Well, you are the government
Well, you are the government
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Kristi noem isn't even a bootlicker for the conservatives, she's just stupid. I've seen her some of her interviews defending the tariffs and she has no idea what she's talking about.
You also can't ignore her cowboy hat in this interview
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Shooting a hunting dog for hunting, in a state with plenty of hunters that would take it, is messed up, especially messing it up.
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She "dragged him" to the gravel pit and killed him with two shots, having to go back to the house to reload after she botched the first attempt.
A pure untrainable idiot, through and through.
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And she's the secretary for homeland security of all things now?...
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Ok, news break! The President of the US is the most obvious foreign actor the country has ever had. This is like if Benedict Arnold was actually President while trying to overthrow the government, then running again and winning. His main goal is to weaken the US as much as possible for his daddy, Putin. If this appointment surprised you, get ready. It's gonna get a lot worse.
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“less than useless”
Hey, that's the same type of language my mother use against me, a human being...
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And just like your mother, she's wrong and doesn't deserve what she spurned.
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he didn't trust herself
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Interesting how these types of people seem to have a set of phrases with their own fixed meanings that don't necessarily correspond to the literal meanings of the words that make them up. "Can't trust the government" in this context really means "can't trust liberals/progressives". You can see that in her response if you watch the video. She's not stumped when the reporter points out the apparent contradiction. She expect everyone to make the same mental substitution, under which there is no contradiction.
Another good example is a 5 minute youtube video about homelessness from a fake university with an orange logo. They cite an example of a bridge between Los Angeles and Culver City that has a major homeless encampment on one side, but not the other, due to different laws in the two cities. To quote directly:
the Los Angeles side is full of tents and the Culver City side is empty. Why? Because the two cities have different public policies. Los Angeles has effectively decriminalized public camping and drug consumption while Culver City enforces the law.
If Los Angeles has no law against homelessness, then what law is it supposedly failing to enforce? This seems like a contradiction, until you realize that "Culver City enforces the law" has nothing to do with actual laws, but with the "law" of the moral framework that the authors are trying to propagandize.
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if LA has no law
They didn't claim their was no law, they said they decriminalized it. Which means it's still illegal but unenforced, just like weed is decriminalized in many states but still federally illegal.
I don't disagree with you that people put out bullshit but... Can we not put out bullshit to prove it?
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You're largely correct, "decriminalized" doesn't mean it's legal, but I just wanted to point out that it doesn't necessarily mean unenforced. Just that it's no longer a criminal charge. Something can be decriminalized and still be in violation of the law and enforced with fines or other deterrents, e.g. traffic violations. You're not a criminal for speeding, it's still illegal and enforced.
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When someone tells you who they are, listen.
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Video of the exchange:
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Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting it to be word for word the same. Wow…
Points for honesty… I guess?
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To be fair, it was like 2 overlapping conversations interrupting each other.
Still, though, she can go fuck off.
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"We'll be continuing to talk to him about what he has access to"
Thats what you do before you give them access. Who is she and what is her position of authority? Something tells me i dont want to know.
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Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find...savings.
I wonder what she almost said
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Wow CNN "journalists" really can't interview worth a damn.
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In equally current news, that Back to the Future sequel looks very promising!
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They need to stop hitting themselves in the face with the ugly stick. Holy shit.
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Is there a name for this phenomenon for when people start to look inbred due to having all of the terrible plastic surgery? It's like the Habsburg jaw but within a single generation because the deformity wasn't a product of breeding.
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It depends on what you're trying to criticize, and understanding that would take some willingness to learn.
Dead eye expressions and facial expressions = botox. Botox paralyzes. Over time this can ofc cause muscle wasting leading to volume loss.
Once the volume loss sets in, the esthetician recommends hyaluronic acid fillers usually. We naturally have hyaluronic acid in our skin, but older fillers were made of types of hyaluronic acid that were lumpier and harder. Now, we have many new strategies for inserting hyaluronic acid in the face including microneedling which is more diffuse, and fillers that aren't as lumpy and don't migrate as much.
Fillers migrates because when you move your face, you squish the filler and other extracellular fluids around. When your skin and connective tissue is repairing itself well, this is nbd. When we are older, our skin becomes more efficient and so it doesn't repair these fluid pathways as much, doesn't have enough collagen and material to do so. This causes insulin, estrogen, blood supply, etc, to form in pockets (often next to the wrinkle, eg jowls, 11 lines, marionette lines, have bulges around the wrinkle) and also squish away from these compressed areas, leading to more collagen loss and eventually forming wrinkles.
So they paralyze the muscle to avoid that, leading to volume loss... you see where I'm going with this? They put their facial muscles in a vegetative state and then plump the skin above it to look like muscle, accelerating aging and making things a little worse. Although I will say technically hyaluronic acid is supposed to help the skin itself stay young looking and is even a treatment for certain bladder diseases and injuries. It just looks so uncanny valley, especially when they talk, because it's not their natural muscle like we expect.
Then there's looking plastic itself with other procedures, but most people aren't clocking these too much. Tom Brady's recent transformation is a good example, or pretty much any celeb buccal fat surgery is hard for people to clock. Upper blephs are another one that are hard for people to pinpoint, eg Pamela Anderson, Miley Cyrus. And subtle nose jobs are pretty much unclockable for many people too.
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Laminated face ~ Bill Burr
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Her nickname is Branches.
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Everybody can reply
Pictures taken moments before diaaster.
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It’s Bluesky, not x
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We can't trust the government now. We couldn't trust it before either, but we also can't trust it now.
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The sad thing is, there actually used to be some areas in which you could trust the government. You could trust the CDC for health information, the FDIC with your money, the FDA for food regulations, the USPS to deliver your mail..
Nowadays, everything good about government will be getting axed and everything bad amplified. But what can you do~
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But what can you do
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I used to not trust the government.
\ I still do not trust the government, but I used to, too. -
If there's a Covid-25, I wouldn't recommend getting a vaccine from this government. Not without a consensus approval from blue state governments.
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Well, it won't be Covid-25, it'll be H5N1 bird flu, which so far has a mortality rate of 50%-60% in people and damn near 100% in birds and 70% in cats. Covid-19 was around 1% and killed millions.
Even if bird flu is more around 30%, that's an insane number.
The bird flu vaccine has mostly been developed and iirc is available in some European countries. We have a vaccine here too but it hasn't gone to trial.
If you get that vaccine or not may very well be life or death.
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Oh, you won't have to worry about that. With RFK Jr. running things, there won't be a vaccine.
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What with how Trump is pulling out of WHO and deregulating the chicken industry, if the avian flu becomes transmissible to humans, it will make COVID-19 look like childsplay. At which point things may get so dire vaccine hesitancy is likely to get you killed, and I'd probably recommend a quick plane trip to Canada to get vaccinated, if that's even still an option..
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I'd be surprised if they offered any vaccine.
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You especially can't trust it now.
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We can trust that they will do the absolute worst thing instead of not knowing if they will or won't!
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Very true.
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Literal, actual retards are running the show now.
Placed there by literal, actual retarded Americans.
Wild that our country became so pathetic.
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Is it just me or does anyone else have to fight the urge to be horribly misogynistic to these Trump worshippers? I always fall back to my gender-neutral profanity (such as "Trump's shit-guzzler") but I just feel a deep rooted desire to be as maximally offensive to and about MAGA cultists and enablers as humanly possible. I know it's lazy but I mean if anyone deserves to be insulted in the most extreme way possible it's these creatures.
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No, I don't actually feel a need to resort to something I find immoral to hurt others, this is horrible of you to say
But I've known that the misogyny is very prevalent on Lemmy, you all never needed the excuse of "MAGA" to be sexist in the first place.
Like what excuse would it take for you to start espousing feminist rhetoric? Have you EVER done so? Why wouldn't you just say feminist things to them, since that would literally be combating their viewpoints?
Really it just seems like you're kink roleplaying with them without any awareness.
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Don't let them bring you down to their level. There's so many fun gender neutral insults.
- ASVAB waiver
- Middle School Drop Out
- Failed Abortion
- Incest Experiment
- Good Idea Fairy
- Shit Fucker
- Couch Fucker <-- Thank you JD Vance!
- Two Balls Short of a Spine
- A family tree with no branches
- Couldn't fight/talk their way out of a wet cardboard box
I mean really, there's just so many.
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or better yet, Shakespeare Insult Generator! https://www.librarieshawaii.org/learn/brain-games/bardly-barbs/
- Thou paunchy clapper-clawed boar-pig
- You fobbing nut-hook carbuncle!
- You paunch bilbo wag!
- mew fut barnacle!
- fawn bully angel!
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If you must give up your values then you might as well give them up in exchange for something in return. In this case you get nothing in return which is why I too recommend using gender-neutral insults.
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They're literal traitors to the United States of America that are attempting to dismantle its government, causing unimaginable suffering.
They deserve a lot more than being called mean names.
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It's not mean names, it's engaging in the EXACT rhetoric that erodes rights in the first place. Look at Pearl Davis, she's been advocating for women to loss the right to vote - she's rightwing and you're AGREEING with her.
Nevermind that the VAST MAJORITY of women didn't vote for Trump. So engaging in misogyny which erodes and removes their rights actually helps Trump and makes you a Trumper in terms of effect.
Like why are you punishing all women for this unless you just simply hate women and wanted to do it in the first place? And you all act shocked about 4B movement lol
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That doesn't sound too strange. Sometimes I want to use "ft" as an insult, but I don't, because that would be homophobic and I'm not homophobic
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Let your long repressed impulses run free
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You’re not going to be able to put them in their place better than they do for themselves already. Save the effort IMO.
Although, that being said… I have no issues with any kinda of
verbalantagonism towards fascists. If a woman is a nazi, and we’re all saying it’s ok to punch nazis; is it ok to punch a nazi woman? I say yes.-
Yeah but Nazis were also misogynists, and misogynistic speech IS Nazi speech. So engaging in gender fascism isn't really how we combat fascism. Op could talk about feminism with these women and be far more effective- but that would mean OP would have to learn about and support feminism and its clear he is against that.
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Actually, no, and I'm an arsehole. I guess I learned something about myself today.
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you can actually never trust the government
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Libs see absolutely nothing wrong with the war on drugs and prison slavery. Thus California super happy to vote to keep their prison slaves. Progressive my ass.
Oh those cops that abused and maimed protestors during the george floydd protests? The ones that aren't legally required to protect you? They will be in charge of your safety and security. Please turn in your guns, ignore January 6th 2021. Don't worry, we passed a bill to require them to wear a rainbow BLM sticker over their body cams.
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When someone in your Government is a bimbo girl, then you know you are fucked up
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Bimbos are cool and they are fine in positions of power. She is a fascist though, you could have just used that instead of using weird misogynistic stereotypes.
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How is the bimbo any more dangerous than a nepo baby?
It seems when some rich white crotch fruit gets the job, that's right and proper... They are "competent" but if a hot chick or a black dude get the gig, automatically "we are so fucked"
Bootlicker culture is very strong in USia
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I submit that president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is a male bimbo, and we should BE so lucky to be led by such a saint in comparison to real life.
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women 😤
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Congratulations, you just showed everyone you're a shitty person. Now everyone knows to not take anything you say seriously.
Anyone can look however they like no matter their position in society. What matters is their views and how they handle that position. Doesn't matter if it's a bimbo or whatever else, that shouldn't be something of concern at all. This one just happens to be a really shitty person, which is fully expected from who chose her, and that's what matters.
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A government large enough to supply all your needs is a government powerful enough to take everything from you.
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What's the size of a government that supplies precisely zero of my needs yet is still powerfull enough to take everything?
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The current one
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My guess would be 2 people, all the guns and knowledge of where everything you have is, assuming more people means "bigger" than more objects/information
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So glad government mass surveillance has stopped all crime!
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Not sure what you’re trying to say here. I’m against mass surveillance! I’m against big powerful government in general. All the fear people had with the Republicans coming to power would not have happened if there was no power for them to come to in the first place.
As for crime, that’s the job of a small, local, effective, community police force to deal with. Not a militarized thug squad that we have now!
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This government doesn't provide for people's needs and is still powerful enough to take everything from us.
The real problem is if it's not powerful enough to maintain a top position on violence then I'll end up paying a second set of taxes to the local sheriff and his posse of Ranchers.
We need to ensure power is used responsibly. Not just get rid of it and hope nobody comes along to fill the vacuum. (Spoiler Alert, they will, and there won't be voting)
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I’m sure a social safety net propped up entirely by bureaucrats is going to suddenly deprive every one of their rights. It won’t be a government with mass surveillance and militarized police. Nope, those are definitely not two different things. Big government is big government regardless of form apparently.
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I’m not against safety nets. I’m against bureaucracies and mass data collection. A social safety that features mass surveillance (means testing) is another tool for social control. A simple safety net via a negative income tax doesn’t leave any cookies in the jar for Musk and his goons to plunder.
Good fences make good neighbours. The government I trust most is the one with the least power to hurt me. When you vote for a new bureaucracy with broad powers over people’s lives you’re setting a time bomb that’s waiting to explode the moment the bad guy wins an election.
Never forget that it was the power of the bureaucracy that allowed the Nazis to be so ruthlessly efficient at rounding up all the Jews. The lesson of history was not “only the good guys should be allowed to win”, it’s “we shouldn’t be leaving so many loaded guns laying around the house.”
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Good job sounding profound while spewing absolute bullshit.
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