Can we please not use the terms 'conspiracy' and 'conspiracy theory' interchangeably?
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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Please, Republicans, ban wifi and cellphones! It's a winning move and oh so healthy, and both corporations and voters will be grateful. Do it!
Best we can do is 3g and 56k
Sounds like we're getting back to BASICs
- 10 print "hello world"
- 20 goto 10
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I don't even care anymore because of how fucked everything is.
I really think this is the point of it all. A lot of these folks in power are accelerationists.
That fucking brain worm starved to death.
Well he was going to heat up a meal, but RFK told him the radiation in the microwave was dangerous so he just gave up
It sure would be terrible if this atavistic knuckle dragging neanderthal took another swim in raw sewerage and accepted its loving murky embrace forever.
Just terrible. I mean, the waterways are polluted enough as it is.
I don't think it would solve anything. There'd just be another knucklehead appointed with rubber-stamped approval from the GOP Senate. The voters are going to have to solve these problems. I'm not sure they're equipped to do it.
How shocking 😆
