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1. Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:47:35 JST Kenny Blankenship
   Gonna try my hand at an old fashioned effort poast this morning.
   
   So as expected, the House passed a number of controversial bills last week- pumping billions more in aid to the Taiwan, Ukraine and the genocidal maniacs of Pissrael. They also effectively voted to ban TikTok.
   
   The important thing here is that these actions represent a full mask off, “fuck you plebs” from the regime. Everyone is extremely pissed off in some way or another - shitlibs over Israel funding/TikTok, rightoids over Ukraine and the complete lack of border funding, and normie independents at some combination of the bills.
   
   All of this legislation was passed at about the exact same time the NYPD was called in to bust up the Columbia Gaza protests. I think this is jarring for a lot of people - banning websites and calling in the goon squads to shut down free speech is something that Big Bad Mean ol Russia/China/Iran do. It‘s not supposed to happen in Sacred DemocracyLand, yet this blatant repression is happening with widespread support from both parties.
   
   Given all that’s happened recently, a lot of normies are starting to adopt beliefs that were one time confined to the fringes - namely, that democracy is a sham, our supposed “freedoms” can be crushed at will and that both parties take their orders straight from the likes of Jon Greenblatt and Zionist jew oligarchs. The latter is especially notable, since for the first time the public (many of them Tik Tok watching Zoomers) is aware of the immense power of jewish political lobbies.
   
   In short, the regime is now resorting to hard power and blatant disregard of the public’s will to preserve itself. The thing is, hard power has its limits, and when you completely destroy your credibility the idea of telling DC to fuck off starts to take root. Zog’s empire is starting to crumble, and at some point it will take an L so big that it will implode.
   
   Something to think about as we all goof off at work on this Monday morning.
   • KK954 (kk954@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:44:55 JST KK954

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     The odd thing is what pissed me off the most..... was that stupid bitch congresswoman passing out Ukrainian flags.
     The epitome of a traitor and should be taken out and hung in the town square.
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   • BobsonDugnuttHB (bobsondugnutthb@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:44:56 JST BobsonDugnuttHB

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     @DW2 As I was telling folks around a decade ago elsewhere, both force and bribery are required to hold all empires (multiple ethnicities forced into the same polity) together. The more ethnicities involved and the longer the timeline, the amount of both force and bribery required to keep the polity from fracturing increases, and eventually the arc goes parabolic, and the force required becomes brutally repressive and the bribery required bankrupts the state.
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   • WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:52:02 JST WilhelmIII

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     • Angry Sun
     > dunno a lot of brainlets support all this stuff
     
     There always will be a large group of people that will lick the hands of their masters.
     
     When the number of people that won't gets to about 15%, then the wheels start to come off.
     
     We're not quite there yet, but it's accelerating in that direction.
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   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:52:03 JST Angry Sun

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     @DW2 I dunno a lot of brainlets support all this stuff
   • Charles_in_Charge (charles_in_charge@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:52:30 JST Charles_in_Charge

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     @DW2 A clenched fist still can't hold on to sand.
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