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US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden ( www.reuters.com )

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....

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America and crushing medical debt

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America and police murdering people

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The Satanic Temple has had a lot of success using their logic against them. Their actions have triggered a lot of these laws to be either repealed or nullified by the courts.

Of course, with the courts being stacked by rightists now and making blatantly political, precedent-defying rulings on the regular, who knows if they'll be able to keep it up.

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Then don't. I'm trying to single-handedly bring the kilt back, myself.

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That must be why we've repeatedly seen instances where trans women set records within the women's category of their respective sport! Because it's all equal and impossible for a trans woman to have an advantage.

Name three.

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He is the kicker for the team named the Chiefs.

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Most people don't see cisgender as a slur. Only complete asshole transphobes do.

Honestly, not even they do. They just lie about it as a gotcha.

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Most people don't hear a new word and immediately assume it's a slur.

Most people without an ax to grind anyway.

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I don't recall referring to you at all. Who are you?

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Hell, they wrote songs about it. "Jailbait" by Ted Nugent, "Seventeen" by Winger... I'm sure there are more.

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I'm not saying it's normal. I'm saying it was normalized in the past, and thankfully that attitude is changing now and we can see how gross it always was.

Yes, Nugent is a fucking pedophile. He absolutely isn't alone in the world of rock in that, though.

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Probably the last truly good person to hold the presidency. Godspeed.

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Stop reading about concerts and start going to them. I just saw Lacuna Coil last night and had a blast. Most people weren't on their phones either, save for during one song by the supporting band (New Year's Day) where the singer specifically requested that everyone record it.

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Any money you try to pass off as real money is counterfeit money. Intent matters here.

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Which is what he is doing when he gives it to the homeless person. Assuming we can take him at his word that he actually does this, of course, and with Trumpists, that's a big if.

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You're not thinking it through at all. Medicine is a messy business, and sometimes it means you have to perform an abortion to save a woman's life. If you were a doctor, would you want to move to a state where the government is going to second guess every medical decision you make and potentially hold you liable?

Whatever else you think about abortion, you should at least understand that nobody wants to be legally penalized because some politician who has never studied medicine in his life decided that your patient's life wasn't sufficiently threatened for you to be able to do your job properly.

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The armed psychos they were talking about aren't counted in the crime statistics, because they never get convicted of crimes. They just get put on administrative leave for a while, and then get brought back when the heat is off. Worst case scenario, they get fired, and move to another town to be an armed psycho there. And that only happens if the armed psycho union doesn't scream bloody murder about it.

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I'm fairly certain no members of Biden's party have suggested nuking Gaza, so, you know, there's that.

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Nah, boomers love the death penalty. Which seems paradoxical, considering how they hate government.

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You know, I kind of agree with her. I, too, am sick of politicians pretending to be something they're not. So I appreciate her candor in revealing herself as a puppy-killing sociopath.

On a related note, I wouldn't vote for her for any office on Earth, because the last thing we need is more puppy-killing sociopaths in charge.

(My dad would say, "I wouldn't vote for her for dog catcher," to say he thought she wasn't fit for any office at any level, but when I think about it, that's probably the office she's least suited for.)

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“In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative[s] are always treated differently,” she continued.

Well, she's right about that much, but not in the way she thinks.

Honestly, the fact that sociopathic whack jobs like Noem are even given the time of day by the media shows how beholden they are to conservative interests.

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He's also apparently putting a significant amount of money into Nostr.

I think his big problem is with the audience Bluesky attracted, to be honest. It seems like exactly the opposite of what a techno-jerkoff like him wants to see.

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I've been running scripts to migrate my Twitter follows to Bluesky, and the people who it actually found there are mostly artists, queer shitposters, and leftist activists - all precisely the types of people that guys like Dorsey hate.

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Give it a try. I really wanted Mastodon to be the next thing to replace Twitter (mostly because it isn't, and can never be, controlled by techbros), but I've mostly found Bluesky to be the more fun place. And now that Dorsey's officially out, I don't have to feel as guilty about that.

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Commander knows ACAB.

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Honestly, a baguette with some cured meats and cheeses sounds like an amazing picnic meal to me.

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Fried chicken is a great picnic food, since it is delicious hot or cold.

Mac and cheese, though... God no. Give me a nice macaroni salad instead.

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I won't argue against that. Potato salad is awesome.

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Something that won't end with your loved ones being shot to death.

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What am I, the answer man?

Our society is broken. It doesn't give a lot of great alternatives. I'm trying to do what I can about that. But I can't change the fact that you really shouldn't call the police on somebody unless you're prepared for them to be killed, because that's what the police do. That much should be clear by now.

If you want your loved ones in crisis to be murdered, by all means, call the cops on them.

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Who the fuck is victim blaming? Who the fuck is Just Asking Questions? I'm just saying, calling the cops on somebody at this point is like pointing a loaded gun at them. Absolutely do not do it to anybody you are not prepared to kill.

Yes, the situation is insane. Yes, it should not be that way. But that is the way it is.

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That is true. I was more replying to some_guy's post and the conversation that came off of that.

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It's funny how that logic only seems to apply to Nazis in Elon's world.

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Yeah, I've been super unhappy with Biden lately, but if this gaggle of ghouls has a problem with him, he can't be all bad.

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Oh, believe me, I plan to.

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From the linked article:

The Food and Drug Administration, meanwhile, has detected genetic traces of H5N1 in roughly 20 percent of commercial milk samples. While commercial milk is still considered safe—pasteurization is expected to destroy the virus and early testing by the FDA and other federal scientists confirms that expectation—the finding suggests yet wider spread of the virus among the country's milk-producing cows.

TLDR: Pasteurization kills the virus. Which is the point of pasteurization.

Politicians and dog experts vilify South Dakota governor after she writes about killing her dog ( apnews.com )

Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy. The story — and the vilification she received on social media — has some wondering whether she’s still a viable potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential...

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I, too, prefer an actual quote.

“[O]ur next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of,” said Palin, trying to explain how her state’s proximity to Russia adds to her foreign policy experience.

“As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state,” she added.

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She had to put down three horses in one week?

Unless there's some sort of horse pandemic I'm unaware of, that sounds even worse.

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I mean, that's exactly what jeffw said. The dog killed the wrong birds. And got shot for it.

There's better ways to handle that than killing the animal in cold blood. Retrain it. Give it to someone else. Take it to the pound. You know, something other than calling it over to a gravel pit and shooting it in the fucking head.

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Same difference

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I know several Jewish people who voted for Trump in 2016. People are willing to do all kinds of terrible, short-sighted things for flimsy justifications.

The really funny part is, it's not like Biden or the Democrats have even been supporting the protests (outside of a small handful like The Squad and Bernie, the latter of whom isn't even really a Democrat).

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This is the most incoherent thing I've ever seen...

By speaking out, these "totalitarian" protesters are silencing everyone else and challenging representative democracy? And to stop them from silencing others, they must be arrested to prevent them from speaking?

Dude, this couldn't have sounded good in your fucking head...

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Every accusation is a confession

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Netanyahu is antisemitic, and I call for him to end.

His every action has been for the sole purpose of stoking fear and resentment among Israelis, and Jews worldwide, so they would give him more power. He's propped up Hamas for decades just to delegitimize Palestinians and keep the fighting going. He doesn't care how many people have to die, as long as he stays in charge. Israelis, Palestinians, he does not give a fuck. Hell, I don't even think he gives a shit about the hostages; they were just an excuse to create this carnage and instill even more of a seige mentality in his people.

Ariel Sharon is rolling in his grave.

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Bibi is a classic crybully.

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Sadly, Netanyahu's actions have done nothing but empower antisemites.

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More than that, he wants the world to be against Israel, or at least for Israelis to feel like the world is against Israel. Because then they will turn to him to protect them from the world.

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Pay to not have to go to the airport two fucking hours early to stand in line for the security theater.

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