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Oh hey, look, the second half of the ratfucking op is coming into focus, looks like this was Republicans' plan all along.

What is your plan to overcome The Heritage Foundation lawyers who are as we speak crafting legal challenges to keep any other DEM beside Biden off the ballot? Spoiler: You have no plan, just vibes. www.foxnews.com/politics/her...

Heritage Foundation working on election legal challenges in case Biden pulled from DNC nominationwww.foxnews.com The Heritage Foundation, a major conservative activist organization, is prepared to start legal battles in multiple swing states if Democrats try to swap Biden out of the party nomination.

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step 1: go to therapy step 2: build a community garden step 3: ??? step 4: guillotines the thing is even if you agree with step 4 i have a really hard time figuring out what's supposed to go in the blank for step 3

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The Washington Post

Biden’s made it clear he's not dropping out. Stop this GOP propaganda. Focus on Trump being a felon, an adjudicated rapist, a convicted fraudster, and a twice-impeached president who let a million Americans die of COVID because his administration THREW AWAY the pandemic response plans left by Obama.

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The Fig Economy

As an ancient with physical problems it is alarming to me how one bad debate has led to this discussion where normal aging processes are now treated as disqualifications.

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Listen, say what you will about whether you think Biden should drop out, but this cover is some journalists using the opportunity to try to normalize some pretty fucked up stuff they believed already.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Michael Paulauski

Everyone seems to have memoryholed that plan A was to skip over the sitting Vice President and move to a brokered convention, and only after people pointed out the *numerous* flaws in that plan did pundits revert to plan B and sing Harris’ praises. This should be setting off alarm bells!

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Michael Paulauski

I'm sorry, but if you're publicly in favor of going along with what these rich, high-power business interests and big-money donors want, you're a rube, and you're being led to advocate against your best interests. It's no wonder this is happening after Biden went after FAANG.

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*UK LABOUR PROJECTED TO WIN 410 SEATS OUT OF 650: EXIT POLL

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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Jesus Tapdancing Christ, now the New York Times is actively telling people not to vote. Y'all, this is the smoking gun showing that this entire thing is one gigantic ratfucking operation. I genuinely feel for the folks who bought into it, disinformation ops often play into existing problems.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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want to co-sign this one especially. people talk about the dynamics of social media like people haven't been believing crazy shit since forever. satanic panic. blood libel. witch burnings. take your pick. the medium is new and important to understand, but the fundamentals less so.

All of history is people believing outrageous falsehoods because those falsehoods were widely or universally echoed in their community. What do you think happens when those communities become mass media, and then unregulated mass media shaped almost entirely the imperative of online virality?

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Jennifer R. Povey

I have never heard an entire city cheer before or since. It was an experience. Because they knew, they *remembered* what losing democracy was like. I will always vote like the Greeks voted that day.

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Iron Spike

If voting is so pointless, then why are people freaking out so much about "the wrong people" doing it? Why is voter fraud such a boogeyman if voting has no meaning or power?

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Also: record-keeping was worse and social pressures ensured that dark secrets were kept out of the public light/taken to the grave.

I unironically believe a small but not completely insignificant amount of this has to do with a number of the greatest and/or most famous political and social heroes of the mid 20th century being killed/assassinated before they had a chance to get slightly older and therefore publicly more flawed

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The New York Times ratfucking operation in favor of Trump is so incredibly blatant that it’s beyond parody. If you saw ratfucking like this coming from a newspaper in a movie, you’d probably think it was a bit over the top.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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It is time to stop paying the New York Times a dime. Yes, that includes Wordle and the recipes. Sorry.

At work on 4th of July.

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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.

It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).

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Maybe we should be talking about credible allegations of Trump sexually assaulting twelve year olds with the assistance of Epstein!

By the way, Faine, have you already seen this? If this is true, then it'd be all the more horrific for such a man to win the presidency.

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 on X: "Trump forced 12 year olds to perform lesbian sex acts for him. That seems important. https://t.co/yvmSxUbW6c" / Xtwitter.com Trump forced 12 year olds to perform lesbian sex acts for him. That seems important. https://t.co/yvmSxUbW6c

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People really do underestimate just how intensely humans have co-evolved with domestic dogs over the course of many thousands of years. (And with cats, albeit over a somewhat shorter time-frame).

When domestic pigs get out, they go feral in a single generation. When dogs get out, coyotes start behaving like domesticated dogs in one generation.

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I also think that anyone who claims that pigs could easily be taught and trained to do everything that companion and working dogs can do is not actually familiar with either working dogs or pigs. (And that pigs have to WANT to do this). Very different species with very different motivations!

I think some anti-meat activists really gloss over how humanity spent 1000s of years molding dogs + cats into companions and co-workers who pretty intuitively understand our emotions- we haven’t done this with pigs and cows. It’s not exactly shocking that many people thus don’t want to eat pets.

When domestic pigs get out, they go feral in a single generation. When dogs get out, coyotes start behaving like domesticated dogs in one generation.

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Because dogs and cats are considered companion animals - even those born in the wild who have never encountered a human. Horses are considered utilitarian, and the shift from "work animal" to "food animal" isn't a huge one. Eating a dog feels closer to eating a human.

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The CNN guy mocking Biden for signing a bill creating a national Parkinson's Disease initiative is really emblematic of how much these guys don't care what the stakes are for ordinary people.

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when you vote for President you are voting for a coalition rather than a person. the right understands this very well, which is why evangelicals lined up behind Trump.

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PSA: For the sake of my own mental and intellectual well-being, I’ve unfollowed and blocked this troll who used to be a decently thoughtful commentator, and I think you should as well.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Michael Paulauski

And we're all too busy entertaining and even repeating Republican cries of "Biden Must Step Down" to focus on the real issue of Republicans admitting their evil acts in public and the media refusing to cover them with sufficient gravitas.