton posted a video addressing fans who have been concerned about her health amid recent cancellations: 'I'm not ready to die yet. I don't think God is through with me and I ain't done working.'
08.10.2025 18:01 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 3Never call someone by a nickname they gave themselves. I mean, come on, what are we doing here?
08.10.2025 18:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The downside of your debut album being literally no skips all bangers is that even your good songs on subsequent records get treated like sophomore slumps.
08.10.2025 16:39 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I normally explain why I think a certain way about a given subject or justify my opinions because I feel like if people understood how I reached a conclusion their response would be more reasonable, but man have I been writing & deleting "Shut the fuck up, you fucking nerd" a lot lately.
08.10.2025 14:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Weβre not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, weβre dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
Theyβre not pulling some elaborate trick, theyβre just willingβeven eagerβto do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
There are definitely estuaries and places that are now so fundamentally mixed up they defy regional cultural classification (lots of military bases, northern VA) but I think of Buffalo as part of rust belt/great lakes culture w/ more in common w/ Detroit than Albany.
08.10.2025 13:15 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I wouldn't really engage in fisticuffs over them because I feel like late-90s/early-00s emo kids wouldn't really appreciate violence on their behalf, the music speaks for itself, but that's the level of passion I feel about their work and how much I've enjoyed it over the years.
08.10.2025 12:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are three bands that I will absolutely engage in fisticuffs over and OAR is one of them.
Mae and The Juliana Theory are the other two. Yes, I'm in my early-40s, how'd you know?
All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election
08.10.2025 12:46 β π 375 π 68 π¬ 5 π 2All the dudes who would tell a NG O3 try hard to get bent and go PT his own troops now have no choice because he licked the right taints and calls it a meritocracy so he can... do burpees with them.
Dude can't even come up with good revenge for getting stuffed in lockers by jocks in high school.
Shooting at clergy and then laughing as he takes a pepper paintball to the dome is fucking evil and I don't think there's another term for it.
It's nihilist extremism with a veneer of government legitimacy.
After growing up around Baptists and Pentecostals, Wesleyans and Presbyterians having been a breath of fresh air for my faith.
08.10.2025 01:16 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If pigs were good mousers we'd like them more since they're hypoallergenic and less picky about their food.
07.10.2025 21:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pigs are very much like humans in that we have a lot of similar anatomy and enormous capacity to choose evil.
07.10.2025 21:25 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If not for the reality that poorly placed .223 rounds will just upset them, packs of feral hogs are a pretty decent justification for high capacity magazines.
07.10.2025 21:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tell me this guy and Don Jr. are not basically the same people?
07.10.2025 19:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot Δoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, Β»hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the largβ¦
βWho was president in 2020?β is the question of our time
07.10.2025 18:13 β π 6161 π 1365 π¬ 149 π 69Oh my gosh, we're going to get our Death of Stalin reality show playing out in real time. Somehow many of the characters map right on.
07.10.2025 19:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1There are a lot of reasons for this: craven, unlikeable people tend to be the ones who glom onto a charismatic leader and climb the ladder, and the narcissist at the top doesn't care because all attention is good attention and they get rid of everyone who isn't obsequious little shits.
07.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Remember, kids: cults of personality don't transfer well.
07.10.2025 19:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Don't get me wrong, I think much of her catalog is pop dreck (and a lot of it is quite good) so it's hard to say how long her cultural impact will last after she stops making music because much of it is not innovative but it would be a real stretch to say her musical/culture impact is not indelible.
07.10.2025 17:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While I'd argue Taylor is reaching a certain "famous for being famous despite not doing anything world-changing" threshold to the point where her music is almost secondary to the brand, you can't argue with 240M records sold in the US in the streaming era.
07.10.2025 17:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I loved X-Files around season 3 or 4 where you tuned in because there might be the grand conspiracy...but you might also get an episode chasing el Chupacabra or a kid who can call down lightning on his bullies...then 4 episodes later, the Cigarette Smoking Man shows back up.
06.10.2025 19:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.
06.10.2025 17:00 β π 163 π 93 π¬ 24 π 21I don't know why you're still so upset about this modern day samurai.
06.10.2025 17:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Look, man, there's two ways to get a guaranteed trip to Valhalla, and if you're not cut out for dying in battle why intentionally reduce your chances of the other way?
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