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Possibly. I just think back to the fact I haven't voted since the first Obama election, and even then I wrote in Mike Graven and Ron Paul.

Even in 2016 I though there was literally no difference between Orange Bastard and Murderous Bitch. The obvious lies in media were so blatant it felt surreal; and people just kinda believed. By 2020, even I was convinced maybe Orange man was marginally different.

But I think we just watched an 8 year long WWF match in politics, complete with stupid gimmicks. Trump was the perfect bad guy + underdog and all the deception made people emotionally invested like a kid watching wrestling or an man-child simping for some twitch streamer.

But in the world of the rich, that's not enough. The events of last Saturday felt like a blood sacrifice. It's not enough to flip the script. I think these crazy fucks really believe killing people in these shticks grants them some kind of power. In a way, the fact they can get away with it is a very real representation of that power.
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Lots of reports that DEI is "going away" but I can't help but think it's just going to be replaced by something else.

I hate to sound like a picky eater, but people who take serious pride in their cooking are the most egotistical assholes on the planet, especially if they get offended by you adding condiments to their food.

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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
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@PurpCat I don't know if they're fangirls, it seems like they're trolls. People have been trying to get Butch Hartman to bring up Randy Stair for years now either because they want his apology, want to hear his thoughts about it, or just want to fuck with him. Though I'm pretty sure that he either isn't aware of it or is just way too traumatized about the event that he doesn't want to talk or even think about it, but I don't get why it's a big deal. I mean iD Software had to bring up Columbine and their stance on it after it happened.

Anyway, most people who follow Butch Hartman don't seem to be aware of Randy Stair. Outside of lolcow circles, not many people were aware of it. It was really just another workplace shooting in some small town. Butch Hartman has been controversial over the years for other reasons, such as taking credit for other people's work, tracing other people drawings for commissions, "liking" Paul Joesph Watson and anti-SJW videos on YouTube, and probably the most egregious, openly joking about Mary Kate Bergman's (Timmy's VA for the Oh Yeah shorts) suicide on a podcast.

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defederating dobbs.town haa to be the epitome of "fuck'em if they can't take a joke" :)

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There’s a rabbit hole for every possibility. But as far as objective and probable reality goes, four things appear to be true...
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/was-the-attack-on-trumps-earlobe-a-staged-event.html
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NEW - Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance's long-time benefactor, is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration and will bring with him his deep ties to Orwellian intelligence contractors

unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/i

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> licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA

Who the fuck copyrights a meme ABOUT PIRACY, I'm going to pirate your meme and commercialize it.
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So out of pure bile fascination, I decided to watch a clip from Butch Hartman's Christian cartoon, The Garden Cartoon (yes that's what it's called) and apparently it has no problem promoting lust (one of the 7 deadly sins) because one of the characters is talking about how he deserves some action figure to be part of his collection. And I don't want to hear about how the episode is actually about joy from participating in the maze. The character has an action figure collection and the show doesn't point out that it is a problem (lust being one of the seven deadly sins and against the ten commandments means that it is a mortal sin to collect anything).

youchu.be/watch?v=NgMSZYhiY2Y

I can't believe that Butch Hartman is making this. He is free to do what he wants, but this feels like some Christian animation studio decided to copy his artstyle (which is actually copied from Dexter's Lab) to make their low-quality, direct-to-video cartoons to sell to Christian bookstores.

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