Ryan LeBlond
Checking out a new social media site.
Trying to get away from toxicity.
Why can I not upload a picture for my profile?
Oh, because I love that white in blue so much I'm leaving it.🤦
- Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
- Surveillance State!!
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Echo chambers work. Just look at how right wing media works with messaging, straight down to politicians spouting the talking points. Build a better echo chamber. Anyone saying otherwise is lying to themselves about all the evidence out there that it actually does work.
- VC's and Wall Street people are just degenerate gamblers who got a lucky pull on the slot machine, usually once or twice. Nobody asks how many pulls it took to get that jackpot, or how many dollars they fed the machine, or how many times they doubled or nothing on the next coin flip.
- Mike Johnson: "Medicaid is intended, remember, as a safety net for young pregnant mothers and the elderly and disabled and vulnerable populations, not for young able-bodied men without dependents. Those are the kinds of people we're taking off the program."
- Another Christian with that false witness sin in order to serve greed and their lust for power. Just remember that according to these Christians you can live any life you want as long as you accept Jesus before you die. So, sin away and don't go to church.
- I couldn’t be more excited that Freaked is coming with all kinds of extras, gloriously restored from the original neg! This movie means a lot to me and we’ve been working hard on this for years. Not easy! HUGE thanks to the good folks at Disney, Giant/Drafthouse and Umbrella for making it happen!
- Such a superb movie. I haven't watched it in 20 yrs but I still remember so many lines from that movie.
- One thing you can definitely say about America today is: It's just another pleasant valley Sunday...
- I bet you're wondering how I knew That vaccines were killing you There's some random guy on the internet Between us two guys You know he wants you dead I wasn't surprised, I must say To be in this cabinet you're insane You know I heard it on the Internet And now I think they all want us dead
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- Think China's social credit scoring.
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- They aren't pulling up the ladders, they're just burning it all down.
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- Layoffs are coming. I give it a week at most.
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- It's time for the percolator.
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- If I had kids like his I too would assume everyone else is an idiot as well.
- Why won't people engage my bad faith arguments in good faith? "Meta-whataboutism For Dorks" in this month's The Atlantic.
- Sounds like the start of a song for the hit musical "Conclave"
- Scott Bessent is worth $521 million
- He's letting us know he's miserable with all that money so we should just trust him that being poor is the way to be happy.
- There are about to be a lot of unemployed people that don't have to worry about choosing between going to work and protesting this horseshit.
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- Let free dumb ring.
- Helping people in disaster areas is woke now.
- NEW: Per a memo @mollytaft.com obtained, the Trump admin—which has lately been griping about "woke FEMA grants"—is ending FEMA's practice of going door to door in disaster areas in search of survivors to counsel on how to obtain aid to which they're entitled
- What's that old saying "anything worth doing is worth doing for profit"
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- But think of all the stuff you now have to pay for vs all the stuff tax payers footed the bill on so you could increase your stock portfolio with inside information and now you have to play the markets on an even playing field. C'mon, what kind of life is that?
- Markwayne Mullin: "Let's have Riker & Alcatraz both open. So we got east coast & west coast both covered, & put our most notorious criminals in them so people understand we're a nation of laws again, unlike under Biden... I don't believe in keeping them comfortable. I want them to regret the crime"
- That whole party is filled with sick sadistic mediocre white people and their scrap begging lapdogs.
- Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie No Country For Old Men on fixed incomes
- I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.
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- "That's not a Q-tip, that's a generic cotton swab" they say as it still does the same damn job.
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- Captain Semantic swoops in for an important message.
- at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?
- As a man raising a young man, a lot of them reject it. They think they know better and set themselves in the road to failure. They develop a sense of entitlement to things they are unwilling to work for and titles they haven't earned. Plus, a lot of parents are adolescent minded themselves.
- It's not a parade, it's a funeral procession for the country.
- I would ask you to research where the ingredients to make those come from, the raw materials to make those ingredients, the packaging and its supply chain. The supply chain is too intermingled to be separated. I learned this selling coffee and coffee supplies in the first admin's tariff increase.
- I couldn't figure out why Torani, an American manufacturer of syrups, raised prices. Then I started to research. Chemicals from all over the world, especially China. Then there is the packaging, plastic or glass for bottles and paper to make the boxes they ship to distributors in.
- We really need a better source of thinking tanks that actually research this stuff to show people how things work. We are ignorant of a lot of this because who has time to research supply chains for their Starbucks or 7/11 coffee.
- I think crashing the global economy so everyone remembers Christmas isn't about gifts, it's about being able to say "Merry Christmas" without living in fear, is brilliant. It's like Trillion-D chess. Check-mate libs.
- Why don't people post a link to the article? What good is a screenshot? Especially in this day and age where things are so easily manipulated to blind people with emotional trash.
- Oh, when you Google it there's no Der Spiegel piece on this. I fucking hate assholes who do this bullshit for rage-clicks. Just as bad as the people you're purporting to fight against.
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- It's funny how you never hear the idiots screaming about professional sports players from other countries stealing American jobs.
- SV elites: we should use tech and AI to revolutionize education (but their kids go to private schools that don't do this), college isn't important (but their kids go to the best ones), and everyone's jobs can/should be replaced (but not the ones for them or their kids)
- I'm sure someone can program a compulsive gambling AI.
- As a parent, one advantage to AI is, when my kids don't believe me about something I just pop the issue into a model and the AI backs me tf up.
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- Hitler was big on Coal too.
- You don't need AI, you just need to get out of your walled off ivory towers and live like us peasants for a day. It ain't hard if you're not purposely being a giant doofus about reality.
- SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
- "We need to protect the Jews so we can blame the Jews for killing Jesus and also we need to wipe Israel and its Jewish inhabitants off the map so Jesus will come back and save us from ourselves!!!" People need to understand what is going on with these people. They're insane wannabe mass murderers.
- I smoke, I drink, I'm out of shape, but I would totally cage match to the death some of these right-wing "manly" grifters and win. I would even do it with just my feet while holding and drinking a beer as well as smoking a cigarette. They're just weak loudmouthed bullies who need a life lesson.
- It's crazy that his entire administration is filled with unqualified losers who blamed DEI for their lack of qualifications and ability to greet people at Walmart.
- This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
- I'm taking it with a grain of salt. My GF works with the ports and she's still overworked and pulling her hair out trying to accommodate people.
- I was on pace to get a paralegal certification. I stopped because AI will end up doing it better and cheaper eventually. I'm now getting into information systems and coding because I'd rather design my replacement than be out of a job and screaming at the clouds about it. Adapt or die.🤷
- There's a reason we invented those things, and it's because we weren't willing, we were forced To listen to crap we didn't care about but had to be polite and smile along. Sucks thinking you're deep when you're actually just shallow and annoying. Typical of a right wing false consensus mentality.
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- You're pushing intellectually lazy racist tropes while accusing others of being intellectually lazy? Special kind of stupid. Stop smoking meth and calling it healing with crystals for a start.
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- What's your disability? Racism? Because that's some racist trope BS going on in your post. Lazy? Really? Effing Lazy is what you're going with. With allies like you, no wonder they don't show up.
- It's going to take some Ruby Ridges and a few Waco's, combined with the resurgence of The Weathermen, to bring this regime down. Sadly, we live in a world where sacrifice and resistance entails getting a Grande instead of the Venti and posting it to social media for likes.
- Guy nearly hit me in traffic, so I honked at him. Next stop light, he pulls up next to me and rolls down his window. “You got somethin’ to say to me?!” “Yeah, I think you’re a shitty driver. That’s what the honk was for.”
- Look at you, still teaching when not in class.
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- We're going from PB and J to Pb and J. Periodically, people might get it.
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- Peace is war, up is down, saving is spending.
- We're going from PB & J to Pb & J.
- Bari Weiss is the best interviewer of her generation. Rich, searching interview on the role of religion and Christianity in American life. www.thefp.com/p/can-americ...
- Don't believe the hype.
