Well, that certainly didn’t age well. In fact… it exploded.
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And, intimidate.
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They want to get triggered. They go out of their way to find stuff they can pretend to get triggered by. There won’t be a rational analysis of the syllabi involving people with any knowledge of the subject. Just some dumb fucks parsing a text until they “find” something - or failing that, just making up some ludicrous shit and fling it around.
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Multiple GOP-led states and legislatures are focused on the staff, admissions, and training practices, too: 
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The JR-15.
No words.
ETA: the time mark cued up should be 5’28" but it’s not starting that way when I post it on the bbs. No idea.
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Fucking hypocrite! “Can’t legislate morality” - like hell!!! Look at every.goddamn.piece of legislation this state has passed to legislate every single “moral” issue except guns. I hate this place. I hate this timeline.
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think piece on how authoritarians (e.g Republicans, but in other countries as well) hollow out democracies. free to read
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No Labels talked a good game initially but it always had a whiff of bullshit.
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Works more reliable when the cue is entered in format
{youtube link}&t=5m28s
(Or &t=328s but converting everything into seconds is a hassle. And more often than not I screw it up.)
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Well would you look at this
Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”
Does he consider his grandfather a racist?
“I believe that there have been some positions that he’s held that have been bigoted or sort of disparaging,” Ludwig said. “But it’s stock Fox News, conservative American stuff. It’s ‘anybody who gets an abortion is a murderer.’ And ‘fatherless Black families are the reason why crime exists in this country.’ It’s stuff everybody’s heard at the Thanksgiving table every year.”
Ludwig said his grandfather’s paranoia had accelerated in the past couple of years.
“I hesitate to say he got more extreme, because all this stuff has been extreme,” he said, “and it’s been the same story for decades and decades, and generation to generation of people believing the same things. It’s just nowadays people are acting on it a little bit more.”
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(That’s not the example I’m thinking of but it’s the first one I found.)
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I wonder if he’ll try to pay it off by syphoning from his cache of blow
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/mike-lindell-2020-election/index.html
He also announced a “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” – in which anyone who could prove his data was unrelated to the 2020 election could win the multimillion payout – to get more traction in the media for his election fraud claims.
“I thought, well what if I put up a $5 million challenge out there, then it would get news, which it did,” Lindell said in the deposition. “So, then you got some attention.”
Zeidman signed up for the challenge, agreed to its contractual terms and discovered Lindell’s data to be largely nonsensical.
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