• Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Boycott the NFL if you like American style football just watch Canadian or Australian football or even rugby they are all close enough and in some cases like Australian football I would say are better

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    It will likely happen before every football game this weekend.

    Fox News will then publish a pearl-clutching compilation of people booing at college football games, and Trump will use that to justify defunding those institutions further.

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      Trump will use that to justify defunding those institutions further.

      The federal government funds the NFL?

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        There are hundreds of College Football games that take place on Saturdays, although I think the moment of silence and pearl clutching will also occur at the NFL games on Sundays.

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          I don’t understand. What does that have to do with whether or not the federal government funds the NFL?

          *Edit: I’m half asleep and didn’t realize you were talking about him defunding colleges. My bad.

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    To quote Marilyn Manson:

    "If you die when there’s no one watching,

    then your ratings drop and you’re forgotten.

    But if they kill you on their TV,

    You’re a martyr and a Lamb Of God. "

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    The fucking state of Virginia is calling for a moment of silence over this guy. What the hell is going on?

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      20 hours ago

      the far-right establishment behind the Trump administration is preparing to use this as the justification for the incoming Reichstagsbrandverordnung.

      They’ve got their van der Lubbe now and they’re working to get their bullshit in before Nov 2026

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        Some messages made references to Trump, though they do not provide any evidence of criminal conduct.

        Welp.

        The article also doesn’t mention those communications implicating anyone (alive) other than Maxwell, which isn’t nothing, but definitely not the illumination people were hoping for, I don’t think.

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          You’re right, you made me dig a little further.

          Edit: Here is one of the mentions of Trump:

          Trump’s name surfaced again around the time Epstein was making an intense backchannel lobbying effort to get federal prosecutors to drop their case against him. It was in an email dated Aug. 23, 2007, a month before Epstein signed the non-prosecution agreement with the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida that ended the federal component of the Epstein investigation.

          The emails indicate that Maxwell may have been referring to a team of reporters covering Epstein who she expected would be seeking information from Trump; from Abe Gosman, the late healthcare magnate whose palatial property sold to Trump for $41 million after a heated bidding war with Epstein; from court documents in West Palm Beach; and from Joel Pashcow, the Palm Beach police and fire foundation board member who’d traveled on Epstein’s private jet. Pashcow did not respond to a request for comment.

          https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-ghislaine-maxwell/

          Here is what is on Prince Andrew:

          The unsealed documents released Thursday also contain allegations that Jane Doe 3 — whose allegations match those of Giuffre — was “forced” to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew on Epstein’s private island in what was described as “an orgy” with numerous other under-aged girls. It does not specify the year. The woman was allegedly instructed by Epstein to “give the Prince whatever he demanded” and “report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse.”

          https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unsealed-documents-show-epstein-maxwell-correspondence-2015-n1235307

          The email proves he knew Epstein at least as long as Epestein had the island up and running.

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        Oh damn I can’t wait to faicism to fall now that the files are coming out.

        Anytime now guys. Definitely not a distraction or a waste of time.

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          Idk, light magas around the edges might be swayed once they hear all of the times their leader acts like a pedophile and surrounds himself with pedophiles.

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            You think they don’t know? It’s not like this is a secret lol. He is a convicted felon.

            But sure, the next felony will be the one I’m sure. Lmoa

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              You think they don’t know?

              Yes. In fact, I’m certain they don’t. You have to understand, Trump voters don’t live in our reality. They live in a fabricated fantasyland created by the slop media they consume. They think Donald Trump is fighting the pedophiles, because that is what they have been told to believe. All of the attacks on him are “fake news” because they’re from mainstream media sources, which they have been told to never trust.

              If concrete evidence that they have been directly lied to is distributed to them by a source they trust, I can’t say for sure what would happen, but it’s probably the best chance for them to be deprogrammed.

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                Sound like you don’t live in our reality my dude.

                If you keep underestimating everyone who doesn’t agree with you, it’ll be difficult to think of true, inclusive change.

                They know. And they understand. The just reach different conclusions and actions with the same information and capabilities as you.

                Like you, most people aren’t passive receptacles of what happens around them. But not everyone will react the same way or think the same thing as you.

                That’s doesn’t mean they ‘live in a fabricated fantasy land’. That’s just the pc way to dehumanize people.

                They are different people, and you need to see them as that if you actually care about them. Then you might be able to have honest, constructive conversations. People don’t disagree with facts, they disagree with people.

                And acting like they’re stupid and you’re God’s smartest cookie is an easy way to get people to disagree with you.

                Cheers.

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                  You’re just being condescending and seem to have never interacted with them person to person. I live here. I deal with them daily. I have heard them double down on insane nonsense that I don’t know if you could dream of.

                  90% of what you said are inferences you are making. I understand they are victims of propoganda. It doesn’t seem like you do.

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      20 hours ago

      The same thing that the billionaires have been doing. Paying fealty and demonstrating loyalty in the hopes of avoiding attack or maybe even getting rewarded.

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    I saw an electronic billboard yesterday on the road that said “In Rememberance Today” or something like that and started getting angry thinking they were talking about Charlie Kirk but then I’m like, oh damn, I done forgot…

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    I said they weren’t gonna, and they didn’t. We got a big ol flag display outside town, the towns proud of it. It goes to half staff when appropriate. It did not fly half staff yesterday.

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      My town too. Most flags at houses are being flown at full mast.

      Like, flying a flag at all is questionable at best but it’s nice to know that most people clearly don’t care.

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    The last time I checked, and fuck me if I’m wrong, the NFL has several black athletes. What did kirk say about black people?

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      Calling the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “huge mistake”

      Describing Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful” and “not a good person”

      Stated “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to think, ‘I hope he’s qualified’”

      Claimed successful Black women like Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson were “affirmative action picks” who “do not possess the cognitive capacity to be taken seriously”

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      The league only cares about black athletes to the degree that it can profit off their performance.

      Case in point: Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem – which was honestly an extremely mild form of protest – and was immediately black-balled.

      If they do care about black athletes, they clearly care about money a lot more.

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      Remind me who the owners… wait, don’t. Let’s just look at a picture of the owners of the nfl.

      Then think about how ‘just’ their presentation goes. Compare the owner and the ‘peripheral’ employees. There’s a better picture that I can’t find that is often used in sociology classes, where the owner of a team is in the presence of the cheerleaders and the players, and it can’t be beat for showing that if you’re a rich man wanting slaves and concubines, owning a team is pretty much the next best thing.

      The sports associations are fucked.

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    every time i try to have a moment of silence for charlie kirk i end to giggling because that stupid fuck is in hell

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      Unfortunately, there is no hell. We need to make sure horrible people get their comeuppance here, on earth.

      Since it looks like he died near instantly, with no time to reflect on the damage he’d wrought, he basically escaped justice. On the plus side, he can’t do more damage. On the far larger negative side, he’s a martyr now.

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      If I believed in hell, I would do a little dance.

      I believe that when you’re dead, that’s it, you’re gone. And rightly so since that guy was a massive piece of shit and by all morality, deserved to die. And then the way he got killed? THAT makes me ACTUALLY do a little dance.

      I can’t wait for you know who… I’m gonna go into the street and do a little dance. Maybe even a big dance and have a party that lasts a week

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    Man would I get my ass kicked once I started up my “CHARLIE KIRK’S IN HELL clap clap clapclapclap” chant during the moment of silence.

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      Carry around a couple of bricks. They wanna beat your ass? Hold a brick in each hand and start throwing punches back. You’ll break your hands in the process if you hit them with your hands, but you’ll also shatter any bones of theirs that you touch.

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        This is why if you want to start shit, you ride a motorcycle. Never get in a fight with someone wearing a motorcycle helmet.