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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

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  • Tankie Bingo!

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  • If there can be a catchy way to make it happen, maybe "Uses a terrible source" could be paired with "Uses a source terribly." The thing where they cite a real source while insisting it says the opposite of what it says is really notable when it happens.

  • Tankie Bingo!

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  • Tankie Bingo!

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  • Other suggestions:

    • Before we talk you have to watch this YouTube video
    • You're a transphobe!
    • "already been debunked"
    • You just hate leftism!
    • "NATOpedia"
    • Bad sourcing (in particular citing a source that says the opposite of what they say it says)
    • Ignoring inconvenient questions
    • Controlling the conversation (ex. insisting that a counterpoint is "not what we're talking about" so refusing to address it)
    • Changing the subject

  • oscilloscope

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  • I literally picked up one of the oldest of the old school oscilloscopes from a clearing-out-the-lab table and had it in my closet for years. Never did a thing with it. But it's an oscilloscope! Badass.

  • Terrorismbait

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  • Read the link. Pretty much every example where FDTD was used as a guidebook, the ruling regime had even more of an open violence policy even than the modern US (although, we're catching up fast).

    The idea that the secret police might be shooting people in the streets or throwing them in prison for trying to change the system isn't new for fascist systems or a sudden and unique problem we're facing.

  • Terrorismbait

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy

    TL;DR A livable society needs an active, engaged citizenry fighting for good things to happen. When a dictatorship arrives, that society has a lot of tools they can use to resist, for the simple fact that any dictatorship is basically just a handful of people at the top who are dependent on everyone else doing what they say. They're a lot more fragile than they seem.

  • GENERAL STRIKE

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  • True. And London is still around, and Istanbul, after their empires fell. But there's enormous suffering in the meantime, as you said, and the empires usually don't come back once their day is over.

    I'm not trying to be pure doomerism. Things will continue regardless. Part of it is just trying to come to grips with the reality and what's coming, to figure out what I could even do, where is the solution or the survival to maybe be found.

  • Ai 'Monk' Got 2.4M followers in just 3 Months and is now trying to sell a course for $50 a month

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  • What once protected the child becomes exhaustion in the adult. Anxiety is not a brokenness. It is adaptation. It is the nervous system saying, I learned this to keep you safe. Healing does not come from fighting the system, but from slowly teaching it that survival is no longer required. This is why the 30-day healing journey exists, not to fix you, but to gently guide the body out of constant alertness, one day at a time.

    I mean, aside from the "30-day healing journey" this sounds pretty genuine. Although, I think it is probably slop-ified from Thich Nhat Hanh.

  • Jim Breuer talks about Chris Farley and the darkness of fame

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  • Oh... seems like so yeah. That is disappointing.

  • GENERAL STRIKE

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  • Yeah. You can solve the problem in a bunch of different ways:

    • If you have enough people unified and together, you can run candidates and win elections with actual humans with good intentions, instead of this crew of criminal ghouls who are running the country
    • If you have enough people unified and together, you can stage a general strike with a clear list of demands, and bring the existing system to its knees until it takes those specific actions without having to go through the whole tedious "governmental" bit or figure out any new system
    • If you have enough people unified and together, you can just fight a war and replace the current system with something better (although, be very careful what new system you put in place, often violent revolutions are followed by a system even worse than the bad system they were fighting to overthrow).

    The problem comes when you don't have enough people unified and together. Trump is actually doing a lot to try to create that in the populace, but it's not happening. Maybe a little bit, we're doing way better on that score than the German people did, but still it's not even close to what we need. People are scattered, they're on their phones, they're working all the time just to stay in their housing and fed. They don't have news, and they don't have the education and historical background they would need in order to really make something solid and good if they did manage to seize the reins. It only really becomes a big deal when ICE comes to your community. A lot of people I talk to have no idea that any of this is even going on, or have a wildly distorted view of it, because they are completely tuned out from anything resembling information about the world and events.

    I think we're just fucked. I think it's the end. Trump isn't even the worst of it, although he has the potential to bring down the final curtain in ways that will be hard to come back from. But the show was in its final act long before he came along.

    I honestly wish I knew something to do about it. These problems are long and deep, they don't arise overnight and the answers don't come quickly even when people start working on them.

  • Jim Breuer talks about Chris Farley and the darkness of fame

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  • Why, what did he do?

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    Jim Breuer talks about Chris Farley and the darkness of fame

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    Trump's former Russia adviser says Russia offered US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine

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  • Generally true, but also, this was testimony from 7 years ago.

    It seems a little bit unlikely that Russia would be in favor of this Venezuela thing (simply because they like Maduro), and also, Putin was making performative gestures of support for Maduro up until the invasion (not that it did either of them any good).

    Also:

    Trump’s actions in Venezuela make it harder for Kyiv’s allies to condemn Russia’s designs on Ukraine as “illegitimate” because “we’ve just had a situation where the U.S. has taken over — or at least decapitated the government of another country — using fiction,” Hill told AP.

    I honestly don't think there is any danger that this will set a precedent of any kind of legitimacy. I think it's more likely to galvanize opposition to this kind of land-grab than it is to get people to regard it as normal.

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    Trump's ICE prison escalation collides with American resistance

  • sick em rex

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  • There is a crack

    In everything

    That's how the light gets in.

    -LC

  • sick em rex

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  • I don't think the dog bit the cop because the cop was being the aggressor. Dogs are fine with being aggressors or "their people" being aggressors, it's the whole job of police dogs and they love the fuck out of it. I think probably the cop was being an asshole and the other guy was not, and also, it's a dog, and so doesn't completely know what's going on but knows that its job is to bite people. And so, here's an asshole! I'll bite him, that's my job.

    (K9 handlers are supposed to prevent this type of thing, but the world is not a perfect place in execution)

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    Obra Dinn's "pixel art" is actually genius

  • Tankies tell me the "capitalist media" is hiding the truth from me. Asking what, specifically, is a bannable offence.

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  • Noam Chomsky wrote a bunch of books about the free press's coverage of geopolitical issues and one of his biggest points of emphasis was how the whole spectrum of permissible debate was basically indistinguishable. That's why I used Israel as one example.

    I think you'd be hard pressed to find even a single newspaper article in the run-up to 2000 that was willing to simply say plainly that Al Gore was objectively right about climate change and what a fucking emergency it was, for example. It was always represented as a "debate" and his absolutely voice-in-the-wilderness diagnosis was a "viewpoint." He had to make a whole movie of his own to be able to speak plainly about what was going on, because literally no one in the news was explaining what needed to be explained about it. And that was all after counterculture news started to get a little bit of early traction on the internet and puncture the monopoly a little bit.

    It is almost impossible for people who grew up post-internet to grasp how constrained the news in the pre-internet era was. It sounds like we're making it up, like of course it couldn't have been like that.

  • Tankies tell me the "capitalist media" is hiding the truth from me. Asking what, specifically, is a bannable offence.

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  • Two things are happening, I think:

    1. It's not anymore, but the cartoon when it was printed was pretty accurate. Before the internet, it used to be functionally impossible to run across anyone who had any kind of platform anywhere in the US who thought that universal health care was a good idea, or that Israel was anyone other than the good guys, or that publicly funded elections would fix 85% of our problems. Or that global warming was a problem. The magnitude of the catastrophe-on-purpose that resulted from that distorted media is still with us to this day. It's why we still don't have a functioning health care system, for example, because everyone in Washington's picture of the world froze in around 1995 when their brains reached the age where they stop making new worldviews. I actually don't think it's fair to blame that on capitalism specifically, since powerful people seizing the methods of media and distorting them to prevent the people from figuring out what's going on is a pretty universal problem in any economic system, but it is certainly accurate and in the US it takes the forms of capitalism (and is still going on today, just in a different form; it's why no one published the whistleblower's warning about the US invading Venezuela for example.)
    2. What the .ml contingent means by posting that is that the capitalist press is hiding the truth that Ukraine started the Ukraine war, that Biden was the biggest threat to world peace and it was therefore important not to vote for Kamala, and so on. They're adopting a time-honored very effective propaganda technique of reversing the roles, and then screaming the role-reversed framing of reality with so much vigor that it's hard for anyone within the bubble to point out that the truth they claim is being censored is readily available to literally everyone, and that they are the ones constantly banning people who don't agree with their carefully curated worldview. Because EVERYONE KNOWS and then they get an inch away from your face and start aggressively repeating what it is that everyone knows.

  • USA's backed coups in South America

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  • You just gotta scroll up a bit. Nicaragua and Guatemala were in the 80s, absolutely the stuff of nightmares ten times worse than what Trump is doing. We almost certainly sponsored an attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, and a successful one in Honduras under Obama.

    You're not wrong that Trump is a horrifying new chapter. It is testament to the semblance of humanity that the US State Department slowly developed post-2000 that, yes, Trump is a return to a much more barbaric and brazen time of US foreign policy, with worse surely on the horizon. But we never really stopped being the bad guys, we just got a little more subtle and less overtly violent about it, until now.

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    Century of humiliation

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  • I am curious who are the people upvoting this

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    Century of humiliation

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  • I suspect that this is such a cavalcade of bullshit of different types that he's deliberately baiting people to become unable to even begin to come to grips with everything that is wrong with it. And thus, in internet-troll-logic, it means he wins.

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    How Supermax Prisons Actually Work

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    Fight Club is a Sequel to Ferris Bueller

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    The Epstein Files are Worse Than You Think

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    pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

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    Cop Group Alleges “Discrimination” by Prosecutor for Being Too Nice to Immigrants

    theintercept.com /2025/12/26/steve-descano-immigrants-justice-department/
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    Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them

    www.cnbc.com /2025/12/24/amazon-faces-a-dilemma-fight-ai-shopping-agents-or-join-them.html
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    Russia escalates attacks on key Ukrainian region of Odesa

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cdxe8yqlvgzo
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    Japan set to restart world’s biggest nuclear power plant

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/12/22/japan-set-to-restart-worlds-biggest-nuclear-power-plant
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    Your Supabase Is Public

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    Trump Continues 'War Against Renewables' With Halt of Five Offshore Wind Farms

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    AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything

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    Democrats won’t release 2024 election loss ‘autopsy’, DNC chair says

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/18/democrats-2024-election-autopsy
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    Trump loses on public health leadership as states leave his 'flock of quacks' behind

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    Trump learns Politics 101: Do unpopular things, become unpopular, lose political power

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    The man who tried to fake an element

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    Trump Officials Sue to Seize 2020 Ballots in a Georgia County

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/12/us/politics/trump-2020-ballots-fulton-county-georgia.html
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    Rep. Seth Magaziner asks DHS Secretary Noem Why She Deported a U.S. Army Combat Veteran