We should spend tons of money on blue states so that we can point to them and say “Look at how great Democrat governance is.” vs pouring $ into red areas that makes them look better off than NYC.
that's just cats; they probably speak like those crosswords that can be solved two different ways
surprised not to see Sneak Attack here
wait, like, the internet-famous dish?
well, and russia, for the same reasons
I sometimes remember that all the Gulf states were in the tank for the GOP to the point where they tried to sabotage Dems for the midterms, and I start to wonder if they ever get buyer's remorse and why so many people, times and times again, keep putting their faith in Donald J. Trump of all people.
Like the guy literally has over 50 years of being an unreliable scumbag on his cv by this point. How are people still falling for this routine?
How many innocent people are going to die from a lack of drinkable water? This is as depraved as bombing a hospital
![“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2n2dejikiq3y3rrg45gtw6si/bafkreig4hk7n6hp3po67f6lqhxdout4edflushs6tmriyvumsfosb2524m@jpeg)
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]
“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein
this is a big part of it. ppl like grim fantasize about red brown crossover, in no small part because they like the idea of a left that doesn't rely on women or people of color.
Sometimes an author will have them do it offscreen. Tolkein didn't exactly give us the negotiations between Sauron and Harad; he just had them show up already convinced, right?
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
on a Saturday, I have to read "late 1900s"?
the closest you might get is "can't elect people born before 1960"
look I might WANT to believe that, but the voting populace *really are* all temporarily-embarrassed senior citizens
I see he's still contrasting his wife and his sister, horribly
and/or racist
there's a line at the dinner table towards the end
Lindsay's dad: "his father is a hard man"
Lindsay: "I know what that's like"
Lindsay's dad: "No. You don't."
Hook (1991) hits very different when you're Peter's age than when you're his son's age
But because of their suffocating conviction that everything is always Fundamentally Normal, that America is a place where nothing ever really happens or changes, those same people are incapable of recognizing the enormity of what we’re doing, when we’re the ones doing it.
It’s lunacy, madman stuff. We’re just going around killing whoever we feel like, with zero regard for the law OR the consequences! If any other country were doing it our political class would say, probably rightfully, that there was an urgent necessity for their leaders to eat a cruise missile.
and, I don't know if democracy [as we understand it] actually survives that. westphalian statehood is fundamentally a load-bearing assumption for liberal democracy and I don't know what happens if other states are constantly willing to use indirect & direct action to 'correct' decisions they dislike
so if we are going back to the pre-westphalian era, it just becomes a fucking shooting match between states, which in 2026 is going to quick lead to "oh fuck I gotta get a nuke so that big country doesn't invade me to replace my internal political system [which they dislike for whatever reason]"
a pre-westphalian system of politics is, like, China decides they think the leading candidate for US president is too hawkish on China/Taiwan so they put polonium in his tea (or such). we've all agreed *not* to unilaterally toss other countries rulers, it's mutually-agreed arms control.
“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
🔭 🧪
Mr. Weathervane, for example, seems to get that's where the wind is blowing
bsky.app/profile/theg...
When the pain hits, I would love to hear from all the people who've been pushing hard to delay our energy transition.
Schraub has an interesting essay on an analogous position of judicial sadism. “A sober review of the letter of the law means that I simply have to produce a ruling that’s cruel and absurd” is understood as demonstrating virtue rather than ineptitude
