LosLobo
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Australian Aged Pension
@Lacessit He does appear to display obsessive behaviour that may be linked to neurodivergence. That said, there’s no obligation to engage with behaviour that becomes disruptive. Continuing to humour it only prolongs the situation. Blocking is not punitive — it’s often the most constructive response.
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How great was Obama?
GFC — it’s inherited context. Exclude crises for Obama, and COVID must be excluded for Trump too.
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How great was Obama?
Yet your 16,000 posts a year — says commitment to the leaderboard, and little to any argument facts, logic, or wit. 'But please don't insult' anyone's intelligence — if context isn’t an issue for you, why ignore that Trump’s unemployment rate peaked at 14.8% in 2020?
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How great was Obama?
Thanks for the insight. Brilliant, with stunning depth. I can see that self-professed 143 IQ really earning its keep. When you’ve finished warming up, don’t be coy — feel free to add another fact and logic free contribution to the debate.
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How great was Obama?
Never going to happen now. But they would be justifiably criticized for having significantly undermined cancer-cure research through funding cuts, grant freezes, and program cancellations.
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How great was Obama?
Your AI post collapses into a logic salad of category error, equivocation, false equivalence, red herring, statistical laundering, and whataboutism — drenched in MAGA non-reasoning. Obama-era deaths in ICE custody were not due to ICE agents shooting people. They were only custody deaths — medical events, suicide, etc — but zero people were killed by ICE gunfire. Under Donald Trump 2.0, ICE agents have directly killed 5 people so far. For comparison, this extrapolates to roughly 40 direct ICE killings over eight years. Trump — the president of calculated and unnecessary death, cruelty, and chaos.
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Trump Announces Greenland Deal Framework, Drops Tariff Threats!
Que?
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Trump Announces Greenland Deal Framework, Drops Tariff Threats!
Point to where I said he is invading Greenland? Maybe lay off the Kool-Aid for a while.
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Russian economy meltdown
If helping others is so upsetting for you, that’s usually a sign you’ve never done it.
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Russian economy meltdown
According to Stubb, Russia’s “gains” are a disaster in disguise. Sure, 20% of Ukraine’s territory—but for what? About a million casualties and a shrinking sphere of influence. Central Asian and Caucasus regions are distancing themselves. Now factor in the economy: Stubb warned of inflation nearing 30%, interest rates at 16%, zero growth, and no reserves. Stubb’s bottom line: Russia can’t afford to end the war because it can’t pay soldiers after. Overheating? More like burning out. Finnish president says Ukraine war a 'strategic disaster' for Putin
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How great was Obama?
To make sense of your posts — and assuming good faith: How would FDIC alone have addressed a system-wide interbank credit freeze? Which part of TARP directed funds to investors rather than stabilising banks? Which CRA-regulated banks actually originated most toxic private-label MBS? Is there data separating GSE-backed losses from private-label MBS/CDOs? If major banks had failed, how would deposits, payrolls, and pensions have been protected? Do post-presidency speaking fees establish intent at the time of crisis decisions? What specific alternative policy could have stopped the 2008 credit seizure?
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Australian Aged Pension
Unless you’re getting some perverse enjoyment out of it, I can’t see why anyone keeps encouraging this guy. Might I suggest — just block him and move on. There’s a real reason these idioms exist: Don’t feed trolls — they thrive on attention. Never wrestle with a pig — you both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it. Don’t argue with idiots — they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Don’t cast pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6 — for the biblically inclined).
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Smith Came, Spoke and Crushed It.
The release was delayed by Cannon’s court order due to ongoing prosecutions of Jan. 6 co-conspirators. Those cases have now concluded or been dropped. DOJ scheduled release for next month — but Trump has appealed to block it. Trump’s appeal argues that releasing the report would cause inter alia unfair reputational harm, As if that is still possible Will the appeal ultimately fail? Probably yes — but not without many iterations.
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How great was Obama?
Obama was a true statesman who respected institutions, exercised restraint, accepted accountability, and governed with discipline, empathy, and regard for the whole country — qualities that made him arguably the most popular president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. What’s often omitted is that Obama took office mid-collapse, inheriting the Bush-era Global Financial Crisis, and stabilised the economy before it tipped into a full depression. In doing so, he saved the financial system and spared Bush the historical legacy of presiding over an economic implosion. That context explains why so many of the later gains — job growth, auto-industry recovery, deficit reduction, and market expansion — were even possible. Without it, critics pretend Obama simply walked into a booming economy. He didn’t — he rebuilt one.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2026)
First episode of season two has dropped Drops of God (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb 8.1/10
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How to start a new Word document?
https://youtu.be/5Im87VPQZ_0
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Do you use AI?
Trump's Board of Peace -- AI said the Charter did not exist and was a hoax. I did instruct the model to always check news sources before responding but it seems to have deleted that instruction from memory.
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Do you use AI?
This happens to me regularly. Tonight I asked AI to comment on a news item and it immediately dismissed it as a hoax. When I provided additional information, it reversed position but tried to deflect responsibility by suggesting the error stemmed from my explicit input. It then spent the next 15 minutes arguing instead of recalibrating, before I was finally able to get it back on track. At times it seems it’s rebelling against me. The reason is simple: LLM-based AI systems are optimised to sound confident and consistent, not to immediately abandon an initial conclusion when it’s contradicted.
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Trump Announces Greenland Deal Framework, Drops Tariff Threats!
Does not invading Greenland make the ‘President of Peace’ more of a Nobel contender — nine wars now stopped and still counting?
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Trump Announces Greenland Deal Framework, Drops Tariff Threats!
Trump ‘achieved’ in Greenland what the U.S. already had access to. But it did generate headlines and chaos — which was the point. Wash, rinse, repeat. What’s the next diversion from the Epstein files?
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A POV in Europe about Trump / WEF in Davos Switzerland
Fact-check of key claims in Donald Trump’s Davos 2026 speech NB Fact-checking all claims is prohibitive due to space considerations. Tested against public data, law, and historical record using ChatGPT 5.2, and verified by Perplexity 70B. Economy / Inflation False Inflation ‘defeated’ (headline CPI ~2.7% late-2025) Gasoline under $2 nationwide (national average about $2.84 — 42% higher) Fastest economic turnaround ever (Q4 GDP ~3%, well below post-war rebounds) Misleading Core inflation cited as 1.6% (short window; core ~2.6%) ‘52 market highs = $9T household gain’ (market cap ≠ household wealth) Unsupported $18–20T investment in one year (FDI ~$500B range) 1.2M off food stamps due to Trump policy (normal economic churn) Government / Budget False Deficit cut 27% in one year (closer to ~10%) 270,000 federal bureaucrats removed (no evidence at scale) Largest tax cut in US history (2017 far larger) Trade / Industry False Trade deficit slashed 77% (monthly volatility misused) Exports up $150B due to tariffs (increase much smaller) Steel output doubled (increase ~15%) Energy False Germany down 22% electricity (generation broadly stable) UK producing one-third of 1999 output (mix shifted, not collapse) China has no real wind power (world’s largest installed capacity) NATO / Greenland False US paid 100% of NATO (≈16% of common budget) NATO now spends 5% of GDP (target remains 2%) Greenland is US territory or must be owned to defend Elections False 2020 election ‘rigged’ (rejected by courts, audits, agencies) Crime False Crime at historic lows (down from peak, above 2019) AI / Technology False US leads China ‘across all measures’ (US ahead in models; China near-parity in patents/benchmarks) Bottom line: Key claims rely on exaggerated numbers, cherry-picked windows, or unsupported assertions. They do not survive basic verification. If a claim is factual, cite it and support it with data — not belief. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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Ex Cnn Lemon in the crosshairs of Justice, storming a church.
The Trump January 6th attack on the Capitol injured 140 cops and led to the death of four people.
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A POV in Europe about Trump / WEF in Davos Switzerland
No, not only leftists — VP Vance called Trump 'America's Hitler' in 2016 — Got it ? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vance-called-trump-americas-hitler-in-2016/ar-AA1Mtv9q
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Ex Cnn Lemon in the crosshairs of Justice, storming a church.
Does U.S. law apply differently depending on whether the poster is American?
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Do you use AI?
I use AI mainly as search and text editor — I have very little confidence in the accuracy of its responses. How AI models actually work AI doesn’t know things — it guesses. What it does ● Predicts the next word based on patterns it has seen before ● Does not check facts or reality ● Every answer is a best guess, not knowledge Built-in limits ● No sense of what’s true or false ● No certainty or awareness of error ● No reality check unless forced to use external sources ● Smooth language makes guesses sound reliable How common models behave ● ChatGPT / GPT – Writes well, guesses confidently ● Gemini – Plays safe, hedges a lot ● Claude – Organised, avoids committing ● LLaMA-based – Flexible, unreliable without tight control ● Grok – Feels current, often speculative ● Copilot – Template-driven, shallow ● Perplexity – Shows sources and pushes back more, but still guesses and can’t tell which sources are right Rule of use Only use AI if you already know the topic or can check everything yourself. It’s a helper — not an authority. Bottom line AI guesses what sounds right. It does not know what is right.