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Joined October 2011
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This has literally never happened, not once, anywhere, ever. Teachers have to buy their own fucking erasers because the school won’t pay for classroom supplies. Who is paying for the hormones and surgeries? Your kid goes missing for three days and you’re not filing a fucking missing persons report? That would actually be kidnapping. Not to mention there is no state in the US that allows kids to get HRT or gender reassignment surgery without parental consent. I have no idea how anyone believes this is real. The only thing schools are doing is respecting when a child wants to be called a different name. Just like if someone named Jessica wants to be called Jess or Jessie instead.
Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine? They don't even need approval"
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
I still think about the guy who pointed out that "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
All of this
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
I will no longer be playing rockstar games titles because thats fucked up mass violation of innocent peoples privacy and I will not support that.
Update: They’re not just hunting the leaker. Take-Two got court approval to pull personal info (emails, phone numbers, IPs, device IDs) from ~100k Discord users across multiple servers... including DarkViperAU’s 90k-member server. Most of those people are complete bystanders who had nothing to do with the leaks. A multi-billion dollar company turning Discord into a mass surveillance tool the second their IP gets threatened. And remember… once they have that personal data, there’s no real guarantee they can even protect it. These big companies get breached regularly. When (not if) it happens again, your info is just sitting there waiting to be leaked. Greed + power = this exact playbook.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
I’ll just leave this here.
Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more. That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Research shows most billionaires accumulated wealth by founding and building successful companies. A University of Chicago study found 69% of the 2011 Forbes 400 started their own businesses. chicagobooth.edu/review/billion… heritage.org/taxes/report/t…
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
Unelected Epstein Class Billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, saying that they're "Entitlements." The most entitled man in the world is calling Social Security, and Medicare "Entitlements."
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
Capitalism is the problem. Let me show you. They won't build houses, because that's bad for rental income. They won't build renewable energy, because that is bad for fossil fuel profits. They won't provide Universal Healthcare, because Private Healthcare is so profitable.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
Parasite cheat code
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
People with ADHD have what’s called an “interest-based nervous system.” They literally can’t force themselves to care about things that bore them. It’s not a choice. It’s not willpower. Their brains physically won’t produce the neurochemicals needed to engage unless something triggers interest, urgency, novelty, or challenge.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
He is not the problem, he is the symptom.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
Chiitan protects you from bad advertisements.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
the concept of turning your nose up at any fictional content because "it's illegal" kills me because like what you're 9? you're 9 years old? that's the only reasonable justification here. if you are above 9 years old i expect you to know that fictional crimes aren't real crimes
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
opportunistic social climbers, terfs and literal feds will capitalize on your ocd and naïveté to convince you to turn on your neighbors both local and online to portray themselves as the dominant social force. we need to stop falling for it and isolating people who need support
tbh the rise of moral policing in online communities directly parallels the rise of fascism irl and if we all don't stop doing that shit it will be too late for us
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
it is not my job to keep children off the internet, and it certainly is not my job to sanitize adult spaces because someone else's kid wandered into them against my will. if minors are roaming around places meant for adults, that is a parenting issue. and i am not their parent.
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monkeywraith🔮🐒❌🤍🕷️💜 retweeted
If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing a bill to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half. A chunk of the money would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
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Watching Discovery, love Paul and Hugh so very much! Their love transcends space, time, death, and reality
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