Oh yes I read this at the time. I can respect the researcher at the center -- plenty of good people have worked at the ADL and held their nose, at least before the reaction to 10/7.
My thought is more what a big budget TV show entails. It's a structural, not individual, critique.
They're literally talking to administration officials using him as an example of "left wing violence" to call any instance of anti-ICE protest "terrorism."
It doesn't have to mean anything to you to be effective.
I listen to every fucking episode still. It's fascinating just how limp it is and just how much they tapdance on their friend's grave.
They're going to use him as a symbol for years. Most of us have left him behind but he's very useful to them as rhetoric and to keep their movement together.
Charlie Kirk is a better tool for them dead than he ever was alive. And he was apparently very effective in life.
Also, imagine being the kind of goober that would pay twenty-five American dollars for a Charlie Kirk license plate and you understand the median MAGA voter perfectly.
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
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I was not then and am not now closely privy to these politics, but even I looking at it from a distance knew that a big part of the offer was relatively centrist gays and k lesbians kicking their more radical cousins in the teeth for tax breaks.
The most beautiful woman on the planet judging people on their craft would be watchable even if it was about unclogging toilets. Cooking? It’s like god made a show just for me
I just fundamentally don't vibe with Wes Anderson. I don't have any serious issues with him as a person or a filmmaker, but I just don't "get it" on some fundamental level. I did like Fantastic Mister Fox, which implies that stylistically he works better for me in animation.
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"Without those constraints, it could be used for something else entirely – a blunt force instrument for prosecuting the administration’s overwhelmingly peaceful opposition."
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I'd be willing to give it a shot but I'd be amazed if it did anything but repeat "the people who protect us are the boys in blue" and "sometimes both sides are equally bad" over and over again.
I'm sick of the people in r/diabetes pretending they cut out all carbs. Come on. No you don't.
Can't remember who said it, but its so true. The second you start posting 'reasonable concerns' about trans people you cease to ever post normally again.
And, notably, working on behalf of a garbage system.
Anyway people absolutely look down on diabetic people, especially those who are overweight (as I am), so it would not surprise me if ICE/DHS pigs simply didn't give a fuck about her insulin.
I know how to manage it better than most. And since reaching adulthood I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so it's been relatively easy for me to cut out soda/sweets.
When I tell people I have it I then will often say "which I control with diet alone" which is true, but really I'll admit that I subconsciously want people to think I'm "one of the good ones." Also I have a mild case that was caught fairly early and I grew up with a diabetic parent.
As an aside, and as someone with Type 2 diabetes, plenty of people simply do not consider it a "real" illness that can cripple/kill you, or they see it as a consequence of an unhealthy lifestyle, therefore something you "deserve."
When your boss is pushing you to goose those numbers at all costs silly things like "following the law" and "making sure someone has access to live-preserving medication" just get in the way.
I am sure the gay Arab in occupied Palestine, occupied Lebanon and occupied Syria love their Jewish military dictatorship so much
Duckman is one I loved as a teenager but haven't revisited in nearly thirty years. I'm guessing parts of it have aged absolutely terribly and other parts would feel positively prophetic.
Apparently Graham Platner has just been lying through his teeth the whole time. And a lot of people bought it because they wanted to believe what he said and not what was right in front of their eyes.
Very much this. And then you looked back at the old stuff and yep it was there the whole time.
NuAtheists discussing Christian extremism in 2006.
NuAtheists discussing trans people, muslims, or the women who accuse them of sexual assault in 2026.
I mean, this has been repeated ad nauseum, but it's literally the basis of the "are we the baddies" sketch
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this is also very stupid because the totenkopf, specifically, is maybe the *single* skull and crossbones design that you could pick which is *unambiguously* nazi shit, out of the infinite number of skull and crossbones designs you could get tattooed, that's the *only* one that has *no* other meaning
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The semiotics alone are enough to fill journals for a decade.
