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MargarineMongoose 3 points ago +3 / -0

Well yeah, no one ever hits back. Why would they stop?

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MargarineMongoose 3 points ago +3 / -0

Do they not record these calls? I would expect they have a record of the number from which the swatting call was made. It's a simple matter of showing up on their doorstep instead and hauling the offender off to jail where they can await their trial, conviction and subsequent public hanging.

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MargarineMongoose 2 points ago +2 / -0

The problem is that as the situation deteriorates further and further we no longer have the luxury of getting to know someone before judging them, so all we have to go by is immediate visual indicators. Until you get to know an individual you have to judge them based on the group and man there are a lot of bad apples out there spoiling it for everyone else.

Becoming a Low Trust Society is something that makes me sick to my stomach and is probably the most distressing reality I will have live through aside from losing friends and family.

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MargarineMongoose 2 points ago +2 / -0

I really think we should push the normalization of the term "foreign invader" because that's exactly what they are and it sounds a lot harsher than the weasel word terms currently in use. Make it abundantly clear what they are because what they are is undesirable to anyone with half of a functioning brain.

Radicalize the normie against these people by calling them what they are.

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MargarineMongoose 10 points ago +10 / -0

I am not above supporting a return of cheesecake to the industry.

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MargarineMongoose 1 point ago +1 / -0

Get rolled like the Japanese did once the Europeans showed up then I guess.

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MargarineMongoose 8 points ago +8 / -0

It doesn't even need to be a scheme to make us import anything. Control of the food supply is plenty of power and worth pursuing all on its own.

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MargarineMongoose 15 points ago +15 / -0

Multinational corporations are hostile foreign entities invading our country and should be driven from our lands with fire and sword. Change my mind.

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MargarineMongoose 6 points ago +6 / -0

Oh no, I'm well aware you're real if for no other reason than our perpetual bickering, but man if not for that it'd real easy to believe you were churning out LLM responses due to the sheer word count of your posts. I was using one at work today and was just dumbfounded by how a simple query yielded just reams and reams of text.

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MargarineMongoose 17 points ago +17 / -0

The shifting basket is probably why there's so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over people fixating on the price of eggs, because it's a stable observable metric that the average person can point to and understand.

"Oh, eggs are three times as expensive as normal and I'm supposed to believe inflation is at 2%? Something must be fishy here."

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MargarineMongoose 5 points ago +6 / -1

Some days I swear you're a LLM bot with how goddamn wordy you are.

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MargarineMongoose 15 points ago +15 / -0

Wait, why do we not want farms? Is it because in order to be a proper Communist regime they need the peasants to starve to death by the millions? Is that the motivation here?

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MargarineMongoose 1 point ago +1 / -0

And also he's blind as a bat so the friendly fire was off the charts.

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MargarineMongoose 0 points ago +1 / -1

Yes but that's not going to stop China from tinkering because they have no moral compass and will create unspeakable horrors, so maybe we ought to have enough knowledge of the technology to develop countermeasures.

Christ, it's like I'm the only one in the room who can think more than one step ahead today.

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MargarineMongoose 5 points ago +5 / -0

It's basically target practice for your immune system.

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MargarineMongoose 0 points ago +1 / -1

An arms race for whatever unforeseen benefits can be derived from a technology that allows for altering a human's genetic information on the fly.

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MargarineMongoose 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is good phrasing. It puts a crack in their monolithic opposition to "oppression" and how it's always framed as universally evil.

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MargarineMongoose 2 points ago +3 / -1

It's a wicked, harmful technology that does more harm than good.

Being behind in an arms race is not a position you want to find yourself in.

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MargarineMongoose 0 points ago +1 / -1

Mudblood projection on your part I'm sure.

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MargarineMongoose 1 point ago +1 / -0

We'd need to enforce this globally, which is a losing proposition. I agree that the technology should be purged and never resurrected but to abandon it entirely is to allow our enemies to gain a weapon about which we know nothing.

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MargarineMongoose 1 point ago +3 / -2

Take your hallucinations and fuck right off.

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MargarineMongoose 5 points ago +5 / -0

I simply don't trust human engineering to be better than millions of years of real world testing that is evolution. Hell, I don't trust human engineering in this realm to even be non-harmful.

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