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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 2h

It's an existing missile firing range. Camp Pendleton is HUGE. This exact thing has been done before for testing purposes.

What hasn't been done before is doing it with two days notice, as a show of force, during a protest event, while the government is shut down.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 3h

No, even including the military. Everything from the trans ban to Hegseth's performative masculinity bullshit undermines force readiness and effectiveness.
They want to privatize the commissary system FFS
www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits...

Pentagon takes step toward potentially privatizing commissaries

Defense officials want to know if private grocers and investors could operate commissaries while maintaining the commissary benefit.

www.militarytimes.com

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 4h

Oh yeah, sex pest vibes are practically a given with these people. He just didn't give off any (obvious) pedo vibes.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 5h

So, real talk...I've accurately clocked a couple people who later got busted for that sort of thing, and IMO Kirk just never gave off those vibes.

(Someone who 100% DOES give off those vibes though is...Matt Walsh lol)

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 9h

"Expand" meaning he'll ramp up ICE terrorism in one or two other cities, while the intensity in Chicago drops sharply, just like it did in LA and DC before they went into Chicago.
They don't have the manpower to run the urban terror campaign in more than one large city at a time.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 9h

KEK.
Seriously though, the way some of these people have been talking about Charlie Kirk is making me think he meant something more to them than just being a really effective propagandist and youth movement leader.
I think they were grooming him for a presidential run in the post-Trump era.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 13h

Then maybe instead of making cope videos, he should round up his buddies (check the local tavern, I'm sure they're not far), track down one of these oil oligarchs, and dispense the whipping themselves.
If not...the drone strikes will continue until the beatings improve. 🔥😆

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 15h

Of course, Thiel has his own twisted little spin on this, beyond just believing AGI is an infinite money glitch: he's one of the most immortality-obsessed billionaires out there, and he sees these AI projects as a gateway to digitizing his own twisted little brain so he can live forever.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 15h

In way, literally it is. The reason they want to develop "AGI" so bad is because it represents the holy grail of capitalism: a way to eliminate labor costs once and for all (LOLNO).
I've heard AGI referred to as "the synthetic Demon God of capital", and it shows.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 17h

LOLNO. Industrial-scale uninspired copyright-theft-fueled slop isn't going to replace or challenge demand for creative works made by actual humans, or even turn a profit doing it.
Joke of a publication.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 19h

That does seem to be what's happening. Positives for us: it hampers their recruiting goals and total numbers, drags down the average competency level of ICE agents, and makes it far easier to radicalize people against them since their behavior is effectively running our own PR campaign for us.

Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 19h

It feels like the DHS field army (I've been calling them "Brownhoods" lol) is being attritted down to those people who actually like this shit: sadists, racists, ethno-nationalists, psychopaths, and failed cops. Other veteran agents quit or get fired, and most new hires won't last long.

Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 1d

I have a few ideas. The peace police would probably soil themselves and shut it down if anyone tried to enact them though.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 1d

> tfw when you've read The Manual but it's obvious the Secretary of Defense hasn't

Seen It Marty GIF

ALT: Seen It Marty GIF

media.tenor.com

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 1d

Pfft, just throw it into a gold fund, come back in a year and your annual return will blow every Silicon Valley tech giant out of the water with the way the US Dollar is being destroyed

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 1d

> Fetterman was absent

I just kinda assume this is the rule rather than the exception at this point 😆

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Denise Starr @denisestarr.bsky.social · 1d

And all of the sudden the manosphere makes sense

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A number of popular protein supplements contain levels of lead that could pose health concerns, according to a new report that tested samples of 23 powders and shakes.

Report Finds Lead in Naked Protein Powders and Other Popular Brands

Experts said the levels were not high enough to cause immediate harm, but raised the risk of long-term health effects.

nyti.ms

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

Once the industrial heart of Donbas, Kramatorsk now beats for survival under Russian fire.

Meet the people who keep the city alive.

🧵 1/11 ⬇️

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 5d

So, we had ICE in our neighborhood today

But

When we went to pick up kiddo from school, there were neighbors with whistles and fliers and phones at every single surrounding intersection near the school

Chicago strong! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 2d

dark red lol :D

Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 2d

It's slimy, but so is Trump. It's also literally pure upside for Zelenskyy with no risk of him having to deliver on that promise, because there is approximately zero chance that Trump gets Putin to sign any kind of peace deal.

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 3d

100% owned by the tech industry, which is entirely dependent on AI hype to sustain its growth.
When the bubble implodes--and it WILL implode--I wouldn't be surprised if it either takes Newsom's career with it, or forces him to become an actual populist and turn on his former paymasters. (doubt it)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Kevin Beeee @kevinbeee.bsky.social · 4d

There's also this crazy super rare thing called "not being able to find employment."
(And no, chuds, "just work for McDonalds hurrdurr" isn't a solution. In creative/technical fields a lot of companies treat a block of retail or food service employment no different from an empty resume gap.)

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