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    Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    We have all these guns and bombs and tanks yet somehow the horrors of war seem like they've only gotten more horrific.
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    No, it was only enough if you were a Democrat. And probably still is. Because the Republicans control the media landscape, which means they decide when someone's career is "over." The only time I can recall when a Republican was ruined over something petty was all the way back in the '50s when...
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    What this does is turn the general election into a traditional runoff election. Ranked voting is sometimes called an "instant runoff" because it involves casting extra votes that ultimately get shuffled around to the totals of the top two candidates. But is arguably fairer because the losing...
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    Yes, because why solve the problem when you can just profit off workarounds.
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    You know, when I said this, I really wasn't expecting news to break the very next day that the most famous January 6 rioter, the dude with the facepaint and animal-skin hood, is now calling Trump out. But here we are.
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    AI don't trust techbros

    How does that affect screen readers, I wonder? Triggering an ADA-related lawsuit would not be a good look.
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    We live in a capitalist dystopia

    Well yeah, Europe is somehow able to pull off stuff like that for likely the same reasons they're able to implement them in the first place, whatever that is. Honestly the difference between the US and Europe sometimes feels like it runs deeper than the systems they happen to have put in place...
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Now that's an interesting line of thought. Suppose the list gets released. And it's the real list. Unedited. Uncensored. Unredacted. And it leads to an actual mass uprising. Let's just pretend for a moment that Trump doesn't see himself as a target and thus doesn't order the military to stop...
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    We live in a capitalist dystopia

    The only real solution is to abolish private banking and payment processing as an industry. Didn't they basically do that in Europe? Don't people have like, government-issued debit cards that are impossible to defraud and are required to be accepted everywhere?
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Of course Trump is thrilled to have this technology at his disposal. Think about how many dictators around the world would have given both their legs to have the power to deepfake convincing video of anything they want. Even total control of the media only lets you control what the public...
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Which is yet another out-of-touch-old-person idea, because in reality the machine needs less and less people all the time, between increased reliance on automation and the dwindling amount of unique products being produced.
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    President Abe Simpson.
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    If I had a nickel for every time Phineas and Ferb came back, I would have ten cents. Which is not a lot, but weird that it's happened twice.

    Forgetting to attach the correct season's opening to all the episodes feels like something that's happened before with TV shows, but I can't put my finger on it. Not counting cases like Garfield and Friends where they intentionally used the most iconic one for all seasons in syndication, or...
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    The Nintendo Thread of Jumping, Slashing, and Home Decorating

    There absolutely is. They're in complete control of their platform and can make whatever demands they want, knowing very few third parties will refuse. This isn't even like the streaming-off-a-remote-server nonsense where publishers had a valid reason to say it was that or no game at all. As...
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    In light of the conversation we just had, I suspect he's just hoping for another bribe settlement.
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Haven't CBS and Paramount been a single company in all but name this whole time anyway? And wasn't the fake split entirely voluntary? Why was there any friction toward them re-merging in the first place?
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    The Nintendo Thread of Jumping, Slashing, and Home Decorating

    He's finally here! Performing for you! In a brand-new game for your new Switch 2!
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    Harris-Walz / Dems

    My "even the worst presidents get one" list already had one thing on it from the previous term, but damned if I can remember what it is anymore. Call it an unfortunate (for him) side effect of everything he does being a distraction from everything else. As a backup, we've still got the penny...
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    Nobody has the intention to invade Ukraine

    I guess this is what Trump meant on Monday about Russia having 50 days to end the war. The question is, was it his idea, or the NATO leaders'?
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    There's a difference between "knowing" Trump hired child sex slaves from the world's most notorious child sex slave tycoon, and having copies of the receipts circulating all over the world. For one thing, we've "known" it since before the dude took office his first term, but now his own cult is...


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