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Ever since the inauguration, anyone I know who is remotely left leaning has turned a complete fucking politisperg.

I just wanna know if anyone else is experiencing this, because it seems like it's not an isolated incident even in my personal life.
I’m replying because I’ve had a different experience. Most are exactly as emotional as they always were but I’ve had two, very TDS people I know ask me, quite sincerely, why I like Trump. Neither knew who I voted for before asking directly and one commented that they could not figure out which way I leaned politically - probably because my principles aren’t derived from a political party but I digress.

In both cases it was away from anyone who might overhear, and I told them if they really wanted to know I’m fine with talking about it. They asked real questions and listened to my answers.

I’ve reflected on this and I suspect that there are more lefties seeing some of the things Trump is doing and finding themselves OK with some it. But they can’t talk about it because they know what happens to people who leave the cult.

Imho, once someone has allowed a crack to form it’s nearly impossible to stop. Maybe I’m too optimistic but I see this as a sign that the left is losing even harder than we think.
 
They're going to be facing complete destruction soon regardless.

Hamas kidnapped the Bibas family (9 month old baby boy, 4 year old boy, father, and mother) on October 7th. In November of 23 they forced the father to claim in a video that the Bibas kids and mother were killed in an airstrike. The father was released as part of a hostage deal. Israel got the bodies of the rest of the family yesterday. Hamas made a huge party of transferring the bodies. Turns out the two boys were strangled to death in November of 23 and then mutilated to the point where the forensic doctors examining the corpse got sickened. What Hamas said was the mother's corpse was the corpse of some random woman, the mother is still missing.

The other body that was handed over was that of Oded Lifshitz. Oded was an 83 year old peace activist who spoke Arabic and advocated for Palestinian children. He spent his time volunteering to drive Gazan children from the gaza border crossing to the hospital. When his coffin was shown in the ceremony that Hamas did before handing off the coffins, Gazan children were shrieking with joy at the sight of a dead Jews coffin.

After that, Hamas planted bombs in 5 buses and a children's water park in Israel, some of which which detonated early because the terrorists set the detonation time as 9 pm instead of 9 am.

There's a major war coming soon.
Corpses are still valuable, they hold the corpse hostage and make deals hand them over. The incident I described was done with the corpses of hostages.


Getting the feeling that Trump is going to support Israel but that support will come at a fair market cost.
It should always have been fair market cost. I'm not a fan of Israel's influence in American politics, but I am a geopolitical realist when it comes to borders and the existence of nation states and such, so long as Israel can hold its borders, they're Israel's borders. HAMAS wants to be violent, inbred, retarded barbarians, then they should be treated as such. Seriously, I think their average IQ is like at least ten points lower than the West Bank's, because of the inbreeding. It's Pakistani levels.

Just horrific shit, but we are talking about the group of people that displayed a dead woman's body like it was some trophy. If the Islamic world isn't going to tardwrangle their worst parts, someone else is going to have to do it for them.

People who are not a member of the 1488 pillow club just don't understand. These are excellent pillows.
I got a pair of queen sized ones, so the $18.88 ones I believe, tossed them in the dryer. Takes a little getting used to, but literally fantastic support no matter how I sleep. Also have great customer service, Fed-Ex decided to send one of their functionally illiterate drivers and they dropped it off at the wrong house. Not the first time and usually I never get the packages back, so I'd called the My Pillow guys to report it, perfectly happy to take care of it and actually got someone who was clearly a native English speaker. The neighbor actually did drop them off for once, let them know not to send replacements, but great customer service both times. Be aware, however, the customer service line plays Elvis singing Amazing Grace on repeat.
 
The best steelman argument I could come up with is that cartels are basically the local government in some areas, plus they have strong influence at the national level. So if you considered them a political party for those reasons, then maybe that would fall under the "U.S. overreach" argument.

Still a weak argument as cartels are pretty terrible all around and are a huge reason why Mexico and the U.S. border are both violent shit shows.
That steel man falls flat when you remember that this would make cartel actions a declaration of war between US and Mexico rather than just terrorist groups within their borders attacking the US. Remember the story a week or two ago about cartels firing on border patrol? Tomahawk.
 
If Norm is on the list I would legit be devestated. In fact it would make him a REAL JERK! The worst part would be the hypocracy.
I'd be dumbfounded if Norm, Mike judge or either of the south park guys were on the list. matt and trey seem to be sort of weird and odd guys, but they seem to hate hollywood as much as normal folks do.
 
Mass suicide. They are way to addicted to reddit to simply flee en mass to a new home. You would see some redditfugees across the internet, but I think most would give up on life.
Obligatory Suicide is never the answer.

For some fucking reason I had this movie on dvd when I was a kid, I have no idea where I got it it just exists with me now.
I just found out that the movie in my mind I've always thought was Volcano was actually Dante's Peak and now I'm uncertain about everything.
 
Watch Andy Dick not be on the list. Dude is everything else in the book, but not a pedo. That would be a hilarious twist.
Who the fuck would invite Hollywood burnout, Andy Dick, to their exclusive child-rape island? There’s no way he’d be on that list. Not because he’s not a pedo (jury’s out), but just for the sheer fact that literally nobody wants to be around him.
 
I'd be dumbfounded if Norm, Mike judge or either of the south park guys were on the list. matt and trey seem to be sort of weird and odd guys, but they seem to hate hollywood as much as normal folks do.
I bet it's mostly degenerate Hollywood industry folks we already assumed would be on such a list; like Dicaprio (Mr. "I won't date women over the age of 25") Tobey Maguire (who is a notorious asshole) Jared Leto (who has long been rumored to diddle underage female fans), James Franco, a whole bunch of B/C-list actors from very popular shows back in the day, etc.
 
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