Ex-Capitol Police chief sounds alarm that Jan. 6 was "cover-up"

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inb4 he commits suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head

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It's material that he knew that the Democrats didn't fix the election

That will be incredibly hard to prove short of him openly admitting it on record. Someone telling him he's wrong doesn't prove he knows he was wrong nor does it prove he believed he was wrong. This is already a high 1A bar but it's even higher for the POTUS acting in what he believes to be a matter of public interest. 1A protects wrong opinions and even lies (in most cases). You have a right to believe the election was stolen even if you're wrong and even if you've been presented with evidence to the contrary.

These look like the weakest charges against Trump so far in my opinion.

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What a sensational headline. The debt ceiling has literally always been used as leverage by Congress. When the GOP does it it's "vandalism" and "sabotage." If the roles were reversed it would be "heroic" and "brave"

If you want to read the actual reasons for the downgrade instead of partisan quotes about how evil the GOP is, it's the first link in the article:

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-united-states-long-term-ratings-to-aa-from-aaa-outlook-stable-01-08-2023

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lol. lmao even.

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Doesn't buy 1 get 1 usually mean you get 2 for the price of 1? At least that's how I've always understood it. What's the point of having nitro twice though? Maybe you can gift one?

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There's a ton of bad science regarding the effectiveness of masks that people cite claiming it's proof masks work and mandates were justified. Yet when you present them with good science that concludes that masks most likely have no effect, they claim it's not enough.

One of my favorite "bad science" studies on masks that often gets cited is this one from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

They even have a nice graphic that shows you the percent increase in safety like it's an RPG and equipping a mask boosts your stats or something. The study itself is complete garbage which is also noted by the tiny barely legible text at the bottom of the image which states "Not statistically significant."

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After the verification, the photo is said to be "immediately, permanently deleted."

Does anyone actually believe this in current year? I'm sure all the other metadata and metrics ripped from the photo will also be deleted and definitely not sold to the highest bidder to train some dystopian facial recognition AI.

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I understand where you're coming from, but ultimately they're different beasts. 20 posts about bone conducting headphones is annoying but it isn't going to get saidit taken down. Posting something graphic or inciteful might. I don't know the details of the current hosting arrangement but I know saidit has had issues with that in the past.

If you posted your rule violation test at 2am like the spam bots do it would probably stay up longer.

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I don't ban the spam accounts either, it's pointless and it takes a lot longer than just clicking the spam button to remove them. There are hundreds of these accounts and they just make new ones. Vulptex and I and the other content admins are volunteers, we do it for free. We aren't always on to remove the spam immediately (the bulk of it comes in around 1-3am my time). User reports do help though, so thank you for those who report them.

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I'm going to refer to women as "bonus holes" from now on.

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Finally some good news

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The title says enough for me

well this explains a lot

they (and you) are trying to get us to ingest

I haven't told you to do anything nor made any medical recommendations.

thoughtcriminal

Did you read your own study? The study looks at an outlier country and concludes there could be confounding factors with reporting. That's not evidence of adverse effects from the drug.

When all 34 onchocerciasis-endemic countries are considered together, the incidence of reported SAEs following ivermectin treatment appears to be low: approximately 1 case per 800,000 treatments.

Ivermectin is listed on the WHO's list of essential medicines, one of the criteria is safety:

Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy and safety and comparative cost-effectiveness.

Taking a standard dose of ibuprofen or an mRNA vaccine are both hundreds of times more likely to cause an adverse effect than taking ivermectin.

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The variants of COVID that would have most likely benefited from Ivermectin are already extinct. This study is from early-mid 2022 when omicron was the dominant variant, which presents in the vast majority of the population as cold-like symptoms. Out of this entire study group only 6 people were hospitalized effectively making this study n=6. By the time most people are calling their doctors for treatment, they already have severe symptoms.

Ivermectin is a generic drug. Anyone can make it and it costs less than $1 to produce. Pharmaceutical companies don't benefit from you buying a generic dose of Walmart brand Ivermectin, but they do stand to lose a lot if that ends up being an effective alternative treatment over their proprietary mRNA vaccines.

I'm not saying ivermectin IS effective, I just don't know. But ultimately ivermectin is an extremely safe drug. The reasoning for using ivermectin is sound, so if you doctor prescribed it to you why not take it to potentially improve your recovery with no downside? Instead we tried to take away their medical licenses and frame it as horse de-wormer.

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Nitter: https://nitter.net/AdamKinzinger/status/1673044858972393474#m

Archive: https://archive.is/MVDMc

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As someone who has been an internet nomad for years now, I can tell you I'd much rather participate in a few small niche communities I enjoy like saidit than a larger one. Not saying we shouldn't try to grow, but keep in mind what you're asking: if you like saidit and the saidit community in its current state, a large influx of new users would likely erase or at least drastically alter the community's identity, as well as raising other issues like hosting and site rule considerations. You may quickly find yourself outnumbered by people who want the community to take a different path than you.

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Having bad opinions isn't against the rules - if you don't want them to gain prevalence ignore them and block those who espouse them if you wish.

this site is being brigaded by extremists running ops from your old fork of Notabug

It is confirmed

Just making a claim and stating "it is confirmed" isn't very persuasive. What evidence do you have?

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Here's an example of him advocating doxxing (and a bunch of others supporting it), didn't take long to find.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/141szmd/post_to_ramiugly_ended_in_transphobia/jn26wm7/?context=3

Pretty standard stuff from the party of tolerance and inclusion.

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I'm pretty sure it doesn't make money and /u/magnora7 just pays the hosting costs out of pocket.

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Ban assault dogs

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I'm sure this won't be used to selectively curtail the rights of otherwise law abiding citizens based on their political ideology.

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This is the logical end result of equating speech with violence. Punch a Nazi!! Punch your kid for being edgy!

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The thumbnail of this vid embedded in the article is peak clown world, looks like satire. I agree the wording of the law is probably too broad though.

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Ron Paul would have been glorious

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