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Cake day: March 12th, 2024

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  • This has been news in Canada for about a year, story after story about people getting sucked in and losing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. When it’s not Musk it’s Justin Trudeau, same M.O.

    You’d think if these people read the news outlets they share their stories with that they would have seen one of the articles already because they’re so common. But then again people still take Sunwing package vacations then complain to the news when it’s subpar so idk.

    Edit to add I blame big tech more than the scam victims, they have no protections in place and are profiting off the scammers immorally as well. They should have to manually review these things or at least be responsive to user reports and they’re doing neither. I actually know someone who got banned from Meta products for reporting too many scam ads.






  • I know the entire thing is theatrics but I really disliked how Anderson really drilled down on semantic issues like a Serious Journalist in a venue where the other guy straight up refused to show up. The post-show made a point of it a couple of times, even explicitly calling out the double standard misogyny, but the irony of trying to create social media grilling points where the other guy was like nah… feels dirty. Especially that bald white token Republican guy in the post show… every single thing out of his mouth could have been rebuffed by your guy is too scared/senile to subject himself to this, stfu. You could tell they all felt it about him. Was awful.

    Passionate Voters when a TV camera goes near them become Undecided suddenly, seems to be. Two of them in John King’s post show Undecided Panel were actual poll workers.



  • I constantly get/got ads on YouTube to subscribe to his show, one as recently as a couple of days ago, so the funding must have dried up very recently very quickly.

    (I’ve also had full like hour long episodes of Louder with Crowder as a skippable pre-roll before, has to be being served to me purely by demographics because I don’t watch that shit.)

    edit 10/26: when I searched for 45 on JRE I got a Timcast ad again “because you searched for Joe Rogan”. I also saw by the recommendations that he fired someone from his show and she immediately signed up to work for Hambly (eww)