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So I've been talking to the mods as well as a handful of members I talk to in real life about the need and plan to draft rules for the community, as well as for specific sections. Likewise, we've also been discussing moderating protocols as a part of that. Anyhow, the community has seen steady growth, which is great. It ebbs and flows, but has been incrementally trending up since we relaunched it about two years ago or so. There's been a few spikes or exponential growth and there's a lot I'm trying to do outside the forum to build up budget to be able to take bigger steps with both the 12ozProphet brand and the forum. That being said, we're also li…
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The indictments are in. The special prosecution just dropped 30 charges on former president shit dick. They're trying to put this mother fucker away for basketball numbers. Lol. I love this for him.
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Edit: Title change, felt it was too specific. Gonna use this as a place to post shit relevant to the title.. White Nationalists, Religious nuts, far-right extremists, whatever classification you prefer to slap on the topic.. edit: Part of the reason i started this thread is because it’s been stated in the past that some folks just dont think nationalists, racists and that far-right are that much of a threat to the country, i think that is very wrong. I’ll kick it off with a Portland-Maine white supremacist arrested on child porn charges.. https://www.unionleader.com/news/social_issues/federal-prisoner-held-in-nh-shines-l…
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Start this bad boy off with some boot licking good memes:
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All stories not worthy of their own thread. Garbage in Garbage out. Taxation is theft and so is 12 years dae0831153eee1a36922064666daf2cd.mp4
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Decided to start this for stories that are worthy of seeing and discussing, but may not necessarily be new thread worthy, specifically for matters of U.S. politics.
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A convo with a buddy of mine during a game of pool kinda opened me up to these philosophies. He was telling me about how he subscribes to stoicism and he recommended Marcus Aurelius’ book, Meditations, to me. I got it but haven’t cracked it open yet, about halfway though reading something else I want to finish first. What I gathered from him breaking it down for me is that stoicism is roughly the idea you don’t have control over anything but yourself and your own ethics, so that’s how you should pattern your life and that is what you should focus on? while dipping my toe into this, I came across absurdism and Albert Camus. I have a copy of The Stranger …
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My mom had a rotator cuff surgery on monday and opted for a repair instead of a shoulder replacement, against her doctor’s and family’s wishes. my sister is the biggest bleeding heart lib, blue no matter who, ally, person you can envision. Her Obama bumper sticker is still riding next to her Hillary bumper sticker, next to her Bernie bumper sticker , next to her Biden bumper sticker … on her Prius of all whips My mom’s application for state provided home nursing was denied. I’m up here for week 1 for transport to/from surgery and initial care for the rough week right after surgery. since claim denial, I have extended my leave from work into week 2. She …
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Fuck yes. 555twitter.com_1700431606214.mp4 555twitter.com_1700436912274.mp4
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The FDA Charter States: Objectives and Scope of Activities The Committee advises the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or designee in discharging responsibilities as they relate to helping to ensure safe and effective drugs for human use and as required, any other product for which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulatory responsibility. Link: https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/science-board-food-and-drug-administration/charter-science-board-food-and-drug-administration —————————————— Do you actually believe your government gives a fuck about you? Your taxes are squandered to pay for yet another agency that not …
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is WW3 going on? 1 2 3 4 5
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https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-idCAKBN2VN1WF
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
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Whatever Elon is considering paying, it's totally worth it just to watch right wing Twitter pretend they're libertarians & for free markets again. Like they weren't tweeting support for the government to disregard individual property rights less than a month ago so the government they hate can micromanage social media policy. Almost as hypocritical as supporting trade wars & taxing/tariffs under Trump, then admitting the Russian sanctions won't work, and only hurt both sides economically. Literally trying to blame Biden for gas prices the moment he was elected after they started a trade war. Pretending to hate inflation now, but not a peep under Trump …
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-move-quell-clashes-los-angeles-pro-palestinian-campus-protest-2024-05-01/ Israeli nationalists attacking encampment protests, which will almost surely lead to a rise in white-nationalist anti-semitic attacks.. Weather is getting nicer so protests will likely become more commonplace.. Police demonstrating excessive tactics as usual.. U.S. election campaigns about to start ramping up.. Is the stage set for a spicy summer in the US?
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Voluntaryism: Simply put, voluntaryism is the belief that all human interactions should be voluntary. Interactions that aren't voluntary on the part of both, or all participants violate the non-aggression principal, thus are invalid and fall under coercion. The rules are simple, people are 100% in charge of their own bodies, period, to do with them as they see fit, and their property is an extension of this concept of ownership. The only valid reason to ever violate this rule, is if the person in question has violated the bodily autonomy, or property rights of another. Even in extreme cases, where violating someone's ownership rights over their bod…
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If their counterfeiting that the Federal Reserve & Treasury operate (the reason the rich keep getting richer) isn't harmful to the economy why do they even tax us? Why not just print up what they'd be taxing? Why do they have to take out loans in the form of bonds? Why not let anyone print money? We'd all be rich, right? These basic questions should be simple enough to answer right? Heres Biden's chief economic adviser: d8K7bIs1t2e5N3Ts.mp4
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Who green lit this ?!
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In the age of “fake news” and cancel culture, all packaged in a thick layer of hyper polarization and extreme political division which is amplified by memes and all carefully orchestrated and spook fed to the masses by mainstream media and social media, I thought it might be interesting to circle back, explore and connect some dots on some popular “conspiracy theory” that eventually can be shown to be conspiracy fact. Since the MSM has shown to consistently ignore when new evidence is presented that bucks the narrative and social media has remained a shit show divided along partisan lines, maybe we can have some fun on 12oz and build out a repository that helps …
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The antitrust agency says it found evidence Sheffield sought to communicate with OPEC and US peers about oil pricing and output, potentially driving up costs for consumers. The FTC says its order will prevent Sheffield from engaging in “collusive activity” that could drive up crude prices and force US consumers to pay higher fuel prices. The agency says he exchanged hundreds of text messages with OPEC representatives and officials about the oil market. https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/exxon-pioneer-merger-ftc-claim-collusion-texas-opec/ https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/02/energy/oil-ceo-opec-scott-sheffield https://www.reuters.com/m…
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General news stories of Police misconduct, and lack of accountability.
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I've noticed this at gas stations where they inflate the price of gas in the mornings to catch people that need to fill up on their way to work, only to drop their prices back down around 10 o'clock when the traffic rush is over. Now Wendy's wants in on the action? https://www.foodandwine.com/wendys-introducing-dynamic-pricing-8600506
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/mckinsey-criminal-investigation-opioids-crisis The inquiry is focused on whether McKinsey engaged in a criminal conspiracy when advising Purdue and other pharmaceutical manufacturers on marketing strategies to boost sales of prescription painkillers that led to widespread addiction and fatal overdoses, two of the people said. The justice department is also investigating whether McKinsey conspired to commit healthcare fraud when its consulting work for companies selling opioids allegedly resulted in fraudulent claims being made to government programs such as Medicare, they said. Prosecutors are a…
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I missed this the first time around. But hey, it's never to late to point out horse shit when it exists: ISIS inside Syria: ISIS supporters escape camp 13 Oct: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/13/turkey-isis-syria-kurds-045669 "IS not only has sleeper cells in the region, but also had thousands of fighters who were incarcerated in the Kurdish enclave and guarded by YPG/SDF forces": https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/who-gains-from-trumps-sudden-syrian-withdrawal/ Esper said those troops will be stationed in western Iraq where they will continue the fight against ISIS: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/20/20923308/us-troops-leaving-sy…
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There are a number of threads on this website that overlap a little, the one on the social credit system, the one on social media and discussion, @Mercerthread on surfing the net without giving up who you are and what makes you tick, etc. To me they all have one thing in common, the future of privacy, the individual and ownership. So I'm keen, if @misteravenis happy for me to do so, to aggregate some of that discussion here. I read and listen to a lot of this stuff and I most often link my positions to material you can reference for more information - also, because I don't want to be just another voice yelling personal opinion into the voud, I intend to back m…
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Word is he confessed to his family on his deathbed. https://www.sanfranchronicle.com/oj-simpson-confesses-to-family-on-deathbed-gryptk Wonder how the reunion is going. fesses-to-family-on-deathbed-gryptk
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Looks like a 4chan troll that boomer Trump fans are taking as some sort of three letter agency leak? I don’t really get what’s going on
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/4/amazons-just-walk-out-stores-relied-on-1000-people/ LOL. LMFAO even.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/06/hochul-to-dispatch-750-national-guard-troops-to-nyc-subways-following-spate-of-violence/ What exactly is the violent crime? I have read several articles with no specifics given. Just a broad range of "violence" taking place. 30c1ed60c5fdc2cd11e284fabc49c450.mp4
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For those that haven't heard yet, on the premier episode of his show, John Oliver offered to pay 1 million dollars a year to Clarence Thomas to step down from the supreme court. Is he gonna do it? I don't think he really wants the job and I don't think all of his free gifts total a million a year anyway.
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This guy's going places. Straight to the top. ac15dbbd8f7fdf0d8c4eaab7161b7bc4.mp4
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Anybody really believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? Murdered by the elite pedophile cabal?
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Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
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Pretty cool drone. Hollywood is definitely gonna get good footage from this. https://insights.globalspec.com/article/20468/shape-shifting-drone-eyed-for-inspection-tasks?uid=-981537145&uh=dab252&md=230525&mh=b73bd9&Vol=Vol16Issue10&Pub=69&LinkId=2133846&keyword=link_2133846&itemid=388385&frmtrk=newsletter&cid=nl
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Media hype? End of the world? Legitimate threat? Forgotten in a week? What do the oontzers think?
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Good. I hope as soon as he heals up nice and good they stab his ass up again. Every time for the next 175 years of his sentence.
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/lasd-statement-forthcoming-on-trio-of-employee-suicides/
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https://www.docdroid.com/e3rhDCz/complaint-cj-pearson-v-kemp-11252020-pdf “… the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China & Iran in order to monitor & manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020.”
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Fascism is a word most people use to describe any politics they dislike. Libertarians will describe all forms of authoritarianism as "fascist", including non-fascist left wing authoritarianism. Left wing authoritarians describe all political systems that aren't leftist in nature as a "fascist". Right wing authoritarians will use the word fascist to describe authoritarianism by the left. For example, if the government tells a woman she can't get an abortion, or use birth control, that's fascism to left wingers, but it's not fascism according to right wingers. If you tell someone a vaccine is mandatory, and enforce it, now all of a sudden that's "fascist" to rig…
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I am for this bill for multiple reasons. A few being the sovereignty of a nation. If this bill were not to pass then there is a good chance imminent domain over reach in the future could be a side effect devastating legal citizens even further more without any due process all in the name of national security. dirty politics in other words. In a hypothetical scenario if another country was buying up massive amounts of land and these lands have natural resources and the seller where offered enough money to sell the mineral rights with the land. Then I can see a lot of potential harm to local economies for example drilling rights tougher to acquire which in…
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