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POLITIFACT BREAKING FACT CHECK

Despite online conspiracy theories, tenured professors and members of Congress are not generally recruited from bus station dumpsters

FLASH FLASH FLASH

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But maybe, just maybe, we would do better if they were? What do we have to lose?

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However, bus station dumpsters are a completely safe and effective place to live. Everyone should live in one.

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Yes, and please make sure you accurately call people who live in bus station dumpsters unhoused! A dumpster is not a house, and that is virtuous, and so is being unhoused or using the word unhoused.

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“Person experiencing dumpstericity. Dumpsterousness?”

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"Our dumpstered neighbors."

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I sense it’s NextDoor approved. 😆

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🤣

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This is exactly the warning you get if you try to post anything with the word "homeless" on NextDoor. It's Orwellian.

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I was in a forum for nonprofits and one of them - a “new startup nonprofit” who “deals with the transitionally unsheltered” - with no money, no written budget, and no idea how to create one was mad because “none of the other local nonprofits will share their budget and donors with us.”

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And you were there because …

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I spent a lot of Tuesday nights when I lived in NYC sleeping in a homeless shelter (a Presbyterian church) as a volunteer to make breakfast, etc., for the guys. The group was honest about what it was: Partnership for the Homeless.

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Absolutely. NextDoor was utter madness when I glimpsed at it in 2019. I live in an area of LA that Chris actually said might even be slightly worse than his community. It’s insane. And a current project to renovate a hotel for the homeless has the nuns who live next door ambushed. When those who took a vow of service identify predatory taker energy in people who can’t be helped, because they don’t want it, you get the real story. That no one here will hear. Even with the correct terminology.

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Are you anti-dumpster?

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😂

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Biden: “everyone MUST live in one.”

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I trust you Chris but can you cite credible confirmation of that claim? Maybe one of the geniuses from CNN or MSNBC. ?

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More fake news Chris. They actually are recruited from a cesspool.

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I call bullshit

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Lol

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But maybe we would be better off... so sad...Lord have mercy

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Uh Chris, expecting Senators and Presidents to have unimpaired cognitive function while they rule the world is so twentieth century white guy.

And we can’t have that now, can we? Because expecting cortical neurological function for high level officials,who can launch nuclear ( or “nucular “ if you speak GWB) 🚀 and spend 💵 in the trillions, above the level of a nematode high on tide pods is the worstest fascism of all. Pouty face.

The reality I believe is that the Dems have such little regard for America and for their voters, dead,alive, and illegal aliens, that it doesn’t matter who is in the chair. They are placeholders for the Neo- feudal regressive brain trust actually making the decisions.

Never mind also that the leftist dingbats are blithely giving a hundred billion plus dollars and advanced weapons to Ukraine which has thousands of Nazis fighting under its military command. And never mind that they left 80 billion dollars of our weapons in the hands of the theofascist Taliban when we ran away from that protracted military debacle. Or that they’ve all been bought off (elite capture-merger) by the totalitarians in Beijing who harvest organs from Christians, mass incarcerate Uyghurs, and execute more people every year than any other country by far. No Chris, it’s people like you and Tucker and Steve Bannon, who use fascist terms like “ first amendment” and “rule of law” that are the real fascists. I’m so upset I’m gonna have to go to a poetry slam with my drum circle.

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Best comment ever.

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Thanks, Jake.

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Tide pods??! Holy s**t, I just looked it up. WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE 🤯

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We have at least one and more likely two generations whose only meaning in life is derived from how many "likes" they get on their social media.

/not a comprehensive answer, but a damn good start.

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I think you can say it’s just about anyone of any age. It’s about susceptibility

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Feb 11, 2023
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May I invite you to take a look at this essay:

The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012

This is not just “Kids these days” ...by Jon Haidt

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic?ref=quillette

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My 30-something daughter and 30-something son both agree with what's in the link I posted above. They remember life before internet. They have seen the hugely detrimental effect on their peers and on society in general. Your comfort with pointing fingers at boomers and whoever else you feel created the societal problems we're seeing now is a sign of denial of the obvious. May it hold you in your stead, for whatever that is worth.

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They’re stupid. I mean, what else can you say?

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Does this come with a frame? Very satisfying comment.

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THIS is why you are my favorite Substacker. You, effortlessly, turn utter insanity into logical mockery. It's an invaluable gift. Thank you!

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Agreed

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wait for it...wait for it...his wife, by stepping in, will come to the hero's aid. This was predicted online before he was elected. Plus he makes Biden look betters.

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This is an irresponsible conspiracy theory until thirty seconds before they swear her in.

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This is an irresponsible conspiracy theory until thirty seconds AFTER they swear her in... at which point the new-incumbent Mrs Fetterman must be praised to the skies for her lifetime of tireless support of her mentally-disabled husband.

At that point, the new irresponsible - BRUTAL, VICIOUS, HATEFUL, ABLE-IST, PROBABLY RUSSIAN - conspiracy theory will be that John Fetterman ever held the position now held by Mrs Fetterman.

Any claim that he did, will be swiftly DEBOONKED by Liberal-Arts-C-student interns at DEBOONKED-dot-com and trumpeted to the world by the NYT and Bezos' Blog.

We are living in profoundly unserious times.

As a species we have lost any credible claim that we deserve the title 'sapiens', let alone 'sapiens sapiens'.

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What does one say when all the ‘conspiracy theories’ actually are conspiracies? We really have fallen into deep state thinking when we parrot CIA’s phrase of the 60’s.

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Conspiracy theories are basically spoiler alerts.

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Half of the country is mad.

I wish I knew what to do about it.

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As a hatter. Follow Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Twitter feed -- you'd have to huff paint all day to be half that dumb.

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Try not to get any on ya is the best you can do. Nothing touches Rust!

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Sage advice. :)

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Fascist has become the new nazi or racist. When accused of being one you know you just won the argument.

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facist=you disagree with me.

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“Fascist” now = “baddie”

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Fetterman is just the latest humiliation ritual we are being made to endure. At least Caligula chose a healthy horse to name as a consul.

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It's projection. Just pure projection.

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Awards for funniest substack? You'll get my vote.

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Fascist. Nazi. Racist. Bigot.

It’s all a distraction

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These puppets on prozac, are the offspring from decades of programming, and they still get traction because millions of those grazing on this toxic media sludge are just as damaged.

Some might be saved, in time, but many will wither away as wards of the deep state.

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I think we'd do better recruiting from bus station dumpsters.

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You are right. People living in dumpsters would probably not be quite so quick to part with literally billions of taxpayer dollars.

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I've got nothing. These people drain me.

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They're draining us.

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A Literal Nazi makes the Teslas they drive built on the backs of Congolese slaves.

/looks into the camera with stoic grin.

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This is one of those times I wish substack had an icon for "LMAO".

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I agree with everything except that all these people are dumb. They're not. Certain among them understand that a significant segment of the US population is so desperate to be right, to be safe, to be whatever, that they will believe literally anything, no matter how contradictory and out of touch with reality it is. They just have to give them an excuse, like suggesting that greater free speech is fascism, greater access to guns is fascism, and expecting someone who wants to wield the power of a senate position should perhaps be responsible for being honest about the condition of his brain, a servant of the people rather than served by the people.

In other words, creating an alternate reality for these people is not hard at all, and the ones you describe as "dumb" know this.

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As I was writing my comment, I was going to follow up with a description of the converse of what they are doing, but you said it perfectly.

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