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Should be a wild four years.

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mindlessobserver said:
Massie is just your standard lolbert Republican. Good to have around when you dont want the Democratic party vanguard out to turn the country into a cattle ranch and have the productive members of society rendered down into solvent to feed foreigners and black people.
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This is cope. He didnt fight half as hard as he fights Trump.

Did he work with Gaetz when he couped the Republican speaker? I cant find an easy list of who joined in on that.
 
marvlouslie said:
If any of those four people end up dead because some violent Leftist decides to take matters in their own hands, both Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna are at fault. This kind of shit right here WILL end up getting someone killed. Imagine just going about your day, not a care in the world, and some crazy fucker comes up and stabs you in the back all because you were mentioned in a list once. THIS is why you can't just at will release all these files without looking over them. THIS is why Democrats are fucking stupid.
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The conspiracy wing of the online right isn't much better. I've literally seen people parrot "Let justice be done, though the Heavens may fall" like they're in some Watchmen comic over this shit.
 
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
The conspiracy wing of the online right isn't much better. I've literally seen people parrot "Let justice be done, though the Heavens may fall" like they're in some Watchmen comic over this shit.
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I've seen a lot of internet tough guys claiming they want full societal collapse over the Epstein Files. These soft silly bitches wouldn't last ten minutes.
 
Your Girlfriend's Dad said:
Took my girl out to Korean BBQ/Hot Pot for an early Valentine's Day meal yesterday. Almost shit my pants. Thought I was in a unisex bathroom. Was actually just having loud diarrhea in the women's room because I'm genuinely fucking retarded.

Anyway lemme know if any of you cool cats in USPG ever want dating advice.
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hell yeah daddy. buy yo girl more all she can eat. you know shes all in after taking a power shit.
 
Polyboros2 said:
Quinn really isn't responsible for anything besides being a whore. The issue is that the government needs bread and circuses, and someone saw Gaming and thought it was a great way to make people more gay and lame, and that's more responsible for Trump than anything Zoe Quinn had ever done. They fucked up the circuses and when the journalist all made a unified attack against the masses that, 'no, the circuses were better than ever' that is when a lot of people politically awoke.

There are probably a handful of people in gaming responsible for putting faggotry in charge, and a handful in journalism that thought that had the power to crush the chuds, and they are who ruined the Democrats master plan and for all we know they've already been killed for it.
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yeah quinn doing quinn things by herself would not have been a big deal, but it started an escalating cascade of events that nobody (least of all quinn herself) could have foreseen.

the quinn incident itself was small and mostly irrelevant. nobody cared about those shitty indieslop games or the devs behind them, nobody cared about the reviews for them. that shit would just have been a one or two week flavor of the month internet drama episode and then people would have grown bored and forgot about it.
what really blew it up was how the media collectively decided to step in and protect m'ladys honor against the vile chudcels who were posting "5 guys burgers and fries" memes on /v/. by doing this they accidentally revealed to the public that not only was the entire games media sphere neck deep in corruption, collusion, conflict of interest, and personal bias, but that they all saw absolutely nothing wrong with it. to them this was normal, this was not only the way things were, but the way things were supposed to be. and it didn't take long for outsiders to realize that this mindset isn't specific to gaming journalist, but that the entire profession of journalism is like that.

then, a short while after goobergate, when the mainstream media went all in on trump derangement, the events of gg would have their biggest influence: the people who had seen gg unfold in real time immediately recognized what the MSM was doing, and informed others (who hadn't paid attention to gg) about it. this was a major contribution to the MSM losing a LOT of trust and legitimacy in certain circles, which the trump campaign successfully tapped into with the "fake news!" talking point.
 
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
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It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
 
Even MSN is having to admit the economic doomers are probably wrong.


US economy suddenly seems on track for fabled soft landing: 2% inflation without a recession​

After a year of navigating stormy geopolitical developments that kept businesses and consumers on edge, the U.S. economy is starting to look like it it could have a smooth descent to a soft landing.

A soft landing is the term used by economists for getting inflation down to the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual target without putting the economy in a recession.


That hasn’t happened since World War II. It took a famously gut-wrenching recession to wring out the last bout of high inflation from the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Economists note that there have been false hopes that were dashed before. Former Federal Reserve officials argued that the economy was on a track for a soft landing in late 2024, before President Trump was sworn into office and immediately announced swift government job cuts and plans for high tariffs on imported goods that U.S. manufacturers and businesses relied on.

“After this week’s employment and inflation data, it is starting to look like the elusive soft landing may finally happen,” said Harvard University economist Jason Furman, in a post on X.

The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.3%, a sign the fragile labor market is stabilizing.
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Fatpacks said:
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
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they do, it's just that most don't care.
thiel is a homo libertarian tech billionaire who supports right wing causes while also holding some kooky techno-futurist ideas.
few fully agree with everything he says, but that's just normal. the differences people have with him are over things that aren't pressing or important enough to warrant sperging out and acting like he's the next soros or larry fink.

mlanguishi said:
Even MSN is having to admit the economic doomers are probably wrong.


US economy suddenly seems on track for fabled soft landing: 2% inflation without a recession​

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imo economy dooming is warranted as long as the AI bubble exists.
if it bursts and things still look ok afterwards, only then the doomers must get in the burger suit.
 
quaawaa said:
MIT's standards have declined a lot over the years since they lost the lucrative Cold War-era military R&D contracts, but I thought that when Massie went there they still had a high bar. Apparently not.
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Massie is very good in his tech lane, him (and Rhonda, his deceased wife) had a few patents for some biomedical devices, they were fairly well off. Not like billionaires, but very comfortable. He's getting wyrmtongued by his new friends.

namelesstacotruck said:
When is the Kentucky primary?
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may 19th.


Sithis said:
DeSantis had a similar op running on X when he was running for prez, it wasn't quite as autistic and flailing as Massie's simps but there for a while anything related to DeSantis would get community notes glazing him.
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Massie (and chip roy) were both huge Desantis people, Chip Roy is running for texas AG, and he's been very quick to get in line with Trump's agenda. Sure he might push back on an issue he might care about, but he votes in lockstep.

I believe that Massie is playing for a role in a desantis administration, but desantis really doesn't have much of a chance until like 2032. win or lose it's gonna be vance/rubio in 28. The only thing that will decide if vance wins is the state of the economy in early 28.
 
Rubio gems out at the Munich Security Conference:
“In pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people... we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward to rebuild”
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We are prepared to do this alone but it is our preference, and our hope, to do this together with you, our friends in Europe.

America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories, the traditions, and the Christian faith of our ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.

We are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have now fallen heir.

And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from our profound sense of concern about a Europe with which we are connected, not just economically, not just militarily. We are connected spiritually and we are connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe and the West must survive.
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Looks like this little criollo has won my vote in the primaries!
 
DumbDude43 said:
if it bursts and things still look ok afterwards, only then the doomers must get in the burger suit.
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One thing that might help is that there's an unreal amount of demand building up in the consumer space while the giants gobble of every scrap of wafer they can sink their tendrils into. The manufacturers will lose their 1000% margins on the enterprise grade stuff but they'll still be able to sell consumer goods at exorbitant prices and slowly lower them as things stabilize. Hopefully that will pad the crash
 
Fatpacks said:
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
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Thiel and Hogan worked together to destroy Gawker. He's okay in my book.
 
Fatpacks said:
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
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I think this is essentially going to destroy discord, which is fine. Normies wont comply because they are in gooner servers. Cortrannies wont comply because they groom kids. Wignats wont comply because they dont want to selfdoxx.
Discord does not have the exclusive monopoly that Youtube has. You lose nothing by going somewhere else.
 
Fatpacks said:
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
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The second most common criticism after his wife is his connection to Thiel.
 
Fatpacks said:
People don't talk about JD Vance's ties to Peter Thiel enough.
Fatpacks

Disaster Thread 'Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel'

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Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don't scan either their faces or government IDs and haven't already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection...
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the recent push for digital ID has been done at his behest. You voted for this, kiwis.
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Happy Valentines Fatty, hope the rope is extra durable and you suceed this time bud :P
 
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