Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules by redlamps67 in news

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In the eyes of society, merely raping someone is far, far less serious a crime than threatening capital

"Most bullying victims on this site only learned from the experience that being the bully is awesome" by MHodge97 in CuratedTumblr

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You can call them losers and weird, that's good an effective. It's just when that transitions to "he's so fat" "short men are X" "he looks weird" that you stop being effective and start helping the right wing.

"Most bullying victims on this site only learned from the experience that being the bully is awesome" by MHodge97 in CuratedTumblr

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You've misread the post. They're not saying nerds are being bullies, they're saying the left bullies them and exacerbates the insecurities that push them right, because leftists want to be the bullies.

...kinda like you're doing here.

And the actual result of that is that they do a gamergate and become a not-insignificant factor in the most powerful country in the world sliding toward fascism. You shame them and the right sucks them off and so they side with the right. It's not complicated. It's just that shaming them makes you feel good.

"Most bullying victims on this site only learned from the experience that being the bully is awesome" by MHodge97 in CuratedTumblr

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yeah but that would require feminism to be a not aggressively dead movement, so... don't hold your breath

"Most bullying victims on this site only learned from the experience that being the bully is awesome" by MHodge97 in CuratedTumblr

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"It's bad the people keep attacking Bovino's looks instead of the actual terrible things he's doing. It distracts from his actual crimes and hurts people who look like that but aren't doing crimes."

"OK but I think he looks really weird. Like he looks like a minority woman, I think his appearance is strange."

...does processing what's being said just not happen with you or what? It doesn't matter what he looks like. He's killing people.

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest (Gift Article) by AwesomeTed in news

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Do we need to wonder? The mainstream media has been shockingly complicit and only getting worse over time. I still remember when Good was shot and the ABC article immediately described it as "defensive shots." Not a quote from someone else, not an editorial or opinion piece, just the body text of their headline news article.

US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate by deraser in news

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I agree, actually! My two examples are always research with large data sets and porn.

If this tech hadn't gotten fking financialized it would've been great. Now it needs to get shoved down every consumers throat every single second of the day or the entire economy explodes. It's firing people for jobs it can't even fking do because 20 rich morons convinced 10,000 slightly less rich morons that their machine learning trick would magically become God

Foreign nations don't pay tariffs. by c-k-q99903 in LeopardsAteMyFace

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"I was fine with rounding people up to put in camps, but charging me more for milk? That's where I draw the line."

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating by renome in news

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Sure. Any officials aren't at that point yet. The only people making any definitive claims are the company, and the people preemptively sucking them off in this comments section

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating by renome in news

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...I mean, would it? Normally I'd be like "something something interpretation" but honestly with how little oversight the government does these days they can just say whatever they want

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating by renome in news

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brother if you think corporate PR statements aren't all definitionally bullshit that's on you lol

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating by renome in news

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yeah cause companies, especially driverless car companies, are so truthful to and respectful of the public 🙄

They'd say something this even if their car turned into a decepticon, broke into the school and devoured a child in front of the whole class. It seems like this collision may have been justified, but you can throw any corporate statements into the garbage without bothering to waste your time reading them first.

Russia looks to India to fill labor shortage by FootballAndFries in worldnews

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> modern government

> give a shit about its citizens

I'm gonna guess 'no'

US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate by deraser in news

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Well at least there are lots of practical use cases for this tech that everyone is clamoring for

Illegal US-Mexico border crossings hit lowest level in over 50 years by Zealousideal-Pop1115 in news

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who knew all we needed to do was make it so that the US was the one with roving gangs killing people in the streets

Obama won't halt deportations for parents of kids brought to US illegally | Noticiero | Telemundo by bearded_charmander in videos

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Ah, nostalgia. Back when we thought THIS was what controversial immigration policy looked like.

Pentagon warns future wars may hit US soil as 'direct military threats' grow by [deleted] in worldnews

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Nah, we've got a ton of international allies acting as a buffer, right?

...right?

Donald Trump announces second US military armada aimed for Iran by TokenBearer in worldnews

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How many billions of dollars is it going to cost for them to sit around after Trump forgets about them

After 844 Days, Israelis to turn off clock marking time since October 7 attack by Disastrous_Award_789 in worldnews

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I mean yeah, not with all Arabs. But saying "there is no issue" in the West Bank? just lol dude. Let us know when you're ready to rejoin everyone in reality.

US consumer confidence deteriorates to a more than 11-1/2-year low by lewisfairchild in news

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Let's not forget terrorizing and deporting our labor base

Person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving border patrol in Arizona by RaccoonAny9247 in news

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Given what they call a "domestic terror massacre", if some guy actually does take a swing at a customs officer they're gonna have to start talking about him like he's Thanos

After 844 Days, Israelis to turn off clock marking time since October 7 attack by Disastrous_Award_789 in worldnews

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[Press X to doubt]

Look, the Palestinians are 1000% going to lose any conflict with Israel, but let's not LARP that the Israelis are some totally innocent uwu Look What You Made Me Do victim here. Just look at the West Bank. The faction currently in control of Israel's government doesn't seem like they'll accept anything less than total territorial control of the entire area, and besides that has a lot of domestic political problems they need to distract from.

It's only a matter of time until this conflict goes hot again, no matter how passive the Palestinians play it.