breakyerself

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by breakyerself 7mo ago
They're not going to have a normal country. The United States under Trump isn't interested in a democratic Iran. They want a dictator they can control.
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Any honest reading of the history and the scholarship around the development of fascism and its characteristics would absolutely lead any honest person to the conclusion that there is a fascistic political movement happening in the United S
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
The Trump admin regularly speak of their political adversaries as if they are as bad as foreign adversaries. Why should anyone trust them to limit their surveillance activities to legitimate targets? Mass surveillance by definition is not n
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
I just use Dropbox with dropsync on my phone. I never use the knowledge graph anyway
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Subtext being that they're fine with autonomous killing and mass surveillance?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Fuck oil refineries though. That's what you want to lead with?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
What's more suicidal? Wanting to reach a peaceful settlement with your neighbors or funding the radical segments of that society while preaching intolerance towards them? Because that's what the Israeli right has been doing for ye
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
You know Republicans keep cutting services to veterans right? While democrats pretty much always vote in favor of benefits for vets. You choices aren't to either fund vets or fund aid. Your choices are to cut both or save both and I ha
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Sure, but while the world waits for another super power to step up lives are being lost. The US could have announced a phase down with a hard pressure campaign to get the other countries to take over with no loss of life. Instead these are
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Individual stories spotlighting lives lost in the wake of these cuts aren't hard to find. Do you want me to Google that for you?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
54 is lower than 72 and only a fraction of people receiving food benefits receive additional benefits that would qualify them as being on "welfare" 2/3 of natural born US citizens will live in a household that receives food a
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Sure thing
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
There's a lot of ukrainians in Poland
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
> 72% Somalis are on welfare and the same stats are in West Europe. This is bullshit. Donald Trump isn't a credible source on statistics about immigration. The highest percentage I can find for food stamps is 54% and a high percenta
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Similar to voting for brexit if they ever get what they're voting for they'll come to regret it.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6938108633c7a... https://www.ft.com/content/10daa0e9-d57b-4ccd-9bdc-87d321283...
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Bingo. Just like wanting to leave the EU was self destructive cutting off immigration is as well. The US is in the process of trying to hobble its own economy right now.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Because the establishment knows how integral to the economy immigration is and because it isn't that easy to stop even for an island. Unless you want to shut down tourism and trade.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Did mecha-Hitler tell you that?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
It saved my life. I was standing on the Golden gate bridge looking over the edge. A Tesla model 3 pulled over and started playing baby I need your lovin at full volume. I cried and climbed into the car and it turned on the seat heater.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
It will be zero if they keep doing the same shit
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
El Nino is what we call years where we break the record for highest global average temperatures by more than a little.
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Psychics in Silicon Valley(youtube.com)
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
NYT is good for games and cooking. Their news editors are garbage.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Is forest fire mitigation about protecting the environment or protecting property of people who live in wooded areas?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
To ruin the natural ecology so that you don't have to share a swimming hole with anyone else in your community?
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
I would just say that NIMBYS that weaponize environmental regulation for purposes it wasn't written for aren't environmentalists.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
When I say they're mostly good, but we should fix what's broken and people start hitting me with examples of broken regulation I can only interpret that as an example for why environmental regulation should be opposed by default.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
At the same time I'm sick of people facing no consequences for modifying their diesel pickups to blow black clouds of smoke on their fellow citizens.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Yeah I'm not in favor of sprawl. It sounds like it needs to be amended, but do you want to go back to polluted air and water just because a small minority of regulations need to be repealed or amended? Wouldn't it make more sense

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