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[–] 230 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He needs a t-shirt that says "If you see me running, try to keep up!"

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I work with big tanks of a pressurized gas that occasionally releases pressure for a few seconds, very loudly. Civilians are often startled, and ask if its going to blow up, and I always say:

    "Do you see me running?"

    "No."

    "Then don't worry about it. But if you see me running, then you should definitely run, too."

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  • [–] 169 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There are two sides to the brain drain. First are the researchers into things the government doesn't like, who will leave if they have the means to.

    But the second is that with all of our hostility to foreign nationals right now, even the ones who come from countries the government likes will think twice about applying for positions here.

    The net result is that the brightest minds will go elsewhere.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    It's like a federal version of the same thing red states were doing. I left a rust belt state over a decade ago because it was clear the state was going down the tubes.

    They're making America Mississippi again (MAMA).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Which is fine with them, they know that smart people will call them out on their bullshit. That's why one of the first thing an authoriatarian government does is go after the intellectuals. That's why they're disappearing avtivist college students.

    The good news for our side is that they are giving their opposition the gift of competence. The most experienced, competent leaders are being replaced with stupid, ignorant, totally inexperienced loyalists. Left behind are millions of angry Federal employees, who hate what MAGA is doing to all their years of hard work, and who despise their new bosses. They are ripe for recruiting as moles, leakers, saboteurs, assassins, etc. And those experienced leaders will be the ones to lead us through the inevitable revolt, and form the basis of the new Democractic government.

    Ultimately, MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Stanley recently wrote for the Guardian about a new Department of Education directive that said teaching about systemic racism and other topics could be grounds for a civil rights violation, according to the Trump administration’s legal interpretations. Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.

    The fascists are still robbing their opponents of the language of dissent by turning its meaning on its head. It is now a "civil rights violation" to claim that there is racism, homophobia, transphobia or sexism in the USA. Civil rights now means protecting the supremacy of straight white men.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Man I knew this election was going to turn into Americans coming to Canada en mass and us having to deal with more fucking Americans.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You can’t post or say anything without fear of being targeted by the Trump administration. The legal student protester got abducted, and Trump stops funding universities because of protesting students. The cabinet is full of dishonorable fascists.

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    I can understand wanting to study fascism from a distance.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am reintroducing the phrase "better dead than red" under a new context

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why flee when you can study it live.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly, Jane Goodall didn't run from the apes, she joined their ranks to study them.

    This guy should be closer.

    /s if it wasn't clear

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Welcome, friend ❤️🇨🇦

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    we should be forming a human shield around these people

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder if he has seen through history what what the future can become with the direction of the current political administration

    It could become dangerous for having a voice

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    Trying to remove the observer effect, totally understandable! Best wishes in your studies! Say, before you go, which alcohol makes for the best Molotov?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    A wise decision

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago
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