Rachel Navarre

We think of war as something we can choose to engage in when we want and ignore it when we don’t. This also means we take the current state of affairs as natural fact and all those pesky intl orgs are just roadblocks holding us back rather than preventing nonstop 30 year wars.

This is a big problem: We’ve convinced ourselves war simply cannot happen in those areas (despite Ukraine, the Balkans, all the dirty wars etc), or if it does, it will only happen to the poor. It was made worse but the fact that most of us had completely normal lives during the forever wars…

Texas is a long shot no matter what and if those oil prices don’t trickle down or keep dudes in work, that’s where there change might be. If oil companies are making billions while every single Raptor in the state is being solid secondhand then there could be an impact.

This is such a Beta response. Everyone knows that an unconditional surrender is totally harder and since Trump is the absolute hardest alpha anywhere that’s what he’s gonna get. It’s in the definition.

Anyway these thoughts brought to you by a crippling Internet addiction that started when I was given unrestricted Internet access in my misguided youth. Yaaaay.

… permission to go back to the no war but the class war, and let all their -isms fly. Somehow they also never think about how when the left (center to far) does an enemy of my enemy with the right and says we’ll fight them once the current bad is gone always ends in the right triumphant.

… don’t we know they are the “real” leftists? Why are all these poors and minorities and women not giving them the deference they deserve?! Don’t we see their genius? That they are indeed the good ones?! (Nevermind why the heck there’s an Aus Bernie Stan- you don’t even go here!) and that gave them…

… except some fringe guys and they’d never be in power. Except they were wrong - true believers existed and used the irony as a Trojan horse; come on, we’re just joking! You can’t take it seriously- what you think famed leftist X is being serious too? And they were also getting their feelings hurt..

Also this article is good if you are not aware of this movement, but basically these leftists fooled themselves into believing we could do racism/misogyny ironically because, well it was the “end of history.” The basic idea was Nobody was “really” racist or fascist or homophobic anymore!…

No I just got it via “Knowledge Fight” because I can’t deal with him without a buffer.

Also a lot of people aren’t tuned in. So they don’t think about this till they have a kid, then go wow that’s a lot of shots— Is that normal? All they need is a “yeah it is” but instead we’re all used to hearing that as the start of the “just asking questions” bad faith argument.

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Y’all it is really important you know that Tucker Carlson really believes that he has fought a literal demon.

He’s also rich as shit and has never once apologized or made amends for anything he did supporting the Patriot Act, Iraq, torture, with us or against us stuff in the 2000s.

People, Wired, Teen Vogue have consistently met the moment better than most legacy media- and considering the high quality reporting their reporters are still doing, this is all the fault of those in the C suite.

Oh I lean into it sometimes and make them watch old memes. I showed them the hamster dance as my walking to school up hills both ways story.

a woman with red hair is wearing a choker and earrings Alt: Kelly Rowald in the music video where she manages to send a text in excel

I explained today that in 2000s nobody was lcalling before 9 pm unless there was an emergency or sending text messages bc they were 10¢ each (which is why we all used excel instead).

Y’all the feral little gremlins (fully grown 18-22 year old college students I teach) are 1000% going to ask me about this in case to see how hard I sigh.

They don’t actually know how government works OR they think this is bigger and better OR he thinks this will last longer?

Also, please join my campaign to bring back calling people posers for the low low cost of absolutely nothing but submitting yourself to this dumpster fire.

But wait— this offer isn’t limited to the USA! If you’re from one of those countries with extra vowels, try bringing back poseur instead.

Same.

Also my god the bad faith arguments. SBA’s done cooked their brains on Facebook glurge

Remember, Larry Summers had a degree.

Y’all. The lack of degree is not the problem. Him being a punk ass poser is.

Also is Lewdoskey or whatever (no, I don’t respect him enough to look up what his name actually is) gone too or is he still running DHS with Miller?

He totally fired her because she blamed him.

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . Alt: a little girl is asking why not both

He was a Protestant to start with so…

But also, I’m not against your second option either. Why not?

I mean I do it because it’s funny and I’m not above going to Xmas next year to give everyone a “who’s a cafeteria Catholic now?” (Also there’s a lot of pain in previous church leadership ignoring stuff but still finding the time to deny communion to pro-choice politicians)

A tuxedo cat watching Saja Boys finale

Decided since the kid was watching one piece I’d put on K pop demon hunters. Turns out, kid is annoyed but me and the cat are into it:

In keeping with today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #ShoutItOut, check out this handsome little barn swallow. I saw him singing his heart out trying to attract a female. Don’t know if he eventually got a girl, but if he didn’t it wasn’t due to a lack of effort! #Birds 🪶