I understand why people on the west coast are upset that the smoke affecting NYC is a bigger story than the west coast wildfire smoke but they need to realize the lives of people in nyc and the northeast in general are much more valuable than those of people on the west coast
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The same people who want to convince you Ukraine is a country full of Nazis are now looking at the photo of the Texas shooter with a swastika tattoo and Hitler praise in his profiles like “well hold on a second here, let’s not jump to conclusions.”
Incredible coat on the lawyer, but also if your lawyer wears this kind of coat you’re going to prison
This guy is a crypto grifter from Dubai who didn’t know who Prigozhin or Shoigu was 24 hours ago, doesn’t speak Russian or have any real contacts, and now he’s the face of expertise on ‘s new twitter.
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BREAKING: Reports of Wagner forces have ENTERED MOSCOW OBLAST, being 2 hours away from Moscow City.
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Only way to solve this is for Prighozin to debate Shoigu on Rogan. I’ll put up 1k.
Amazing to see people talk about Ukraine “escalating” the conflict while Russia has been blowing up residential apartment buildings in cities across the country for over a year.
amazing how the tech billionaires and podcast multi-millionaires have convinced blue check dolts this guy is the enemy. Have you ever looked up what he does?!? His career has been spent curing people in poor countries of parasites and treating children with infectious diseases.
Whatever you feel about Jews as a race/ethnicity/religion It’s been fascinating to watch people on this site cast Oppenheimer as some imperialist privileged white male as his people were being systematically murdered in Europe and banned from fleeing to countries the world over
This is the twitter employee Elon Musk is trying to publicly shame today, Iceland's person of the year who was born with muscular dystrophy into a working class home and built a tech company, sold it to twitter and then paid the full tax rate:
Pete Reed, a conflict zone medic, was killed in a Russian bombing on a convoy evacuating civilians. He was an incredibly selfless, heroic person. What he did in Mosul in 2016 remains one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen. These are his hands after saving a child there
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Chomsky has been defending war crimes and mass murderers for decades. If you’re surprised by him making questionable decisions you’re likely an idiot.
Have spoken to a number of serious Russia analysts over the last few hours and the consensus seems to be that whatever is happening, it is most likely hilarious
God people are stupid. If the frontline was in NYC do you think people in Richmond Virginia would be staying in bunkers the entire time? The frontline is like a 13 hour drive from Kyiv. Don’t be a moron
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I thought they were at war. Looking pretty good over there. Their McDonald’s look cleaner than ours.
Stop sending them money. twitter.com/ClownWorld_/st…
The thing about these idiots is they can’t ever admit that they’re wrong, so they have to keep doubling down on being stupid and they have a lot of yes men, so it actually is important for everyone to continuously remind them that they’re incredibly stupid.
Man got roasted so incredibly hard by an autistic teenager he picked a fight with that it went massively viral and reminded the Romanian police to follow up on their investigation. Top tier L in 2022 and couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy
NEW: I wrote about going to interview the man who hid/saved my grandfather from the nazis, a decade of war reporting, why some people risk their lives to save strangers while others kill their neighbors, and being the grandchild of 4 Holocaust survivors:
Taibbi is claiming his twitter files were removed 😂. Really hard to pick whether Taibbi or Musk comes out looking worse in all this but the good news is the whole thing is hilarious
Musk is legitimately a conspiracy-brained idiot. He’s a mass shooting false flag guy. We’re just lucky he didn’t own the site during Sandy Hook.
David, i know i say this almost every other day and you always prove me wrong, but you can’t possibly be this dumb
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literally picking a public fight with a disabled guy who wins awards for being nice in Iceland.
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No where in the material you’ve quoted does it say that they asked for the list of 250k to be suspended. It actually says the opposite, that no action is requested. Are you deliberately lying or did you not actually read the material?
It’s been over a year of unmitigated objective failures from the Russian war effort yet every time something new breaks through the news cycle a bunch of weak-kneed dorks start doing a “you wouldn’t like Putin when he’s angry” while barely concealing their hard-on’s.
This is the kind of thing that has ended other broadcaster’s careers. Tucker won’t even issue a correction
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I can't say I ever cared way too much for American partisan catfight, but its still insane that Cucker here just lies by quoting absolutely clearly photoshopped version of this original page. Its impossible his team isn't aware its a shop, he just doesn't care. twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/…
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And yet he still went to Ukraine, to do this again, because that’s the kind of person Pete was. He was a leader, a true hero, funny and charming. One of the best people you could ever meet. There’s no words to describe this loss.
The Zelenksy Test is getting close to eclipsing the Syria Test in terms of telling who is a piece of garbage with nothing but bad opinions. Nearly everyone who loathes him has never done anything brave or of consequence in their entire life.
They’re trying to reverse the narrative, but it was always the tech and Silicon Valley VC’s that bought into FTX 100% while the overwhelming majority of journalists from all beats called it and all of crypto a tulip level Ponzi scheme.
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My first tip for surviving this and any other catastrophe is to get a sense of humor.
I don’t really understand the mindset of people like this who fantasize daily about the downfall of America while living here, something that will make their lives actively worse. Who dreams and constantly makes stuff up about their own life getting more terrible
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The BRICS Alliance have just announced a new gold-backed currency that will be released to destroy the dollar.
They’ve also released the list of countries that have applied to join BRICS, those are:
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This guy is the real life Dr House of tropical diseases! His entire career is trying to figure how to find and cure them! And the guys selling you supplements you don’t need and trying to convince you to shoot up research chemicals have convinced you he’s the bad guy
I’m generally not anti-rich or anti-capitalist. The issue is, Silicon Valley VC’s over the last few years have emerged as among the most toxic and brain-poisoned voices in America and are putting their money into awful things. So it’s actually good they’re losing it.
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Watching people delight in the collapse of a bank that’s been vital to the greatest wealth generation engine this country has had for the last 2 decades is really disheartening to see.
I think this is a Twitter problem.I’m gonna be spending less time here.
Elon, as someone who seems very vested in media accuracy, why are you promoting a completely made up report, with zero sources, from an anonymous account that lies nonstop?
holocaust denial with onlyfans audiences is basically where we're at as a society right now. still can't understand how this guy is able to walk around so openly
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1/How is this possible?! The hosts of @FreshandFitPod, who are themselves from a community targeted by the Far Right, hosted infamous White Nationalist Nick Fuentes. They all enjoyed a laugh about Hitler while Fuentes "educated" about the Holocaust. WATCH! canarymission.org/individual/Nic
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I’m not saying that Ukrainian military strategy is solely dedicated to making this guy look like an idiot within 24 hours of him posting his “insights” but there have been a *lot* of coincidences
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This week, while Bakhmut fell and Zaluzhny was already a casualty, retired General & CNN commentator @MarkHertling explained in @washingtonpost how “Zaluzhny and his forces will eventually liberate most — if not all — of the land occupied by the Russians.” The Neocon Press is… Show more
Didn’t see a single person do this
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I like that some of you got a few hours to reimagine this viscious mercenary as a liberal reformer. Good for you. Special time.
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It’s a good example of why this sort of discourse has mostly ran its course on social media and people across the political spectrum have grown tired of it.
This is embarrassing, man.
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Wow 6.5 million listeners and growing fast. Thanks to all the legacy media types and political hacks for flipping out that the Space started 15 minutes late. It was perfect once it got going, and now you’re just making it bigger! twitter.com/MarioNawfal/st…
Tucker not looking so alpha as Pence turns him into a stuttering goober
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TUCKER CARLSON: The Zelenskyy government has arrested priests. That's not consistent with religious liberty. It's an attack on it, and we are funding it.
MIKE PENCE: I asked the Christian leader in Kyiv if that was happening and he assured me it was not.
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It’s also funny how the right wing now despises former CIA guys *unless* they go on Rogan to publicize their new workout routine and energy drink
This is a completely made up report from an anonymous account being boosted by . Ironic, given how much time he spends ranting about how the media gets things wrong.
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Mosul was chaos near the front when it kicked off. Too dangerous for medical NGO’s up front. So Pete went in further and set up a triage clinic in a dusty lot. Just stretchers and medical supplies. And he went to work saving lives.
When you consistently and likely deliberately get facts wrong and offer predictions and analysis that aren’t grounded in reality and prove false time after time, people are going to tell you to shut up. For many, many people this isn’t just a podcast debate. It’s life and death.
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But we’re not Experts
so how dare we express an opinion. 
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so how dare we express an opinion. twitter.com/ArtemTepler/st…I love how people like this lust after violent chaos and anarchy across the globe, like they wouldn’t be one of the first lined up against the wall.
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Paris tonight. Soon everywhere. twitter.com/ivan_8848/stat
Lol. Remember when he laid off the entire vice news division, who had worked for years with low pay and no resources to build the brand, at the exact moment when Vice News got a ton of money? Or told the new hires not to even talk to us? Completely dishonest scumbag
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Deja Vu from when you laid off … me, without ever meeting me or speaking to me 
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twitter.com/Tyrangiel/stat…Jack i will bet you a million dollars at 10 to 1 odds he does not.
He did the “somebody call an ambulance…..for you!” in real life
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"How would you respond to the [claims of Russian Foreign affairs ministry] that supplying F-16s is a colossal risk?" - @POTUS was asked in Hiroshima at the G7 Summit.
"It is for them" he replied.
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Actually this is turning into a really unifying moment. I’m seeing Americans of all types and political orientations uniting in their hatred of David Sachs.
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We’ve reached a point of political division where it’s fine to root for members of another tribe losing their bank deposits—even though you would protect members of your own tribe in the same situation. Be careful what you wish for because the shoe may soon be on the other foot.
Does anyone on the right have any idea what’s actually happening to the Russian military in Ukraine? Have they actually paid attention to any battlefield update since mid-March?
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Russia is laughing at us
This guy consistently makes stuff up. He’s one of the worst sources out there just fyi.
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One of the Wagner mercenaries reportedly attempted to assassinate Prigozhin. He failed and has been executed.Brutal reporting from Luke Mogelson, and a brutal reminder that all slow playing military aid to Ukraine does is create generations of (dead or) traumatized men that will likely never heal. Give them what they need to finish this:
Tate, his brother and two Romanian suspects charged with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. One charged with rape. 6 victims recruited, sexually abused and coerced into doing pornography.
lol “assassination coordinates” what a drama queen, it’s literally just where you are. My assassination coordinates right now are on my couch watching Seinfeld.
Are there other journalists who testify at the UN on the behalf of a belligerent state at war? I don’t even think the “cia sponsored msm” etc these guys constantly rant and rave about have ever spoken to the UN on the behalf of the US war effort or anything like that
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One of the more infamous propagandists @MaxBlumenthal does not hesitate to tell lies about stuff like „HIMARS attacks on civilian targets“ in front of the UN on behalf of Russia.
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The people ragetweeting at the clip of a Ukrainian soldier dancing today with “soldiers don’t dance in real wars” reminded me of one of my favorite videos I’ve taken, this Iraqi soldier dancing on the outskirts of Mosul the day they entered the city to fight ISIS
The constant-take podcast ecosystem has convinced comedians they have astute geopolitical analysis (they don’t) when they should really be working on their act cause i don’t know anyone who made it through more than 10 minutes of this guy’s Netflix special
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The Biden administrations stance on the Ukraine is that we all must die so the American empire can keep printing money and selling weapons. It’s not about the Ukraine and never was. This will become even more apparent as they sacrifice more lives instead or urging peace talks. twitter.com/WarClandestine…
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Hell, there were massive Nazi rallies selling out theaters in the US like 4 years before this!
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And Pete just went to work, yelling orders, trying to stabilize, covered in blood as wounded kept showing up and the sounds of shells and bullets echoed. and he did what he could. Day after day. He must have saved hundreds of lives. Tended to thousands.
Every day there’s an article that’s like “George Santos is actually three kids in a trench coat” and he’s still just walking around, being in Congress
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That moment, the child screaming, stayed with me for a long time. And i remember thinking about Pete having dozens of those moments every day, day after day, and he just kept going. He must have carried a lot with him. But he didn’t stop.
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One time i was there and there was a mass casualty incident. People started coming in, bleeding, being unloaded. A child came in with shrapnel wounds. Pete yelled something to the crowd like “i don’t care if you’re journalists , put down the pad the camera, youre helping.”
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This is the medical organization Pete founded and led.
Every day there’s some scandal that is all “popular YouTubers Flubb Flubb and Garbanzo have been caught in a scandal involving ritualistic sacrifice and the twitch streamer Bongoface69!”
ino idea who these people are ever and then i look them up and they have 48 billion plays
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All day every day, for weeks and months, dozens of casualties poured into this lot, the war wounded, sometimes on the hood of humvees. Soldiers, the elderly, children with shrapnel wounds, family members crying in the background, explosions. It was harrowing.
There’s been a pretty grotesque display from western supporters of assad and Iran who seem overjoyed at this happening and are doing their best to encourage Hezbollah to harm her. It’s shameless, and unfortunately par for the course for these types
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#Breaking: @IsraeliPM says @Elizrael is an Israeli & Russian citizen who has been missing for several months in Iraq & is being held as a hostage by the Shia militia Hezbollah. Elizabeth Tsurkov is still alive & we see Iraq as responsible for her fate & safety.
Main reason greenwald is mad at the WP and now prob the New York Times for doing journalism on the leaker is bc the only thing he’s ever done real reporting on was literally just gifted to him. He hasn’t really done actual reporting, just abrasive screeching at other reporters.
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He directed a few of us to hold a child down as the kid screamed in agony, blood pouring from shrapnel wounds. And Pete went right to work, calmly took out the shrapnel asap, patched the kid up and sent her further down to the bigger clinics.
Comedians thinking they’re geopolitical experts is one of the worst trends to emerge from podcasts
this might be the worst panel of all time
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When the battle for Mosul was going on we would wake up in Erbil, drive 2 hours to the front, report, and then drive back and go get drunk and eat kebabs in the bars all in the same day.
amazing to see these business and tech types wade into geopolitics like “all we need is to offer a good deal and then the contract will be in place!” like when things go south lawyers on both sides can just hammer out percentages instead of the actual reality where thousands die
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The neocon-Democrat consensus rejects my vision for peace in Ukraine by saying that we’d be wrong to trust Putin in a peace treaty. I don’t trust Putin, and he doesn’t trust us, but both sides can trust that we *do* act in our self-interest. We can end the war in Ukraine by… Show more
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One thing the upper echelons of journalism never get tired of doing is giving each other awards as every day more and more people get their news from tik toks made by guys who got famous for making racist jokes while streaming themselves playing grand theft auto 3
No one is “cheering” for Wagner, it’s about the destruction of the Russian war effort. Hard to see how it comes back from this, especially if as it appears Ukrainian intel was aware something like this was coming and planned for it.
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One of the worst people I dealt with as a journalist, and I’m including all the militants, warlords and drug dealers here.
“I see you clicked on a few tweets about a particular issue. Would you like your timeline to now forever be inundated with the worst people in the world having pointless inflammatory arguments about said issue?” - Twitter’s algorithm
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Pete Reed, an #American medic and a very good friend was killed yesterday in #Ukraine. Pete saved hundreds of lives in #Mosul.
I can’t believe he’s gone such a tragedy.
“SANGAR BRING ME WILD TIGER”
#RipLegend
Michael does this to hint to his conspiracy obsessed fanbase that Tate is being falsely accused by some woke US admin plan, but makes sure not to mention the reason US embassy got involved in this case was because 1 of the 6 alleged victims is a US citizen held against her will.
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The inspiration was the Andrew Tate story which involves human trafficking allegations. That's what prompted me to do a thread about the origins of US human trafficking policy, and of US law enforcement involvement in Romania
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Wagner has always been a collection of war criminals trying to maintain a tiny semblance of legitimacy but they’re not even bothering anymore
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Prigozhin says that Wagner will no longer capture Ukrainian prisoners on the battlefield but will instead execute everyone on sight twitter.com/the_ins_ru/sta…
“The media, the elites, the oligarchs, they all want to control you and keep you dumb by making you focus on entertainment and garbage that doesn’t matter. Anyway, this week we’ll be ranting about a bud light commercial for 3 hours every day here on the pod”
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The loudest SV voices have been pretty prominent in their “why should i care about ukraine” arguments. Fuck em. Why should I care about them losing everything? Humility is a great character trait to develop.
Enjoy the tranquility right now because in about 2 hours all the podcast, substack and YouTuber doomers are going to start screeching about the nuclear apocalypse when someone explains this to them.
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BREAKING: #Russia|n Su-27 collides with US MQ-9 drone over the #BlackSea
Per @US_EUCOM, the Russian aircraft was 1 of 2 conducting " an unsafe & unprofessional intercept" when it struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing US forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in
int'l waters"
You would think someone who has been wrong about literally everything that has happened in ukraine would occasionally pause for reflection or even shut up in general but he’s still out here with the nonsense propaganda
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Where is Zaluzhny?
Being a successful drug dealer is way, way harder than being an average software engineer. Forget the risk, do you have any idea the kind of customer service you need to provide, the availability, the hours? Successful drug dealers work extremely hard
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Successful drug dealers in San Francisco can make as much as $350K a year, more than the average senior software engineer at Google, $GOOGL, per The San Francisco Chronicle
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If something as harmless as this is making you all angry I’m probably better off not sharing my idea to arm the Quebec separatists so we can get some revenge for Canada ruining the first week of summer.
The Taibbi, greenwald types spend all their time trying to promote themselves as the only journalists left who stuck to their convictions, but they’re entirely full of shit hypocrites.
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So remember guys, anonymous U.S. intel sources are bad, but it’s A-okay to use them so long as Taibbi approves of the narrative being promoted by the story.
Not only that, but Taibbi will actually help you while writing the story!
Jesus fucking Christ, Matt, just pick one.
Lol this is literally how the president in idiocracy gets elected
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Incredible story of polish volunteer EMT’s doing cross-border runs to get wounded Ukrainian soldiers proper medical treatment by :
You’ve literally been wrong about everything in this war, every step of the way
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The situation in Ukraine keeps escalating because neither Russia nor the West can afford to lose. Russia is winning, clearly. Western propaganda and NATO arms deliveries can’t change that. NATO troops will enter Ukraine in 2023. That’s WW3. It’s happening. twitter.com/ivan_8848/stat
The reason this is being reported on so thoroughly is because it actually belongs to a member of the White House press corps and they want it back
Vice sold for $225 million which is A. Hilarious and B. More than enough to immediately pay the severance they owe to laid off employees
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Our statement on VICE's anticipated acquisition
Link to the GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/VICEunion
At this point, it’s clear that simply has a fetish for getting yelled at on the internet. No one could possibly be this stupid and wrong about everything without doing it deliberately.
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Important recent talk by Mearsheimer on current status of Ukraine War and what’s likely to happen next. Mearsheimer is the leading scholar of International Relations, and his predictions about the conflict have been highly accurate going back a decade.
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Sir you are 55 years old there is no need to talk like an extremely online 19 year old.
The way these people completely eat up Russian propaganda while at the same time ranting about how the most innocuous stuff is American propaganda is insane.
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The #Russian people are one, indivisible and unbeatable. The sooner western leaders accept that the better it will be for all of us. @MoatsTV twitter.com/KimDotcom/stat…
3 out of the last 4 presidents in El Salvador have been convicted of serious crimes.
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Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted.
But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate.
The United States ability to use “democracy” as foreign policy is gone. twitter.com/NYMag/status/1…
I like how in the extremely online lunatic community the CIA is responsible for both every political event/revolution around the world AND turning American kids trans. Imagine how disappointing it must be to be a CIA employee dead set on one agenda and they assign you the other.
This is laughable garbage. “A nationwide pogrom, a reign of terror against everything Russian” is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read about what happened in ukraine 😂
Ukrainian troops on the frontlines were still speaking Russian to each other in 2022.
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Look at them smile, shooting without fear of retaliation. The aftermath of the 2014 coup d’etat was a nationwide pogrom, a reign of terror against everything Russian. Thousands of innocents were killed. More were kidnapped, tortured, raped, all recorded in UNHCR reports, but your… twitter.com/ricwe123/statu… Show more
Watching Tesla stans try to capitalize off this horrific attempted murder suicide despite not having any evidence that being in a Tesla is what saved the victims from being killed is…something, alright.
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Crashes along Devil's Slide in California rarely end with survivors.
So when Dharmesh A. Patel allegedly attempted a murder / suicide by driving off the cliff with a woman, 4 year old girl, 9 year old boy, few had hope. Just one problem with Patel's plan: He was in a Tesla.
This is an embarrassing article for a journalistic outlet to publish
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I actually don’t have strong opinions on it though the northeast is clearly better, but i think it’s getting more media coverage because A. It’s abnormal (man bites dog not dog bites man) and B. of course all the media based here are more concerned with their own backyard
the god complex among tech people is becoming so unbearable I'm actively cheering for the next dotcom crash. The vast majority of them are designing apps to track your pet's caloric intake not revolutionizing heart surgery, calm down with the auto-deification.
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Silicon Valley is full of tourists. It’s absolutely toxic
The promiscuity of tech is blasphemy to any wise business leader of the previous generation
Human history is written by people who go all-in. Take your commitments seriously; give it your all.
Fickleness results in ruin
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I know a dozen reporters who work for the dreaded MSM that spent all week in Turkey and Syria having to count body bags but the only real journalists left are the guys fleecing Silicon Valley and angry dopes to run cover for Elon Musk’s weirdo midlife crisis redpill turn