monkeyfun

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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Access that costs thousands of dollars for a short trip that most people simply don't have the spare money for. The median US income is <40k/year, and healthcare + housing costs dominate most workers' lives. Also, it'
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
You don't seem to have understood their post at all by asking what Ireland did that this is reciprocating. They're saying other countries should reciprocate this upon Americans. The point you make about the purpose from the Americ
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
I'd argue it doesn't at all say paradise wouldn't be great -- plenty of people are content with their lives, and there's plenty of options to functionally die or reduce your level of consciousness below one that will rea
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
At risk of speaking too much for someone else: They are not blaming the left, they're blaming the democrat party -- and are far from assigning them total blame imo.
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
You're overall correct, but made me notice that there is actually an unusually coherent argument (by their standards) being presented by the reactionaries pushing for the things you mention. It goes roughly like: >The reason these j
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Haha, i totally feel that. Maybe people will have little personal balloons for emergencies like that :p At the same time, do consider how you already count on conventionally supported structures like bridges, buildings, tunnels, etc. not to
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Oh it wouldn't be easier than a moon base or simple orbital habitats. And as for Venus being scifi, anything to do with space colonization period is scifi right now; humans haven't even stepped foot on another celestial body of
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
If you're interested in human habitation of Venus overall, you may find it interesting to learn Venus is probably preferable kept at about its current temperature or only made a little colder. See, the atmosphere at ~50 altitude... h
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
>stop calling people from other country's "aliens" fkn disgusting! You're quick to lie about what I say or do. Just as quick to call me disgusting. Says a lot.
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Thanks!
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
To quote you >public safety is the number one priority for any government You blanket-declared that any/all governments have it as their number one priority, with no nuance I might add. Additionally, are you somehow completely unaw
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Could you link to some of it? Sounds extremely interesting!
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Aptly observed. I'm not even sure if it's what I believe is the case, but there's some serious merit in this line of thought. It could make a lot of sense even if they have better means of access , and even with this attenti
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
1. It's a quote, not an expression of the poster's opinions directly. 2. We wouldn't even be talking about that industrial scale genocide this early on Hitler's term, which I don't say to suggest he's going to
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
I think we were almost all lulled into a sense of "huh, I guess I slightly misread them..." fueled by the failures to capitalize, the little losses of momentum that almost gave the hopeful impression that maybe people had finally
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Yeah, this is a man who literally says he has the greatest memory in human history but then constantly says he can't remember stuff a day or two later or coincidentally was living under a rock and has no idea what's going on in hi
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
So far they've already detained a lawyer who is an american citizen when he was reentering the country, and tried to grill him for inside information on cases he's actively working and people he knows. They eventually let him go,
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Wow! Thank you for sharing this! I probably never would have heard of it otherwise, having had to focus so much of my energies on America lately.
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
It's especially such a farce because what do they expect? If trump said the sky is green and the ocean is red, you'd find scores of these useless faux-intellectuals trying to "prove" the truth, and each data point of evi
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Others have mentioned good points. I'd like to also add that a completely stagnant legislature that literally can't get anything done unless republicans agree on it to start with -- and magnified greatly by an ineffectual democrat
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Wow, I can't believe I actually appreciate the direction and overall production value of an airline safety video. Probably serves its function better for it too! I can't imagine nearly as many people would tune it out or just feig
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Don't forget that bigballs was fired from one of his last jobs for... selling company secrets to a competitor.
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
But how do you explain an uninhabited semi-independent (as i understand it) island with no trade with the US getting higher tariffs than Australia, the country it's broadly part of?
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Yeah, I can agree with who you're replying to on the fact that the lack of much perceived economic substance is certainly what made more of the "anti-woke" rhetoric work out so strongly, but Project 2025 is so ridiculous real
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
I 100% get you, genuinely, but you have to realize that even mentioning that in most people's eyes legitimately makes you look at a glance like you're going to talk about Bill Gates' 5G rna vaccine autism microchips and how s
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
And of course, one of the other dirty aspects to this is that if you're willing to emotionally jerk off and manipulate your base to the extreme, that basic perception of material conditions can distort away from reality. Not completely
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Well for starters they could've not voted on the spending bill and reversed exactly what the conservatives would do constantly under Obama, not until getting at least some kind of serious concession, while painting it as republicans be
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Out of curiosity: how come only LGB? I'm trans, and I'd be quick to complain about how bad the narratives are there. Especially in terms of people over-focusing on such a small issue when hardly any trans people are in competitive
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Your patience and clarity of speaking in an understanding and respectful way is truly impressive. If things are going to get any better, more people like you are needed. I'm certainly taking notes.
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by monkeyfun 1y ago
Fwiw you pretty much nailed what being trans is in terms of a concise and unattached summary. There's usually a lot of extreme discomfort with your birth sex too, among other things, but yours is a pretty good starting definition. Of n

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