Ja Reeve

In theory the Fire Caste are all one caste, in practice…some individuals get the Big Suits, and some have to hack it as foot soldiers

He’s the only one with money, is the thing.

At least we signed a fourth centerback with a degenerative knee condition

Then perhaps you shouldn’t have taken Tim Onion’s language at face value when what I said is far closer to what Matt said originally.

OP turned off replies (after basically begging for beef with Matt D) so I’ll reply here: no, I don’t thing roofing companies specifically do. Yes, I do think private industry is absorbing government middle managers pretty well, considering unemployment only went from 4.3% to 4.4%.

*be me*
*believe that faith alone will save me and works are unimportant*
*nobody will hire me to do works :(*

Do you think roofing companies don’t need that exact sort of person (they do, basically all of them need to run payroll)

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Oh! That also checks out.

Lastly, Claremont 1000% deserved to get fired off that book, 2000s Claremont is just not a good or interesting writer when he’s not being forced to accommodate Grant Morrison.

Anyhow Battle of the Atom calling House/Powers of X the greatest x-men story ever was hilariously premature at the time and is only going to get more hilarious as time goes by.

I would say that was Hickman’s intent, but not following through with his intent meant that era is going to go down pretty strangely in X-history, and not in a good way.

You know who didnt visit the White House after being Miami in Leagues’ Cup…

Did he think Russia would just like, let China march a giant army into Vladivostok to invade Japan?

At least it will stop those ads and the airport terminal breencasts.

Can’t wait for acting DHS Secretary Corey Lewandowski

Even popular children’s media has a reference that’s more on the nose

I went to his Twitter webpage to check and even THAT is no longer chronological, the top tweets are whatever the algorithm wants them to be, which in his case is (shockingly) the Twitter files.

It makes it look like he just stopped posting in 2023, surely a great advertisement for the platform.

I’ll admit to not knowing anything about that.

It wasn’t “thoughtful” there was just no reason to colonize these particular islands when they already had loads of colonies and a trade relationship would serve their needs just as well.

“Person who doesn’t like Mandani or AOC but does like Platner” seems far more descriptive of like, Yglesias than any leftist I’m aware of.

This is kind of a straw man, no? Leftists broadly still like AOC and Mamdani, and the ones who don’t are largely tankies who also hate Platner.

There’s a lot of beard and muscles and aesthetically blue collar guys in democratic politics but Joe Calvello and Morris Katz are responsible for Fetterman, Dan Osborn, and now Platner’s campaigns.

I’m sure this is part of the appeal but the actual reason is that he had family money and could afford to hire a really good and well-connected political shop to get his name out there.

Grandpa Larry had the sort of job that really only existed during his exact working years.

Taught French and uh, made phonograph needles.

Like yeah she’s a good looking woman, but there are a lot of good looking women and some of them can act

Imma be real with y’all I never saw the (specific) appeal

He should have tried running as the guy he is now instead of as the hick whisperer of rural PA.

Meanwhile Janet Mills is a gerontocrat who probably doesn’t even want to be a senator all that badly and would make a worse senator than basically everybody she boxed out of the race by running. Love this country!