Chira numbuh wan!

[shovelquest]

NOPE

edit: oh it's a comedy, i saw that thumbnail and was like...

its like a sci fi, its called years and years, its about like the next 60 years, but it skips ahead every few years as the show goes on so you see how the characters survive the various collapses and crisies we face.

It's cool!

SY41jhIP_xI

[Reiwa]

the kids are already dating in those VR chatrooms with fucked up Furry / anime avatars, it's 10x more weird than that Second life game from a long time ago, Twitch has an insane amount of them streaming also, it's an entire industry right now of people making custom models for people, shit's literally straight out of the book Snow Crash

https://en.wikifur.com/w/images/thumb/5/53/3DAvatars.png/800px-3DAvatars.png

The Yoshi's Island sequel is kinda weird.

[shovelquest]

wait but can I live in eq....

[Trexller]

The Yoshi's Island sequel is kinda weird.

I've never met anyone, nor can I imagine anyone who looks at a giant animal suit and thinks to themself, "I wanna get freaky in that"

the trans thing barely makes any sense, and yet somehow it makes more sense

[shovelquest]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887980161628361109

[Trexller]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887980161628361109

this is the only appropriate reaction to maxine waters

[Ekco]

The Yoshi's Island sequel is kinda weird.

and that looks like some 320p decade old models compared to the shit i stumbled across, even this site that came up on google isn't as bizarre as the models i saw on 4chan lol

https://i.imgur.com/2oPmO9Q.png

that have an entire storefront like its Skyrim mods lol

[Trexller]

https://i.imgur.com/2oPmO9Q.png

that have an entire storefront like its Skyrim mods lol

So the women in the internet chat rooms are still fat sweaty gay men

There is something reassuring in realizing that nothing ever changes

[Reiwa]

I liked it better when VR was like this

P31z2qbErpc

[Trexller]

I liked it better when VR was like this

I was satisfied with VR being East Commonlands and i never felt like I needed more VR then that

whats so wrong with base reality anyway

[Reiwa]

Cheeseburger indicters agree with Trump (https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/6/media-center-ncaa-announces-transgender-student-athlete-participation-policy-change.aspx)

🍔🚫

[Trexller]

Cheeseburger indicters agree with Trump (https://www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/6/media-center-ncaa-announces-transgender-student-athlete-participation-policy-change.aspx)

🍔🚫

that's smart

women can compete with men, but men can't compete with women

[Reiwa]

that's smart

women can compete with men, but men can't compete with women

There's actually a really cool parallel between the NCAA's investigatory activities with regards to Jim Harbaugh and the legal cases against Mr Trump.

Both got a natty after.

[Reiwa]

hamberders

[shovelquest]

Are you excited for the super bro tomorrow reiwa?

[Reiwa]

Are you excited for the super bro tomorrow reiwa?

no. I'll watch it but the best case scenario is the assholes in philly win.

But that's slightly better than Taylor swift getting engaged on national TV.

[Duik]

I cant wait for the stupid bowl ads to be rated on yt.
My favourite part is all the lite beer ads.
FYI, girls drink lite beer.
Girls.

Gooo SportsBall. I'm with you Reiwa, Tailor Stitch should get engaged in the privacy of her grandhall with her closest 5000 friends.

[shovelquest]

I just saw the cutest shit on tv with a puppy poking his head out of a football.

here it is!

QIW8mSYwYE0

[shovelquest]

porn gonna be illegal in USA i can't waiiiiiitt will be hilarious. HEIL JESUS. ✞

mkUAqkzBSqw

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I cant wait for the stupid bowl ads to be rated on yt.
My favourite part is all the lite beer ads.
FYI, girls drink lite beer.
Girls.

Gooo SportsBall. I'm with you Reiwa, Tailor Stitch should get engaged in the privacy of her grandhall with her closest 5000 friends.

Over at my dad’s (to watch the disappointing UFC tonight) who is very right wing and he was giddy mentioning that apparently Elon paid for like 5 Super Bowl ads or something?

So I said yea for his Tesla or whatever. And dad said no, just to talk about Doge. And I was like to what like brag? He’s just dumping truckloads of his own money to brag?

That’s wild if so

[Ekco]

he bought billions of doge when it was 0.0000000001 per coin. and he's already up by 2348096740263048%

couple super bowl ads is a cheap investment considering doge is 25 cents a coin now, if it bumps up to 30 cents he'll already make his money back + about a hundred mil or someshit

Approximately 28.27% of the DOGE in circulation is owned by this wallet

literally nobody will be able to top his rug pull record when he does it. he's gonna buy an entire fucking company with the profits

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

he bought billions of doge when it was 0.0000000001 per coin. and he's already up by 2348096740263048%

couple super bowl ads is a cheap investment considering doge is 25 cents a coin now, if it bumps up to 30 cents he'll already make his money back + about a hundred mil or someshit



literally nobody will be able to top his rug pull record when he does it. he's gonna buy an entire fucking company with the profits

Well supposedly, in these ads, he is going to talk exclusively about the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE, and what it has accomplished thus far

Meaning they are entirely political and also entirely funded by Musk

Is what I heard anywho

[Ekco]

riiiight.

[shovelquest]

If elon becomes a trillionaire why is that bad?

he spent all his money so far on shit that literally makes my life way better.

Alternativly I could be rooting for the party that has the blackrock trillionare behind it, and i can point to like 500 things that they do to make my life WAY WORSE.

Elon SHOULD take all the doge from everyone and build alien portals with it. Better than people buying garbage with their doge coin winnings. Just saying.

[Ekco]

i don't care if he gets rich, just don't lie to me and claim DOGE wasn't named that because of the coin


also, how are cybertrucks and shitty sat internet making your life better lol

also blackrock literally owns both sides, has 600,000 bitcoin and prolly more doge coin than elon, hope this helps.

[shovelquest]

He outright said it was named because of the coin like in september.

That's the whole joke.

Regulate crypto if you don't like it.

[Ekco]

what's the joke, exactly. you think liberals own doge coin? rofl

so the joke is he's going to rug pull MAGA supporters? i don't get it

[shovelquest]

what's the joke, exactly.

That doge coin is hilarious.

[shovelquest]

so the joke is he's going to rug pull MAGA supporters? i don't get it

So like, doge coin has been around for like 12 years.

It was the first "meme" coin.

The point of it was to just make a big joke. To show the world that the "heckn bad" internet memes at the time could get as big as bit coin. That would never happen, because bitcoin took off even farther than anyone back then I think really thought it could.

Investing in it, for 12 years has been "haha look I hold doge!" it's just a joke. "Look how goofy our economy is lol!" "Internet culture wins!! YEEE!"

When you buy doge it's like this


A. Haha I'm gonna hold doge to the moon, lets have this retarded coin be so big everyone loses their minds!
B. LOL NORMIES DONT GET IT!!! THEY ARE RAGING!!!!! BUY MORE LOL!!!!!!!
C. Haha did you hear doge shot up? LOL I sold mine. It crashed and I bought more LOL!

Now, the normies that don't get the culture, the history, or anything behind the meme think it's risky.

No it's not lol. It's a big joke. It's a digital toy.

[Ekco]

i hope aliens nuke us

[shovelquest]

i hope aliens nuke us

Well... yeah.

:p

[shovelquest]

TBH elon just got into the joke, like way after it was pretty much over.

Now he breathed life back into it.

The idea that a space ship would have a friggen heckn doge painted on it, is hilarious.

The idea that we wouldn't have flying dildo spaceships, is not realistic.

This is earth.

We will have big drag queen shaped space ships out there.

[shovelquest]

"Uh oh, here comes the flying vagina, 3 times the size of any star system! This circles the galaxy spreading awareness."
-Earth

[Reiwa]

The idea that a space ship would have a friggen heckn doge painted on it, is hilarious.

https://i.imgur.com/f1gKDM4.png

[Reiwa]

misinformation (https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-immigration-offer-2025-02-09/)

[shovelquest]

https://i.imgur.com/f1gKDM4.png

https://i.imgur.com/11tjfsn.png

[shovelquest]

misinformation (https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-immigration-offer-2025-02-09/)

Wow, all of em?

[Duik]

The white south africans realise they deserve their treatment. Apartheid (Self) Revenge Syndrome.

I'm sure the countdown to friendly inter-racial relations is on.
However many years the black population was crushed under Apartheid they will rollback the punishment cycle then.

Simple really.

Also. Come to america! We are a shithole waiting to explode. Please black African, place your boot on my throat before Trusk offers us a place in Texas.

[shovelquest]

I can't wait for australlia to be anexed by china and canada to be split between russia and china and for europe to be russia and india to be china.

As soon as america collapses.

[Duik]

The difference there is you guys were tricked into voting for it. You literally asked for it.
Mr Shovel, at least you may have a way to dig yourself out of the hole you are in. ;+P

We are all so screwed.

[shovelquest]

The difference there is you guys were tricked into voting for it. You literally asked for it.
Mr Shovel, at least you may have a way to dig yourself out of the hole you are in. ;+P

We are all so screwed.

https://i.imgur.com/sdctuLu.png

[Trexller]

We are all so screwed.

we're doin' fine actually

we still have our land and gun rights

[Duik]

we're doin' fine actually

we still have our land and gun rights

Thank Dog!
No school shall remain unshot up.

[Duik]

Lolocaust @ sky fairy. Good one shovel.

Ohh wait, you're serious...

[shovelquest]

I was just watching a video that was like how violent and crappy NYC is now, and I was like that's sad.

Then I remembered when I was a kid this is what we thought NYC was like and I remember yeah things are actually fine (dammit!).

7MzDA77sJk4

[Duik]

Trump is a genius.
Close department of ed.
Schools close or are difficult to staff.
No kids at school.
No school shootings!

Ive been in error. I apologise.

Lolocaust.

[Reiwa]

Trump is a genius.
Close department of ed.
Schools close or are difficult to staff.
No kids at school.
No school shootings!

Ive been in error. I apologise.

Lolocaust.

Before we had the Department of Education, we invented spaceflight and atomic bombs.

Then the shuttles started blowing up.

[Trexller]

Before we had the Department of Education, we invented spaceflight and atomic bombs.

Then the shuttles started blowing up.

yeah it's a glaring indictment of the entire department that americans got dumber after the federal government got involved in education

[shovelquest]

Ohh wait, you're serious...

Lolocaust

[shovelquest]

Before we had the Department of Education, we invented spaceflight and atomic bombs.

Then the shuttles started blowing up.

Since we have had the DOE we have had... Student Loan Crisis!

(YFW you realize DOE is as old as nintendo.)

[Reiwa]

Anyway, the first Super Bowl had jetpacks.

RdMlMdWQ94M

[shovelquest]

when will they get these guys to do a thing there.

sgtyHS59d_c

[Elizondo]

Idiot Democrats are threatening Government Shutdown over the DOGE cuts

[shovelquest]

Idiot Democrats are threatening Government Shutdown over the DOGE cuts

Shut down the shut down!

kWdfRRtAs3o

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

https://i.redd.it/dt27upnccmty.jpg

[Reiwa]

Idiot Democrats are threatening Government Shutdown over the DOGE cuts

Sucks your mandate resulted in such a narrow majority.

[Trexller]

when will they get these guys to do a thing there.

oh unfortunately as cool as those things are, the operator is completely defenseless in flight, totally vulnerable to even small arms fire, and then has to land without breaking a bone, and then has to take the jet gear off, and get their fighting gear up before they can be at all combat effective

UK Military is a poor shade of what it used to be

if we have to board a ship from the air we'll send a swarm of disposable drone bombers and then old school fast rope to the deck

[shovelquest]

Superbowl:

LOL

During the intro, that shot after they show trump... of the nazi SS regiment ready to storm the libs.

[Ciderpress]

After all this hub-bub I'm still wondering: what is the argument against investigating and rooting out wasteful spending and potential fraud?

Please explain it in clear, concise sentences and not links.

[Reiwa]

After all this hub-bub I'm still wondering: what is the argument against investigating and rooting out wasteful spending and potential fraud?

Please explain it in clear, concise sentences and not links.

USAID accounts for approximately 0.3% of the total U.S. federal budget. This figure is based on information from the fiscal year 2024, where USAID spent $21.7 billion out of a total federal spending of $6.8 trillion.

I have Grok open, let's engage!

[shovelquest]

After all this hub-bub I'm still wondering: what is the argument against investigating and rooting out wasteful spending and potential fraud?

Please explain it in clear, concise sentences and not links.

Basically: Arrest all republican politicians. Do not attack federal institutions.

[shovelquest]

USAID accounts for approximately 0.3% of the total U.S. federal budget. This figure is based on information from the fiscal year 2024, where USAID spent $21.7 billion out of a total federal spending of $6.8 trillion.

I have Grok open, let's engage!

Only a democrat would not understand why they can't saves their money even though they only spend .3% of their total income on avocado toast.

[Trexller]

After all this hub-bub I'm still wondering: what is the argument against investigating and rooting out wasteful spending and potential fraud?

Please explain it in clear, concise sentences and not links.

it's pretty simple, US gov't swamp bureaucrats don't wanna lose their slush fund, so they have to make it sound like the country will collapse if we can't fund a trans musical in ireland

there is no "aid" in USAID outside of photo OPs with bags of grain and protein bars that have big bright USAID logos

[Ciderpress]

USAID accounts for approximately 0.3% of the total U.S. federal budget. This figure is based on information from the fiscal year 2024, where USAID spent $21.7 billion out of a total federal spending of $6.8 trillion.

I have Grok open, let's engage!

Okay, well, for one thing you're just selecting USAID, and not like all the billion other government agencies, and 0.3% of a huge number is still a huge number.

I still don't see the argument for why anything they're doing is bad.

[Reiwa]

Only a democrat would not understand why they can't saves their money even though they only spend .3% of their total income on avocado toast.

Some of the spending is probably mandated by act of Congress, probably.

[Reiwa]

Eugene Levy isn't allowed to eat bacon though. Bad commercial.

[shovelquest]

Some of the spending is probably mandated by act of Congress, probably.

well we should put congress in jail without trial then.

[Ciderpress]

Even if they are only saving one cent, why is it bad? Let's drill down to fundamentals here.

This is the actual "change" that all the platitudes for the last 30 years promised us and never delivered.

[Reiwa]

Even if they are only saving one cent, why is it bad? Let's drill down to fundamentals here.

This is the actual "change" that all the platitudes for the last 30 years promised us and never delivered.

The agency has to pay someone for maintaining its records and files.

It wouldn't make much sense to save 1 cent by incurring a greater cost to that system and vendor contracts.

send post

[shovelquest]

super bowl empire (+gaza)

https://i.imgur.com/JpLBG5P.png

[Reiwa]

Nor would tooting your own horn about the "successes" of your *very* serious investigation provide the public a substantively correct understanding of the fiscal situation therein.

[Ciderpress]

The agency has to pay someone for maintaining its records and files.

It wouldn't make much sense to save 1 cent by incurring a greater cost to that system and vendor contracts.

send post

Thanks for indulging my hypothetical in the literal. Still though, you haven't told me why saving potentially millions of wasted taxpayer dollars is bad.

[Trexller]

This is the actual "change" that all the platitudes for the last 30 years promised us and never delivered.

Yep 100%

the real problem is that it's Donald Trump making the changes that they all promised and now they are revealed to be exactly the indecisive feckless swamp bureaucrats that Americans voted against in 2024

Everyone wanted a thorough audit of the US Gov't, they're just mad that it's Trump doing it and that it's got the support of the majority of americans

The Dems still don't understand that they have no political platform other then resist trump, they don't understand that most of their own voters think the fed gov is corrupted to it's core, they don't understand that this can only be a good thing for the USA

if the Dems were smart politicians, they would be getting ahead of DOGE, they would be distancing themselves from the swamp bureaucrats that they can throw under the bus, they would be working to control the blame narrative, they would be pretending to support cleaning up the TRILLIONS that the US collects in taxes each year, they would understand that this audit is playing brilliantly in political optics and they would be trying to use it to make themselves look good

but they are not smart politicians, so all you hear is orange man bad

personally, I hope they never wise up

[Botten]

Idiot Democrats are threatening Government Shutdown over the DOGE cuts

What a silly statement. What party is in control of the house, senate and presidency?

Since DOGE no longer has control of the Treasury I would have just said ignore everyone and just print the money.

But since DOGE doesn't currently have control of the Treasury why don't you whine about the insanity and need to impeach a judge who rules against Elon.

You know Elon who was being investigated by USAID, Department of Defense, Department of Education, U.S. Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Elon who feels vengeful towards some of these agencies.

--
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/house-democrats-urge-security-investigations-into-elon-musk-s-team/ar-AA1yzt6d?form=MG0AV3

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/polls-elon-doge-out-of-government/?form=MG0AV3

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musks-government-dismantling-fight-stop/story?id=118576033&form=MG0AV3

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365?form=MG0AV3

[Reiwa]

Thanks for indulging my hypothetical in the literal. Still though, you haven't told me why saving potentially millions of wasted taxpayer dollars is bad.

Ah well my Internet crashed and I'm pretty sure it's the Iranians. Let's do this again soon.

[Botten]

Trexller honest question since you work with the water company in (Not that area) does any of this affect you? Note I said not that area because I don't want to talk about the state you are working in.

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in US and Canada (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-move-oust-epa-172100200.html)

Or not really has nothing to do with your job or your area?

[Trexller]

Trexller honest question since you work with the water company in (Not that area) does any of this affect you? Note I said not that area because I don't want to talk about the state you are working in.

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in US and Canada (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-move-oust-epa-172100200.html)

Or not really has nothing to do with your job or your area?

I doubt it will have much impact on anything. As long as you don't have industrial waste flowing directly into a public water source nobody is actually gonna do anything. If some agency wanted to spend it's resources to investigate why there are chemicals or heavy metals in the water they can but it would take months or years and by the time they figure out the source, often times whatever discharge into the water isn't occuring anymore so you rarely get a smoking gun of a chemical company laughing as they dump in the environment, they'll go after things like farm fertilizer runoff because you can just look at a map and know it's probably happening there

utilities like water and power operate under this understanding that, "You cannot fuck this up" like it goes beyond any kind of politics or economics, it's not something that politicians are really gonna screw around with. If one day we decided we were gonna shut off valves or pull a joker and dump chemicals into the water, the US Army would come kick us out and start doing our jobs. There are actual plans for that.

The EPA doesn't get in our way, central PA is also blessed with a literal fuck load of mountain springs that spout clean water, our water doesn't flow from hundreds of miles away like other places

having said that ill take every opportunity to inform people that it's alot more likely that there is small amounts of hazardous materials in your tap water and if you care about your home drinking water you'd use reverse osmosis or a filter system like the Zero brand.

every town and city has pipes that were installed wrong, or installed 100 years ago, or cracked because the ground shifted, or are literally made of lead, or lead solder was used, or have infectious bacteria, or whatever other reason for contamination

the tap water is just barely safe enough to call drinking water, and no agency let alone the EPA can change that

[Reiwa]

But since DOGE doesn't currently have control of the Treasury why don't you whine about the insanity and need to impeach a judge who rules against Elon.



Following Varad and them on X, they said something like it wasn't even that judge's case and the judiciary isn't allowed to proscribe actions that are the core/legitimate powers of executive agencies. I think.

[shovelquest]

What a silly statement. What party is in control of the house, senate and presidency?

Since DOGE no longer has control of the Treasury I would have just said ignore everyone and just print the money.

But since DOGE doesn't currently have control of the Treasury why don't you whine about the insanity and need to impeach a judge who rules against Elon.

You know Elon who was being investigated by USAID, Department of Defense, Department of Education, U.S. Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Elon who feels vengeful towards some of these agencies.

--
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/house-democrats-urge-security-investigations-into-elon-musk-s-team/ar-AA1yzt6d?form=MG0AV3

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/polls-elon-doge-out-of-government/?form=MG0AV3

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musks-government-dismantling-fight-stop/story?id=118576033&form=MG0AV3

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365?form=MG0AV3

how about we hang the judge...

[Reiwa]

Seahawks Broncos style beatdown

[Reiwa]

It's unfortunate that the city of New Orleans will burn down, but at least Taylor Swift will be sad.

[Reiwa]

Probably travis gets dumped by friday.

Our long national nightmare will end.

We're jumping to the good timeline, hang on tight for a moment.

[shovelquest]

I can't wait for taylor to find god again and go full right wing.

[Trexller]

It's unfortunate that the city of New Orleans will burn down, but at least Taylor Swift will be sad.

taylor was done the minute she posted on X that supporting kamala harris was the "right side of history"

nothing left to do now but wait for her next post, on onlyfans

[shovelquest]

lol

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1888747340929917083

[Trexller]

lol

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1888747340929917083

thank God that the world is coming back to it's senses

[shovelquest]

Hey, whatever happened to those JFK files ?

https://i.imgur.com/zlMOZIo.png

[Trexller]

The federal government in 1 image:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjYYW0nbUAAKUY0?format=jpg&name=medium

[Trexller]

Hey, whatever happened to those JFK files ?

https://i.imgur.com/zlMOZIo.png

uh the deadline to deliver "a plan" to release the files is friday

[Ekco]

inb4 magic bullet theory is real

[Reiwa]

uh the deadline to deliver "a plan" to release the files is friday

yVFn7F3El8g

[Trexller]

yeah I feel like we wouldn't get any juicy details about JFK unless trump gets his own people into the FBI, and that will take a little time

also it's not like the media outlets need anything else to work on right now, there is wayyy to much going on, anyone remember the 2 planes that crashed last week? yeah I don't either

[Trexller]

yVFn7F3El8g

WpMSbKG2uZw

[Reiwa]

yeah I feel like we wouldn't get any juicy details about JFK unless trump gets his own people into the FBI, and that will take a little time

also it's not like the media outlets need anything else to work on right now, there is wayyy to much going on, anyone remember the 2 planes that crashed last week? yeah I don't either

Says Thursday to get the Indian fellow confirmed.

[Ekco]

it's finally happened
Trump Orders Treasury to Stop Minting Pennies
President Trump said that he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing new pennies, a move that he said would help reduce unnecessary government spending.

1gMEO9Y9zno

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Time to corner the penny market. I’ll buy yours send em to me

[shovelquest]

Democrats tonight

lnF8qQkYJZo

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

You know Elon who was being investigated by USAID, Department of Defense, Department of Education, U.S. Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Elon who feels vengeful towards some of these agencies.



Why would USAID “investigate” Elon though? Why would investigations even be a part of humanitarian aid? I tried skimming around and couldn’t find an explanation of why USAID was tasked with investigating Elon (or Tesla or something) especially in lieu of an actual investigation agency like the FBI or the FTC? Not that I don’t believe you, I just didn’t skim long enough to find out how and why this “investigation” of Elon by USAID of all places was happening

It is unfortunate in articles about USAID many did say they deliver food and medicine to lots of people. Whether you agree that we should be doing that or not, stopping it will create some suffering

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
Nevermind, found it finally:

”This raises a potential conflict of interest, as Musk's company was under investigation by USAID shortly before he began calling for the shutdown. Starlink's activity in Eastern Europe has been criticized, with many Russian operatives claiming to have access to Starlink despite Musk's assurances that only Ukraine was using the service.

Additionally, in September last year, Ukrainian forces downed a Russian drone that had a Starlink terminal integrated with its systems, raising questions as to how secure Starlink's operations during the Ukraine war are”

Ok well I wouldn’t believe anything Russia is saying about Starlink as far as I could throw them. Russia and especially their military is a propaganda machine, I’m assuming everything they say is a lie at baseline. And my assumption about what Ukraine military says isn’t much better, remember the Ghost of Kyiv?

Does a starlink terminal mean starlink access too? And how would USAID determine this? Shouldn’t it be investigated by our military tech?

/shrug, at least I found the investigation though

[Trexller]

It is unfortunate in articles about USAID many did say they deliver food and medicine to lots of people. Whether you agree that we should be doing that or not, stopping it will create some suffering

critical items like food and medicine aren't ordered to stop. usaid people are refusing their shipments to protest gutting the agency

[shovelquest]

^
Nevermind, found it finally:

”This raises a potential conflict of interest, as Musk's company was under investigation by USAID shortly before he began calling for the shutdown. Starlink's activity in Eastern Europe has been criticized, with many Russian operatives claiming to have access to Starlink despite Musk's assurances that only Ukraine was using the service.

Additionally, in September last year, Ukrainian forces downed a Russian drone that had a Starlink terminal integrated with its systems, raising questions as to how secure Starlink's operations during the Ukraine war are”

Ok well I wouldn’t believe anything Russia is saying about Starlink as far as I could throw them. Russia and especially their military is a propaganda machine, I’m assuming everything they say is a lie at baseline. And my assumption about what Ukraine military says isn’t much better, remember the Ghost of Kyiv?

Does a starlink terminal mean starlink access too? And how would USAID determine this? Shouldn’t it be investigated by our military tech?

/shrug, at least I found the investigation though

I think there is a pretty heavy astroturfing campaign to make it seem like trump is going to cut everything from everything and not just audit and shut down the corrupt stuff. Im sure there will be aid going out to places.

It's not like we had the SS mass deportations the media said we were going to have.

[shovelquest]

critical items like food and medicine aren't ordered to stop. usaid people are refusing their shipments to protest gutting the agency

👆 yea that.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

critical items like food and medicine aren't ordered to stop. usaid people are refusing their shipments to protest gutting the agency

Where did you hear that?

This is all I could find with some cursory looking:

“The administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid, a stop-work order to review agency operations and the abrupt closure of USAID’s headquarters have stalled the aid distribution system, despite the administration’s claim that “life-saving humanitarian assistance” would be allowed to continue ”

- A 90 day freeze is a freeze. I don’t think it means “still send the baby formula though”

But then would critical items resume after 90 days? Or is the agency going to be shut down?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I think there is a pretty heavy astroturfing campaign to make it seem like trump is going to cut everything from everything and not just audit and shut down the corrupt stuff. Im sure there will be aid going out to places.

It's not like we had the SS mass deportations the media said we were going to have.

I dunno, I think both sides want this “Rampant Corruption At The Highest Level” summer 2025 Blockbuster and usually fraud is more subtle. Criminals are stupid. White collar criminals typically are not as stupid as the dude who shoots the store clerk in front of the cameras for $80

Dep’ts like the treasury are doing their own audits. If there’s fraud, we are also assuming that it isn’t some Joe Schmo transferring money from the gov’t into his account, because I guarantee their own audits wouldn’t like that. But this would be fraud that is endorsed by the treasury itself

Yea, there could be some. But is it going to be as rampant as people think? I’m skeptical. I’m also skeptical on thinking like the left does that Elon is some kind of supervillain who is going to shut the entire gov’t down to protect his scams. He’s no Lex Luthor, Lex Luthor would have come up with a better plan than that

[Trexller]

Where did you hear that?

This is all I could find with some cursory looking:

“The administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid, a stop-work order to review agency operations and the abrupt closure of USAID’s headquarters have stalled the aid distribution system, despite the administration’s claim that “life-saving humanitarian assistance” would be allowed to continue ”

- A 90 day freeze is a freeze. I don’t think it means “still send the baby formula though”

But then would critical items resume after 90 days? Or is the agency going to be shut down?

USAID employees are just trying to make a problem happen, then they can blame it on Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/politics-news/trump-usaid-upheaval-paralyzing-global-delivery-food-medicine-rcna190565

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

USAID employees are just trying to make a problem happen, then they can blame it on Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/politics-news/trump-usaid-upheaval-paralyzing-global-delivery-food-medicine-rcna190565

That’s where I got my quote from too

It said it’s a freeze on ALL aid. Where are you extrapolating that it is somehow not a freeze on some aid? And what AID specifically has the gov’t chosen to continue during the freeze? I can’t find any information on that

To me it sounds like a blanket freeze for 90 days. I think the “critical assistance” mentioned by the executive admin is referring to what will continue AFTER the freeze

But I can find no information to support that there is only a partial freeze, not for [x] or [y] items, but that pissy workers are refusing to work. Again not saying it’s not true, I just can’t infer that with what I’ve read thus far

[Trexller]

Yea, there could be some. But is it going to be as rampant as people think? I’m skeptical. I’m also skeptical on thinking like the left does that Elon is some kind of supervillain who is going to shut the entire gov’t down to protect his scams. He’s no Lex Luthor, Lex Luthor would have come up with a better plan than that

not likely the treasury but USAID was some little known agency that had good optics with the actual humanitarian aid it provides, so even if people noticed it doing funny things a politician isn't likely to call it out because it's bad optics to be seen as the one who cuts humanitarian aid

inside that organization they built a slush fund structure to channel taxpayer dollars to places of certain interest and influence

anytime that someone got too close or threatened their corrupt money streams, they could threaten to create a political incident by "screwing up" the humanitarian aid

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
This was the post from me you quoted, I didn’t want to make it seem like I was ignoring your response so I had deleted it:

“^
Part of the reason I’m also skeptical is the more grandiose your fraud scheme (or any conspiracy theory) the less likely it becomes due to the human element

It’s the same reason the “9/11 was an inside job” theory never really interested me. Because obv it would involve the president and lots of others being aware of this secret plan to kill thousands of Americans and no one happened to spill the beans to get that book deal? Come on. I’m sure the theorists would say “they couldn’t talk because they’d know they’d die!” And it’s like that’s dumb too. Do you know how many people become snitches because they get a carrot dangled in their face and then die? Fucking LOTS. Someone would cave

I have the same line of thinking about the Treasury. If there is some fraud scheme, the larger it sounds and the more people either benefitting from it or aware of it, the more skeptical I become”

[Trexller]

That’s where I got my quote from too

It said it’s a freeze on ALL aid. Where are you extrapolating that it is somehow not a freeze on some aid? And what AID specifically has the gov’t chosen to continue during the freeze? I can’t find any information on that

To me it sounds like a blanket freeze for 90 days. I think the “critical assistance” mentioned by the executive admin is referring to what will continue AFTER the freeze

But I can find no information to support that there is only a partial freeze, not for [x] or [y] items, but that pissy workers are refusing to work. Again not saying it’s not true, I just can’t infer that with what I’ve read thus far

“There’s a carveout for emergency feeding, so that’s supposed to be flowing through, yeah?” said Joe Cramer, director of the Michigan Bean Commission, which represents domestic bean growers. But he said that hasn’t been happening. “There’s a freeze on shipping anything,” he said.

“It is a Republican initiative, it is pro-life, pro-America and the most popular U.S. program in Africa,” Cassidy wrote on X. “There’s even a waiver acknowledging this, yet I’m told that drugs are still being held at clinics in Africa. This must be reversed immediately!!”

so somebody is refusing shipments because their slush fund got cut off, it says the drugs are at the clinics in africa so that means there is also doctors and staff and they are refusing to distribute which can only be an act of protest

[Trexller]

people only rat on drug rings and mafia operations when they are threatened with prison

in the federal gov't there are alot fewer actual cops who will come arrest you for directing around tax dollars here or there

for some of those people, there are no cops coming, they aren't directly stealing, they are doing favors for other favors or future favors, or because they personally believe in the ideology that they contribute to

every year they just tell congress how much money that they need for the next year and every year congress just says ok sure

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

not likely the treasury but USAID was some little known agency that had good optics with the actual humanitarian aid it provides, so even if people noticed it doing funny things a politician isn't likely to call it out because it's bad optics to be seen as the one who cuts humanitarian aid

inside that organization they built a slush fund structure to channel taxpayer dollars to places of certain interest and influence

anytime that someone got too close or threatened their corrupt money streams, they could threaten to create a political incident by "screwing up" the humanitarian aid

Oh yea that all sounds reasonable in regards to USAID (and possibly other agencies as well)

It’s just when we move on to big fuckers like the Treasury and especially people on the right are expecting fireworks to come, it’s like come on

But now it’s being hyped to hell, so the public expects fireworks. Anything less will be seen (or at least broadcast by the left) as a bit of an L for Elon and Trump

And I don’t think modern day top down huge governmental fraud (like in the Treasury) involving lots of people and agencies/companies is likely without someone having blabbed about it long ago. Going back to my previous post where I mentioned in my opinion the more people in on or benefitting from a conspiracy, without anyone blabbing about it for personal gain, the less likely I feel that scenario is. I just know how easy it can be to manipulate a snitch

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

every year they just tell congress how much money that they need for the next year and every year congress just says ok sure

According to Google there are two departments that audit the Treasury, the OIG and the GAO

So now we are assuming that the treasury is corrupt, and these two agencies are also corrupt? Each extra corruption to me gets its likelyhood as a multiplier like a betting parley. Meaning I find each extra layer of corruption with (much) shittier and shittier odds of existing

So the formula to me would be like [possibility treasury is corrupt] * [possibility auditor 1 is corrupt] * [possibility auditor 2 is corrupt]

It’s still possible, I just find it highly unlikely

[Trexller]

yeah the treasury is too public to be dirty AF but that's not it's job, it just distributes funds to whatever gov't entity congress says, but it's the steps after that where all the funny business starts

I can only imagine what is going on in every other small gov't agency that isn't spending government money 100% in line with homeland US interests

I'm sure alot of people have thrown some epic shredding and hard drive degaussing parties

[Trexller]

According to Google there are two departments that audit the Treasury, the OIG and the GAO

So now we are assuming that the treasury is corrupt, and these two agencies are also corrupt? Each extra corruption to me gets its likelyhood as a multiplier like a betting parley. Meaning I find each extra layer of corruption with (much) shittier and shittier odds of existing

So the formula to me would be like [possibility treasury is corrupt] * [possibility auditor 1 is corrupt] * [possibility auditor 2 is corrupt]

It’s still possible, I just find it highly unlikely

yeah exactly it's too public to be dirty, but an organization like usaid is expected to receive money from the treasury, and the majority of it all gets paid out to whatever whoever for various geopolitical uses, after USAID pays an NGO then an NGO pays a charitable fund then they give money to a Ukrainian television station to create the Ghost of Kyiv to rally the ukrainian people to resist their russian invader

or it could be for a trans musical in ireland, or buying 1000x marked up medicine from pfizer

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I'm sure alot of people have thrown some epic shredding and hard drive degaussing parties

Lol possibly

I did find it odd why all of a sudden some Dem congress members decided to stop by the Dep’t of Education and demanded to be let in past Doge’s guards

I’m wondering why are you here? Just another routine visit to the DoE like all of your routine visits before? (Maybe they did routinely visit before I really don’t know lol)

Then again, I would never imagine someone as old and, no offense, kinda dumb (a lot I chalk up to not aging well) like Maxine Waters to be sent to destroy critical evidence lol

[Trexller]

I’m wondering why are you here? Just another routine visit to the DoE like all of your routine visits before? (Maybe they did routinely visit before I really don’t know lol)

Then again, I would never imagine someone as old and, no offense, kinda dumb (a lot I chalk up to not aging well) like Maxine Waters to be sent to destroy critical evidence lol

Right i doubt that they had ever been to that building before

they were there just to film videos to put out showing we're here and we're trying to stop the bad orange man

if trump was wiping his ass im sure maxine waters would tell him he's doing it wrong

[shovelquest]

I dunno, I think both sides want this “Rampant Corruption At The Highest Level” summer 2025 Blockbuster and usually fraud is more subtle. Criminals are stupid. White collar criminals typically are not as stupid as the dude who shoots the store clerk in front of the cameras for $80

The budgets for these things are so over the top, that's what elon I think is going to filter out. Elon is smart and when there is over spending, theyre just gonna cut all that.

Not find the corruption, but just be like, "over spending? that is corruption, gone."

My guess is all the good programs, actually check out and are on budget and nobody is just scooping up millions during the hand offs. But a lot of the foreign aid shit? I bet 90% of that is just scooped up by evil people.

Like 6 million for Iraqi sesame street... come on, you could do that for like 10k, you dont need all that budget, someone is pocketing like 5.9 million of that.

If meals on wheels checks out then we can keep that. Like, we're not trying to get to 0$ spending. Just stop the obvious cash embezzlement. The corruption is just rampant. It's insane.

It's exactly like Independence Day said, "You dont think they actually spend $20,000 on a hammer? $30,000 on a toilet seat?"

yj9jXMEzCZY

[Reiwa]

Where did you hear that?

This is all I could find with some cursory looking:

“The administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid, a stop-work order to review agency operations and the abrupt closure of USAID’s headquarters have stalled the aid distribution system, despite the administration’s claim that “life-saving humanitarian assistance” would be allowed to continue ”

- A 90 day freeze is a freeze. I don’t think it means “still send the baby formula though”

But then would critical items resume after 90 days? Or is the agency going to be shut down?

USAID is folded into the state department and Lil' Marco did a humanitarian waiver so PEPFAR and the like should be fine.

They say it's not working though. (https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/marco-rubio-usaid-humanitarian-waiver/)

"They" being Glenn Greenwald's band of scurrilous knaves.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

My guess is all the good programs, actually check out and are on budget and nobody is just scooping up millions during the hand offs. But a lot of the foreign aid shit? I bet 90% of that is just scooped up by evil people.

Like 6 million for Iraqi sesame street... come on, you could do that for like 10k, you dont need all that budget, someone is pocketing like 5.9 million of that

Ya I agree that food and medicine stuff probably checks out. The hard part is USAID isn’t responsible for what the corrupt gov’t of [x] shithole country does with their aid. I mean to some extent they SHOULD cut it off if it is being completely stolen or mismanaged though, you would think. If they didn’t cut it off, I’m assuming the reason is either too incompetent to notice it’s being wasted, or too scared of the retaliatory repercussions from either [x] shithole country or from within current US admin. To me those scenarios are more likely than some secret international racketeering

This is in regards to food and medicine and stuff though. Yea something like some Iraq tv show costing almost as much as Game of Thrones or whatever, that discrepancy in amount could be going anywhere yea

[Reiwa]

I could sesame street being more expensive abroad with the need for different brainwashing techniques for foreign cultures.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I could sesame street being more expensive abroad with the need for different brainwashing techniques for foreign cultures.

I personally think it is absolutely foolish for USAID to think that trying some media-based mass psychological manipulation to change attitudes in LGBT-unfriendly places is a better use for that money than simply using it to protect, up to and including getting the hell out of there, actual citizens of that country who are LGBT and suffering as a result

It’s like “yea the religious police threatened to stone me to death again, can you get me the hell out of here, or help me conceal my identity or sexuality from them better to help me survive?”

USAID: Nah, but don’t worry, this kids tv cartoon might change the entire country’s perception of you! So this is better. It’s all about going for the “root cause” to fix problems!

[Reiwa]

I personally think it is absolutely foolish for USAID to think that trying some media-based mass psychological manipulation to change attitudes in LGBT-unfriendly places is a better use for that money than simply using it to protect, up to and including getting the hell out of there, actual citizens of that country who are LGBT and suffering as a result

It’s like “yea the religious police threatened to stone me to death again, can you get me the hell out of here, or help me conceal my identity or sexuality from them better to help me survive?”

USAID: Nah, but don’t worry, this kids tv cartoon might change the entire country’s perception of you! So this is better. It’s all about going for the “root cause” to fix problems!

Winning hearts and minds (https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/08/22/a-bright-shining-slogan/)

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Winning hearts and minds (https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/08/22/a-bright-shining-slogan/)

To some extent I agree, especially when working with your own citizens. I am all about things like getting to them as kids and changing what they idolize or value to create some positive long term outcome

But now we’re taking the concept and applying it in a piddly amount in countries that have authority figures actively conditioning against it? You’ll have about as much luck changing hearts and minds with that as you would arguing over a US news articles comment section lol

I mean, Dems had the entire apparatus of Hollywood, gov’t admin, the music industry, and higher education pushing certain ideologies here some STILL remain super contentious and polarized. But a few cartoons and operas are going to shift them in an already less accepting country abroad? Come on, use that to smuggle LGBT people at least out of the remote shithole towns that will for sure kill them, if it’s too dangerous to try to get them out of the country

At least then you know your money is doing some tangible good for the population you are concerned about

[Reiwa]

To some extent I agree, especially when working with your own citizens. I am all about things like getting to them as kids and changing what they idolize or value to create some positive long term outcome

But now we’re taking the concept and applying it in a piddly amount in countries that have authority figures actively conditioning against it? You’ll have about as much luck changing hearts and minds with that as you would arguing over a US news articles comment section lol

I mean, Dems had the entire apparatus of Hollywood, gov’t admin, the music industry, and higher education pushing certain ideologies here some STILL remain super contentious and polarized. But a few cartoons and operas are going to shift them in an already less accepting country abroad? Come on, use that to smuggle LGBT people at least out of the remote shithole towns that will for sure kill them, if it’s too dangerous to try to get them out of the country

At least then you know your money is doing some tangible good for the population you are concerned about

It might be cheaper in the long term to change local cultures than to continually import the affected on a generational basis.

[Reiwa]

So are pennies still legal tender or are we just supposed to put them on train tracks now?

[shovelquest]

Ya I agree that food and medicine stuff probably checks out. The hard part is USAID isn’t responsible for what the corrupt gov’t of [x] shithole country does with their aid. I mean to some extent they SHOULD cut it off if it is being completely stolen or mismanaged though, you would think. If they didn’t cut it off, I’m assuming the reason is either too incompetent to notice it’s being wasted, or too scared of the retaliatory repercussions from either [x] shithole country or from within current US admin. To me those scenarios are more likely than some secret international racketeering

This is in regards to food and medicine and stuff though. Yea something like some Iraq tv show costing almost as much as Game of Thrones or whatever, that discrepancy in amount could be going anywhere yea

we just need smarter people in positions to be like... "ru kidding, you dont get that much for that.":p

[shovelquest]

So are pennies still legal tender or are we just supposed to put them on train tracks now?

https://i.imgur.com/pFtoRsT.png

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

It might be cheaper in the long term to change local cultures than to continually import the affected on a generational basis.

Oh it would definitely be cheaper, if it were possible

But like I mentioned, when the entire apparatus couldn’t even pull it off here (on some attitudes), it’s simply not going to happen in an already less accepting place with authority figures actively conditioning their citizens against it

A few cartoons, comic books or operas is just pissing into the wind, or pissing away that money. Any other investment would want some sort of confident evidence of just how it creates the long term gain. USAID’s flow chart be like:

Step 1: Show them a few cartoons
Step 2: ????
Step 3: They love gays now!

No one would invest

[shovelquest]

Check out this predictive programming. Too spooky 4 me. :eek: "do you want the eggs or not!"

https://youtu.be/LlYC-8Lj1oM?t=769

[Duik]

There are no conspiracies on one side and the other side is rife with them.

Sounds like the most plausable explaination.

StarShip USS uXb righted (lolocaust see what I just did there?). Good job people.

[Ekco]

it's finally happened


1gMEO9Y9zno

https://i.imgur.com/oAy4Skz.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/TS6mKdu.jpeg
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the reality we live in, is fuckin weird man...

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I didn’t really mind the national anthem at the Super Bowl (and was entertained by Kendrick at the half), but a lot of people online were talking smack about the anthem

And some were saying Whitney did it better. So I looked it up, and yea, she did IMO. Also partly because I used to have a crush on Whitney lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYKTMQl7MQ

[Trexller]

shit like this is endless, and all of it has to end

"Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed more than $10 million in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats and monkeys," Mace said. "These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country."

https://mace.house.gov/media/in-the-news/icymi-10m-taxpayer-funds-spent-creating-transgender-animals-rep-nancy-mace

if they don't know what trans hormone therapy does to mice then why are they giving it to children

[Crepido]

if they don't know what trans hormone therapy does.....

But we do, it creates brain dead NPC's like Botten

[Ekco]

10 point swing compared to his first month the first term, + approval every single day he's been in office so far, already beating his entire first term

https://i.imgur.com/Uwol6Qk.png

this timeline is hilarious, i'll stand here in the correct center of Blue Dog, patiently waiting for the party to return to me, should only take between 8 and 12 years.

[Trexller]

10 point swing compared to his first month the first term, + approval every single day he's been in office so far, already beating his entire first term

it feels weird to have an actually competent president

it feels even weirder that it's Donald Trump

[Botten]

shit like this is endless, and all of it has to end

"Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed more than $10 million in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats and monkeys," Mace said. "These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country."

https://mace.house.gov/media/in-the-news/icymi-10m-taxpayer-funds-spent-creating-transgender-animals-rep-nancy-mace

if they don't know what trans hormone therapy does to mice then why are they giving it to children

Since this was just announced, I am sure we will find the funding was investigative on part of the safety concerns. Test test test is what science is all about.

An Crepido...Oh LoL... the IRONY... lets not forget that Nancy Mace was the beneficiary of a DEI program (https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-nancy-mace-trolled-being-151952153.html),

In fact it is funnier when read from another extreme right, Matt Walsh, attacking her:
"The girlboss feminism routine isn’t just cringy. It also directly undermines our argument. The Citadel was a male-only space forced by law to admit females in the name of diversity and inclusion. That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces."

"Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It’s a ridiculous and tone deaf thing to brag about in this moment." (https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1883993290904580424?mx=2)

Many think their hatred for anything non-white cis male allows them to attack profession woman.

Even if the woman complains about DEI but got her job due to DEI.

MAGA love to get there foot stuck in their mouths. :rolleyes:

[Botten]

it feels weird to have an actually competent president

it feels even weirder that it's Donald Trump

You mean a felon looking to get rich yet again off fleecing America?

I mean the guy gave 100 million to Ivanka from USAID and you guys aren't even defending that LoL.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I’m too lazy to look up the study details, but how would you CREATE a trans person or animal?

That would have to be something introduced in vitro right? I mean for humans sorry but hormones alone won’t cut it

If you pump me full of estrogen, sure I’ll grow boobs, retain water, and probably get very moody, but at no point will I begin to believe I am a woman

So what kind of powerful chemical do they think can create a trans person or animal? I mean, we know conversion therapy doesn’t work

[Trexller]

I’m too lazy to look up the study details, but how would you CREATE a trans person or animal?

gender reassignment surgery

[Trexller]

You mean a felon looking to get rich yet again off fleecing America?

https://64.media.tumblr.com/0c9b4a22edd8ffaf017e2d0b8b7265ba/tumblr_oik2d4zu9T1qa4l1ko1_540.gif

[arvidez]

is my above ground pool a pool? everytime i mention to someone i have a pool i feel i need to explain it is above ground. is an above ground pool a pool?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

gender reassignment surgery

Nah, gender dysphoria is in the mind

If someone chopped your dick and balls off, you would consider yourself a Eunuch man, not a woman

If the study is to attempt to understand the origins of transgenderism, that would be astounding. But I consider the pursuit of that like attempting to determine the origins of autism

There is actually a decent amount of pushback by “activists” against anything resembling the pursuit of a cure for autism. There are some autistic people who would like nothing more than to be rid of it, usually due to that making socializing potentially easier

But there are others who see their autism as a part of their personality, identity, and worldview, without any negative connotations. Those people would be offended by the idea that they have some affliction that needs to be cured

Expect the same sort of mixed responses towards a trans “source” and the resulting cure/prevention

[Reiwa]

Since this was just announced, I am sure we will find the funding was investigative on part of the safety concerns. Test test test is what science is all about.

An Crepido...Oh LoL... the IRONY... lets not forget that Nancy Mace was the beneficiary of a DEI program (https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-nancy-mace-trolled-being-151952153.html),

In fact it is funnier when read from another extreme right, Matt Walsh, attacking her:
"The girlboss feminism routine isn’t just cringy. It also directly undermines our argument. The Citadel was a male-only space forced by law to admit females in the name of diversity and inclusion. That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces."

"Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It’s a ridiculous and tone deaf thing to brag about in this moment." (https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1883993290904580424?mx=2)

Many think their hatred for anything non-white cis male allows them to attack profession woman.

Even if the woman complains about DEI but got her job due to DEI.

MAGA love to get there foot stuck in their mouths. :rolleyes:

Religious right has a bone to pick with her because she talked about fornicating at the Nat'l Prayer Breakfast.

[cd288]

I believe the staff has said no political related discussions on these forums, have they not?

[Ekco]

I believe the staff has said no political related discussions on these forums, have they not?

report it if it triggers you, they don't care until someone else does.

[Reiwa]

I believe the staff has said no political related discussions on these forums, have they not?

That was part of a broad internet op to influence the election. It failed and now it's now.

[Ekco]

imagine if rogean got a directive the same way facebook did to silence free speech lol

[Reiwa]

imagine if rogean got a directive the same way facebook did to silence free speech lol

Oh, entirely voluntary.

[shovelquest]

we should deport anyone that would even come close to being this emotionally retarded.

I can't deal with reddit. They think that democracy is a religion.

https://i.imgur.com/izU5IzZ.png

[shovelquest]

senate reatrds (I mean democrats) made a whistle blower website to protect federal workers. And proved that we need to fire all senate democrats and federal workers:

Shit probably cost them 12 million dollars.

https://i.imgur.com/yuAsYLj.png

[Ekco]

Elon Musk Leads Bid to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion
The move escalates a years long tussle between Musk and OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and complicates the start-up’s plan to change its nonprofit status.

Feb. 10, 2025Updated 4:44 p.m. ET

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, according to two people familiar with the bid, escalating a yearslong tussle for control of the company between Mr. Musk and OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman.

The consortium includes Vy Capital and Xai, Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, as well as the Hollywood power-broker Ari Emanuel and other investors, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are ongoing.

[shovelquest]

Welcome to the real world lol!

https://i.imgur.com/kVvIxZ1.png

https://i.imgur.com/IsQrYez.png

[Ekco]

he says no government experience like that's a bad thing.

[shovelquest]

Downed another "top performer", woot!

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/musk-claims-fema-sent-59-million-to-hotels-to-house-illegal-immigrants-in-defiance-of-trump-order/

https://i.imgur.com/QyPZwZX.png

[Trexller]

billions upon billions of wasteful spending

we really don't need to tax income at all, do we?

[shovelquest]

https://i.imgur.com/Zz2lvzn.png

I fucking hate my generation... SO much.

We're literally unironically:

https://i.imgur.com/Ci926hD.png

[Reiwa]

There are no conspiracies on one side and the other side is rife with them.

Sounds like the most plausable explaination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Federalism

[shovelquest]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Federalism

Democrats are nixon fans now.

Try and convince me the parties didnt flip in 2016.

It's RNC/DNC vs MAGA Now boys.

[shovelquest]

You had your chance Mexico, hundreds of years and your only legacy is Los Angeles street tacos, the cartel, and people seeking amnesty in the USA.

https://i.imgur.com/6aSCitC.png

[Trexller]

You had your chance Mexico, hundreds of years and your only legacy is Los Angeles street tacos, the cartel, and people seeking amnesty in the USA.

https://i.imgur.com/6aSCitC.png

LOL This is hilarious

What an epic troll

[shovelquest]

https://i.imgur.com/KQxqisA.gif

[Trexller]

https://i.imgur.com/KQxqisA.gif

What should we rename next?

England? their name sucks

Rocky Mountains? kinda boring

Solar sytem? Sol is lame

[Reiwa]

Democrats are nixon fans now.

Try and convince me the parties didnt flip in 2016.

It's RNC/DNC vs MAGA Now boys.

All the executive power stuff goes back to Nixon, the Last King of America.

:p

[shovelquest]

What should we rename next?

England? their name sucks

Rocky Mountains? kinda boring

Solar sytem? Sol is lame

lol "As directed by the Reoperations for the Revolutionary War Executive Action, the nation formally known as the United Kingdom, is now called Doge Shitland. "

[shovelquest]

I say we make the day a 26 hour day with 14 & 12 hours.

Just to fuck with the swiss watch makers.

[shovelquest]

All the executive power stuff goes back to Nixon, the Last King of America.

:p

Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire! ;)

https://i.imgur.com/kXjzKZI.png

[Ekco]

I'm frantically trying to find a gulf of america shitcoin to buy

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