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Should be a wild four years.

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Serious question are these normal people or online types?
Normal people. One of them is in their 60s and was an occasional Kirk watcher but mostly just lived her life and kept to her hobbies. When I saw her after it happened she was devastated and said he hadn't deserved it and felt like if people could be so hateful to him they'd be hateful to her if they knew her (mildly conservative) politics.

Another is in their 40s and isn't super pro-trump "because he's not very presidential" but has been slipping more and more conservative from an original libertarian lean after the assassination. Not a Kirk watcher but knew of him, "seemed like a nice guy" and became more and more disturbed after seeing his coworkers at his normie job celebrate it until it started turning to anger over people who would celebrate it. Now has said he "Hopes Vance get in" for 2028 because he seems like someone who would "address these people".

I have one or two other examples but those were the two that stood out to me most because neither talked about politics much before it happened and have largely remained quiet in public but more willing to talk about politics with those around them privately or in small groups and very hateful towards the celebrators.
 
The worst part of the Halo novels was MC in the adaptation of CE using the AR on anything other than the Flood poppers. You ditch that thing the second any other weapon is available.
I actually grew to appreciate the versatility of the MA5B by using it the way Chief does in the books. Short controlled bursts are the way to go; it not only conserves ammo it also dramatically improves the effective range.
 
Because they will literally kill themselves if they don't get it, granted they will kill themselves after the surgery too but that is the reason they give for making transition surgery critical and urgent.
They don't provide any kind of emergency surgical procedures for any other reason using suicide baiting as justification. Plenty of people with bad livers or kidneys or hearts awaiting transplants but can't afford them out-of-pocket would likely go on-record as willing to kill themselves if they don't get what they need, and yet we fall silent and aren't expected to foot that bill ourselves.

But a pervert in a dress says he'll kill himself if we don't pay to have his dick cut off, and we hop right up and we're rarin' to go!

Fuck that shit. The only medical procedure we should provide free of charge to suicide baiters is euthanasia.
 
Patricians importing slave labor to save money while screwing over the plebeians? Where have I seen this one before...
what fucked the patrician order up was when they started fucking over the Equites (basically the Roman middle class). by the late republic the Equites had got quite rich. as rich as some senators but they weren't in the senatorial/patrician club so to speak. so like every other revolution/civil war, two groups of elites were pit against each other and had to fight it out.

The smart patricians like Ceasar and Augustus harnessed this populist uprising to take control and stabilize the empire.
 
Are you referring to Reform Judaism and the rise of Secular Jewish culture?
Yeah. What we're seeing now is a natural extension of that. They mimic the behavior of the surrounding culture (usually leftist because right wing refuses to accept them). American Reform Judaism was so degenerate that it caused the movement to split into Conservative and Reform.


I don’t think enough affluent New Yorkers have bothered looking at the NY Comptroller report.

There are very material holes in the state budget that were filled by federal funding to offset heavy spend on migrants as part of NYCs sanctuary city initiative as well as general fiscal neglect.

Trumps incentive is to allow Mamdani to take over and then ensure his tenure is a flaming dumpster fire by normalizing Federal funds back to pre-COVID baselines.

This is a material step down vs the assumptions currently being made by the State.

In other words the tactic will be to squeeze state finances and blame the stubborn state funding of illegal migrant services.

By 2028 things will get so bad Republicans will have a sincere shot at both NY and NJ.

But if you are an affluent New Yorker you are the obvious first victim of trying to close this shortfall.

If Mamdani wins you should be giving serious thought to exiting because the delta in tax rates vs NJ or CT may end up being substantially more than the 4pts you think it is.

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How can you say this isn’t representative of Judaism? Genuinely asking

None of their values match what's in the Jewish texts and they are dying out in favor of Orthodox Judaism. Orthodox Judaism is becoming extremely popular with Jews under 30 and that isn't counting the inherent reproductive advantage of Orthodox people

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what fucked the patrician order up was when they started fucking over the Equites (basically the Roman middle class). by the late republic the Equites had got quite rich. as rich as some senators but they weren't in the senatorial/patrician club so to speak. so like every other revolution/civil war, two groups of elites were pit against each other and had to fight it out.

The smart patricians like Ceasar and Augustus harnessed this populist uprising to take control and stabilize the empire.
Since the news is deader than dead right now, anybody want to recommend any good reads about Rome in decline besides The Satryicon, and I suppose The Fall and Decline?
 
i'm retarded. what did he mean by this? what things are going to be changed? is this referring to the current shutdown stuff?
TLDR Federal government gave a ton of money to NYC in covid relief money, that money can be pulled at any time


While emergency funding does not currently make up a large share of the FY 2025 budget, federal aid can play a critical role in the City’s budget during times of crisis. For example, as a response to Hurricane Sandy, the federal government has provided $5.6 billion of operating revenue from FY 2013 to FY 2025 for disaster recovery and continued remediation.

Most recently, federal aid to New York City in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has totaled $26.5 billion through FY 2025
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Federal aid is returning to non-emergency levels as pandemic-era funding is largely winding down. Over $1 billion of COVID-19 funding remains in the FY 2025 budget: American Rescue Plan (ARP) emergency funding that the City utilizes primarily for emergency rental assistance, a portion of the HOME housing supply investment program, and waste disposal; as well as funding for enhanced laboratory capacity, immunizations, and data modernization. Of the $471 million in non-COVID-19 emergency funding in FY 2025, the largest components are interest subsidies from Build America bonds issued during the Great Recession, disaster recovery funding after Hurricane Ida, asylum seeker support, and remaining funds in response to Hurricane Sandy. The outyears of the City’s Financial Plan include the remnants of funding for these emergencies (COVID-19, Hurricane Ida, Hurricane Sandy, and the Great Recession), as well as $58.5 million in asylum seeker support in City FY 2026 only.


He can also cut these:

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Comptroller panics about Trump:

The following sections cover federal aid across specific service domains including income, social services, and food security; housing and homelessness; education; infrastructure; and healthcare – funded through the municipal budget, non-City entities, and direct services and aid to individual New Yorkers. The Trump administration will have different levers to potentially impact these areas, depending on the type of funding involved.

  • Mandatory funding is the hardest to change because it requires Congress to develop and approve new legislation to replace current law. Legislation that will be up for renewal over the next four years will be most at risk, such as the Farm Bill.
  • Congress appropriates discretionary funding each year. During the first Trump administration, the Republican Congress did not approve President Trump’s draconian budget proposals. It remains to be seen whether the incoming House and Senate will be more compliant and reduce funding through their appropriations process.
  • Trump has threatened to impound – essentially not utilize – appropriated funds. Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) to limit such unilateral executive decisions that encroach on its spending powers. Any efforts to impound in the coming term will likely be settled by the courts.
  • The President can issue Executive Orders with operational guidance that cannot be challenged by Congress but can be legally challenged. Many of the first Trump administration’s executive orders were legally challenged and overturned, but others went into effect, were reversed by the Biden administration, and will likely be quickly put back in place, such as rescinding civil service protections and barring federally-funded family planning providers from referring patients for abortion services.

Concluding with:

But beyond that recognition, understanding the risks to this funding in the wake of Trump’s re-election is necessary. The $100 billion plus in funding will not disappear entirely, and not all changes can be implemented immediately. New legislation dismantling or severely cutting mandated programs may be hard to pass, even with a Republican Congress. But Executive Orders can be signed on day one. And if the President is successful in circumventing the Impoundment Act, far more is at stake.

Some of the risk is fiscal, as the City would need to counterbalance cuts. But depending on the magnitude of reductions, particularly to Medicaid, not all reductions can be made up and they will come at real human cost. Even a small award in the context of the overall funding can be the difference between a non-profit organization continuing to operate or shutting down. And for individuals, even small changes to benefit levels or eligibility thresholds can be the difference needed to make rent, buy food for their kids at the end of the month, or obtain needed healthcare for their families.
 
Mamdani's father defended suicide bombing in his book:
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Of course he does. He's a Muslim. It's a religion of human sacrifice. It's what they have in common with the left and their abortion sacraments. I've become convinced more and more that the essential division is between the masculine sun worshipers and the feminine moon worshipers. It's why you will find people larping as witches fighting along side Muslims and post-modernists. They all love lies and hate the truth. They all believe that it is worthy to sacrifice humans to try and set the world on its proper course. This is what actually unites the left. They worship the adversary.
 
Of course he does. He's a Muslim. It's a religion of human sacrifice. It's what they have in common with the left and their abortion sacraments. I've become convinced more and more that the essential division is between the masculine sun worshipers and the feminine moon worshipers. It's why you will find people larping as witches fighting along side Muslims and post-modernists. They all love lies and hate the truth. They all believe that it is worthy to sacrifice humans to try and set the world on its proper course. This is what actually unites the left. They worship the adversary.
"Leftism" and "Left hand path" mean the same thing if you're esoteric.
 
On this note - for anyone unaware, O'Donnell is not only a well-known gamer conservative (from an era where gamedev circles were more split between leftists and libertarians, but still with precious few actual conservatives) but he also ran for Congress in 2024. His political views, which he never made a secret of, may or may not have been an unspoken reason for his firing right around the same time that Gamergate exploded onto the scene & the gaming industry's neghole was getting pozloaded hard as well as Bungie's efforts to financially screw him over afterward. Unfortunately, he lost the Republican primary to some faggy lolbert whose main argument was that a 'hard-right' candidate too close to Trump couldn't possibly win their district (he proceeded to lose to Susie Lee, the Democrat incumbent, while Trump actually carried the district last year).

Well, he's trying again next year, he even already has his site back up & all. Hope he makes it this time around, NV's 3rd district is a purple one where Lee only won all of her races after the first by around 3 points and as mentioned Trump won the presidential race there last November, a non-cuck Republican with name recognition like Marty's might actually have a chance.
 
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