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Old Sep 15, 2024 | 01:54 PM
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Old Sep 16, 2024 | 09:09 AM
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Old Sep 16, 2024 | 10:34 AM
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The Amazon customer reviews on Ryan Routh's long, rambling manifesto self-published book are pretty hilarious:

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Old Sep 16, 2024 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
The Amazon customer reviews on Ryan Routh's long, rambling manifesto self-published book are pretty hilarious:

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Old Sep 16, 2024 | 01:08 PM
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Not sure what's worse - his grammar, his content, or the fact that his book uses four different fonts on the cover.
Old Sep 16, 2024 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Supe
Not sure what's worse - his grammar, his content, or the fact that his book uses four different fonts on the cover.
I'm gonna go with D: The fact that he is the natural and entirely predictable result of an administration which has spent the past four years demonizing a specific politician, whipping their fanbase into a frenzied mob who believe that he is pure evil, and that if he is allowed to take office for a second term the results will be catastrophic beyond description.

But it's not the administration's fault, mind you, because they went on Twitter and said "violence is bad" after both botched assassination attempts.
Old Sep 16, 2024 | 02:40 PM
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According to Time Magazine (which qualifies as Mainstream Media in my book), Ryan Routh's political ideaology is "unclear."


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Old Sep 16, 2024 | 06:02 PM
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Seems pretty unclear to Time Magazine, a periodical that disappeared from public consciousness prior to the turn of the millennium.
Old Sep 16, 2024 | 08:31 PM
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Not to go off on a tangent, but last night I watched the civil war movie and I’m not sure I understood the story. Maybe someone can help me.

Was it the communists that went to DC to kill the pres and they were supposed to be the good guys? What if it was the ccp?

I’m assuming that CA which is currently a socialist state eventually moved towards communism and by political sprawl they converted TX to socialism/communism who were supporters of CA so they willing joined them.

The reason I bring this up is because it was very violent and I could see how it might stoke the fire of a mentally ill person to carry out some fantasy to gain some type of notoriety. Most likely he will only get probation and a psych evaluation. Needed to make an accounting error in ny to get a max charge.
Old Sep 17, 2024 | 08:57 AM
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Speaking of the difference between traditional legacy media (newspapers, radio & TV, news magazines) vs new media...


Old Sep 17, 2024 | 03:21 PM
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Tim Walz
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/7iixvLQRJHZNVqgj/

He and Taylor Swift have more in common than I thought.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
speaking of propaganda.



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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 05:46 AM
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...es-2024-09-18/

BEIRUT, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations that killed nine people, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.

Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.

"The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.

The source said 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.

Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone "undetected" by Hezbollah for months.

Hezbollah was reeling from the attack, which left fighters and others bloodied, hospitalised or dead. One Hezbollah official said the detonation was the group's "biggest security breach" since the Gaza conflict began.

In February, Hezbollah drew up a war plan that aimed to address gaps in the group's intelligence infrastructure. Around 170 fighters had already been killed in targeted Israeli strikes on Lebanon, including one senior commander and a top Hamas official in Beirut.
In a televised speech on Feb. 13, the group's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah sternly warned supporters that their phones were more dangerous than Israeli spies, saying they should break, bury or lock them in an iron box.

Instead, the group opted to distribute pagers to Hezbollah members across the group's various branches - from fighters to medics working in its relief services.

The explosions maimed many Hezbollah members, according to footage from hospitals reviewed by Reuters. Wounded men had injuries of varying degrees to the face, missing fingers and gaping wounds at the hip where the pagers were likely worn.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez

AOC doesn't seem too concerned about rockets aimed at civilians from Hamas / Hezbollah...
Old Sep 18, 2024 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
AOC doesn't seem too concerned about rockets aimed at civilians from Hamas / Hezbollah...
Neither was Hakim:


Old Sep 18, 2024 | 05:49 PM
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I wonder if the pagers played one of the old Motorola "pleasing alerts" before blowing their eyeballs out.
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Originally Posted by Supe
I wonder if the pagers played one of the old Motorola "pleasing alerts" before blowing their eyeballs out.
I wonder how many media and UNRWA members are now in the hospital?

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