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  • Haha that reminds me of the time I helped my upstairs neighbors move. They were super annoying, always shouting over each other and leaving trash bags in the hot sun on their balcony, where the stink could waft into my open window.

    I was very excited when I saw them packing their furniture, so I offed to help and we managed to finish it all in only one day. They didn’t catch on and just thought I was being nice! They even tried to pay me but I refused - being rid of them was payment enough










  • It’s also about making sure you can’t sue them, even if they did something wrong, even if they did it on purpose, even if they knew it was wrong when they did it.

    Instead you must agree to “binding arbitration”, so that if you lose they get to learn what strategy works against customers, and if you win they get to learn what strategy doesn’t work against customers (but in any case the details cannot be shared with other customers).

    Also, you can never participate in a class action suit, so even if they did do something wrong, on purpose, and you convinced a -judge- arbiter, you just get the $12 judgment, or whatever the value is of your actual damages. The corporation can keep the $12 they stole from each of their millions of other customers, who didn’t also start arbitration.

    It is shocking that it is even legal





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    8 months ago

    Can someone who knows how to make memes make this:

    Take the Kanye West/Taylor Swift VMA speech where he takes her microphone and paste Taylor Swift’s face over Kanye’s, then paste Travis Kelce’s face over 2009 Swift. Then swap her award for a Lombardi trophy.

    Have a caption of her saying “Yo Travis, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Joe Biden is the real winner of the Super Bowl”


  • It’s doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.

    I’ll provide some translations:

    patriots -> seditionists

    biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice

    open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)

    peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists

    besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of “on all sides” changes the ‘or’ to ‘and’

    As a bonus, “globalists” is antisemitism. There’s an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas