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taking my big "drew carey" story out of the vault for the first time on hexbear
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    "honestly zachtronics solitaire games are great. i know most people are probably like"

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    "so Marge is a great lady, but yeah she took the house off the market after we went to the open "

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    "i dont even think Dota Allstars had come out yet, but like even today, people just say"

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    "yeah buster great work in there? what am I, freaking pol pot or something? i'm not half as cool or half as deadly as Pol Pot so i dont know what i did to deserve this kind of treatment"

    okay alright time to hit the comments

  • In absolute awe at the size of this thing. Look at what we've lost
  • my Wii went through the washing machine three times, fell out of the back of my truck on the highway (couldn't find it for three days), and I had it in my front pocket when I got shot at and it blocked a couple .45 rounds, saving my life. Still plays guitar hero 3 and project M just fine. gigachad

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    AliExpress is full of bizarre fascist products, like these Xbox 360 buttons in the shape of Nazi bullet casings
  • "Luger" is just the name of some guy who designed guns and died in 1923, is there anything specifically Nazi about this besides that his name is German sounding?

    Another one that sounds really Nazi is Heinrich. Except that Karl Heinrich Marx died over 30 years before Heinrich Himmler was even born. This is just a case of everything German automatically sounding Nazi. Which, like, safe bet in general, but it's a disservice to automatically associate anything German with Nazis, you'll probably find a lot of cool John Brown Gun Club and adjacent folks swearing by 9mm Luger, because it's pretty much unilaterally the best handgun cartridge in the world.

  • China approves plan to raise retirement age from January 2025
  • When you're trying to compete with capitalist nations that will stoop far lower than you to outproduce and then wipe you off the map, you can't deny yourself any advantage. This 0th stage of socialism/state capitalism/central planning making an attempt to do what it needs to do to survive.

    Is it good? No, it's terrible. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not, but I see why they have to try something. Is it justified? If it works to outproduce and then defeat the imperial core, yes.

  • My short Comrades do you feel dating is as hard for you as some incel types make it out to be?
  • okay struggle session time "straight men having body image insecurities is cringe" is NOT a good take - nearly everyone wants to be desired in some way or another and feeling bad that your genetics is keeping you from that - whether or not it's materially true - is valid and very decidedly not cringe.

    also, I'm shocked that you don't even know anyone who has found it harder to date as a shorter man, I've heard this extremely frequently

  • Officials are gunning for LGBTQ+ library books with sinister ordinance banning 'public homosexuality'
    www.thepinknews.com Officials are gunning for LGBTQ+ library books with sinister ordinance banning 'public homosexuality'

    A public ordinance in Tennessee which effectively bans homosexuality could be used to remove all LGBTQ+ books from local libraries.

    Officials are gunning for LGBTQ+ library books with sinister ordinance banning 'public homosexuality'

    !yea

    archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231113001800/https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/11/tennessee-book-ban-public-ordinance-banning-homosexuality/

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    A public ordinance mandate in Tennessee effectively banning homosexuality could see all LGBTQ+ books removed from a local library.

    City officials in Murfreesboro, Tennessee met on Monday (6 November) to discuss removing all books featuring LGBTQ+ themes under an ordinance passed in June.

    The ordinance prohibits “indecent behaviour” in public and outlaws “indecent materials” which are vague enough to include homosexuality.

    It states that the local community has “the right to establish and preserve contemporary community standards” which would ban behaviour that local officials deem indecent.

    The clause used to define indecency links back to Murfreesboro’s city codes which describe “sexual conduct” as indecent. The sexual conduct clause includes “homosexuality”.

    The ordinance gives police officers the right to enforce bans on indecent behaviour under the clause and states that anybody using city funds for events that fall under indecency can be charged with further crimes.

    City officials have since used the passed ordinance to target the LGBTQ+ community, including by removing books from the Rutherford County Library Board that contain queer themes.

    Multiple board members reportedly claimed they had the right to “enforce community standards” and ban books they deemed indecent.

    In August, library board officials decided to remove four titles: Mike Curato’s Flamer, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan’s Let’s Talk About It, Jennifer Knapp’s Queerfully & Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens and Juno Dawson‘s This Book is Gay.

    The board then implemented a tiered library card system where most LGBTQ+ nonfiction could only be accessed through an adult-only library card.

    Judge temporarily blocks Tennessee public ordinance for drag event

    The ordinance made national headlines after officials attempted to enforce a ban on the BoroPride festival in October.

    A federal judge was forced to temporarily block city officials from using the ordinance to ban BoroPride from taking place on 28 October, after the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Tennessee Equality Project, which has hosted the Pride festival since 2016.

    “We are relieved that the court has taken action to ensure that Murfreesboro’s discriminatory ordinance will not be enforced during the BoroPride festival,” Tennessee Equality Project director Chris Sanders said.

    “We look forward to a safe, joyful celebration of Murfressboro’s LGBTQ+ community.”

    Tennessee is considered to be one of the worst places in the US to identify as LGBTQ+ according to various human rights groups including the Human Rights Campaign, which labelled it as a “high priority” state in fighting to achieve basic equality.

    Independent journalist Erin Reed has identified Tennessee as among the worst states for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, alongside Oklahoma, Kansas, and Florida. She described state officials as attempting to “legislatively erase trans people”.

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    > The leader by will of the people differs from the leader by will of God in that the former is compelled to clear the road for himself or, at any rate, to assist the conjuncture of events in discovering him. Nevertheless, the leader is always a relation between people, the individual supply to meet the collective demand. The controversy over Hitler’s personality becomes the sharper the more the secret of his success is sought in himself. In the meantime, another political figure would be difficult to find that is in the same measure the focus of anonymous historic forces. Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.

    ~ Leon Trotsky

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm

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