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Funnier than any joke we could write
I have a sinking feeling an absolutely horrific precedent was just set for xenophobic governments all over the world
covid deaths are underneath flu deaths.
The main problem with Bluesky isn't really the politics it's that a lot of people are really aggro for basically no reason, plus the problem that it's too political, too milennial, and too "nerd-culture"y
like after seeing this video i really am wondering now if the US military just murked a boat full of migrants
Spinning up this dynamic would be fruitful
Iβd really love to know the decision tree from OSD to SOUTHCOM to the Ships in the area to the dude that actually pulled the trigger
this is just the beginning. i would not discount at some point something akin to the "twitch plays pokemon" where they crowdsource the targeting to stans
Should be said they want the spectacle of murder, which is what they want to bring home to the US, but they feel like they canβt do it just yet
sicario ranking up there with the apprentice and gone with the wind as one of the most harmful pieces of media
Cool, cool
Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once youβve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them youβve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive
We're living in Videodrome
the thing is that by getting out in front of this instead of waiting for it to happen Pritzker might actually short circuit the whole thing. Texas is already issuing denials.
βThey were Tren De Aguaβ is western hemisphere βthey were Khamasβ
THREAD: Based on the official statement issued by the Belgian Foreign Ministry earlier today, here is the full list of economic and legal action that Belgium will take against Israel in addition to the recognition of the State of Palestine later this month at the UNGA
~$150k per
I'm seeing some outlets claim 11, but I'm not sure who is sourcing whom
Seems like the wrong season at a minimum
What even was the timeline of this strike? Were they trying to line up a proof of life press conference and hit the first target they could find so they could show the media some scalps?
I believe the current term is Special Military Operation
We look so strong. I bet China is quaking in their boots
"Be loud for America."
A critical read of the last summer will tell you that riots are extremely effective at weakening the regime and that fully benign protest doesn't end up on TV
Things are going to speed up significantly I feel. It's going to be hard to feel current when politicians are trying this hard to be in the game
the American public are children, and they deserve to be talked to like children.
So cool this is just how things are now
yeah healthwise i think i have revised my estimate up. even if this was intensely stage managed and he's doped to the gills, he can give a halfway normal press conference but also, what the fuck is going on with his people
Call this premature, but I don't think you position 7 warships in the south Caribbean to blow up a handful of alleged drug smugglers
Terminal Centrism is the inevitable creation of "The Baileys" by every affected individual...
it is interesting that Yglesias makes all of his arguments adopting the stance of an entirely hypothetical moderate voter whose opinions he himself does not share, but when pressed on the issue uses himself as a proxy for the opinions which he surely does not hold himself.
Don't let it get you down
His people seem scared shitless about people thinking he was dead
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
People are going to act like Trump coined "rocket city" aren't they
They're allowing the aliens to vote
Damnit
Nearer, my God, to thee
Body double also had a stroke.
the funniest thing would be if he was actually fine but only until 1:59pm
Lmao
Body double cancelled on them
Now 2:45
The exact same correlation exists for male education
Matt Church
The AP stream is currently showing the exterior of the WH still. No idea if press are seated at all
I like to think they can't find him
Perhaps the reason Tlaib feels so free to say what she thinks is her constituency agrees with her and repeatedly reelects her, or in other words she's putting the idea of popularism into practice in relation to her local circumstances
Europe Always Chickens Out wins yet again. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Two flavors of never Trump. One that dislikes the things he does, one that dislikes the things he says
I also think that elite scolds are a great foil. There's the fundraising/primary/mid-term season version and then pivot to a general election version that will appeal to more normies. We have to save our institutions from these scolding cowards/we have to save the country from out of touch elites!
What does Hi-Lo look like in an era where no one has built "Lo" in 35 years?
I do think one thing that the Israel-Iran War proves to me is that if there is a Big Pacific Oopsie that missile production today is like shell production in 1914
π¨ *TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE SPACE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS AT 2 PM EASTERN
Two options there. It's about the renaming or Venezuela
A huge part of it is wanting a place he can control (you load 6 tons etc). Stands to reason that reproduction would be part of that
It's not novel (or incorrect!) to point out that Musk has a breeding fetish. What I find weird is that he seems to only have gotten fixated on this idea originally as a means of compartmentalizing the loss of his child. What a mind he has
Vance will clean house of Trumpworld. Johnson is an open question, and the people currently calling the shots won't plan very far ahead
What happens if Trump starts declining and it becomes the official position of the administration that Vance did resign (and when Vance disputes this they argue it's not reviewable)?
I think the path of least resistance would be something like "we swear we saw him resign, don't listen to him" and you'd argue to SCOTUS that actually no one could adjudicate this dispute so it'd be better to let them appoint/confirm a new VP
Will he be holding up a newspaper with today's date on it?
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they donβt make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's like if they let twitter centrists run a political party
both here and there the intention is to make sure everyone knows that itβs impossible to rely on the life you built in the respective country. something of an open question why that should be a national goal
The future of UK politics seems closer to a secular Iran than anything you can find in Europe, and at least Iran's surveillance capabilities aren't a fraction as effective
how are we already at transphobia in a new British party that doesn't even really have a name yet.
Instrumentalizing someone's passion for conflict is pretty orthogonal to negative polarization
You may be confused about what negative polarization means
I had a strong preference in this race before Will got involved?
I don't think the people who follow him around from thread to thread calling him a pedophile, sending him death threats and try to make his life unliveable are doing so out of anything but negative polarization. I've had great interactions with Will. I also find the Frey thing useful
Founding a college that follows me from place to place
This is going to get so, so ugly
Stephen Miller hiding under the desk with a Trump Sock Puppet
I don't think I've been that inconsistent here?
Yeah. The guy's annoying, but it's wildly out of proportion
The idea that your ICC warrant doesn't apply if you're speaking at a college or on your way to speak at a college may be open for abuse
Why did the Achaemenids, who were influenced by the Elamites and took over Babylonia, both cultures with a significant tradition of extensive record-keeping, write so little, goddammit?
Is there some legal reason their faces are blurred?
These are the people Labour are actively courting.
Massive internal population transfers
Source?
111. Carlos MΓ©rida, La princesita de Ixtanquiqui, 1919.
Yes Stancil gets hounded to the ends of the earth by the left for no good reason, but there really isn't an ideological fix here. All ideologies are like this, just with a different performance fetish
Tbf this is a common community trait
All due respect, but: this is the moment George Santos was born for
It might be even funnier if the guy who goes out looks 100% identical to the "enhanced" version of that one pic
Literal t-shirt meme
It started as an antisemitic one and expanded to the best of my knowledge
Great example of what averages can hide π
If you're looking for the account to block, it's this guy
These guys only crack once they realize that they're not having as much fun as you are
Lol, you did the Sartre quote
Apparently the entire recording was like pulling mutual teeth according to American Routes
He's fully aware of the absurdity of his replies
It's SO good
open.spotify.com/track/39CyGK...