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“The agency’s only remaining crypto cases are against little-known defendants without clear ties to Mr. Trump, The Times found in a data analysis.”

It’s been very interesting how the 2A types have told us for decades that the answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, now find having a gun a sign of malicious intent.

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Retreat? Really? Is that a euphemism for “didn’t apologize?”

If they are not punished it will happen again.

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He’s not cosplaying Nazism for the same reasons the Nazis weren’t cosplaying Nazism. It’s just who they are. A group of people that share a hatred for out groups who like dressing up as soldiers and giggling over violent rhetoric and having people around them cower in fear.

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If you aren’t standing under a cold waterfall soaping with lye made from the bones of your enemies, you are letting civilization down. And god.

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Well showering is kinda gay but not having to bend over is very right wing, so yeah! Plus ropes are MANLY!

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Trump chooses people who genuinely don’t believe in government. The thought that he might serve the public does not seem to have crossed Patel’s mind.

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If Bari Weiss had attended the screenings for the piece, would she have voiced her concerns earlier? Or is this a signal to the notoriously reciprocal administration that she is on their team?

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Conservatives put money into what scares them. Libs put money into what they love.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I love that #1 was the Equalizer.

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It is exactly what companies did during the pandemic. You raise your prices *every time* the blame will go elsewhere. It would be negligent not to.

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It is blindingly obvious that members of the administration absolutely *do not care* about congress. As long as they please the king, there are no consequences.

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The problem you are facing is not figuring out what people need, it is convincing voters to make concessions so that others can get what they need.

The thing about racists is they think everybody secretly agrees with them.

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Elon finally found the waste, fraud and abuse. It’s always in the last place you look.

The federal government is not involved in setting curriculum in elementary schools.

No I meant an actual example, not one of your imaginary grievances.

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But in poor areas where literacy rates are low, per pupil spending is less than the OECD average. What the US has is extraordinary expenditure disparities. Another big cost is how fragmented education spending is. The UK spends less and has better outcomes, but is centralised.

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Do you have an example of this indoctrination?

I think a side effect of being surrounded by people too afraid to contradict you is that you start to think you are the only person capable of seeing the truth.

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Brevity is a sign of a clear mind.

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I’m sure he sees it as a sacrifice for the greater good. That good being Republican prosperity.

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Thats what happens when you read about quantum mechanics while high.

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I think it belies his view that they are scripted. That’s why they can’t see and act on fraud, only he and “real” people can.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

You are absolutely right. The NPC talk is a giant indicator that he (like Trump) has an empathy problem. You cannot believe all the bullshit that hinges on other people being incapable if you have the empathy to imagine how they would act.

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For Walmart to get supplies on shelves in time for Christmas, the latest they can order from Chinese suppliers is this month. So, great time to tell Walmart to take the hit. Of course by then his base will have something else to blame.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The people who think Climate Change is a hoax think Pascal’s Wager is a good bet.

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There’s a reason conservatives don’t take the bible literally.

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One of those two is a lot more profitable than the other.

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

They’re really also into originalism. Which is a lot of syllables for “whatever I can argue to the people who like what I’m saying”.

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So no evidence of corruption. Well I guess the search continues.

Weird how I asked if you had evidence and you offered to explain bribery. I've heard the conservatives claim Clinton is corrupt for decades, and they never seem to have any evidence either.

That's an interesting argument. So you think the corporations paid her above a reasonable rate in the hopes that she would (1) be later elected to office and (2) would return the favour? And you have evidence of this? Because Republicans tried *very* hard to find some during her 2016 campaign.

I think you'd be surprised how many rich twats believe in Social Darwinism.

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Except never while in office. Also public speaking is pretty lucrative if you are good at it.

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You mean the calculated stunt to get attention and show that libs are oversensitive, paranoid, weak, neurotic, hysterical and that he is a manly tough guy? Definitely. Well, not me. 'cus I'm a lib.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

What if your job depended on pissing off libs?

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If only creatures capable of such thought had evolved by then.

Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This is the correct answer. There are other answers that sound plausible, but they are wrong.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So the consequences for Patel is being fired in four years? I would be shocked if he thought his term would be longer than that.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There’s a reason eugenics, trickle-down, low taxes, tariffs and isolationism appeal to the uneducated. It’s why we have schools.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The US decision not to criticize countries with “harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation”, “denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly”, “retaining political prisoners without due process” will reverberate around the world. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

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Elric Pedder @epedder.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fair enough. I just think that the American President raped someone and half of the country is “so what” is kind of wild.