• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Massie is super libertarian, but often his criticism of these people is based. What he does as a Representative, I’m not a huge fan, but it is a nice sanity check.

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      This is what our political opponents should be like. Instead of traitorous criminal pedophile filth.

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        7 months ago

        “They’re stupid as anything, but at least they mean well.” Bar’s in hell, goddamn.

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        7 months ago

        100%. I don’t hate Massie at all. We disagree on policy matters and methods. I don’t expect he’s going to throw me in a gulag for disagreeing with him.

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      7 months ago

      He seems like pure MAGA.

      Not the self serving “MAGA when it supports Donald Trump,” but absolute hard lines on anti foreign intervention, surveilance, (pro) weed legalization, government transparency, anti-immigration, some kool-aid on climate change and ukraine, stuff like that.

      He voted against the BBB.

      …I can respect that.

      I sure as hell disagree with a lot, but he has some freaking self respect, and actually pushes the okay bits of MAGA when its hard and everyone else is licking the boots of Trump or megacorps.

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    7 months ago

    So this is the “Epstein Shutdown”?

    Speaker of the USA House Mike Johnson would be a terrible president.

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    7 months ago

    That site is fucked, all the “random” images recommended were legit antisemitic Nazi shit.

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      7 months ago

      Hit F5, it appears to be a general shit-mix of random stuff, not just whatever Nazi content you found on the splash page. Report it if you want, I’ve never heard of the site before, but it looks like the kind of low-grade early '00s site where shit slid in past mods all the time. I got stuff like:

      • Flash FM - GTA Vice City
      • PoolDooms - Doom Mod Madness
      • Polar Bears Move Into Houses In Abandoned Research Town In Russia | Inside Edition
      • Australian Cat
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        7 months ago

        Hmmmm…

        Every refresh is variations of this:

        such as this:

        Likewise I scroll down and what do I see? It’s apart of some network, with a reddit-like site called goatmatrix.net oh and what sort of quality content does this site provide you may wonder? (you don’t):

        See, when you go to imgur and look at their random feed you won’t really see any nazi shit.

        What we have here is a Nazi imgur from a Nazi reddit.

        I’m curious how you didn’t see any of that content on a Nazi platform?

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          I’m curious how you didn’t see any of that content on a Nazi platform?

          Easy, our two different browsers, accessing the site’s splash page at different times, loaded separate instances interpreted differently by the two of us. I see Pepe, Jew soap, East Indian toilet Sloppy Joe, and some Jewish Wal Mart posts on yours though, as well as one depicting someone with their hand on the West Wall in Jerusalem. I’m not seeing the goatmatrix.net link that you describe, but I wasn’t going over it with a fine-tooth comb - I’ll take another look later to see just how bad it gets because it doesn’t look promising based on the kind of content you were turning up. It doesn’t look so good though, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

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    7 months ago

    I’m not an American, and not nearly as knowledgeable about Senate and Congressional voting to know the significance of the 218 votes he’s talking about. How many would normally be required as a minimum? What’s the tipping point?

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      7 months ago

      218 is the simple majority line for the House of Representatives. 435 total members currently.

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      218 might not be enough to trigger the release, but would force republicans to take a stance either against Trump or against their own base.

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        They’ve been forced to side against their own base several times this year and they always do so willingly. They want to rule over their constituents; not govern.

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    7 months ago

    The Republicans shut down the government to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

    At any point, they can vote to pass the budget and open the government again. The Republicans have the votes and enough time has passed that they no longer need a 2/3rds majority.

    The Republicans have 100% control over this situation, don’t let anyone think otherwise.