2021-06-07 at 12:11 PM UTC
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Im so conflicted.
Originally posted by Fonaplats
2 girls after me.
I got a good past that seemingly was dead only to be revived in ways I never imagined.
And i got a possible future with a woman and child that scares me for the unknown but is exciting for the same.
There can only be one.
I dont know what im doing.
My feelings are so twisted and either way Im going to have regrets.
This is too much too fast.
Maybe Ill just take time to myself.
Im not sure who I am and my life has beem changing so fast.
Neither is the answer.
6 months on your own to get shit in order, then 2yrs of casual fu...dating before you think of anything further.
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Originally posted by aldra
if you kill yourself someone else will put a suit and tie on you
Kek!
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Maybe xvideos will extend your life by 5-10 years without having to own half yo shit
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Originally posted by POLECAT
I'LL KEEP MY EYE OUT FOR THAT STRAIN NEXT TIME I GET SEEDS
It's actually the offspring of GG4 and Cookies and Cream, but Cookies and Cream is a child of Girlscout Cookies. Tastes very much like GSC, with that Indica-dominant headbuzz, but also has that GG4 body buzz, skunky smell and taste.
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2021-06-06 at 6:50 PM UTC
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Chell and I are broken up.
Originally posted by Solstice
I said alfa its that faggot's word enhancement
lol lanny is so beta that he would even forcefully convert the word al
pha into betta.
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2021-06-06 at 5:20 PM UTC
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Chell and I are broken up.
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready
Evidence shows a woman will extend a mans life by 5-10 years.
Or, do they just make it feel like it?
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2021-06-06 at 5:05 PM UTC
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Chell and I are broken up.
Originally posted by Solstice
beta men don't get married anymore, they cut off the attachment at the fuck buddy level.
no, thats what alphámen do these days.
beta males surrender their freedom and independences to prostitutes they call wives.
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I'm going to bed in my tent outside bossbebe's house. Goodnight.
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Originally posted by stl1
The Guardian
Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy?
David Smith in Washington
If Donald Trump’s inaugural address can be summed up in two words – “American carnage” – Joe Biden’s might be remembered for three: “Democracy has prevailed.”
The new president, speaking from the spot where just two weeks earlier a pro-Trump mob had stormed the US Capitol, promised that the worst was over in a battered, bruised yet resilient Washington.
But now, four and a half months later the alarm bells are sounding on American democracy again. Even as the coronavirus retreats, the pandemic of Trump’s “big lie” about a stolen election spreads, manifest in Republicans’ blocking of a commission to investigate the insurrection. And state after state is imposing new voting restrictions and Trump allies are now vying to run future election themselves.
With Republicans still in thrall to Trump and odds-on to win control of the House of Representatives next year, there are growing fears that his presidency was less a historical blip than a harbinger of systemic decline.
“There was a momentary sigh of relief but the level of anxiety is actually strangely higher now than in 2016 in the sense that it’s not just about one person but there are broader structural issues,” said Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die. “The weird emails that I get are more ominous now than they were in 2016: there seems to be a much deeper level of misinformation and conspiracy theories.”
‘There was a momentary sigh of relief but the level of anxiety is actually strangely higher now than in 2016,’ said Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die.
There seems to be a much deeper level of misinformation and conspiracy theories
Daniel Ziblatt
Just hours after the terror of 6 January, 147 Republicans in Congress voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election despite no evidence of irregularities. Trump was impeached for inciting the violence but Senate Republicans ensured his acquittal – a fork in the road where the party could have chosen another destiny.
As Trump continued to push his false claims of election fraud, rightwing media and Republican state parties fell into line. A farcical “audit” of votes is under way in Arizona with more states threatening to follow suit. Trump is reportedly so fixated on the audits that he has even suggested – wrongly – he could be reinstated as president later this year.
Perhaps more insidiously, Trump supporters who tried to overturn the 2020 election are maneuvering to serve as election officials in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. If they succeed in becoming secretaries of state, they would exercise huge influence over the conduct of future elections and certifying their results. Some moderate Republican secretaries of state were crucial bulwarks against Trump’s toxic conspiracy theories last year.
The offensive is coupled with a dramatic and sweeping assault on voting rights. Republican-controlled state legislatures have rammed through bills that make it harder to vote in states such as Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Montana. Their all-out effort in Texas was temporarily derailed when Democrats walked out of the chamber, denying them a quorum.
Ziblatt, a political scientist at Harvard University, commented: “The most worrying threat is at the state level, the effort to change voting rules, which I think is prompted by the failed effort to alter the election outcome of 2020.
“The lesson Republicans have learnt from that is they don’t really suffer any electoral consequences from their base pursuing this kind of thing. In fact, they’re rewarded for it. That’s very ominous because that suggests they’ll continue to try to do this until they pay an electoral price for it, and so far they don’t sense they’re paying an electoral price for it.”
Where is this authoritarian ecosystem heading? For many, the nightmare scenario is that Trump will run again in 2024 and, with the benefit of voter suppression, sneak a win in the electoral college as he did in 2016. If that fails, plan B would be for a Republican-controlled House to refuse to certify a Democratic winner and overturn the result in Trump’s favour.
Disputed presidential elections have been thrown to the House before, Ziblatt noted. “It’s not unprecedented but in those earlier periods you had two parties that were constitutional, fully democratic parties. The thought of having a dispute like that when one of the parties is only questionably committed to democratic rules and norms is very frightening.”
People use elections to get into power and then, once in power, assault democratic institutions
Daniel Ziblatt
In How Democracies Die, Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky argue that democracies often come under threat not from invading armies or violent revolutions but at the ballot box: death by a thousand cuts. “People use elections to get into power and then, once in power, assault democratic institutions,” Ziblatt said.
“That’s Viktor Orbán [in Hungary], that’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [in Turkey], that’s Hugo Chávez [in Venezuela] and what’s distinctive about that is that it often begins incrementally. So people continue to go about their lives, continue to vote, parliament continues to meet and so you think, ‘Is there really a threat?’ But the power concentrates so it becomes harder and harder to unseat an incumbent.”
He added: “We shouldn’t overlook that fact that we had a change in government in January. What that suggests is our electoral institutions do work better than they do in Hungary. The opposition in the United States is more well-organised and financed than the Hungarian opposition or the Turkish opposition, so we shouldn’t overstate that. But on the other hand, the tendencies are very similar.”
Republicans are also playing a very long game, rewiring democracy’s hard drive in an attempt to consolidate power. Trump is arguably both cause and effect of the lurch right, which takes place in the wider context of white Christians losing majority status in America’s changing demographics.
His grip on the party appears only to have tightened since his defeat, as evidenced by the ousting of Trump critic Liz Cheney from House leadership and their use of a procedural move known as the filibuster to block the 6 January commission. Critics say that, in an atmosphere of partisan tribalism, the party is now driven by a conviction that Democratic victories are by definition illegitimate.
Kurt Bardella, a former Republican congressional aide who is now a Democrat, said: “It’s very clear that the next time there is a violent effort to overthrow our government, Republicans in Congress will be knowing accomplices in that effort. They are the getaway driver for the democratic arsonists.”
Bardella, a political commentator, added: “It has become painfully transparent that the Republican party platform is 100% anti-democratic and it is their ambition to impose minority rule on the majority going forward, because they know that when the playing field is level, they can’t win and so they have instead decided to double down on supporting a wannabe autocrat, and are doing everything they can to destabilise the democratic safeguards that we’ve had in place since the founding of our country.
“We cannot underestimate the gravity of this moment in time because what happens over the next month or year could be the turning point in this battle to preserve our democracy.”
The threat poses a dilemma for Biden, who was elected on a promise of building bridges and seeking bipartisanship. He continues to do so while issuing increasingly stark calls to arms. Speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week, he repeated his “democracy prevailed” mantra but then warned of a “truly unprecedented assault on our democracy” and announced that the vice-president, Kamala Harris, would lead an effort to strengthen voting rights.
Proposed national legislation to address the issue, however, depends on a Senate currently split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans (Harris has the tie-breaking vote). In order to pass it with a simple majority, Democrats would first have to abolish the filibuster but at least two senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have ruled out such a step.
Facing this stalemate, activists and civil society are trying to create a sense of urgency. More than a hundred scholars this week released a joint statement, posted by the New America thinktank, expressing “deep concern” at “radical changes to core electoral procedures” that jeopardise free and fair elections. “Our entire democracy is now at risk,” the scholars wrote.
Last year’s poll was dubbed “the election that could break America” and the nation was widely considered to have dodged a bullet; it may not be so fortunate in 2024. Yvette Simpson, chief executive of the progressive group Democracy for Action, added: “We’re getting to the place where we might not be able to call ourselves a democracy any more. That’s how dire it is.
“It is not just the fact that there is an orchestrated, concerted effort across our country to interfere with the most fundamental right of any democracy but that they’re doing it so blatantly, so out in the open and so unapologetically, and that there have been many attempts and there’s no easy way to stop it.”
Simpson compared Democrats’ victory over Trump to the film Avengers: Endgame and warned against complacency. “We just defeated Thanos and everybody was like, ‘OK, let’s take a break,’ and I’m like, ‘No, we cannot take a break because the GOP never take a break’. They know that we’re taking a break and that’s why they’re doing it now and so aggressively: ‘You think you won because Trump is out? Oh, we got you.’”
Ibram X Kendi, a historian and author of How to Be an Antiracist, added: “At the end of the day, there is an all out war on American voters, particularly younger voters, particularly younger voters of colour, and it’s happening from Texas to Florida and it’s really causing the American people to decide whether we want our democracy or not.”
tl/dr
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2021-06-05 at 4:26 AM UTC
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Chell and I are broken up.
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready
Evidence shows a woman will extend a mans life by 5-10 years.
Bullshit.
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2021-06-04 at 10:45 PM UTC
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Blocking license plate readers
Sovereign citizens don't need plates
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2021-06-04 at 9:14 PM UTC
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Happy PRIDE month
Lesbians doesn't seem as bad because women pamper each other naturally.
But men fucking each other and fisting is a sick fucked up act.
Or not. Who am I to judge
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Why's it gotta be dark...seems racist.
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Fonaplats
victim of incest
[daylong jump-start that nome]
Hi niggas,
Dis ya boy Fonapole or Poleplats.
I painted a house today.
It looks like shit but I did a better job than the drunk mexican did who couldn't figure out how to use his paint sprayer and lost 2 gallons squirting it allover the floor.
My regular job is kind of on hold at the moment.
I went in 1 day this week and have called off everyday since.
Im not fired because their computers are easily compromised and my 8 points is only 4 now.
In other news my break up with Chell is not going very smooth.
She still loves me and wont let me go.
I called the cops on her yesterday for throwing stuff and being mean.
Chell is super pissed at me for having a new girlfriend.
I can understand her point of view but I honestly didnt see much point in trying anymore.
Now Chell is being super nice and doing all those things I bugged her about for months in hopes of winning me back.
My new girlfriend has to spend the weekend with her husband taking their kids to the zoo.
It's a big fucking mess.
And to top it all off I am spending my night at my deceased aunt's house watching her tragically autistic 36 year old son who can not care for himself at all.
He is a big big boy and can sometimes be a real handful.
One time he threw me through a door so hard it bowed the whole wall out.
Im hoping a big bag of drugs can be enough to keep him somewhat calm tonight but he jumps and yells and claps his hands and screams and smears his poo on the walls and sometimes just runs around naked.
But he is my cousin and I love him.
The plan was to get him in a group home on Tuesday but when my Dad and uncle got him there they found that the staff consistent of 2 pregnant women and the plan was quickly abandoned for fear he would take all their lives.
I may be exaggerating a bit but the fact is someone needs to be able to jump on his back and wrestle him down if he starts literally throwing shit into the fan.
To make up for my lack on income lately I have been flipping a house with a buddy of mine who is paying me $20 under the table (for now).
Last weekend we gutted an entire 3 bedroom house leaving only the ceiling and walls.
Today I put a coat of paint on everything except the kitchen and bathroom which I had wished I would have left the toilet in.
Tomorrow I hope to put a second coat on everything and get the painting to 90% done.
Chell doesn't want me living in the apartment while I am seeing another woman but the housing market is a vicious one and I am pretty damn broke lately.
Also she needs me for financial reasons so today I just moved my stuff into my office.
Actually she threw/dumped it in there for me.
My credit score went down because I forgot to pay on a credit card and I can't remember my login to pay it as I took my stimi-check gaming computer to my mom's house so Chell wouldn't throw it out the window.
Chell gave the cops my bong after I had called them on her.
They thought it was pretty nice and gave it back to me.
I have no idea what I am doing anymore and I really can't believe I gone fucked shit up in such true space nigga fashion.
In Chell's words I'm "fucking scandalous"
I tried getting a job making diesel engines for the Duramax diesel trucks but it turns out I get paid more working my crappy job I sort of still have now.
Hopefully something else will come up for me soon as I could really use a few more dollars an hour and im trying to get it before the unemployment benefits run out and there will be 200 mother fuckers trying to get every minimum wage job there is.
I really don't know what else there is to do anymore.
I'm just trying to take all this one day at a time.
Really hoping spending sometime with a violent grown man who screams a bunch will allow me to think clearly.
I miss you guys and just wanted to let you know I'm still alive and kickin'.
Hope to make fun of you all soon.
xoxo
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Originally posted by Technologist
At the end of august, when trump is still a schmuck and living a lowly existence
What's your life like that a billionaire playboy's existence is "lowly" to you?
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Originally posted by Technologist
I don’t watch your looney videos, I’ve seen what comes out of these videos that are corrupting your mind. Just because I don’t watch YOUR videos doesn’t mean I don’t keep myself informed. YOU ARE THE LAST PLACE I GET MY NEWS😂😂😂😂
You get it from CNN - Chinese National News.
You read chinese propaganda, comrade.
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Most women always think it's their job to change their man. They don't understand that they need to mind their own business, to a certain extent. They will often cross the line and think nothing of it, so sometimes there has to be repercussions.
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2021-06-01 at 11:13 AM UTC
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Dothead...
Originally posted by WellHung
dothead.
STFU Chin nuts, Douglas Monks thought you were a grade A loser and no one likes you. Your life has amounted to a steaming pile of shit. 😀
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2021-05-31 at 4:09 PM UTC
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Start spreading the news
post pics of ur chinks dik
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2021-05-30 at 4:05 PM UTC
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Technologist is DEAD
Originally posted by Technologist
…He’s not a man of his word, are ya spectral😁
Yes, he is. Always. -SpectraL only half left because he only half lost. The fat lady has not yet sung. If it's revealed that the 2020 election was rigged, that would make Trump the winner and Biden the loser. This is not over yet. There's really no good reason to concede right now.
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