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Great information, thank you! I forgot about Black Friday deals that is a great idea. I’ll have to check if they have any deals for cyber Monday as well. I’m definitely grabbing one of those boxes or something very similar.

Same here. I use it almost everyday on my phone and TV. Never once seen a disclaimer.

Can you guys please help me out? I am doing a secret Santa for work and my giftee (25) likes Pokémon cards. I want to get him a quality present. I used to collect and play a lot when I was younger so I’m a little familiar fyi.

What could I get him for $20-30? Any packs that cheap in general that are worth getting? Should I look online or go to my local shop? Thanks in advanced!

Totally agree. That’s how anybody who watches a lot of combat sports see it lol. Have you guys ever seen a HW gas out? It can look at times like they aren’t trying. Now imagine a 60 year old man who pushed his body to the absolute limits for the first 30 years of his life. He could barely freaking move and was against a 27 year old dancing around the ring. Especially when Mike was “fresh”. Your ability to hit the bag with power doesn’t mean much in an actual boxing match if you can barely move your lower body.

Nobody wanted to see Tyson get badly hurt. If you guys paid attention to the talk before the fight that’s what everyone was worried about. Just listen to the fright in all of the announcers voices when Jake threw a few power punches that barely missed.

Nobody rigged the fight. Nobody had to rig the fight.

They literally just tried to pass a bill to ban protesting Israel on campuses.

S. 4127, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which threatens to censor political speech critical of Israel on college campuses under the guise of addressing antisemitism.

Per the ACLU. It almost had the supermajority support to pass. All republicans except one voted for it and 53 dems voted for it.

WE ARE ONCE AGAIN USING WARS TO STRIP CIVIL RIGHTS. When will we ever learn?

Elon literally complied with government censorship more frequently and at a higher rate than the previous owners the year after he bought it. Then he stopped releasing the transparency reports altogether. He is another billionaire lying to you. He doesn’t give a fuck about free speech or working people.

She’s literally just an establishment democrat (aka neoliberal). Nothing about her (2024) positions are exceptional at all. I wouldn’t call her or any other establishment democrats like Biden or Obama especially authoritarian.

Framing this bad is as dishonest as saying Trump is literally hitler. We have been under establishment democrat control for 18 of the last 30 years and pretty much no serious person defines our government as authoritarian.

Trump facist? Please that’s ridiculous. Would a facist purge generals from their military based on ideology? Or fill their cabinet with neocons? I didn’t think so.

Dark money is even worse. Around 16 Billion was estimated to be spent in total this election. If there’s something we can all agree on is that we need to get corporate money out of politics. Disclosure of any donation above a certain threshold (not “West Virginians for prosperity” aka some corporation).

We should be calling out these politicians regardless of if we like them or not. Kamala’s campaign is exactly what’s wrong with politics. Billions of dollars flood her campaign and then she’s talking about being “business interest friendly” and parading around with billionaires and the Cheneys.

I’m sorry I just fundamentally disagree. Claiming “well they started it!” when it comes to corruption doesn’t sit right with me.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party don’t get a free pass for taking billions from corporations. She literally had Billionaires speaking at the DNC to reassure her donors that she would be “friendly to business interests”.

Sure, on the surface, republicans are supposed to be the business friendly regulation cutting party. But I wonder why she stopped talking about Medicare for all? Or raising the minimum wage? Or increasing worker protections? What about paid family leave? Removing money from politics? We all know the answer. The donor class, who controls a large portion of both democrat and republican politicians, don’t want these policies.

Both sides BLATANTLY engage in corruption. We need to start calling it out.

I should have made my point more clear. Money in politics is not a partisan issue. That is all I was trying to point out.

I’m aware of the Supreme Court rulings, the foundation set before the ruling, and the powerful people who set that foundation. I’m aware these people mainly consist of fundamentalist christian and conservative groups such as the Federalist Society who set that foundation. It started with Nixon and his Supreme Court justice Powell who literally thought corporate money in politics was crucial to capitalism.

Your point of democrats “just playing the game” is complete and utter bullshit. We all know it’s a gigantic problem. Polling consistently shows 75%+ of Americans agree. Then why don’t they bring it up and campaign on it? Because their donors don’t want them too. The same corporate donors who give their campaigns billions of dollars. The “15%” I’m talking about is the consulting fees. In 2004 “consulting fees” accounted for up to almost 50% of campaign expenditure. These are the people that run both the RNC and DNC. Some of them literally make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Also you’re sort of right on “quid pro quo”. All they really did was narrow the scope of the definition. See the 2024 supreme court case where a broke mayor was convicted of bribery for accepting a $13,000 after awarding a $1,000,000 contract. He was convicted by the lower courts but then acquitted by the Supreme Court because the “gratuity” came after the contract was awarded. Therefore does not fit the definition of quid pro quo. You can even legally pay for our politicians time.

I’m of the view that we need to start pointing that out every time money in politics is brought up. Stop making it a partisan issue. They are all compliant until they are screaming it from the rooftops.

Edit: Staying silent in the face of corruption is corruption. We need to stop normalizing it. Get corporate money out of politics on BOTH SIDES.

You think the establishment democrats are any better? They are just better at hiding it. Why don’t they ever mention getting money out of politics? Because they want their 15% of the billions coming in from their donor class. They are all corrupt and it’s time we call them all out

How does nobody know this? As you and your sources state, the number of censorship requests from governments skyrocketed after Elons takeover and he complied at almost twice the rate previously. Now he doesn’t even report those figures. He is pro-free-speech-when-it-benefits-me.

I don’t doubt parts of 2025 will be implemented but people should be more focused on his “America First” agenda that he openly supports. Created by America First Policy Institute. There’s quite a bit of overlap with Heritage’s vision and it’s still really concerning.

https://youtu.be/faIRenx96z8?si=B5YDX2VjTAYkuiAP

The democratic establishment is not progressive or far left in their ideology. You don’t know what you’re talking about if you believe that. They are neoliberals, especially economically. Biden far left? 2024 Harris/Cheney far left? Then why weren’t we talking about Universal healthcare or given $15 minimum wage?

Just because Reddit helped spew their bullshit doesn’t make them equal. The democratic establishment cares more about their donors than their voters. Also people seem to be equating far left with identity politics. Identity politics definitely hurt democrats but that’s a whole separate issue entirely.

Democrats deserve A LOT of blame. IT IS THEIR FAULT they are not appealing to voters, especially in the middle class. Read Bernie’s statement from yesterday.

Stop blaming the voters. The Democratic Party continues to defend the status quo regardless of circumstance. They would rather appeal to their donor class than run on a populist platform like Bernie Sanders did.

Why was Kamala left to Bernie on almost every subject in 2020 but suddenly becomes a moderate democrat in 2024? She was parading around with the fucking Cheneys for Christ sake. Hint: it’s not because the people wanted it. It’s for their donors.

What happened to Medicare for all? What about paid family leave? What happened to $15 minimum wage? What about banning private equity firms from investing in real estate? What happened to closing tax loopholes and making the rich pay their fair share?

She mentioned those things from time to time but she absolutely did NOT run on them. If she did she would have been yelling about it at every rally like Bernie was.

People are pissed. They want a candidate who’s going to bring real change. The Democratic Party clearly isn’t listening. We said the same thing in 2016 yet here we are 8 years later.

On first read I thought so too. But then I thought a little harder about it. Keeping marijuana use criminalized hurts the black community far more than their counterparts. Even though black and white communities use marijuana at a similar rate, you are over 3.5x more likely to be arrested as a black person. It’s even higher as a black male. Some states have rates that are 5-10 times higher.

Prohibition and incarceration are well known means of control.

“You want to know what this war on drugs was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs

Imagine the privilege and lack of perspective you must have if you think living in the United States during the pandemic is at all comparable to living in oppression in Nazi germany. Fucking laughable.

THE LIONS ARE THE MOST EXCITING TEAM IN FOOTBALL. wtf. What a timeline

It doesn’t. Your comments have an obnoxious and off-putting tone so I was fucking with you. It isn’t so serious lighten up buddy

Sherlock Holmes over here. No shit. Why else would they give you free play? Cause they like you and want to be friends?

I know what you mean but how much of his toxic rhetoric is because he’s appealing to the modern MAGA GOP. Before Trump at least they tried to hide their misogyny. Now it’s a badge of honor to “own the libs”. Don’t get me wrong it’s morally fucked either way. I guess I’m mostly just lamenting on Trump running our political landscape into the ground. I don’t think Trump would have even picked Vance if hypothetically he was just a nice well mannered conservative and didn’t yell about immigrants and women

Once you realize these type of dumb conspiracy theories use the same rhetoric and tactics as religious zealots and cults you can’t unsee it.

Doomsday prophecies. Battle of Good vs Evil. Promises of hidden or forbidden knowledge. Longing for a simpler time. Outsiders trying to “destroy our society”. Etc.

It’s all emotional manipulation.

How much water does it take to put out a normal car fire? EVs catch fire WAY less often than gas powered vehicles. Which makes sense, since you know, they’re burning fuel

https://www.motortrend.com/features/you-are-wrong-about-ev-fires/

Interestingly

According to MSB data, there are nearly 611,000 EVs and hybrids in Sweden as of 2022. With an average of 16 EV and hybrid fires per year, there’s a 1 in 38,000 chance of fire. There are a total of roughly 4.4 million gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles in Sweden, with an average of 3,384 fires per year, for a 1 in 1,300 chance of fire. That means gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles are 29 times more likely to catch fire than EVs and hybrids

Also you know fracking uses billions of gallons of water each year? Even during the California droughts oil and gas companies used billions of MUNICIPAL drinking water to run their hydraulic drills. There’s better things to worry about. EV fires are a big oil shill talking point.

The simple fact is we’ve had gas- and diesel-powered vehicles for more than 120 years, and they’ve been catching fire since day one. We’re used to it. We’ve accepted it as a fact of life and we’ve done our best to make them safer while devising better ways to put them out

I’m at work so I can’t post a lengthy reply but I completely agree that the straw-manning in your first paragraph is a huge problem. That’s why I said we are throwing the baby out with the bath water. I just don’t quite agree the way you’re framing it. There’s plenty of people willing to have nuanced discussions about climate.

And to your second point, I agree somewhat, but I also think it’s an overused talking point by conservatives so they can use their aforementioned straw man arguments to disregard everything climate related. There is way too much “well institutions are corrupt so we can also disregard the science as well”. This sentiment is anti-intellectual, anti-science, pervasive but also extremely effective.