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Actually, based on what DOGE has uncovered (SO FAR), about half of all "charitable" funding by the fedgov, including Medicaid, Medicare, etc is going TO RICH POLITICIANS AND THEIR CRONIES.

Hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of taxpayer dollars get poured into "entitlement" programs and "charitable" NGOs, so it can be divvied up among lesser NGOs and then still more smaller NGOs, and the money returned to the politicians as kickbacks, or their political allies to push their agenda with their political opponents' own money.

I don't want to eat them. I just want them hanged by the neck until they are dead. Or executed with a large caliber bullet to the back of the head. I'm not choosy.

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I had to show this to my wife. This is me when my reliable devices fail me. It's like I turn into a supervillain and have to execute them for their failures.

Where do I find a wife like this

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I *have* a suppressed .22 with subsonic rounds fired, and you literally only heard the action clicking as it cycled. But it was a) heavily suppressed, and b) using subsonic .22 rounds, the smallest and weakest rounds you could get.

In the real world, a "silenced" weapon goes from loud enough to damage your hearing if you aren't using ear protection, to still very loud but not THAT loud.

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Amen. If you don't like a piece of fanfic because it's badly written, or overwrought, or has themes you don't like, or tropes you don't like (hurt/comfort, bdsd, there was only one bed, slow burn, enemies to lovers, whatever), or is slash fic or crossover fic (my favorite, but you do you), or is too gore-filled or explicitly sexy, or X-phobic (or "x-phobic" according to some self-appointed censor) then you have both the right and responsibility to NOT READ IT.

That's all you're entitled to. The author doesn't owe you a goddamn thing, no matter what your particular gripe is. FUCK. OFF.

Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.

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I forget sometimes how much work--by so many people--goes into the score for a simple cartoon.

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I've done my part!

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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A budget surplus in one year, which Clinton did achieve, DOES NOT mean we had no national debt. It means only that for a brief period it DIDN'T CONTINUE GOING UP, i.e., for one years we had no DEFICIT in the budget. The existing NATIONAL DEBT was still there. It has been growing for generations, through Republican administrations and Democratic alike.

And none of them--NONE OF THEM--have been willing to seriously address the issue.

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I...did know I could order my very own Lucy Liu. What does she cost?

(Shades of Futurama!)

Lucy Liu

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And was every membeer of "Colorado Rapid Response" immediately arrested and charged with Obstruction of Jusice and any other criminal acts that applied?

If not, why the fuck not? And why are you now just whinging to the public? You know how to solve this crap. SO DO IT.

Colorado again…

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The primary goal of any bureaucracy is not the publicly-stated purpose of the bureaucraacy, it's to maintain and expand the bureaucracy's wealth and power.

The education bureacracy's goal is not educating children. It's acquiring more power and more money, and using that money to hire more people (see the explosion of non-teaching positions in public education) and increase their own pay. Any benefit to children is purely coincidental.

The teachers' union's goal is not education children. It's acquiring more power and more money, and using that money to hire more people (for the union, not for teaching), and to increase their own pay. Any benefit to children is purely coincidental.

The statistics above are not a surprise. They're inevitable.

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Yes. If someone believes he or she is not the sex he or she demonstrably IS, that's mental illness. The mentally ill should not be in the military. If they're taking hormone replacements, or dealing with post-transition surgical issues (including hormones), they're a drag on the military and should not be there.

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It warms my heart to see this.

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Yes, please.

Check it out

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Congratulations to you both!

Let’s go have another baby I guess

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Let's...not.

lets all take out our intestines and braid them together like friendship bracelets

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What happens once you kill yourself? Because I'm ready to go.

You wanna know what happens once you kill yourself? Your mother comes home from work and finds her baby dead and she screams and runs over to you and tries to get you to wake up but you won’t and she keeps screaming and shaking you and her tears are dripping onto your face and your dad hears all the screaming and runs into the room and he can’t even speak because the child that he loved and the child that he watched grow up is gone forever and finally your little sister runs into the room to see what all the fuss is about and she sees you dead. The person she looked up to and loved. The person she bragged about to  her friends, the person she wanted to be just like when she grew up, the person that made her feel safe. But she’s never really going to get to grow up and smile and laugh and love because she’ll always be consumed with this feeling of missing you. And now there’s something missing from your family and they can barely look at each other anymore because everything reminds them of you but you’re gone and hurts more than anything. and you think that your mom never cared because she was always busy and yelling at you to finish your homework and clean your room and forgot to say I love you sometimes but really, she loved you more than anything and she doesn’t leave the house anymore, she can’t even get out of bed and she’s getting thinner and thinner because it’s too hard to eat. Your father had to quit his job and he doesn’t sleep anymore, every time he closes his eyes he sees his baby dead, and the image never goes away no matter how much alcohol he drinks. And at school your best friend sees that your seat is empty and she gets this sick feeling in her stomach and that’s when she hears the announcement. You killed yourself. And suddenly she’s screaming and crying in the middle of class and no one even bothers comforting because they’re all  busy sitting there staring at your empty seat with tears dripping down their cheeks and all she wants is for you to hug her and tell her it’s gonna be okay like you always did, but this time, you’re not there to do it, everything is dark now that you’re gone and her grades are slipping, she barely goes to school anymore and she ended up in hospital after taking too many pills because she wanted to see you again. the girls who used to make fun of the way you dressed feel their throats get tight, they don’t talk to each other anymore, they don’t talk to anyone, they’re all in therapy trying so hard not to blame themselves but nothing works. and your teacher who always gave you a hard time stares blankly at the wall, she quits her job a few days later. And then your boyfriend hears the news and he can’t breathe, he still calls you a lot just to hear your voice and he talks to you on facebook but you never message him back, he can’t fall in love again because every girl he meets reminds him of you, he’s never going to get over you, he loved you and he cries himself to sleep every night, hating himself and slicing his skin because he couldn’t save you and he’s never going to hold you in his arms or hear you laugh again. Now everyone who knew you, whether they were a big part of your life or someone you passed in the hallway a few times a week, they carry this aching feeling around inside them because you’re gone, and they miss you, and they don’t know why you left but it must’ve been their fault and they should’ve stopped you and they should’ve told you they loved you more and that feeling is never going to go away. And so you killed yourself

but you killed everyone else around you too. 

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EMPIRE OF IRON

Uh...sounds pretty generic fantasy, which I don't read much anymore. (I spent decades reading all the fantasy and science fiction I could get my hands on. Generic fantasy bores me anymore.)

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