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  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonefuck tankies rule
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    2 days ago

    I’m not generally a fan of memes that imply an equivalence between the auth-left and auth-right, because they tend to be used by “enlightened centrists” to push horseshoe theory and over-simplify an already over-simplified political compass.

    …but the “but I wish it had been” got me pretty good. They really do be like that.

    Also, it’s “so forth”, not “so fourth”.









  • I mean, yeah, that’s pretty much all voting.

    Elected officials never actually get to weigh in on like “Trans people: fully considered as their chosen gender, Y/N?”

    It’s always like “Should we renew the provision that the dept of education is able to recommend limiting student aid funding for teachers’ aide programs that prohibit student teachers from stating, on school grounds, that they have family members who have donated to 501©(4)s that have lobbied against bathroom bills, and also fund repairs for the orphan-crushing machine and the last $5 we need to cure wrist cancer forever?”

    You always have to reverse-engineer a politician’s philosophy, cuz you can never predict exactly what byzantine nonsense they’ll face in the actual role.








  • I mean…

    In 2016, various media outlets reported that Mr Thiel had links to the radical life extension startup Ambrosia, with Gawker claiming he “spends $40,00 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice.”

    These reports cited his investment portfolio, together with a 2009 essay that laid out his philosophical and political beliefs. In it, he wrote that he stood against “the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.”

    However the blood transfusion claims were never verified and Gawker shut down shortly after following an unrelated lawsuit partly funded by Mr Thiel.