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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hard to believe there are still people willing to pose for a photo with Elon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I imagine fellow nazis would be quite proud to.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These people are so ridiculously evil. Banning the phrase clean water is insane.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they can't reference the Clean Water Act?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds like some diversity language to me.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Let me tell you a little story about The Fenhalloway River. About a year before I moved to that area as a kid in the early 80's, some reporter came to report on it. Some locals assaulted her buy burning her with cigars and cigarettes, then pouring the river water into her burns.

I remember wandering some places with my step brother. One spot was along that river. The spot was out there, but still on a decently used dirt (sand) road. We got to the end and to an area we heard was a swimming hole. This was before we heard the river was badly polluted. It was littered with empty bullet casings, KKK signs and nazi symbols. We noped the fuck out of there quick.

While I lived there, at one point, the EPA provided everyone who wanted it with cases of bottled water. We lived close enough to see the sign over highway 19. A 30 second walk and I could just read it. Our well water stunk of the paper mill and you couldn't see the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. The EPA water program lasted about a year. Then...nothing. The river wasn't any cleaner. It was still black coffee. Still smelled of satan's farts. I just now get the irony of living there and watching Captain Planet.

The mill shut down last year. It will probably take some time before the pollution from it will fade. Decades.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is some truly 1984 double speak bullshit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

DOGE would make a good Ministry of Efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microplastics are woke? Fellas, is accumulating microplastics in your balls gay?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Step 1 prevent agency from doing it's job

Step 2 shriek about how agency does nothing and must be dismantled

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Fuck these guys, what time is the white house raid?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, in other words, we will no longer be able to trust the USDA to safeguard our food supply and companies will be able to bastardize any and all foodstuffs without any kind of oversight whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also forget about exporting those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the EU is already pretty wary of US agriculture goods. This is going to absolutely murder the farming export business in the US.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Paper bags for everyone's head! No more problems!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To be fair though the Democrats tried to stop dumb shitheads from pushing horse paste on Twitter during a pandemic, so no one's blameless in the censorship game.

(Please don't make me reply clarifying the intent of this statement.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that fair? One follows scientific consensus and the other defies it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

taps the sign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Free speech still has limits and distributing false medical information should be restricted.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Genuine question because you absolutelyalready took the time out of your day to clarify the intent with your parenthetical at the end there: is this an ego thing? Like what is it about tone indicators like "/s" that you hate so deeply that you feel the need to go out of your way to create a bespoke, alternate tone indicator which was 10x longer and 100x whiny-er? Where did these feelings come from? Clearly you understand that they're needed, so why do you persist in this nonsense?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know why because I've never done it before today, but as I was about to post that I imagined someone taking it seriously and I was not in the mood to deal with that today so I cut it off proactively. And I've never liked /s.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What the absolute flying fuck…

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