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Should be a wild four years.

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BREAKING: In the past few days, Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, two US officials told Reuters.

My working theory is that Israel didn't initially want regime change but the strikes were so successful and the response so weak that they might go for it anyway
There goes my prediction that he wasn't going to survive the weekend
 
I absolutely couldn't be bothered to follow the no kings thing, and haven't really heard anything noteworthy about it at all. Did literally anything significant come from it beyond someone in the geriatric brigade breaking a hip from being out of their rocking chair for too long?
Thanks to them, the United States does not have a king!
 
The most visceral argument against transhumanism is Bryan Johnson, a man whose neurotic scramble against aging has resulted in him looking like a debonair lesbian or an animatronic angel from a biblical theme park-- correctly sexless, obviously robotic, and unintentionally terrifying:
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Clearly, Bryan has wondered away from God's light, winding up in both the uncanny and untranny valley. I can't imagine a more obvious sign of divine disapproval short of a lighting bolt.
Isn't he the one who gets blood transfusions from his teenage son? And compares his morning wood with him too. Fucking creepy

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National Security Council Chief Hanegbi: Reuters report that US vetoed Khamenei's assassination is a fake from the land of fakes
Is it possible they're denying the story because they just want to keep their hands as clean of this whole mess as possible?

And frankly, going for regime change is stupid IMHO. We've seen what previous efforts have brought to MidEast countries. Knocking off the Ayatollah really won't change anything except maybe that the IRGC will go from being the de facto rulers of the country to the de jure rulers of the country.
 
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It really is just the olds.
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Boomers were mostly teenagers or college-age adults when the civil rights movement kicked off. It’s why they have been trying to replicate the movement for decades since it makes them feel like the one time in their life where they feel like they accomplished anything.
It's their last hurrah, but as I noted during the protest of a couple months ago, it reminds me of the Civil War reunions with the old doddering vets putting on their uniforms one last time to shake a Rebel's or Yankee's hand.
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Same energy.
 
BREAKING: In the past few days, Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, two US officials told Reuters.

My working theory is that Israel didn't initially want regime change but the strikes were so successful and the response so weak that they might go for it anyway
I hope not. They probably can pull it off. They will destabilize the region for decades if they do.
 
the claim mass immigration in the early 20th C caused no significant problems because the Irish & Italians assimilated quickly is a polite fiction. They caused massive problems that cost billions, killed people (look up the Galileanists), and wrecked economies, and it took nearly a hundred years to sort of get it under control. We still haven't completely dealt with Italian organized crime, and the Irish Daly and Madigan families have destroyed Chicago. The Irish-dominated Tammany Hall effectively turned the Democratic Party into a crime syndicate, something that continues on to this day. Mass migration from uncivilized cultures causes permanent problems. We will probably never un-fuck the Democrats, get rid of Cosa Nostra, or fix the damage of Irish machine politics.
With enough time you can normalize anything. Countries like brazil used to be pretty safe until the 60's, then it became a warzone and still is to this day, people there just shrug and accept that getting shot while parking your car is the new normal, much like europeans are getting used to the usual truck of peace running over children.
i swear, all it would take to fix the whole student loan situation in america is to remove the laws and regulations that give special protections to these loans.
just allow them to be discharged in a bankruptcy like any other loan, it would fix so many issues. debtors would have a way to get out of crippling debt like intended, lenders would have to do actual risk assessment instead of handing out these loans like candy, and without government guaranteed infinity money the universities would have to actually think about keeping tuition down to a reasonable level if they don't want to lose all their students.
That ponzi has snowballed to ridiculous levels, they are not gonna do that.
I would say animosity between WASPs and Irish/Italians dissipated because of integration
More like because new more foreign groups entered the nation and suddenly a bunch of redheads and guys with names ending in a vowel weren't such a big issue anymore. The more foreign an immigrant is the most likely it is to create problems, europeans constantly mention they rather have latino immigrants as at least those are come from a western-ish culture and are christian. The average mexican is a far better immigrant than even the best somali or afghan.
 
Nobody realised that she suddenly went back 30 years ? Nobody recognised her daughter that lived there too for a long while?
People are documented living next to serial killers for decades and not knowing. Is it really that shocking? She has no signs of dementia, she could sit up with no help (unlike others that have made it to that age), she burned pictures of her in her youth after she started getting notoriety, AND there was no autopsy.

You can believe what you want but its more plausible in my mind that her daughter lied about it. The record keeping was poorer and stuff like that was much easier to fake.
Her husband was perfectly fine with this particular lie for the 8 years he survived after her daughter death?
Are you seriously saying people don't lie and especially wouldn't lie for family? Do you live in this reality? What color is the sky in your world? Does it rain donuts like a Simpons episode? I'm very curious now
 
Not very likely, especially given a lot of people aren't going to be voting Vance who voted Trump.

Point in fact I will be remaining Republican purely to vote against him in the primaries, I'm sure I won't be the only one.
I've never actually seen a post where I can see the soyjack seething on the other side of the internet, but, well, here we are.
 
Are you seriously saying people don't lie and especially wouldn't lie for family?
what purpose would they have had to perpetrate this ruse from her daughter's funeral starting in the early 1930s onward? why would they bother? the 'oldest person alive' thing wasn't even a thing we cared about until like the 80s, it was just some niche trivia. how would they have manipulated an entire town to lie about the daughter's funeral to the paper that recorded it in arles? it's not like it was one or two people, it was a lot. it was documented.

AND there was no autopsy.
unless there's suspicion of a crime, or a reason to question why your family member died, there's usually not an autopsy done, especially when you're over 100 and the family doesn't care for it. some people don't want their relative's body sliced open for no reason other than "gee, wonder what made nana, age 122, croak."

and all this effort, the work required, why would they lie? for what benefit, for what purpose?
 
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