God I love how fucking goofy Fire & Blood can be sometimes. I need to read it again.
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God I love how fucking goofy Fire & Blood can be sometimes. I need to read it again.
Begging for Republicans to actually look at job creation numbers for the first time in their lives before stepping into a polling location. I'm hoping the pain of "oh I was excited for this nice job to get created nearby, but his Gestapo arrested the guy building my new office" will do the trick.
VONG! VONG! VONG! I want to see the NJO translated perfectly translated into a series, with all the goofy subplots and poor writing included. It'd be hilarious.
No, though I get the feeling you may be. You said "facts matter" and then repeated an unsubstantiated claim.
(Community note: there is no evidence to support this claim.)
Your statement was that Trump "called the police/DOJ" and "had him arrested", not about Trump's position on the org chart. Also, the ability to fire the AG does not make one an LEO.
(Community note: there is no evidence to support this claim.)
I think effectively killing the Hyundai factory, especially so close to the finish line, is going to really hurt Republicans in Georgia next year. Turns out people really like nice, well paid, skilled jobs, and that factory would've generated a lot of those. Now the project appears to be DOA.
Trump take jobs
To state that this action "betrays" Hamas and Qatar, or that this negatively incentivize other nations against negotiating with the US, is not justified. This was a legitimate, justified and legal strike. Did the US know it was coming? Probably. Did Trump's post facilitate the attack? Not at all.
Which supports my point that there's no justified outrage here. There's no law that says "if your ally asks someone to negotiate then you aren't allowed to attack them for X amount of time."
Because it's Israel that carried out the attack?
war, this gives Israel the right to strike at Hamas even if the Qataris claim neutrality, as the law recognizes that these acts have compromised Qatari neutrality. You want to condemn Israel because of personal bias, and you are inventing a whole conspiracy to justify said condemnation.
the strikes. B) Qatar has openly and willingly provided shelter and protection for Hamas' leadership for years. They planned and executed the 10/7 attacks from Doha, and have continued to reside in Doha while coordinating and managing the war for the last 2 years. Under the international laws of
A couple distinctions you're intentionally looking past: A) Israel and the US are two different countries which act independently of one another. It was *our* President who called for a last chance at diplomacy via an off-brand tweet. There's no evidence to suggest that this maneuver to facilitate
That's not using diplomacy as a cover to draw them out. For the third fucking time: they. live. there. They always have.
Hamas leadership in Qatar has always been a legitimate target, it's honestly remarkable that they didn't do something about it earlier. No one used diplomacy as a cover for a military strike, Hamas' leadership has lived there for over a decade. Get off your high horse and be fucking for real.
Hosting and defending a government in exile that's actively leading and coordinating a war excludes one from being a neutral country.
I keep asking my neighbor how many drones he has and he says that every time that a NATO country shoots one down he just goes and gets another one and I told him that it sounds like he's just feeding drones to nato
I'm no Trump fan, but Hamas' leadership has been living in Doha for over a decade.
Hole punch camera for the back camera when?
I mean, to be fair, housing and protecting a government-in-exile while they actively coordinate and manage a war against you also seems like the kinda thing that makes you at war with someone.
"I also don't like to talk about how the people I was performatively supporting have a long history of killing and kidnapping innocent people, including American citizens." - the most rational American voter.
"Why should I feel bad about throwing Americans under the bus? I made my decision to performatively support people that live on the other side of the world, even though the consequences of my actions actually harmed that group."
The pick of Tlaib is pretty clear: their problem isn't that Americans are being persecuted under Trump, they just want a (((different))) group to be persecuted.
Every time I see a WH40K meme I understand the WH universe a little less.
I run into the opposite problem, where I tend to write several, extremely verbose paragraphs, and my coworkers visibly cringe when they see me start typing on Teams.
"yeah we just need to rewrite the code / the zoning a little" == "Not every apartment needs a toilet & shower. It's ok if the downstairs guy clogs the whole building's pipes by washing grease down the sink, only like 2 apartments per floor are able to have a kitchen sink anyways."
It's always pretty interesting to see a take by someone that's never considered the differences between an office & an apartment beyond "drywall currently in office shape, why not make drywall in apartment shape instead?"
“why not office buildings make apartment??” the quotes from people who have at least some inkling of how the world actually works at an operational or a plumbing level are vastly outnumbered by left-reactionary yelling because knowing things just isn’t praxish enough socialists, learn plumbing
I know nothing about plumbing or residential/commercial codes. THAT SAID, I spent 3 years as the sysadmin for a PM&E engineering firm, and even I know this is not something that can be accomplished by simply putting up drywall in the layout of an apartment.
"this message isn't directed to you" is not the same as saying "your concern for your neighbors is privilege". The fact that you're pretending that's what he said is a pretty strong admission that your "concern" is performative.
Yeah he's being performative. I almost replied to his post to call him out, then remembered he likes to QT any criticism to generate a dog pile, so I blocked him and I'll just say it here:
A Chinook, a C-130, or a C-17 should be able to get them off the ground, depending on the size of the militia and the necessary travel distance.
imagining a version of a christmas carol where rfk jr is visited in the night by the ghosts of all the wild animal carcasses he has hoarded over the years with the final and most terrifying ghost being, of course, a headless whale
I'm not sure what's more horrifying, the quote "an ethnic cleansing ***almost*** took place" (in reference to the Holocaust) or the claim that the allies ethnically cleansed Germany after the war.
if it makes you feel better, I don't pity you. I think it's hilarious how pathetic you are, and watching you have this super pedantic crashout has been a nice comedy after a long day of work.
"DON'T SAY YOU'RE SORRY, YOU'RE NOT SORRY" i haven't seen a 12 year old crashout this hard in a long, long time
They seem to be retreating on the liquid glass, and Sonoma hasn't been so bad. Hoping Tahoe isn't bad.
I'm sure it's just a result of putting a higher quality keyboard, but the fact that my Mac's keyboard has this satisfying singing to it when I type on it feels very deliberate compared to the misery of using the butterfly keyboard so long.
The new Macs just have such solid build in everything: the speakers, the keyboard, the body, etc. I had a 2019 Intel Mac and it didn't feel like it was going to fall apart, but did not feel as sturdy as this M4 Pro 14". Not to mention the war crime that was the butterfly keyboard.
macbook speakers: sounds normal thinkpad speakers: sounds like you dropped your phone down the side of the desk but it's still making sound
I'm so excited for the populists to discover that the Maine Progressive Dude Savior worked at Blackwater. The cognitive dissonance is gonna be *wild*.
So it's gone from "powerful people who won't Do Something" to "create a narrative", you are moving the goalposts with every reply. lolok
How do you not understand how deeply unserious you sound?
You have this nebulous idea of spectacle that you want, which you think somehow gives them power to prevent Trump's agenda. You've given no actual answers about what they haven't done that you want them to do, and your only example of what they should be doing is an example of something they did.
So, let me get this straight: You like what he, a Democrat, did, but you're complaining that Democrats aren't doing the thing you want, which, as you described above, is a thing Democrats are doing?
The fuck, lmao
You want a spectacle, so you can feel like you're in a movie where the good guys are firing everything they have even if it won't work. But this isn't a movie, every action has consequences, and PR is actually important for winning future elections.
If you file for impeachment every week, when you know it won't go anywhere, those voters will absolutely view it as a partisan, non-serious issue. That's bad on it's own, but they'll also view *successful* impeachment (assuming we were to win the midterms) as partisan political persecution.
All of that would amount to absolutely nothing. It is wasted energy at best, and bad PR for Democrats at worst. Swing voters, the ones who decide elections, who you loathe so much, will see that as being unnecessarily difficult & crying wolf.
Ilhan Omar? Acting unprofessionally / unethically? Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
"Every Democrat I don't like is the same person, taking orders from (((them)))" Touch grass, get some fresh air, etc.
It's not my personal grudge, I'm just sick of assholes like you who fuck things up for everyone else because you have a 20-year-old grudge against someone's dad, and candidate stood too close to her. That's hardly a "moderating strategy."
A) you were literally just whining about one campaign appearance from a campaign a year ago. Obviously *you* want perfection. B) I'll ask again: what fucking power? You and people like you had your tantrum, you didn't vote for her or the Congressional Dems. They have no power right now.
"They" is conflating two different people. *Kamala* campaigned for one (1) day with Cheney. Can you even articulate a values issue with that, aside from "I hate her dad?" *Jeffries* has not endorsed Mamdani. How is that "telling you what his values are"?
Do you expect Jeffries to pull out a fucking 9mm on the House floor to prevent a bill from passing?
But let's pretend there's even an ounce of good faith in your body: what the fuck do you want Dems to do right now? Republicans have the House, the Senate, the Executive Branch & SCOTUS. (BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU).
No, you're moving the goalposts. You weren't "asking for politicians in the opposition party to do some action" you were whining, A YEAR LATER, because a candidate stood to close to someone who's dad you hate.
Be a fucking adult, realize that most things in life aren't tailor suited to be perfectly what you want. Throwing a temper tantrum because a candidate isn't perfect is ridiculous, juvenile behavior.
"oh no, I don't like her dad so I can't vote for someone that stood too close to her" Like, be fucking for real, go out and breathe some fresh air. Kamala was not a "shitty Democratic candidate". And I frankly don't give a fuck that you're tired of voting for Dems, the other option is fascism.
I'm sorry if you don't like me using the terminology from the start of this thread? All I can suggest is that you learn to read / practice object permanence. I don't care about your economic policy opinions. "Internet communist" was a catch-all to describe your brand of being an unpleasant person.
The fact that these people get so bent over 1 day of appearances with Liz Cheney is very telling. 9 times out of 10 the reason they're mad is her last name, which, lol, we're doing the whole "sins of the father" thing now?
They did one (1) day of anything involving Liz Cheney, LATE in the game. The fact that you are still mad about this almost a year later, and that you think that's a "dream moderate campaign" shows that A) you're one of the annoying Internet communists B) you have completely lost touch with reality.
Yeah and that's fundamentally at odds with how someone like MattY is going to want to use the site, which is fair. He puts things online for the dopamine hit of engagement, and that's going to mean that annoying Internet communists can hop in the replies and say that Bedtime is fascist propaganda.
You're not going to win over moderates by making them dislike you. Dems aren't in a power position here where they can say "you need to eat your vegetables even if you don't like it" They're just going to either A) not vote or B) vote for the guy that said he'd have the Marines kill all broccoli.
I'd argue that the number is definitely in the thousands (at least) on bsky, in my experience. I do still enjoy it here, for the most part. But I have to know that if I reply with a normie-Dem take to anything from a large account, I'm absolutely getting 10-30 angry replies calling me a fascist.
You didn't ask for this but I'm giving it to you anyways
goddamnit Ed, don't make me beg
Ed, it's imperative that you get this week's episode published to Spotify before 6:30am EST on Wednesday so I don't have to just listen to music for an hour and a half while I drive to work 🙏🏼
oh, he’s SICK sick
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
(editor's note: Democrats are not actually fascist, Democratic voters are not ashamed of voting got Democrats, Harris supporters did not call pro-Palestinian supporters terrorists or treat them like Hamas, Democrats maintain an ethical leg to stand on, and do not worship Trump.
You'll excuse us if we don't really care about the opinions of someone who doesn't live / experience / vote here. There's far too much confidence in the Canadians / British / Irish, thinking they can absorb enough knowledge about America from the news that reached them to form a worthwhile opinion.
It's antisemitism at the core, because we have nothing in common (identity-wise) aside from being Jewish and liberal, but two Jews both not calling for the destruction of Israel? Has to be the same person.
I remember that, it was hilarious
Nah, that was worse than the one cold open where they were just ripping continuous puns.
I decide to have a social life for ONE NIGHT and bluesky starts manifesting the newspaper joke
I was gone for like 4 hours, where did this come from???
he did go to duke, so that's fair
@ed3d.net I haven't received my hand-written apology letter from George for that pun yet.
We're an ethnicity, shared ancestry and culture.
The long period of diaspora after we were forced from our homeland makes ethnicity a better term than race.
Holocaust inversion isn't helping you look less antisemitic. The war in Gaza (started by Gaza, I'll remind you) is not at all comparable to the Holocaust.
There you go again, accusing random Jews of things. Yes, Palestinians are people. No, they are not being persecuted or forced out.
So your argument is that distinct ethnicities don't exist?
No, Palestinians are the descendants of the Arabs who conquered the Levant. Obviously all humans have common ancestry, but if you believe there are distinct ethnicities that have emerged, you have to also believe those ethnicities have a homeland they originated from
I'm not sure what you think is happening, but I've been laughing at you for the last few hours. It's getting pretty late for a boomer, might be time for you to take your vitamins and go to bed.
We've been living in the Levant continuously since as early as 1,500BCE. Not sure how that translates to "not our homeland" for you.
You're crashing out so hard that now you're hung up on my username lmao
I'm not Spanish, I have no idea what ethnicities originated in Spain. I know Arabs and Romans didn't, they controlled Spain by conquest. The Levant/Judea is the homeland of the Jewish people we originated there. "The people who just moved in" are the ones who conquered our homeland and drove us out
"leaving" is a curious way to describe ethnic cleansing via persecution, violence and forced exile.
"anyone who doesn't believe in my weird antisemitic opinions is insane" Very weird and not normal
"let me ask more weird questions because he called out my obviously dumb comparison"
"I don't like/care about/believe in X, but I'm not going to mock people who do like/care about/believe X" is a pretty normal, average opinion. It's weird that you think it's ok to mock anyone who is religious.
There's no point retyping it when you double down on being weird.
You realize that Spain isn't the homeland of Arabs, right? That's a place they conquered. Same with the Romans. Your argument is "hey these empires that all fell apart don't still claim their old territories, why are Jews so hung up on their homeland?"
"exculpates Jews" Yeah you're just a bigot dude, you're saying the Jewish people are responsible for the war.