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Baitball Blogger

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3. I hope I talked friends out of moving to Portugal last night.

Reply to Happy Hoosier (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:52 PM

Dec 12

What scares me the most is not the loss of services. What scares me is how clueless he is about how we have been able to deter foreign attacks on our soil because of that "Deep State" he wants to destroy. If he succeeds, I really fear that we're going to see another 9/11.

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The coming enshittification of America. [View all] Baitball Blogger Dec 12 OP

Boss Man likes it. usonian Dec 12 #1

Anyone listen to Scott Galloway? Happy Hoosier Dec 12 #2

I hope I talked friends out of moving to Portugal last night. Baitball Blogger Dec 12 #3

I mainly fear wrecking the Federal Government. Happy Hoosier Dec 12 #4

Oh, it'll make 9/11 look like a scraped knee. harumph Dec 12 #10

THAT would be Cory Doctorow who coined the term. justaprogressive Dec 12 #5

You beat me to it! LearnedHand Dec 12 #8

We're already there... We just haven't hit rock bottom yet. Blue_Tires Dec 12 #6

Exactly Iris Dec 12 #14

It's not from Britain LearnedHand Dec 12 #7

Wikipedia says he's British-Canadian. no mention of naturalized American. Baitball Blogger Dec 12 #9

I know he hails from Canada and lived for a while in the UK LearnedHand Dec 12 #11

Totally understand. Baitball Blogger Dec 12 #12

The Australian organization that named it word of the year credited him LearnedHand Dec 12 #13