Cassandra

Make the rules work for you!

Wait you get to add non-vegetable accessories?

Cheesecake Factory has a degree of integrity rare in chain restaurants

You cannot tell voters (accurately) this is a fascist regime that is hell bent on destroying us - let alone rely on it (as Dems are) as your GOTV while also voting yourselves to enable the regime.

Madelyn?!

"whose work it surfaces"

No thanks!!

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

Yeah

Traveling back in time to the Council of Nicea to ask whether vaccination of Christ's human form would mean that the Father was therefore also vaccinated and immediately getting beaten to death

Yeah I don't think anyone has to acknowledge Christ's divinity or anything but I'm always puzzled by "pssh no way was he a historical guy, you superstitious chumps" as an argument

Per the Bible, Jesus specifically identified himself with the poor, the people others turn away (and he suggested you likely go to hell if u do that), and those in prisons

I don't want to engage with these weirdos but I admit I wonder about their citations for Jesus of Nazareth "defining" marriage as between a man and a woman.

Well Jesus had the rare ontological vaccine of being fully divine and fully human

Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.

It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.

Feeling Done With Texting in general and maybe especially right now in particular makes sense to me, even if I'm not there myself.

I'm pretty texty in general but every text message is an opportunity to disappoint the sender, & it's easy to see that as a little bit of a last straw if you're already exhausted, overwhelmed, constantly angry about the fascism, etc.

Oh. Oh my GOD

'“Trump’s war of choice with Iran is driving up gas prices across the country—and Americans shouldn’t have to bear the additional economic burden of Trump’s reckless decision making,” Blumenthal continued.'

I would argue that actually we should, Blumenthal

Why on earth are you guys trying to save the GOP’s bacon in an election year? They control everything! Let them figure it out! Just fucking criticize them!

They keep talking bout his felonies and said…”let’s wait til after the election to sentence him.”

The onus is always on voters and never on politicians to do shit they know the voters want them to do (see: gun control, abortion rights, student debt relief, legalized marijuana, throwing Trump in prison before 2024, etc. etc. etc. . .)

Now that sounds like a much better idea

I do think I'm madder about the slaughter in Iran and (most of) the Democrats' buffonery than I am about AI, and I hate AI a lot

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

haha yeah that's the feeling

And no, repeating it and then suggestively arching an eyebrow doesn’t count. It’s the US president spreading an absurd lie to cover up an enormous massacre of children - a dreadful historic moment

“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles”

-if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too

Having recently been introduced to Taskmaster (thanks, @deathsausage.bsky.social ) I can fully appreciate this meme.

...FIVE YEARS AGO, geez, Cassandra. Get your act together. 💀