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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “…and then they came for me…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A civil war would mean the Balkanization of the United States. We would become a collection of russias and North Koreas with a few Dubais thrown in. I cannot overstate how bad this would be. Millions dead. Unrecoverable economy. Oligarchs running city States. Do you want Jeff bezos to be a governor? Because that’s how you get Jeff bezos as governor.

  The reformes you are suggesting would take a century and the 50 states would never be united again. I don’t disagree that you are pointing out serious and actionable flaws but you are calling for nothing less than the complete destruction of America and likely a third of our people. Civil war is… Jesus… I fucking hope we can home our shit together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think before this is nightmare is over we will be measuring death tolls in multiples of the Holocaust. It really is time to leave if you can. The midterm elections will be the fulcrum point. In November they will know if they ever have to worry any meeting voted out again.

  It’s literally the fucking Confederacy. The civil war never ended for them. They hid in plain sight for a century and a half. How many people know that the “GOP” stands for “Grand Old Party”? They stopped calling themselves Republicans 30 years ago. We all think this coup is a sudden thing. Yeah… the frogs are just now feeling the water get hot.

  The next step is punishment. Plane and simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And if you think they will stop with brown people, Martin Nemoller might have a thing or two to say. Once our elections go full Russia they’ll come door to door for the guns. Every dictator disarms the population. Every dictator has labor camps. Every dictator has death squads. They will have lists of agitators, enemies of the state, and domestic terrorists. Trump has already talked about depopulating the US by 100 million people.

  I wouldn’t be surprised to see this comment slid across an interrogation table at me one day.

  You don’t give up your gun when they show up and not only will they all get automatic weapon boners until you’re dead, you will be labeled a domestic terrorist and family will be punished. You will be LUCKY if your loved ones simply get chained to a drone factory. Worst case?? Wives and daughters become comfort women.

  Please… please… tell me I’m crazy and that this isn’t the North Korea hellscape we’re headed for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real answer is worse. ICE is creating labor camps. Slavery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If maga successfully tigs the election to perfect a democratic takeover in November there will be tiananmen level event every week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Americans Think About American Power Today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think the reason for the decline in American power is obvious. The civil war never ended. It just went cold. We have tolerated supporters of the Confederacy for so long the rest of us thought they had let it go.

  We thought allowing them to frame a violent coup against our government and the murder of fellow citizens as a dignified part of their heritage would foster inclusiveness and promote unity.

  We gave them the benefit of the doubt.

  We stayed silent when they rebranded the Republican party and the GOP. How many people know it stands for Grand Old Party? Sounds awfully 1800"s to me. Racists, Christians, militants, and more, all operated as splinter cells responding to dog whistle politics in lock step. For 40 years they have been gathering power in plain sight.

  In 2000 bush proved that the levers of government could be used to galvanized their base. Suddenly the concept of red and blue states was an accepted cultural division. The lines had been drawn. The only goal for the GOP was to weaken and obstruct the flow of governance.

  Then came the cool black guy and the shadow Confederacy collectively decided enough was enough. Suddenly we have the tea party. We have birthers. We had an entire political party determined to destroy what it couldn’t improve, mere obstruction was not enough.

  Now recent history comes into focus. Why did they live Trump even though he was clearly appointing the worst possible candidates for every job? Why did the continue to support him despite blatant corruption? Why did they not care about his slide into authoritarianism? Why was it so culty?

  Because the modern Confederates never stopped wanting to destroy the US government. They were finally getting revenge. “Owning libs” and “anti woke” had nothing to do with Democrats. It was the final dog whistle to signal open warfare against the culture who defeated the South.

  They want to dismantle everything the US has accomplished since the civil war and to resume rebuilding it in their image as though Lincoln had never happened.

  To be absolutely clear. The US is currently undergoing a coup. All rights will be revoked. Everything that was “American” will end. There will be retribution for The War of Northern Aggression.

  There is no plan for governance. No happy ending; only punishment. What is to come will make Nazi Germany look like a rivalry between football fans. Holocaust level depopulations will be counted by the dozens.

  Once the government is effectively dissolved and the people broken, the oligarchs will balkanizethe remains and establish fidedoms and city States with enslaved populations.

  In 20 years the former United States will be a collection of North Koreas and Israels with city prisons and apartide oaises.

  Sweet dreams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not so sure those are "foot" steps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Department of Transportation Plans to Use AI to Draft New Regulations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely guarantee this is what he’s actually building under the Epstein ballroom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheers brother. I was once a minor local celebrity in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania because of my beer knowledge. I used to be a home brewer and was involved in brewing clubs and had a lot of brewing friends. Before covid I was a bar manager for a craft beer store/restaurant/bar called Kreugels Beer and Deli. We were regularly featured on a local TV show called “Wine Hops and Road Stops”- think of a low rent version of “Diners, Dives, and Drive-ins”. The host, Jeff Bonomo, still does it. The episodes are all on YouTube im in a lot of season 3 and 4. I would do segments where I would talk about craft beer and the history of brewing. With my Irish hat and my red beard i’m kind of recognizable. For a little while every time I went out I’d hear “hey you’re that beer guy!” Lol.

  Literally the day before covid shutdown jeff told me the bosses at the TV station wanted to make me a paid co-host for the show. I was RIGHT there… Fame money women… Or actually none of that. Lol. But seriously, they did want to bring me in but then shutdown happened and everything changed. My bar closed it’s doors permanently not long after. I miss those days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  3- lol no. I can barely make enough to meet our monthly delivery goals. But, we don’t put the electronics in them. A areospace company does that. I make the carbon fiber housing. You wouldn’t believe the tolerances; “difficult to make” isn’t even close. I work 7 days/65+hrs per week. I’m the only one who can make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2- I guess Egypt was the Sahara? I didn’t really see the dunes beyond what was around the great pyramids in Giza. But there were lots of guys with camels offering pictures and rides. Actually kind of scammy though because they would stand behind you with their camel and their kid would snap a Polaroid without asking and demand money. We were told just to pay everyone. Something like that would be like $0.50.

  I DID however spend 3 days with the bedouins in Southern Israel. I went to a fancy English speaking high school called The Anglican School International. You should look it up. It’s a beautiful campus. There were like 20 people in my graduating class in '97. They organized a few trips for us every year. Some of them were really amazing. I got to ride through a scrubby desert in military jeeps driven by teenage soldiers once.

  The bedouin trip was amazing though. They are a nomadic Arab tribe that live in tents like they have for thousands of years. They are basically the middle Eastern version of the Amish. So I’ve of the days we went on a 12 hour camel ride through the Negev. My camel was such an asshole that a little boy had to lead him the whole way. Did you know that a camel’s neck is flexible enough to bite you while you are sitting on them? Yeah neither did I. Guess how I learned.

  So on the way back my friend and I decided we were done with the camels and would rather walk. As the supreme confident 16 year olds we were, we lagged far behind the group lifting rocks to find creatures. All we found were little yellow scorpions, but we found TONS of them. We picked then up by their tails and the them at each other. Fun stuff.

  Months later we were in study hall in the library just flipping through interesting books like the Guinness world records and stuff. 90’s version of doom scrolling. On one page we saw that scorpion we were playing with. The “yellow Palestine scorpion” also know as a “death stalker”. Yep. One of the most venomous creatures on earth. We were throwing them. Guaranteed death. Nervous system shutdown. The only thing that saved us was that truly dangerous creatures tend to be chill. Fun times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I met zahi hawass in 1995 before he was anything other than an egyptologist and a university professor. The charisma you see on TV is 100% the real him. At the time my family was living in Jerusalem Israel. My dad was an engineer for Intel helping set up a new chip manufacturing facility on the outskirts of town.

  In the 90’s there were a lot of improved relationships between Israel and its neighbors. In 1973 there was the 6 day war where Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and a could other countries I can’t remember, all attacked Israel simultaneously. At which time Israel kicked all of their asses back to their deserts of origin in less than a week.

  Anywho… In 1995 Israel opened its southern border into Egypt for tourism. I think they called it the Tabla crossing. I was 15. We drove across the Saini desert in kind of a tour bus. We were the first Americans to make the trip. Long fucking drive too. I think it took something like 5 hours just to cross the endless wastes.

  I think Egypt was trying to lay out the red carpet for us. We stayed as a hotel that was unbelievably lavish. Lol, we were told we must stay in our rooms or be off grounds between 5pm and 7pm because they sprayed for mosquitoes. These guys are wearing these gas powered foggers full of DDT that spread a haze you couldn’t see through.

  We met Dr Hawass at our hotel and he rode with us to Giza. In pictures the pyramids look like they’re in the middle of the desert but in reality there’s a densely populated neighborhood right next to it. He walked through all of them with us. We walked through every interior room and walkway privately. He showed us his personal dig sites and I saw, with own eyes, heiroglyphs of a kangaroo. There’s debate about this but I know what I saw. He took us through the museum and we bought some little statue figurines from a street before that Dr Hawass authenticated. He said they were legit middle kingdom artifacts. It was unreal. I boldly drank tap water because I wanted to develop an immunity to the local pathogens, anticipating a return. I never did visit Egypt again but I did suffer through amoebic dissentary for 3 weeks.

  It was years later when I started seeing Dr Hawass on TV. At first I was like… wait I recognize that voice… Then the holy shit moment when I realized what a true gift it had been to get a private tour. It was me, my parents and my 5 year old younger brothers; 5 days in Egypt, I’m pretty sure the whole things didn’t cost $4000 at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What pisses me off the most is that I can’t forgive my friends and family who were all in for this train wreck. All of this was plainly obvious to anyone not in the cult. No one listened. My own sister (cop’s wife ofc) laughed when I told her he was a fascist. My best friend said Biden would ruin America. I said, are you kidding? Can’t you see it?? No. They couldn’t. They couldn’t fucking see the bullet flying. I hate them for this. I hate that these Nazis have divided me from my loved ones. I just can’t stop blaming them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been saying this for 20 years and it remains true. Everything only gets worse. So while today is the worst day in history, things are the best they will ever be again. I promise, with 100% certainty, that one day you will look back on the troubles of today with nostalgia at the innocence of our times. Pick any year you thought things were bad. Would you trade ANYTHING to be back there right now? That’s what ten years in the future feels like.

  Appreciate what you have while you have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are classified by mass. Some are definitely bigger than others. The one in our Galaxy called Sagittarius A has as much mass as over 4 million if our suns. If it were in our solar system it would be physically as big as the orbit of Venus.

  The mass of black holes is typically measured in multiples of our sun, or stellar masses. A supermassive is measured in the millions to billions of our sun, while a “small” black hole is just a few dozen suns big. The small ones, or stellar mass black holes can hang around like stars and over a galaxy but the supermassive ones are the things that create or hold the galaxy together.

  “How can time end” is more complicated. Without getting too complicated with it imagine putting a drop of red food coloring in a pool. Imagine it in slow motion. The big bang is the moment the food coloring hits the water. Then the food coloring spreads out but for a while you can clearly see the red. We are at the point in the age of the universe where the red is still visible in the water. At some point the red will spread out so much you can’t see it anymore. Without getting too dramatic that would be called the heat death of the universe. At that point time effectively stops because there is nothing left to change, meaning the red itself carries time with it. This is also called entropy.

  So to travel into a black hole would be to fast forward to the point where the universe has become so spread out that atoms and the bits inside that make up the atoms fall apart, effectively ending time. Time itself is a measure of change. Nothing left to change means no more time. So that’s when the black hole ends. It’s a little more complicated than that but if you can understand what I just said you are about 90% of the way to understand everything we currently think we know about black holes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The singularity of a black hole is measured in time, not distance. The center exists at the end of time so that’s where you go. So how long? -all of the time remaining in the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be fabulous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sloppy Joe slop sloppy Joe… Me and sloppy Joe got married… We have two kids and we’re doing just fine…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade? I realize there are limitations but I think exponential growth is difficult to see within the first three years. We are currently in year three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because GTAV made over $700 million last year on 12 year old ip. They are in absolutely zero rush to release a sequel that may or may not flop in an era when it’s clear that 90-100% of programming jobs will be eliminated within a decade.

  Every programmer they replace with ai now is one less bonus to pay out after release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The great thing about your imagination is that anything can become true if you believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is not about eliminating empathy. That party is a side effect of carpet bombing anything the left values. It’s just another “makes libs cry”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand the preference for how the molecules in your water start moving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t make the targeting systems. I make the carbon fiberhousing for the targeting systems. Deep blue collar job in the bluest collar town you can imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make missiles hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting Theory.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only bubba had good taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol 7&8. Nothing broke like those plates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychedelic Truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bad trip is just an anxiety attack while you are too vulnerable to understand reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel has been caught disguising bombs as toys to kill Palestinian children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is might be propaganda. Research the sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  9 times per day… So ok. You know how women love to give men shit for having a poor understanding is basic female biology? This is that.