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Old 03-24-2023, 09:39 AM
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I thought AI couldn't generate ****??

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i came

also, for all the NPC's not in this thread


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how to be institutionally racist and oppressive to black people:




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https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/wh...-and-a-zealous

Leave California while you are still allowed.

if this kind of government doesn't scare you, your pronouns are Harder / Daddy
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Originally Posted by golftdibrad
https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/wh...-and-a-zealous

Leave California while you are still allowed.

if this kind of government doesn't scare you, your pronouns are Harder / Daddy
What a HUGE waste of tax payer money. Ugh.
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warmongers gonna warmonger.

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This just in . . .


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this one better:


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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand another one of those silly conspiracy theories proven true.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/illino...ry?id=97860462

Owner of COVID testing company accused of defrauding US government out of $83M

Zishan Alvi is also accused of giving patients false negative test results.

flag this as misinformation please.
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completely shocking revelations.

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That time you stopped caring about your voting base:


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Regarding the whole Tiktok uproar at the moment:


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Regarding the whole Tiktok uproar at the moment:
given...

However:
The real issue is the damage done to young lives via the challenges. (yes, I'm serious).
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Not just the young ones. My middle-aged boss is out a car because of the dick tock challenge about stealing them.
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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
The real issue is the damage done to young lives via the challenges. (yes, I'm serious).
Granted.

Although I would argue that dumb people intentionally hurting themselves for e-popularity is platform-independent. What I'd deem to be the current wave of such challenges (eating laundry soap, gallon-smashing, eating a spoonful of pure cinnamon, inhaling condoms, etc) really began in earnest around 10-15 years ago, initially on Youtube, and then migrating towards Facebook and Instagram.

TikTok merely happens to be the most trendy platform at the moment amongst people in that age group. If MySpace were still popular amongst teens, then we'd be seeing this behavior there.





Regardless of US govt' intervention, newer platforms will arise, and the youth of tomorrow will react to people using TikTok the way that you & I react to email addresses ending in @aol.com.
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Cis white homegrown domestic terrorist men out at it again...


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One of the most recent articles on the school shooting in Nashville today, condensed for emphasis:

A 28-year-old suspect opened fire at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, killing three 9-year-old children and three adults before being killed by responding officers, officials say.
(...)
Police identified the shooter as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was from the Nashville area and was once a student at the school. They initially identified Hale as female before clarifying that Hale was transgender, having been assigned female at birth before later identifying as male.


Well, thank goodness we're now able to respect the murderer's preferred pronouns. And we get to maintain the "young, white male" narrative as well.

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/female-shoote...200014093.html
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One of the most recent articles on the school shooting in Nashville today, condensed for emphasis:

A 28-year-old suspect opened fire at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, killing three 9-year-old children and three adults before being killed by responding officers, officials say.
(...)
Police identified the shooter as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was from the Nashville area and was once a student at the school. They initially identified Hale as female before clarifying that Hale was transgender, having been assigned female at birth before later identifying as male.


Well, thank goodness we're now able to respect the murderer's preferred pronouns. And we get to maintain the "young, white male" narrative as well.

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/female-shoote...200014093.html
I've been following this on another forum. What's sad is that one of the news outlets apologized for using the "wrong" pronouns describing this person. I'm sure the parents were upset by that apology. Also, saw some tweets saying misgendering the murderer was just as bad as the acts committed. I would say I was surprised but I'm not really.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One of the most recent articles on the school shooting in Nashville today, condensed for emphasis:

A 28-year-old suspect opened fire at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, killing three 9-year-old children and three adults before being killed by responding officers, officials say.
(...)
Police identified the shooter as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was from the Nashville area and was once a student at the school. They initially identified Hale as female before clarifying that Hale was transgender, having been assigned female at birth before later identifying as male.


Well, thank goodness we're now able to respect the murderer's preferred pronouns. And we get to maintain the "young, white male" narrative as well.

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/female-shoote...200014093.html
And you know what? That is just going to drive the spike deeper between camp A and camp B; the fact that it is being reported is likely intended to generally stoke anger in gun rights activists. Those people usually have other extreme values such as "don't mutilate children" or "its obvious fact there are two sexes" along with "murder is bad, and randomly shooting kids is bader."

You know what doesn't need gender to exist? Evil, like this person.

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I've been following this on another forum. What's sad is that one of the news outlets apologized for using the "wrong" pronouns describing this person. I'm sure the parents were upset by that apology. Also, saw some tweets saying misgendering the murderer was just as bad as the acts committed. I would say I was surprised but I'm not really.
I'm all for the first amendment and all, but sometimes I wonder if some people are indeed to stupid to be allowed to speak.
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