Twitter adds a step saying "Hey, you might to actually read this article before re-tweeting it" and - wait for it - Republicans lose their shit (again) about being "picked on." Ladies and gentlemen, the modern American "conservative": biggest fucking whiney snowflake since Kindergarten.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528413/twitter-congress-doug-collins-retweet-read-article-prompt-censorship-claim
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528413/twitter-congress-doug-collins-retweet-read-article-prompt-censorship-claim
republican lawmakers are furious after twitter asks users to read stories before retweeting
Twitter started testing the feature earlier this year.www.theverge.com
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If you’re tired of hearing “every vote counts”...TOO BAD. Every vote does count, and if you won’t believe us, you’d better believe this illustrious panel of people who lost their political races by only a few votes! #ExpectTheWorst
Just a reminder I used to write some good shit, back when I had enough fucks to give.
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Declaring fuckruptcy has become a common method of starting your life over with at least a moderate chance of accumulating a meager amount of fucksavings.
The action taken to sue Google for antitrust violations by the feds is akin to closing the proverbial barn door not only after the horses have left, but also after those now billionaire horses have trampled over key parts of the economy and society.Opinion | The Justice Dept.’s Lawsuit Against Google: Too Little, Too Late
The time to do anything substantive about the overwhelming power of the giant tech companies passed very long ago.www.nytimes.com
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I completely disagree about Microsoft opinions you present. All of their systems are based on very old and inefficient NTFS technology. This simple fact they cannot change ( why? Nobody knows. Probably because they don't have technological competency) destroy nearly everything they want to sell: any single restart if the system is related to problems with file locking mechanisms they cannot repair.
O basically no. They may have great interface designers, but to have valued products you have system engineering this days...
O basically no. They may have great interface designers, but to have valued products you have system engineering this days...
Jaime Harrison on Lindsey Graham postponing debate: "He's on the verge of getting that one way ticket back home" hill.cm/y0dpSre
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Dear "Freedom of Speech" whiney bitches. I want to hear your bitching and moaning in defense of the uniformed police officer who wears his "Biden-Harris" facemask next week. Oh, wait, you'll be fucking silent, you fucking vapid, self-righteous, hypocrites, while your whiney bitch buddies scream bloody murder about the libtards trying to intimidate the voters!
Jesus fucking Christ, the police union reps even defend this. Oh, hey, let's even make unions look like shit to our biggest supporters: the libtards! (Yes, libtards are the biggest union supporters.) Fucking idiots.
https://www.theroot.com/miami-police-officer-facing-disciplinary-action-for-wea-1845441074
Jesus fucking Christ, the police union reps even defend this. Oh, hey, let's even make unions look like shit to our biggest supporters: the libtards! (Yes, libtards are the biggest union supporters.) Fucking idiots.
https://www.theroot.com/miami-police-officer-facing-disciplinary-action-for-wea-1845441074
Miami Police Officer Facing Disciplinary Action for Wearing Pro-Trump Face Mask Near Voting Area
On Tuesday, a Miami, Fla., police officer was photographed wearing a pro-Trump face mask while voting at the city’s Government Center.www.theroot.com
Trump posts full '60 Minutes' interview showing him walking out thehill.com/homenews/admin… #SmartNews 
Trump posts full '60 Minutes' interview showing him walking out
President Trump on Thursday posted his full interview with "60 Minutes" ahead of its scheduled air time in an apparent attempt to undercut the news program after he walked out on the interview, bristling at questioning from jothehill.com
I want someone to run ads in Michigan saying "Be a grownup; leave your gun in the car when you go vote."
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.
https://www.theroot.com/michigan-issues-ban-on-open-carry-at-polling-location-1845416223
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.
https://www.theroot.com/michigan-issues-ban-on-open-carry-at-polling-location-1845416223
Michigan Issues Ban on Open Carry at Polling Location, Because Obviously
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.www.theroot.com
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I always find, too, how pooly it reflects on "gun rights" people that they always fall back on "It's legal!" - it's a tacit admission they know they're wrong on the ethics, courtesy, and generally "acting like a grownup" part, so they just fall back on "Yeah, well, the rules say I'm allowed, so suck it!"
And it'll fall on poll workers to try to enforce this, and it's likely someone will get shot.
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This whole thread on the "Dems were mean to Bork" BS line. Why would anyone want to put the Saturday Night Massacre hatchet man on any court? It's a sign of complete moral depravity and/or spinelessness. It should disqualify him from serving on The People's Court much less SCOTUS
One more time:
Bork was given a full hearing in a Democratic Senate, which resulted in a 5-9 vote against him.
Bork then demanded a vote from the full Senate anyway, Democrats obliged! And he was again voted down again 42-58, with six Republicans voting no.
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Why would anyone want to put the Saturday Night Massacre hatchet man on any court? It’s a sign of complete moral depravity and/or spinelessness.Don't ask questions if you're going to answer them in the next sentence.
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So, those kids Trump and ICE put in cages? You know, the kids who got stripped from their parents, then sexually assaulted while in cages? How likely you think they'll grow up to be monsters?
Friend of mine yesterday said "What if that was the Republican plan? Use ICE monsters to turn immigrant kids into monsters, so 10, 20 years down the road, the Republicans can scream 'See ?! Immigrants are monsters!' "
American monsters making immigrant monsters, so American monsters can congratulate themselves for being "the good guys."
God, I hope my friend was wrong.
Friend of mine yesterday said "What if that was the Republican plan? Use ICE monsters to turn immigrant kids into monsters, so 10, 20 years down the road, the Republicans can scream 'See ?! Immigrants are monsters!' "
American monsters making immigrant monsters, so American monsters can congratulate themselves for being "the good guys."
God, I hope my friend was wrong.
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38 fucking times Trump fucking said COVID-19 would magically disappear. 220,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19. It only requires 10,000 people for a municipality to qualify as a City. That means 22 US CITIES have been wiped from the map, while President Donald Asshat Trump pooh-poohed the virus. That's 22 CITIES SO FAR - how many more thousands of human lives will be snuffed out - leaving grieving friends, parents, children, co-workers - before this pandemic ends? How many deaths is "too fucking many"??
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/index.html
all of the times president trump said covid-19 will disappear
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.www.cnn.com
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And, you know, "Let's re-open the economy," as if 220,000 dead people - lost consumers, lost jobs, lost lives - is somehow "good for" the economy? Fucking stop killing people for a month or two, and then those people that didn’t die can also go back to earning and spending money, and making the economy work. God, this isn’t rocket science, and it is also basic human decency.
Another reminder of how much damage to the judiciary we will now face. Imagine four more years of them filling it with people like this?
"Republican-appointed judges, like Republican voters, believe that voter fraud is real and racism is a myth, when in fact the reverse is true."Pack the Court, Save the Vote
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to entrench minoritarian rule without the consent of the electorate.www.theatlantic.com
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While we make fun of Christian music for being cheap and terrible because there is such a big market for it, sadly there is so much pagan music out of there that is just awful. Found a few artists I really enjoy in spite of being atheist and wanted more. OMG, the half-assed and cheap pagan music out there is painful. Lots of repetition in their lyrics or trying to shove syllables where they don't fit because they can't be bothered to put the effort into making an actually good song. Semi-quality pagan music is the tip of a pile of utter garbage music #pagan #paganart #badmusic
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crud.
We see a lot more of the crud these days because it's easier to share.
We see a lot more of the crud these days because it's easier to share.
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Watching Republicans ram through a second stolen SCOTUS seat to place a corporatist theocrat on the court so they can fuck with American's rights for a generation has me *really pissed off* and spitting nails.
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And it's so total mindfucking that they just disregarded their own arguments they had presented 4 years ago, when Obama wanted to fill the vacancy several months before the election.
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Pennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the PoorPennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the Poor
In America’s poorest big city, language barriers, unstable housing and lack of internet access make voting by mail difficult. So low-income Philadelphia residents will be voting in person, if at all.www.propublica.org
Impeachment Expert Dismisses Possible Tactic to Stop New Trump Justice from Joining Supreme Court lawandcrime.com/politics/impea… So this is an untrue rumor floating around the internet to make Pelosi look ineffectual and complicit. Impeachment would do nothing. to stop it
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When I did TV news in college, my classmates would waste time printing out hundreds of pages of documents to shoot two seconds of footage of them. I printed out the first page and stuck it on top of a ream of blank paper. It's TV. They can't turn the pages. But in real life...
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1318988352918487040
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Don’t you love it when people second-guess the person who actually received the nomination?
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Excavation resumes for victims of 1921 Tulsa race massacre independent.co.uk/news/world/tul…Excavation resumes for victims of 1921 Tulsa race massacre
Excavation work is underway at two locations in a Tulsa cemetery for victims of a race massacre nearly 100 years agowww.independent.co.uk
Anti-semitism and anarchism mean completely nothing these days, just how they killed the meaning of socialism.
A State Department memo suggests it's about to accuse prominent human rights groups of "anti-Semitism"A State Department memo suggests it's about to accuse prominent human rights groups of "anti-Semitism"
"This action is a direct affront to many courageous men and women."bit.ly
BREAKING: The GOP just broke the rules to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination.The GOP Just Broke the Rules to Advance Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee held the vote without any Democratic minority members present.bit.ly
GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett despite Dems’ boycott apnews.com/article/electi… #SmartNews Assuming its actually works (i don't know the law) Pelosi needs to get impeachment written up and passed soon
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Hey, you should check out my man @danielmrose and if you like his stuff (and you will) give him a sub!
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Publicamos o livro "Lutas Sociais na China" escrito por João Bernardo nos anos 70, com uma nova apresentação.
"Talvez o verdadeiro interesse deste livro seja o de propor um modelo de aplicação da metodologia marxista a uma sociedade capitalista de Estado."
"Talvez o verdadeiro interesse deste livro seja o de propor um modelo de aplicação da metodologia marxista a uma sociedade capitalista de Estado."
Lutas Sociais na China - Apresentação | Passa Palavra
Noticiar as lutas; apoiá-las; pensar sobre elas. Leia, comente e divulgue! Passe a palavra!passapalavra.info
Republicamos o vídeo produzido pelo @transehub sobre o artigo "O problema da escala". 
O problema da escala: política entre o micro e o macro | Passa Palavra
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Ergo, "snowflake" serves two purposes:
* the ironic use of calling the originators of the term out for being exactly what they erroneously mock others for being, and
* it's a nice simple word the modern American "conservative" can understand.
That is to say, I don't think most modern American "conservatives" know what "hoarfrost" means, and are either too lazy, or too dumb, to look in a dictionary.
(I wasn't going to make that a bullet list, because if you're reading this, then y... show more
Ergo, "snowflake" serves two purposes:
* the ironic use of calling the originators of the term out for being exactly what they erroneously mock others for being, and
* it's a nice simple word the modern American "conservative" can understand.
That is to say, I don't think most modern American "conservatives" know what "hoarfrost" means, and are either too lazy, or too dumb, to look in a dictionary.
(I wasn't going to make that a bullet list, because if you're reading this, then you have the intellectual capacity to not need bullet lists, but then I decided the bullet list about why things need to be spelled out for the slow kids was funny, in a self-referential kind of way.)