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we've got stadiums, we've got zoom calls that can handle thousands at once, we can do this. throw them all in the consequence pot and set it to simmer.

in theory the first time around was mainly COVID and the President only made that worse by sucking at his job rather than doing it on purpose the way he's gone and sabotaged the global economy over the last year & change

you say that but in a different regulatory environment Fox would air it for seventeen seasons and two spin offs

boilerplate poli-sci brain had me saying "so the president isn't in charge of the economy" all my adult life until boom, yeah, he just pressed the bad economy button. he pressed it on purpose. he loved pressing it. he's holding the button down.

this is the kind of energy the writers haven't brought for ages. they're doing a callback that only serious long-term fans will remember

i read a book on the dust bowl that talked about "rainmakers", and how they generally had to flee the county after scamming people out of their money, and I wonder if the disconnection of geography/social proximity allowed by internet disinformation has worsened the omni-scam problem

the latter makes us defenseless against the former, I suppose?

i feel like you could completely book out the I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream themed humiliation fetish hotel experience, TBH

i will do whatever the evidence indicates makes it more likely people get their kids vaccinated. if it's compassion, i'll be compassionate. if it's merciless derision and contempt, that's easy, I got lots of that to go around.

this is some stargate universe-referencing-an-obscure-gadget-from-stargate sg-1 season 2-level bragging, goddamn

oh man I didn't even think of that. where else do you get a nazi tattoo but from a nazi tattooist...?

i wonder if there's always just been this kind of brainless, 1 layer thinking. Someone reciting epic poetry that's just slammed together excerpts of Achilles kicking ass in Ancient Rome.

it's a manosphere/andrew tate thing. another pivot-to-video madness vector afflicting young men.

our culture will not heal until we return to the only true demonstrations of masculinity; spoiling the family dog and telling your kids they should major in "something they are passionate about" when they go to college

oh i was talking about steroids. there's a whole weird subculture of roided out guys who only care for gains at the gym and disdain books & reading.

books are like weights for the mind, but they don't see it that way. its' weird.

at a certain point around 37 or so there's a certain specific kind of sleepy that once I hit it all other functions are suspended

time is a flat circle

are we talking about the same kind of gear?

book made feelbad at the age where you swear unchanging hate-filled vengeance over any ego death

i've been stabbed by people i have less anger for than a guy who was slightly mean to me in the 3rd grade

He's a fraud, people are saying, he's a fraud folks, it's a hoax. He's a doctor, he's a tennis star, he's...I don't like him, I never liked him. This giant dinosaur comes up to me with tears in his eyes, he says, sir, sir, this plumber jumped over my head and hit a switch. Hannibal Lector...

hey if you know a better operator for flank watch, I'd like to hear it. the kawans last for 16 seconds! he gets five of them!

so many people have a defensive grievance over having some trouble reading when they were young and have backfilled an entire personality around it

you see the same thing with math animus but it's not quite as associated with gear & cars as the reading one

it's so nice to get stuff. i love getting stuff. having the stuff is okay i suppose, but the getting it? ooooh

when he was elected I confidently declared "a huckster from Queens is not going to bring down the Republic"

and

well....

that's not what QED means!

yes, of course it would be? How could it not?

He's a combatant, you're a combatant, you can kill him. He can kill you. You don't have to warn him. Only if he has surrendered or is *completely* incapacitated does he become a noncombatant.

This is black letter stuff, not even controversial.

man I am spitting barely paraphrased lines from my IHL textbook, I dunno how else to explain that you've misunderstood some basic terms here

imagine being the loved ones of a dead soldier and the press release was written by AI. how little they care about the lives they expend for their content.

i cannot stress enough that "war crime" is a term of art that has a specific legal meaning that does not overlap much, if at all, with the natural human assumptions about what is and is not honorable in war.

1- irrelevant. IHL does not require a formal declaration to be in effect.

2-defenseless targets are the best kind of targets. an enormous amount of effort is put in by military forces to secure tactical advantages against their enemies, like ambush!

3-submarines are not obligated to effect rescue