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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 2h

Someone should make him watch Neon Genesis Evangelion. It'll certainly keep his mind occupied

Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly will theil even be mentally stable enough to engage with reality at all by then? He doesn't sound like he's all there in the quotes you shared.

Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 2h

This sounds like the ravings of a man who had a psychotic break tbh.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 16h

They're not actually going to pay the troops, they'll just claim they did and say that all the evidence to the contrary is antifa propaganda

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 17h

This politico article says they'll just be shifting 8 billion dollars, which I don't think is enough www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B

The president said Saturday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has funds available to pay troops on Wednesday.

www.politico.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has found $8bn to pay the troops.

Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B

The president said Saturday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has funds available to pay troops on Wednesday.

www.politico.com

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 18h

I think the realization that it isn't happening anytime soon has driven a lot of them insane as years of ignoring their own mortality hits all at once.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 1d

The general decline seems too broad to put on any one factor.

Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 1d

Trump seems pretty set on getting rid of Maduro at this point so I don't think there's any real risk of rappochement

Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 1d

So China imposed export controls on various rare earth metals and that caused Trump to write a huge post about massively increasing tariffs and the US doing its own export controls on China and also canceled a meeting with Xi in retaliation.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah they're attacking the economy from multiple angles with all these stupid decisions

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 1d

Hope that Americans suddenly develop an insatiable love of soy based products

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d

The Grenadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the government is currently reviewing a U.S. request to temporary install a radar & deploy associated technical personnel at Maurice Bishop International Airport on the island.

t.co/sFlkyM8h9f

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article312446207.html

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know how they even have the energy to keep it up

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 3d

I've been a big fan of those games forever and the fan base is so embarrassing.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 3d

It's so bad!

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

bsky.app/profile/ship... war with Venezuela looks increasingly likely

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d

President Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, paving the way for a potential military escalation against drug traffickers or the government of Nicolás Maduro.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Trump Calls Off Diplomatic Outreach to Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to see how the US avoids strikes on Venezuela now

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 5d

Restarting this thread.

The position of the US under Trump is that negotiations regarding Venezuelan narcotrafficking have failed and is ordering his special envoy to not try anymore.

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Trump appears to be dropping talks with Venezuela

The United States has cut off diplomatic efforts with Venezuela, ending months of talks managed by US President Donald Trump's envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, The New York Times repor...

breakingthenews.net

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

Oh there is actually decent evidence of that iirc! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... this study on mice mitochondrial DNA for example

Of mice and the ‘Age of Discovery’: the complex history of colonization of the Azorean archipelago by the house mouse (Mus musculus) as revealed by mitochondrial DNA variation

Humans have introduced many species onto remote oceanic islands. The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a human commensal and has consequently been transported to oceanic islands around the globe as an ac....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

That's fair! Dooming is very counterproductive in situations like this.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

It's so funny how hung up people get about the gene seed lore when it would probably take maybe a paragraph of text to explain that Cawl figured it out between editions.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I'm not a doomer, it's just don't know if Schumer is really the guy to extract all the concessions he should out of this. But you are right that party messaging has improved quite a bit recently.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah IIRC people weren't buying female space marine sculpts enough to justify them so they were discontinued and the lore about the gene seed only working on men was introduced to explain why.

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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 5d

I wish I had more faith in the dems to extract maximum concessions as the republicans get more desperate.

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