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15th April 2021, 09:47 AM | #161 |
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Not too worried about leap year calculations any more now that we survived the transition into this millennium.
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15th April 2021, 11:51 AM | #163 |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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15th April 2021, 01:53 PM | #164 |
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15th April 2021, 02:23 PM | #165 |
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If this ever flies it will be more fun to watch than Mill's Brilliant train wreck.
The trolls are lining up already en masse. |
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15th April 2021, 03:42 PM | #167 |
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15th April 2021, 05:10 PM | #168 |
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I think he means name rather than rank... if I were to pick one, it would be a toss-up between Hermann Esser, the editor Völkischer Beobachter. and Julius Streicher – founder and editor of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer These are connects with media, propsaganda and the Big Lie, so its appropriate without being too obvious such as choosing Josef Goebbels as a username If I wished to devote/waste my time stirring up the right-wing ****-wits that will inhabit that site, I would get in and register a truckload of sockpuppets right at the start, so that when I start posting opinions they don't like, and the hypocritical wankers start "censoring" me and start trying to play whackamole with my accounts, I will be able to seamlessly switch to another account and start posting immediately. Of course, multiple disposable email addresses and a VPN with a capacity for a randomized IP address will be helpful. |
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16th April 2021, 06:30 AM | #169 |
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16th April 2021, 09:45 AM | #170 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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16th April 2021, 12:27 PM | #171 |
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Rottenführer. (lower rank, funnier name)
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That's the equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel (not a Major, as Sean Connery will now explain....)
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16th April 2021, 03:16 PM | #173 |
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Even if the trolls weren't revving their engines, my intuition says it won't last a year. These sorts of people inevitably turn on each other. Right now they may be united in their disagreement over the 2020 election and so forth. But later they'll start to disagree on other things. Since this all rests on a conspiracy-theory foundation, they'll start explaining their subsequent disagreements in terms of imaginary conspiracies. Even without real trolls, they'll start accusing each other of being trolls, shills, or infiltrators anyway.
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16th April 2021, 03:43 PM | #174 |
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I'm reserving "Schicklgruber".
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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16th April 2021, 04:06 PM | #176 |
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16th April 2021, 04:36 PM | #177 |
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16th April 2021, 07:29 PM | #178 |
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Wonder if the MyPillow guy will support Marjorie Taylor Green's movement to restore Anglo Saxon rule to America....
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16th April 2021, 11:57 PM | #179 |
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17th April 2021, 02:32 AM | #181 |
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[quote=smartcooky;13456327]Ok, thought the "TK" in your quote was a reference to the "Totenkopf", the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen SS, not to Tom Kratman.[/QUOTE
I should have been less cryptic..... Tom Kratman (Space Marine!) was particularly vocal on the Baen Bar after the Trumpist insurrection calling for a right-wing revolution, mass murder of "liberals" and race war. And he's dabbled in Nazi revisionism and SS apologism in the past. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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18th April 2021, 04:12 AM | #182 |
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Freedom of speech lives. Lindell has said users of his new social media platform will be allowed to criticize former President Donald Trump.
He also predicts 10 million people will sign up on the first day Also, it launches on April 19th, not the 20th. |
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18th April 2021, 04:34 AM | #184 |
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18th April 2021, 04:43 AM | #185 |
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Quote:
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This is going to be adorable! Quotes taken from https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/14/2...ive-censorship |
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18th April 2021, 06:37 AM | #191 |
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I hope FrankenTalk manages to shamble out of the castle tomorrow. I'm especially bored during lockdowns lately.
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And the scammers have started: I found a link to a page with an Android APK for Frankspeech that can be downloaded and installed.
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18th April 2021, 09:09 AM | #194 |
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/sound of K-pop fans in a power dive
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18th April 2021, 09:36 AM | #195 |
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I’m guessing it’s going to be 70% users just joining for the lulz
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18th April 2021, 12:34 PM | #197 |
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The rolls are going to be insanely bloated with socks (doubting they'll sacrifice the time for solid verification). Largest percentage ever?
So he'll hit a large membership early (not wildly large I'd think) but the board content is going to be sparser than they'd like for a while.. if it survives. Guesses on how long before the real fun begins? I have no idea as I've never watched such a launch before. But he's such a lightning rod, it should be... explosive. |
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Part of the registration process appears to be to provide "a valid phone number". Do they intend calling each number before they register an applicant? Just checking? Because they won't make it past the first hundred in a day at that rate.
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