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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Because the Republican/Libertarian dogma is that government does not work and is inherently wasteful, that only private corporations are efficient and good. Their goal is to destroy the entire government and replace it all with private contractors doing the same thing for more money and half as well. Ignoring the fact that they are themselves government workers, and that there are many necessary services that explicitly should not be run to maximize profits, they’re also fundamentally wrong that the government is somehow uniquely wasteful and inefficient. It’s just one of many false beliefs they have, the biggest and most damaging of which being the idea of trickle down economics.








  • We’ve seen the way Israel does ceasefires and it looks an awful lot like Russian ceasefires. This is just Israel taking a timeout to restock ammunition and hoping for a good opportunity for a sneak attack. Also it’s Trump saying it so who knows what if anything was actually agreed on. The only thing you can reliably count on Trump for is lies and grifting.

    The only way I could see Israel going for an actual ceasefire is if Iran has nukes or one of their backers makes a believable threat to drop a nuke on their behalf. Or maybe Israel did the math on what it would mean if their psycho buddy Trump actually dropped that nuke he’s been salivating about on Iran and don’t want to deal with nuclear fallout and the very real possibility that someone would nuke them as a freebie while chucking nukes at the US.











  • Most “gun enthusiasts” don’t give a single fuck about these. They’re pretty useless as they just waste ammo and make your aim worse. I have no idea who’s actually fighting for these, but it’s definitely not the majority of gun owners. You’re right, nobody needs these, and almost nobody actually owns them. This decision won’t really change that either. Ultimately this is largely a non-story just as much as it was when they were banned in the first place. There’s far more meaningful things people should be focusing on right now both in terms of gun violence and just in general.