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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 1d

The cum bucket

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 5d

They should give me an extra biweekly paycheck for being pure of heart

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Ayce @flyincasual.bsky.social · 5d

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 9d

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 9d

Kix used to be good and now instead of sweet corn it tastes of nothing. Just texture.

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve decided I want birthday presents equal to my upcoming age for my birthday if this doesn’t happen there will be consequences.

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 9d

Joining the navy but only for the gay sex benefits

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 9d

We need to praise them like kids or else if they just do it out of the kindness of their own hearts they steal another 3.8 billion from the middle class. Good job buddy you did great donating to end world hunger! Think you can do it again?

Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9d

I’m not impressed by rich people donating money unless it results in them being poorer than me

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 9d

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 13d

I’m this tight btw

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 13d

So all these social medias were one big orgasm farm

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 13d

The kingdom hearts were the friends we made along the way

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 13d

He’s probably too drunk to feel much anyway

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 14d

Do we know where all confirmed astral bodies are at all times or just the major ones?

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 18d

All the hot guys who want me are 35+ miles away minimum

🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 19d

And the reaction is to dodge even still

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 19d

Parrying is essentially blocking so I played a game that rewards it and was dying a lot 😅

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 20d

I only take acetaminophen, not Tylenol, y’all stay safe tho

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Ayce @flyincasual.bsky.social · 20d

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jordan @pyroov8.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just finished writing my first Substack post, which is entitled, “So My Groomer is a Pornstar, What Now?”

This was a tough thing to write and an almost impossible thing to post - but I can’t shrink myself or this experience any more if I was to heal.

open.substack.com/pub/pyroov8/...

So My Groomer is a Pornstar, What Now?

[Trigger Warning: abuse, grooming]

open.substack.com

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 21d

Idk why but I didn’t take you as a person that drives

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 21d

Z moves should’ve activated the way Terastallization and Dynamaxing/Gigantimaxing where you can just activate it in battle. The only requirement would be having the item in your bag so normaliumZ could be used by any team member with a normal move but only once by battle.

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🪻 @calcutajones.bsky.social · 21d

I live in Florida and the new Covid shot isn’t available 🙃