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    11 days ago

    He’s right you don’t need pencils, but you always need steel. I’m going to buy my family a block of steel this year. We always need it! So why not!

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    11 days ago

    This is the United States of Consumerism gosh darn it and my child deserves at least 30 Chinese made toys.

    Only soulless monsters don’t feel the warm embrace of conspicuous and gratuitous consumption

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      11 days ago

      Watch it, some brickhead will be along soon, claiming the two are the same!

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        If one disagrees with the fascists or communists, the result is a courtroom and an execution. What is the difference? Mao, Stalin and Hitler lead the pack for murdering people who disagreed.

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          There are key differences, namely that communism is a socioeconomic system that neither Stalin nor Mao followed, and instead established authoritarian regimes that were communist in name only…

          But of course to realise that, one would need to learn actual history. You clearly missed those classes. Fascism is a little bit more than “let’s kill people who disagree with me”.

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    When his followers have to stand in line for whatever slop Walmart is willing to sell them that week, they’ll blame Democrats.

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      and Immigrants

      They’ll say such ridiculous bullshit as “Immigrant shoplifters are causing the stores to raise prices” even though the prices are set by supply:demand equilibrium in order to maximize profits and therefor theft could not and would not affect prices because raising the price in the assumption of theft results in less sales and therefor less profit.

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    10 days ago

    Well, sort of. When you give one man supreme power to do whatever he wants it kind of turns into a dictatorship.

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    11 days ago

    When asked to respond to the president’s call for parents to possibly limit doll purchases when approached while returning to his orifice. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, a fellow Republican who has a 5-year-old daughter, quipped that he wished someone would say the same to her.

    Appropriately funny typo, but the punctuation is fucked up, too. Does anyone proofread these pieces?

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        Yeah, this seems to me like talk to text. Punctuation usually shit, and orifice office is just an accent problem.

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          Autocorrect, I’d assume. “Office” doesn’t sound much like “orifice,” but it would be easy to swipe-type it the wrong way.

          But either way, yeah.

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            Bergen County, NJ, likes to put Rs in where they don’t belong, and orifice is absolutely a way I’ve heard people say office. And swiping an article is odd to me, but I’ve written zero articles so I don’t know.

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              I am also not a journalist, but if you’re filing articles from the field, it could make a lot of sense that you might just do it on your phone from a gaudy bathroom in the White House or something rather than needing to pull out a laptop somewhere. Back in the 70s, reporters on location would call their stories in and have them typed; this could be a pretty good modern analogue, maybe?

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        Um, Will Smith eating spaghetti would like to have a word.

        Chatgpt also gives inane output occasionally. All this means is if they used AI, it wasn’t proofread before posting it. There’s a few LLMs that could be used for writing articles, and all of them are flawed.

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          AI effectively never makes word substitutions by close spelling. It can be quite stupid, but not in the way I’m describing.

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    He only used one colour when he drew his pervy picture of a young girl for Epstein.

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      No, he has the most pencils. HUGE beautiful pencils. He doesn’t want us to have more than two.

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        I’m not sure what the Faulkner is in reference to. The quote is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, who, on realizing he has lost everything in his life, is saying that life is meaningless.

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          The Sound and The Fury is one of Faulkner’s classics. A must-read and you will probably cry.

          Yes the line comes from Shakespere So does “Brave new world”, but nobody gets confused over that novel’s authorship

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            yes good point well made

            but if the quote was

            ‘Oh wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world, That has such people in’t.’

            I hope I could be forgiven for not spotting the Huxley reference

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          The Sound and the Fury is a Faulkner novel? It’s been too long though and IDK if it quotes Macbeth past the title.