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Disgusting:
Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri woman’s murder amid strong innocence claims
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I think the snippet is from some Atlantic article. I’ve seen mentions of this case in the main stream news, so it isn’t just some covid conspiracy bullshit.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely actual news, it’s just one of those cases where a right-wing “alternative” media hack uncovered it. Which doesn’t mean the issue isn’t real. Clocks being right twice a day and all that.
I think he title of “vilest of the vile” should be reserved for people like Trump who told everybody that COVID was nothing to worry about and that we don’t need to wear masks or maintain social distancing, and who actively insulted and denigrated people at his rallies and other appearances who actually wore masks.
Well, he did give us that bleach advice, on the other hand.
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Disgusting:
Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri woman’s murder amid strong innocence claims
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This dude was walking around with an automatic weapon and shooting at homes in my home town yesterday. Probably a crime thing, not terror related. Still scary.
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Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls mistakenly link to porn website on packaging
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The Onion has bought InfoWars
No, seriously.
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If so, it’d be interesting to see if any of its regular readers noticed the change to the Onion running it as a parody.
Hopefully they won’t notice, and will continue to believe everything they read there. Small victories!!
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The Onion has bought InfoWars
No, seriously.
This is so fucking awesome and hilarious!
No joke: The Onion wins bankruptcy auction for Alex Jones’ Infowars
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform.
Jones announced the sale on X on Thursday morning.
“I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” Jones said.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m going to be here until they come and turn the lights off,” he added.
The Onion plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale. About an hour and a half after the announcement of the sale, Infowars’ website was shut down.
Jones, 50, one of the most-high profile and financially successful alternative media personalities, built a small empire off a radio show-turned-internet video operation centered around the Infowars brand that focused on false and often bizarre claims about grand conspiracies and government wrongdoing.
Details of Wednesday’s auction, including how much was offered for Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, and related assets, were not immediately known. Funds generated from the sale are meant to satisfy Jones’ estate creditors, largely families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to whom he must pay damages in defamation verdicts.
Sandy Hook families filed lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas claiming Jones defamed them on his show and inflicted emotional distress by repeatedly suggesting the shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 first grade children and six adults, was a hoax.
Juries found Jones liable for defamation and awarded the families nearly $1.5 billion in total in their lawsuits, but they have been unable to collect anything from Jones, who claimed he can’t afford that massive a sum. He filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and a judge in June allowed him to liquidate his personal assets to help pay off the verdicts.
The sale had the backing of several of the Connecticut families of the Sandy Hook shooting who were part of the lawsuit.
“Our clients knew that true accountability meant an end to Infowars and an end to Jones’ ability to spread lies, pain and fear at scale,” Chris Mattei, attorney for the Connecticut families, said in a statement. “By divesting Jones of Infowars’ assets, the families and the team at The Onion have done a public service and will meaningfully hinder Jones’ ability to do more harm.”
The anti-violence organization Everytown for Gun Safety said it will be the exclusive advertiser in The Onion’s new venture as part of a multiyear agreement.
John Feinblatt, the group’s president, said in a statement that he hopes to “reach new audiences ready to hold the gun industry accountable for contributing to our nation’s gun violence epidemic.”
Since April, The Onion has been led by chief executive Ben Collins, who previously covered disinformation and conspiracy theories for NBC News, a beat that often meant covering Jones. Collins has introduced several changes meant to monetize the business, including subscriptions, organized live events, and bringing back physical copies of the paper and its television parody, the Onion News Network.
In June, Collins answered calls from followers online that The Onion purchase Infowars with a meme “looking into it.”
Those interested in acquiring Jones’ media company had submitted their final offers to federal court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who was tasked with picking a best bid, but not necessarily the highest.
The identities of potential buyers were secret as they had to agree to nondisclosure agreements in order to receive bid materials.
The auction firms running the sale said that there are “no restrictions on the use of any acquired property in the bankruptcy order,” and that the winner has the choice of whether to continue Infowars’ operations.
On his show this week, amid pleas for listeners to buy subscriptions and the nutritional supplements he sells, Jones painted a picture of his potential buyers, describing one group of anonymous bidders as friendly backers who would allow his show to operate as normal. Others, he said, were “bad guys” who would shut Infowars down.
While he said he would continue to broadcast via an alternative channel if ordered to shutter by a new buyer, Jones noted he would be hampered by the loss of his brand, website and equipment, among other necessities.
“All you leftists celebrating the end of Alex Jones and Infowars, you’re fools,” he said. “Just watch.”
Up for grabs at the auction were Infowars production rights and materials, the Infowars store, domain names, production equipment and other assets — including a Terradyne armored truck and a Winnebago motor home — that can be purchased in their entirety or in parts, according to the firm, ThreeSixty Asset Advisors. Jones broadcasts from the Austin, Texas, area.
The auction is part of Murray’s “orderly wind-down process” under the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, which has overseen the latest phase of the case against Jones, stemming from the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
In fitting form for the satirical website, The Onion’s news release announcing the sale was written in the voice of a CEO of Global Tetrahedron, a fictional evil company created by Onion staff. Former tech executive Jeff Lawson took on the name Global Tetrahedron for his real company that acquired The Onion from G/O Media in April.
“Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron,” the release said.
Jones founded Infowars, which operates under Free Speech Systems, in 1999. The company itself held about $6 million in cash and $1.2 million in inventory, according to previous court filings from June.
The families in Texas and Connecticut have sparred in court over the liquidation process, with concerns over how the money will be distributed. Still, they have said, Jones’ loss of his company brings some accountability for his past words.
At his trial in Texas in 2022, Jones generally blamed “corporate media” for twisting his words and misportraying him, but didn’t specify how.
While Jones also testified that he believes Sandy Hook was “100% real,” he has used the ongoing litigation to galvanize his listeners as he faces the loss of Infowars.
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Well, the problem is that it is impossible to make parodies of conspiracy theorists, since the things they already believe are far sillier than anything you can make up.
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A bunch of them on social media have been taking stuff poasted from the Onion’s fictional CEO’s accounts as if they’re true.
Jones has filed some sort of legal action to try and block the sale, but The Onion’s actual owner seems to think it’s of no concern.
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the things they already believe are far sillier than anything you can make up.
And these people are everywhere.
I actually like the ‘flat-earther’ at work, but I’m just not going to engage.
Very curious, and want to so bad, but what if you’re at a low point and having that shit rattle in your brain is the beginning of insanity?
Also, they seem intent on not listening to reason so at best its a headache.I mentioned to someone else that I’m one of those people that was very confused when I heard the news report on Nelson Mandela, and any excuse wasn’t good enough.
But thats it, the end.
Well fuck, I’ve been invited to meetings where they’ll explain how the world copied itself and we’re living in an alternate timeline (my words, I’m not fucking going) and on it goes.Fuck sakes! And these people have the right to vote! They can bring a child into this world!
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Well fuck, I’ve been invited to meetings where they’ll explain how the world copied itself and we’re living in an alternate timeline (my words, I’m not fucking going) and on it goes.
Ohhhhh I kinda want to go to that!
Honestly, I think the best you can do is, if you like them, to keep engaging these people on other levels so they won’t become isolated from mainstream society. That’s when the true descent into madness begins. As long as you’re not going there, I don’t know man. Personally, believing in religions doesn’t seem any less crazy to me than the other shit.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-just-t-feel-sympathy-143819239.html
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As a current United HealthCare customer, I understand this sentiment, as sad and pathetic as it sounds.
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Luigi Mangione Good Fellas Edit
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDdgyodRRn4/?igsh=MXR6NTVoNm8yaWFobA==
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It’s stuff like the Pelicot case that makes me wonder whether we shouldn’t just get rid of men altogether.
I mean, with genetic engineering and artificial insemination and everything, we don’t really need them for much longer anymore, do we? Maybe we should just strive to be the last generation of humans with a Y-chromosome and with that fucking testosterone coming out our ears.
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The details of that case are grim beyond belief. It’s tempting to wonder what is wrong with them, but that just lets them off. They’re an evil bunch of bastards.
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Regarding the LA fires, a lot about the LA situation has surfaced including the prison labor used, budget cuts, and so many homes and neighborhoods lost. Media attention (of course) mention all the celeb homes gone and some finger pointing to the governor and Karen Bass who isn’t even mayor of the other areas affected.
Fwiw, this posting might give more insight:
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Apparently, Mayor Adams met with 45 and 45 went to the DOJ to drop the corruption charges against Adams.
NYC… It’s a mess. At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.Now there is news about farmers who voted MAGA are about to lose their farms because their government contracts/funding are frozen by executive order and will expire. And the contracts were by the Dem administration.
Regarding the executive orders: Before it was MAGA voters who ended up voting for their own deportation, then a few teachers were shocked at how much was instantly defunded/gutted in their school district, and now some MAGA voters just voted for their own foreclosure.
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As NYC turns – The mayor is now seen as “compromised” by everyone in the city over the huge break he got from the POTUS.
Demonstration downtown for Hochul to remove him.https://pix11.com/news/morning/protesters-to-demand-gov-hochul-remove-nyc-mayor-adams-from-office/
And… Four of Adam’s deputies have resigned already.
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Fair!
I do honestly wonder what would happen to all aggression in the world if testosterone suppressants would globally be introduced into our drinking water.
Hey, don’t give RFK Jr any ideas!!
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Sidenote, I’m going to see Armando Iannucci’s stage adaptation of Dr. Strangelove at the weekend.
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Well, that’s that then. Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse, but it’s pretty much what the polls beforehand said.
Germany has a conservative government again, like we have almost all the time really. Merz is no Merkel of course. He’s closer to the economic lobbies (especially the finance sector, having worked for Blackrock) and he’s radically anti-immigration, to the extent that he invited the radical right to vote with him on that matter recently. But he has to form a coalition with the SPD (labour party), so that’ll mitigate the worst hopefully. That coalition is the only option really, and there is little doubt that both sides will go through with it, even if it’s pretty much suicide for the SPD.On the bright side, the FDP – traditional liberal party, but these days mainly laissez-faire capitalists, and the ones who sabotaged our last center-left-green coalition – are out. Good riddance, motherfuckers; hope you never come back.
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I’ll take two years, the way things are currently that’s an eternity.
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The federal layoffs have affected national parks like Yosemite. Now, for anyone planning to go visit, expect it to be severely understaffed, poorly maintained, long lines, and so on. Here are some of the laid off hanging the flag:
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This graphic is regarded as the demographic breakdown:
It’s a mess now. Seeing experienced staff be let go in favor of much lesser qualified ie. four star generals fired and this:
On social media, there were some attacking Kamala Harris for not speaking up right now when she already did all she could in running as an emergency fill in for Biden, and she repeatedly warned about 45 and Project 2025 throughout her campaign.
Black Americans voted blue 92 and 78 respectively and there are messages that they will sit out the demonstrations, and other groups are angry at them sitting out now. They retort that they will not be used as human shields/buffers for police batons.
There is a lot of frustration, especially from MAGA voters who felt nothing applied to them:
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The scary thing here is the crash has to happen, it has to hurt a lot of people but, after the impact, the same hurt people will then claim it wasn’t that bad and continue supporting the very people who hurt them so badly! This has happened with Brexit backers, it’ll happen with Trump voters.
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the same hurt people will then claim it wasn’t that bad
Or alternatively, they’ll manage to blame the Deep State, immigrants, whoever. Just not the people actually doing the harm.
There’s still hope that if they fuck up badly enough though, they actually will suffer the repercussion. That’d be a day, wouldn’t it?
Certainly looks possible right now, with the extent of sheer incompetence/dumbness and brazenness. -
the same hurt people will then claim it wasn’t that bad
Or alternatively, they’ll manage to blame the Deep State, immigrants, whoever. Just not the people actually doing the harm.
There’s still hope that if they fuck up badly enough though, they actually will suffer the repercussion. That’d be a day, wouldn’t it?
Certainly looks possible right now, with the extent of sheer incompetence/dumbness and brazenness.If the massive government layoffs happen, a lot of Trump voters will be affected. There are Medicaid cuts in the proposed budget, and that will fuck over a lot of supporters.
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From some of the posted videos and messages, they are starting to feel the pinch. “This is not what I voted for, not what I expected”… Some who live in the somewhat rural areas and dependent on, say, a local hospital, local market, suppliers, etc. will be hurt even more when it is all gutted/defunded, subsidies and contracts they didn’t realize they needed are all gone, rising costs and cuts in healthcare.
Yet, where will all that frustration go? Some cultist behavior (MAGA has been called a cult) is a disbelief that they were betrayed and screwed over by the source. Anger and regret that they can’t (or refuse) to place at it’s very source. That Brexit situation mentioned is interesting.
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And now Trump’s policies have crossed the line:
Craft beer prices impacted by tariff on aluminum
Who’s ready to march with me?!
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And now Trump’s policies have crossed the line:
Craft beer prices impacted by tariff on aluminum
Who’s ready to march with me?!
I am afraid I will sit this one out. 🤣
Besides, My strongest drink is Coca Cola anyway…
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Yet, where will all that frustration go? Some cultist behavior (MAGA has been called a cult) is a disbelief that they were betrayed and screwed over by the source. Anger and regret that they can’t (or refuse) to place at it’s very source.
That sunk cost fallacy thing is veeeeeeeery powerful.
There are a lot of people out there who can’t admit to being wrong about Trump at this point. I mean, where would they go with that?
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Sunk cost fallacy along with cognitive dissonance.
Just to get back to the deportation issue: The Temporary Protection Status has ended, and the birthright citizenship status is under attack. If that is gone, being born in the US won’t make you a legal citizen. It all started with “Dealing with the illegal immigrants taking jobs away and being criminals” and then it just might spread to indiscriminately deporting people born in the US already. Scary…
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More like deport anyone who isn’t white enough.
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Town hall meeting eruptions starting across the country:
They voted knowing that things like this was going to happen. Now they are angry it’s coming their way.
I don’t agree with Bill Maher, but years ago on CNN when the GOP ticket had Palin as VP, he said McCain might very well win because “you can’t put anything past this stupid country”. During the commercial break the phone lines erupted and the host asked Maher to clarify. Maher explained about the ignorance of voters. Looking back he wasn’t wrong about voters.
Back in school, we had a speaker who said that in the future, a lot of the festering social, political and environmental issues will come to a head, and society will be at crossroads and decide on the whole whether to be for or against those issues and that just might determine the destiny. The speaker had a point.
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I thought Republicans had been told not to do townhalls anymore because of this kind of stuff.
Ah, I see:
“”You see a lot of advice in Washington, D.C. from different folks saying, you know, ‘Republicans shouldn’t be out there doing town halls,’ and I’m thinking ‘Why not?’ I love the people,” said Edwards, before he left.
Well he found out didn’t he.
Given this kind of thing… You know, much as I can understand the anger at Schumer for drawing back from a government shutdown, I think he has a point strategically:
“Right now, Donald Trump owns the chaos in the government. He owns the chaos in the stock market,” he added. “In a shutdown, we would be busy fighting with Republicans over which agencies to reopen, which to keep closed, instead of debating the damage Donald Trump’s agenda is causing the American people.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/chuck-schumer-surrender-shutdown-00230481
If the Dems shut down the government, suddenly it’s their fault that nothing is working. Currently, Trump and Musk are achieving that without any help from the Dems whatsoever. Why would you shut down the government agencies while Trump and Musk are trying to destroy them anyway?
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If the Dems shut down the government, suddenly it’s their fault that nothing is working. Currently, Trump and Musk are achieving that without any help from the Dems whatsoever. Why would you shut down the government agencies while Trump and Musk are trying to destroy them anyway?
Because they’re going to destroy everything and blame the Democrats for everything that goes wrong anyway, and not fighting is alienating the people who might actually vote for them.
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But blaming the chaos on anybody else isn’t really working for the Republicans right now, is it?
It literally just won them the presidency. All the people who voted for Trump and are complaining now will either vote Republican in 2028, or won’t vote or protest vote for the Dems then, and go back to voting for the Republicans in 2032 because the Dems won’t fix any of the problems Trump and Musk are causing now.
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You’re thinking very long-term there. Right now, making sure the Trump admin can’t blame the havok they’re wreaking on the dems may be a winning strategy for the midterms. Which in turn might turn Trump into a lame duck in the middle of his term. That seems like a good short-term goal.
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Again, I agree when it comes to fighting. However, a government shutdown would hit exactly the same people hardest who are also suffering from Trump’s current actions, but now the Democrats would be to blame for the hurt. It’d be a strategic boon to Trump, and it’d mean further loss of trust in the system of government in general.
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Thing is, the Republicans have the majority, thus they have the votes. And if you think the Dems won’t still get blamed, I have a bridge to sell.
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Over the last 16 years, Schumer and Pelosi (and, to some extent, Obama) wasted the political power the Democratic Party had amassed following the 2008 election, largely by refusing to build on the grass-roots movement that put Obama in the White House. Instead they ignored the political windshift and went about business as usual rather than putting the financial backing of the Party behind other progressive up-and-coming Congressional candidates. Even after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s HUGE upset victory over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in 2018, the Party leaders still put their money and influence behind old-timer Joe Biden as the candidate for the 2020 presidential election rather than fresher, more progressive candidates like Pete Buttegieg, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and others. And again in 2024, they stood behind Biden until it was too late, when they should have been grooming Pete or Kamala or Bernie.
And now here we are.
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Yeah, this has been a big thing over here. I have to say I find what the BND has to say about this of rather little interest. They aren’t really that great an intelligence agency, and given the CIA has been saying this for a while… well, not exactly new news, this. Merkel herself apparently had decided not to publish these findings because she didn’t trust the BND’s competences on this matter. (And presumably didn’t want to get into it with China.)
In all the reporting here, it hasn’t really become clear how the BND arrive at their conclusion. This is what our expert on matters coronavirus – who was asked to assess what the BND report said – had to say on the matter:
He was impressed by the summarised presentation of the results, explained the Director of the Institute of Virology at Charité in Berlin, who was part of a panel of experts asked by the Chancellor’s Office for an assessment. However, the source data had not been made available to the group of scientists. ‘I am therefore unable to make a scientific judgement simply due to a lack of access to data.’ In addition, all members of the panel were subject to a confidentiality obligation.
From the point of view of science and the public, it may be unsatisfactory not to receive a clear assessment. But: ‘For an evaluation according to scientific standards, the source data would have to be available and published in full so that the analyses are comprehensible and reproducible for other scientists.’ Without this release, the reported findings cannot be utilised on a scientific level.
He himself, like other researchers and the World Health Organisation (WHO), has repeatedly pointed out that all available data and information on the origin of the virus should be made available for scientific evaluation. Based on the public information available to date, there is a clear overwhelming probability of a natural origin, ‘and this is how I have always put it: there is no proof for any of the origin hypotheses, but there is a clear weighting of probability’.
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Drosten still considers a natural origin of Sars-CoV-2 to be probable, as he told the newspaper taz in January – ‘and this is also assumed by almost all scientists working on the topic’. Fabian Leendertz, Director of the Helmholtz Institute for One Health in Greifswald, also told the news agency dpa that, based on the currently available – albeit weak – data, it can be assumed that transmission to humans took place via intermediate hosts, for example on animal farms.
So, from the publicly available data, random zoonosis is still most likely, but the spy agencies may have secret data that might change this view to making it more likely that it was lab-generated, but as they’re not making this data public, nobody really knows.
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It’s the Trust Us Bros at work.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/russell-brand-charged
This seems deserved, from most accounts
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Yeah, I think that’s pretty much a given at this point.
Brand is believed to have moved to the US, claiming he is being “attacked” and “shut down” by the British authorities. He interviewed Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, last year in Florida.
So he probably won’t have to worry. Trump always protects his fellow rapists.
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Yeah you might think it is a bit dystopian…But it will save lives!
This kind of thing is always nonsense. There are a lot of criminologists out there who have long identified the risk factors for people becoming criminals, and we know how to reduce that if we want to. But that is not something governments are interested in.
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Damn, it came out in the news that our crown princess has been living in Spain for a year because the Netherlands is too dangerous for her. She was targeted by the mocro mob. I think that is what the kids call a red pill.
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