This is the current United States Imperial Court philosopher making a, literally, elementary mistake. The American 4th Estate has given him fawning profiles and publicized him greatly.
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This is the current United States Imperial Court philosopher making a, literally, elementary mistake. The American 4th Estate has given him fawning profiles and publicized him greatly.
Everyone has this blank look when you go "maybe we should have some form of forward looking patriotism and ambition about this country", as if said thing hasn't been proved as a viable programme in other parts of the Anglosphere
A BETTER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE
Government has absorbed, correctly, that there is a conscious project to roll back a half century of making Englishness and Britishness identities based on more than ethnicity, but has no plan beyond going 'I too like flags' to defend it.
In complete fairness to Starmer: No one in UK politics is willing to have an honest conversation with the British public about their future. And who can blame them? That conversation begins with, "There is no hope to restore our previous economic and geopolitical station."
Jesus fuck, Keir.
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
dawg what are we doing here
Happy Labor Day, comrades š«”
It is astonishing how badly suited Keir Starmer is to the current moment. Just astonishing
What could Kirby have possibly meant to imply with these illustrations? I guess we'll never know.
Broke: Charles is right Woke: Erik is right Bespoke: They are both horribly, horribly wrong
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
the number of good, well intentioned people have used lefty language to insist to me today that masculinity and femininity and mutually exclusive is depressing.
what
Little Free Library Books with threatening auras
So glad I started an X-Men Discourse today. Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun. We really did Think About Krakoa.
With only six easy payments of six dollars and sixty-six cents, you too can own a limited edition Trump Bible and complementary golden calf.
Heās thinking too small. In the limited edition Trump bibles, every noun will be replaced by Trump. And on the sixth Trump, Trump created Trump then he made Trump from the Trump of Trump.
Look, this guy is obviously the antichrist.
I know SCOTUS disagrees but the narrowest appropriate equitable action against the government is that they can't put anyone on any planes without pre approval from a court.
I think thereās a threat of authoritarian consolidation on the American model, which looks more like the first reich than the third reich. A thousand petty little kingdoms and principalities which owe allegiance to the emperor. A HRE of used car dealers. A Worst Guys You Know union.
theyāre transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
This joke got me thinking: what are some other famous Plazas
The LDP braces for a report on its electoral defeat and the final battle over whether to replace Ishiba, while the PM has a landmark summit with Indian PM Modi (and Akazawa cancels a DC trip). All of this and more in a new This Week in Japanese Politics. open.substack.com/pub/observin...
I don't think "bet it all on the midterms" is a better strategy now than "bet it all on 24" was in 21, but if we're doing it anyway, I'd like to see the authors of that strategy at least working right now on the question of "how do we protect and encourage minority voting if ICE is at the polls?"
Local government is so stupidly corrupt!
By the way I instantly went to Russia here, but when talking about the kind of Rebellion Saw was fighting in STAR WARS, especially prior to the unification of the rebels, a better point of reference is Haiti: a chaotic war of all against all.
But of course Lenin was honestly the more important force in the Party, and the government following October. He's Premier, after all. So he takes the focus. Aided by a Soviet State, under Stalin, that was eager to downplay even bury Trotsky.
One of the things that history can end up distorting, and this can be rather intentional, based on who's writing the histories, is who was actually famous/popular/well known to normies. In 1917, to a normie in Petrograd, the Bolshiveks were the Party of Trotsky.
You can't stop me. I'm tired, I'm a little sick, it's past midnight, it's labor day, you will endure my bad takes!
Me, at midnight, making bad posts: Saw Gerrera is Star Wars Napoleon, but bad at fighting. Mon Mothma is Star Wars Lenin!
Here's the thing about Lenin: he was an exception and for most of his career more security officials knew who he was than normal Russians. For all of his faults, and there are many, a revolution would be lucky to have a man so ideological and good at *committees* rather than demagoguery.
Nobody wants to deal with the fact that Saw Gerrera is like many a leader of a rebel faction in times of upheaval and revolution: a total fucking basket case with a following drapped in threadbear ideology held together by charisma more than anything else.
I can't wait until Mon Mothma maneuvers her faction to a majority vote in the Fifth General Party Congress and purges all your asses for revisionism.
I do think we should have gotten more Saw content in ANDOR S2, but specifically what I wanted was an episode about the formal creation of the Rebel Alliance where he breaks from the united front because he's incapable of sharing leadership with anybody else.
Ok, but it's pretty funny how basically every piece of media about this guy has consistently portrayed him a paranoid, reckless loose canon incapable of leading a functional movement, and people keep being like "Ok but where's the REAL Saw Gerrera?"
Tbh, as a taxpayer, Iām glad I donāt have to pay extra for goon squad gooning in public. Some things are best kept between you, an old sock, and a disgusted God. Why should you pick my wallet to do it?
The Khan calls for strength
We were denied this but with Ms. Marvel. I'm going to die angry.
i appreciate CIA girlboss president telling us who Ethan Hunt is at the start
Me, in 2078: we could have had Kamalot! My grandkids: grandpa nobody used that phrase. You need to get to bed.
Having this on my bookshelf in a Place of Honor like it's PROFILES IN COURAGE
new X man just dropped
I'm gonna be one of those Kennedy Cultist Boomers but for Kamala. I just know it. I just am.
Iām glad weāre all in agreement that people pointing guns at me without being paid overtime is wrong, but Iām a little concerned that weāre not on the same page whether itās the gun pointing part or the paid overtime part that makes it wrong.
Legit, we are an independent country to *avoid* this shit. Are we a republic or are we not!? Have some fucking pride in your country! It's traditions!
Just incredibly fucking insulting that we all have to do this "Hmmm, the Emperor smiled when Deputy Chief of the Household Department Sima presented him with a new concubine, perhaps this means he favors the Eastern Faction's proposal for an invasion of Mongolia" shit.
they act like sports fairness shit is unwinnable but it's not! this is deeply fucking easy to say no to! you don't even have to give a shit about trans people to make the argument!
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
make the right defend the indefensible, described as uncharitably as possible
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
the fact that America had a police state partially run by a guy called "General Van Deman" and it occupies like zero part of american public consciousness is fascinating
Yeah my regime is making you join a club. Or bowling league. Something. The sex isn't even the issue, it's the social time.
Reading about the War of the Roses has really made me think that the theme from BARRAYAR of Cordelia conceptualizing hereditary monarchy as a venereal disease is one of the most insightful points I've ever read.
i do sincerely think for some it's a "none dare call it treason thing". like once they saw that people getting away with this kind of shit weren't rejected by voters they felt like they had to put aside whatever feelings they had about it
i personally think more people should be standing athwart reaction and yelling "stop"
Yes, there's just a complete rejection of the concept of individual morality, replaced with an allegiance to some amorphous sense of "public opinion". You can actually just have opinions about people! And act on those! That is, in fact, how this whole fucking system is supposed to work!!!
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
I donāt think the person who did this knows the meaning of facile.
āpublicly funded police forces enforcing rules made by an elected legislature are a progressive reformā sounds insane but is just basically true
The Shadow magazine, dated September 1, 1940. Cover by Graves Gladney.
Alpha Protocol 2, and save five mil for myself as walking around money.
I've known some gasoline huffers and frankly, I can see it.
absolutely the best punchline in serialized television to, three years later, have it turn out that he means "huffing aviation gasoline" by this
Honestly, I am morbidly curious if Canadian intelligenceās threat assessment changed when they saw the US military invading LA and DC. Just in terms of āwould they say āyessir,ā if he told them to Do It,ā
This is exactly why we need the EPA.
If white people in Mississippi voted like the median white people in the USA, it would be a solid blue state
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
On the one hand SOTU is a ridiculous monarchist lite tradition and should be replaced with policy documents everyone should but will not read. On the other hand, our current tradition forces the government to prove the executive is alive. This is somehow relevant now.
It's honestly just a matter of the first time (and generally last) I heard about Cape Cod was in like elementary history class.
You: yay! Cape Cod! Summer Vacation! Me: Cape Cod? The colony?
Ok but if you left the 1st 10 seasons of THE SIMPSONS and the King James Bible to some aliens I feel like they would have a decent entry level understanding of America.
it would be really funny if racial depolarization still happens but its because white people start being less racially polarized
Not actually too many lawyers, but like we have a lot more in proportion to other countries. That's my understanding. If I'm wrong please correct me. I do realize there's almost certainly a shortage of like legal aid lawyers because lots of people go into law to Make Money.
I'm one of those people who was shocked go find out it wasn't related to Martha Stewart so saying "I'm a Cape Cod man, myself" is adding layers of mystery to me.
Don't we, the USA, in fact have like almost TOO many lawyers?
congratulations on perhaps the worst idea iāve ever heard for solving the access to justice problem www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk...
I have no idea what is going on with streamer drama I do not wish to learn but I am going to take a second to say you should treat calling CPS on someone like calling a SWAT team.
Actually there was a kerfuffle right after the invasion when she went to Martha's Vineyard to pick up her kid from summer camp (?)
Better articulated than I could, but this is exactly how I feel about the USA. Beacon of liberty, light on a hill, and all the other prose. What white people do not get is that the highest ideals of our nation at its founding was exactly DEIA, ERA for women & Trans Rights.
a sandwich called the chicken LGBTQ (lettuce guac bacon tomato queso)
The only way to stop a bad bowser is with a good bowser! Wait....
This is actually am amazing point. I retract all my previous states, Krakoa will be Good if we get Patrick Stewart to do this before he dies.
Imagining movie Charles saying EVERYONE FUCK and closing my eyes and smiling serenely
new innovations in goldfish
āThey call it the friend-enemy distinction, folks. Big, strong men would come up to him with tears in their eyes and ask Herr Schmitt, what if I just want to kick somebody and he said go ahead, we can always make up a reason later. Heās being recognized more and more.ā
The reporter cites Bowser complementing Trump and just fuck man I ain't voting for her at all. We gotta kick her out.
its genuinely fucking insane how much water the press carries for Trump
The thing that will kill us all is that there's Crime: a real instance of breaking the law. And then Crime: Things I Personally Don't Like. And nobody cares about the former and only ever cares about the later.
An insurrectionist pointing guns at you and buying you a one way ticket on the USS The Implication is itself a crime.
goddamn, man, face the nation has just fallen off a fucking cliff, who is this cowardly fucking weasel host tonguing noemās asshole?
Me and the baddie I pulled by being constantly aware of my surroundings, having a wide field of vision and ears with high surface area to detect potential predators. My ears are essential for thermoregulation and contain a high density of blood vess
Hope everyone here on #comicsky has a sensational #SheHulkSunday!