• @[email protected]
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    374 months ago

    Seems like Trump’s people didn’t do any digging to vet Vance, but the MAGA crowd will write it all off as fake news anyway.

    • Irremarkable
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      214 months ago

      Now that’s it’s come out that he got bullied into the JD pick by his failsons, I’m thinking they did do some digging. He just got bullied.

      • Ech
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        284 months ago

        failsons

        New word of the day!

        Noun

        An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family’s wealth or influence.

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        144 months ago

        Also the fact that Trump only cares about himself and his growing cognitive decline means he probably had zero idea who any of the people on “his short list” even were. So when his offspring offered to make that pick for him I’m sure he was all for it, and being a raging narcissist believed it didn’t even matter against Biden.

  • modifier
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    364 months ago

    I wish I’d contented myself with the headline on this one.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      Thank you for the comment. I’ll let my curiousity go unanswered and my imagination take the reins.

    • billwashere
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      104 months ago

      He’s not an absolute fucker unless absolute is a brand of couch.

    • @MrBadApple
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      Scrubs ruined the name JD, but he makes it even worse.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      34 months ago

      Before 2016 I used to use twice impeached, convicted felon ex-president 45’s name a lot for context and comparison because it is short and can act as a hard emphasis word.

      Not any more and I can’t find a verb to replace it but I’ll be damned if I give that fascist shitstain even one drop of SEO even on accident

  • RuBisCO
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    254 months ago

    AmplifyBio should rebrand to AmplifyCruelty.

    Also, we’re Satan-hybrids now? That’s awesome! Coolest thing they’ve called us yet.

    Vance’s investment in Rumble is more on-brand. That company hosts insidious films by anti-vaxxers, who’ve spread the conspiracy theory that Covid is not a respiratory virus, but actually snake venom added to municipal water, and that those pushing mRNA Covid vaccines want to make you “a hybrid of Satan.”

    • Cadeillac
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      104 months ago

      Sign me the fuck up. Do I get demon wings? Pitchfork? It doesn’t matter, I’m in dammit

        • Cadeillac
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          24 months ago

          I’m thinking it is assigned, but I put in a request anyways

          • skulblaka
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            24 months ago

            I see here you’ve requested assignment as a Baron of Hell. Unfortunately, we do not have any of those positions open at this time. I am able to offer you the options of Lost Soul or Generic Zombie. Productive demons will be considered for promotion to Revenant.

  • @[email protected]
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    244 months ago

    There’s absolutely no proof that J.D. Vance uses burnt monkey testicles as anal beads while making love to his chaiselongue. Reports of him heating them up in a red Le Creuset cast iron skillet before insertion are pure speculation.

  • @[email protected]
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    234 months ago

    A Trump and Vance ticket shows that even Christians can’t pretend they were really voting for Pence like last time. I don’t think a worse combination is possible.

  • @[email protected]
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    (Emphasis mine)

    Many of these animals die in the course of toxic testing exposures. Other animals are destroyed at the conclusion of testing. There are also dreadful mistakes: A lab monkey recently died after getting wedged in faulty lab equipment, and technician error left other monkeys with burns on their genitals.

    What a weirdly euphemistic way to describe it. “Killed,” “put down,” or even “euthanized” would be far clearer. “Destroyed” isn’t even especially positive, but it’s just strangely vague. I get that it’s probably a term of art in the industry, but I would have put it in quotes to show that and call attention to the fact that they intentionally try to distance themselves from their actual practices.

    • cum
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      184 months ago

      “Destroyed” is especially fucked up since it sounds like they’re trying to distance themselves from the fact that these are real living creatures, and not inanimate objects who can’t feel pain.

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      I used to work for a preclinical pharmaceutical company and our primary model was monkeys (macaques like rhesus and cynmolgus). We worked on drugs for cancer, Alzheimer’s, lupus, and more.

      We had full time 24/7 vets, regular checkups, enrichment programs, and the techs would constantly give the animals treats and were very passionate about the most humane treatment. We got surprise inspected by the FDA and others in order to keep our GLP and AAALAC status and we worked with some major companies who would not work with us if we lost our status.

      Euthanasia was a big part of many studies because they need to necropsy the animals so they can see what the drugs to do parts of the body.

      This mention of “destroyed” seems much more harsh than what I experienced in the labs. Burning testicles is brutal bullshit - what the hell are they even testing?! This lab sounds like a fucking shit show!!!

    • tiredofsametab
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      I’ve heard the same for any animal in the wild that attacks people and must be caught and put down. I don’t know how many years ago it started, but it’s been in use for quite a while now.

    • @[email protected]
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      114 months ago

      Kristi Noem, RFK Jr, and the article mentioned Dr. Oz as well. What is with dog scandals in politics lately?

  • Hegar
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    Even under the best of circumstances, the monkeys used in AmplifyBio’s research have short, dismal lives. This is evidenced in a study published in June in the journal PLOS Pathogens, conducted at AmplifyBio on 25 macaques. The experiment required drilling holes in the monkeys’ skulls to deliver vaccine injections directly into their brains. After a month of observation, the study records, the animals were “humanely terminated,” and their brains harvested for research.

    Macaques, which the article states AmplifyBio uses, are smart enough that the stone tools they make were briefly used as evidence of human presence in south america. Their tools were close enough to human tools as to fool some experts.

  • @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    … I just want to stop learning more about this man. Everywhere you look, there’s something even more fucked up than whatever you knew before.

    (Jk, everyone needs to learn about him so we can win in November)

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      I have a turtle that I know has never been near JDs penis, but I’ve got him locked up since I think Vance might know this and is coming for him.

    • @[email protected]
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      134 months ago

      Nah, you gotta play it like you’re also into couches. Something like

      Get a load of the curves on this bad bitch.