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[IATT]

Gotta be some young idiot using that account.

i assume it’s a young idiot by their standards

so a 30-40 year old preppy/waspy white dude.. or girl

 

[rexanglorum]

Ya know, the word “owned” gets thrown around a lot…

 

[Zainjal26]

I don’t know if it belongs here but

 

[aepps20]

I don’t know if it belongs here but

The trauma his family has been under is unbelievable.

 

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[Mark Antony]

The double down tho lol

"big mad"

 

[RustyShackleford]

Could be worse, they could be at home doing virtual learning.

 

[gry60]

US sees image tarnished abroad post-Jan. 6

A United States still deeply divided over Jan. 6 has hurt its standing overseas, tarnishing the reputation of a country that has long promoted democracy efforts abroad…

thehill.com

While the U.S. has perhaps not been a leader to allies, experts say it is providing a road map for those with authoritarian inclinations.

“The people who look to the United States as the model are authoritarians. Jair Bolsonaro is actively copying Donald Trump's efforts to discredit an election. Keiko Fujimori, the illiberal right-wing candidate in Peru this last summer very clearly copied Donald Trump in rejecting the results of a close election defeat. So it's the authoritarians who are modeling themselves on the United States,” said Levitsky.

Cathy Lisa Schneider, a professor at American University who teaches about political violence, cited a “sharing of strategies” among countries.

“People are following what Trump did — the authoritarian playbook of Trump — in other countries. And Trump has been following, as the GOP has been, following the authoritarian playbook in places like Hungary,” she said.

“The right used to rely on military coups. And now there is this new populist playbook and they are all using it. ... Trump learned some of those lessons and he promulgated it, and he's the most visible of all of them, and so when he starts using strategies to win and it works, other authoritarians start using those strategies.”

Levitsky blamed part of the success on the lack of pushback within the Republican Party.

 

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[Wargames]

NYC made a mistake….

 

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Not 1 lie

 

[Wargames]

Colonoscopies, STD test, X-Rays if you really think about it. All blood work.

 

[Comparison Ford]

In all fairness, sildenafil (Viagra) is also used for pulmonary hypertension.

There's evidence that COVID can predispose you to pulmonary hypertension if you have pre-existing hypertension, but that seems to be the extent of its possible benefit. Everything I'm reading about its benefit on pulmonary perfusion in COVID patients seems inconclusive.

 

[solewoman]

That was low but I’ll allow it

 

[yobyellav]

NYC made a mistake….

NYC in for a rough go. Man went from parking director to a deputy police commissioner in New York.

 

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