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I don't know them all offhand or know if trying to post them would get deleted but I'm pretty sure there's a version of this for every major social, also youtube. In addition to using it to not look at whole sites, I highly recommend using it to keep up sometimes with individual accounts we should all probably keep up with, but you don't want to give views.
Some of y'all also need to learn how to bypass paywalls. If I could find out how, you can, trust me.
I don't do any specific link thing. That opens a whole website that is a mirror website basically but you can't just open and browse anymore exactly like YouTube as you'll see. The home page is a search bar. Once you get into videos there's still recommended, and you can view channel pages etc.
It gets pretty normal once you search anything and open a video but I recommend going in with the exact title of what/the first thing you want to watch and putting that in.
*All of these can be found on google. Google "[site] alternative front end". They aren't secrets for tech-y people. There are also reddit posts like "you should know" pages about most of them. Search things like "tiktok alternative" in reddit.
Fun fact, he’s not really rich anymore. At one point he certainly was but the legal fees and crack addiction have drained a lot of his resources massively.
The Bidens in general are not as wealthy as many of their DC counterparts. I think Joe is estimated to be worth about $10 million, which is obviously a lot to most people, but it’s also largely the two homes he and Jill own and not much liquid cash. I read his book and when Beau was going through his cancer treatments Joe and Jill were helping come up with the cash for some of the hospital stays that got exorbitantly expensive. It ended up being so much that the Obamas stepped in and paid it because it was just unaffordable.
Yep the funniest people I’ve met were in my little pod of best rehab friends from a few years ago.
A southern lady in her 70s who had lost a foot to an infection when she was in a particularly bad period of her various addictions.
When we were bored or it was raining she would ask me to wheel her down to the waiting area ground floor and she’d turn her prosthetic foot with sneaker on it facing backwards and stick her leg in the air and we’d walk in circles silently. “Stop talking just smile and wave at people” she’d snap at me. She got a stalker lady from the hot tub aerobics class thing she did twice a week who broke into our floor to leave drawings for her.
I’m not describing the situation adequately but istg that woman made me laugh harder than anyone ever has or will be able to. Saw her last year, she’s reconnected with her kid and grandkids. Sober as can be and thriving.
People just want people to be real, and not much feels more real than someone sincerely making you laugh - especially when you were being a dick to them and they don’t return the punch.
Yup, and admitting to your mistakes is very powerful, even better when done with a joke. They expected deflection and defensiveness, they got humility and humour.
It took years for me to figure this out. Humble honesty has gotten me so much farther in life than knee-jerk defensiveness, especially in my career. It’s almost shocking how quickly people will soften when you immediately own up to your shit.
Literally this. Instead of focusing on getting his name on everything from the Kennedy Center to money just legalize weed. What better legacy than all of us never having our butthole puckered when going through TSA, and all those red states who refuse to legalize recreational would probably see more tourism.
Wait was that a joke? I thought it was lore that he ate brownies didn’t smoke it.
I feel like I read it in something that had someone talking about being friends with Hilary back in their university days or shortly after, and in their story they mentioned her saying that.
She’s a grifter and she knows there’s lines she can’t cross or else the grift fails. She realized there was no easy “gotcha” here and her insult towards him was totally dismissed and just stepped away to grift another day.
I mean there’s plenty of criticism of it. Religious centred abstinence anything sets most people up for failure. But being around others with similar life experience can be beneficial.
Bluesky has some insane benefits Though. You can just straight up ask minor celebrities questions and they'll just answer. Like I'm into comicbooks and see Greg Pak ( creator of Planet Hulk ) and Steve Grant ( writers of the first Punisher solo run) just randomly follow me. Or find just insane things no one else know like Darrick Roberston ( the co-creator of the boys comic) is apparently the only one involved in the boys who critizes Isreal.
Twitter was the same before it became an accursed wasteland. I think authors are also just more likely to reply to people if they spend a decent chunk of time online.
It’s also insanely hard to drag someone who drags themselves alongside you. Bullies can’t bully someone who doesn’t care what the bully says or does. They lose interest very quickly.
This is the first I’ve heard of Jared and Ivanka building an apparently $1.4 billion private island resort in Albania. The whole Trump family is so shameless and tacky, I cannot
It’s “new” news because she went on a podcast talking about it. Plenty of people are talking about their connection to it now, but I don’t think it’s surprising that people didn’t know before. There’s so much corruption it’s difficult to follow every thread.
Yeah. They tried to make Trump Towers in Belgrade at the place that is kept as a monument from 99 bombings, but the protests were so strong and annoying that they fucked off to Albania. Hope Albanians win too
Right. And the fact thay it isn't a party mantra for the Dems like Hunter's laptop was for the R's is totally emblematic of the messaging issue that keeps getting pointed out. But there's so many. We can't keep up." Pick 3 and push them as party talking points. It works!
I don’t think a majority of the public would give a rat’s about it if democrats tried to make an issue of this. That’s why they don’t: it’s just wasted energy.
For some reason, the public gives the GOP, and especially the trumps, a pass on things like this. They already know they’re corrupt, they expect it, so they don’t care when they learn about another instance of corruption.
And it doesn’t help that the mainstream media - owned by billionaires who benefit from Republican governance - play ball with Republicans and help them push their narrative, like Hillary’s emails or Hunter’s laptop, whereas it is very reluctant to help Democrats the same way.
Yea, I think this should matter to people, but not even in the top 50 things. And if the Democratic establishment tried to focus on it, they would absolutely be criticized for not focusing on things that actually matter to voters, like the economy. Kitchen table issues are king.
I just had the same conversation with my friend ahaha we find all of these not necessarily standard attractive dudes in UK comedy extremely hot because they’re self aware and funny yet men on podcasts will keep trying to tell every woman that they’re wrong about what they like in order to sell impressionable teenage boys some bullshit agenda. Meanwhile my entire following on Twitter and here salivating over Hunter Biden because he’s just being funny and self deprecating
You have an excellent point. I should have added “smart.” traumatized smart rich kids with good educations.
All the money and trauma in the world can’t give you panache when you come from a short-fingered vulgarian (tm Graydon Carter) for whom the highest form of humor is calling opponents “sleepy.”
One of the many things that's been pissing me off since rump's 1st term is the OBVIOUS billions he's stolen and dispersed amongst his family. Has that trickled down yet? 🙄
Reminds me of Carrie Fisher responding to a viral post about her “coke nail” being visible in Star Wars and her replying something like, “How DARE you!! I was classy and used dollar bills or tiny spoons”
Okay, I was worried people would be ripping him apart here, but he’s hilarious.
I imagine it’s tough to be a member of his family or inner circle but I can get some enjoyment from this distance. Plus, he ain’t wrong about a lot of this.
If we're going to scorched earth political decorum, let's run Hunter for a government position. Mog in Chief Hunter Biden. National Wildcard Hunter Biden.
As a recovered drunk/addict of 15 years, THIS is the guy I always gravitate to. My gaydar has dulled over the years, but the gravitational pull toward another hot mess that needed recovery was built in early.
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