The Russian military is very large and has some very sophisticated equipment but it's still a terrorist militant organisation, in the service of a government of terrorist ideologues.
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The Russian military is very large and has some very sophisticated equipment but it's still a terrorist militant organisation, in the service of a government of terrorist ideologues.
"It follows that in order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order… we need to imagine something more powerful.” “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, 2011, Yuval Noah Harari 4/4
"...it’s necessary to convince many strangers to cooperate with one another, and this will happen only if these strangers believe in some shared myths." 3/4
"A change of such magnitude can be accomplished only with the help of a complex organisation, such as a political party, an ideological movement, or a religious cult. "However, in order to establish such a complex organisation..." 2/4
“The dollar, human rights, and the United States of America, exist in the shared imagination of billions, and no single individual can threaten their existence… in order to change them, we must simultaneously change the consciousness of billions of people, which is not easy." 1/4
Quite apart from the indivual shakers weirdness, not even the pepper is a grinder? Apparently pepper with flavour isn't known in this household, either.
It's a shame no one ever threw a cup of piss at this guy.
Are the lawyers also in court wearing neck gaiters pulled up to their sunglasses?
If it was only Democrats on the Epstein list, Trump would be sending it to every household in America. Sure some MAGA will forgive Trump for being on it, but how many?
Hey, her identity is *aspirational*
100%. Education is the enemy of religion, because the better you are at critical thinking, the more difficult you will find blind faith, and blind faith is the whole point of religion. But *never mind* what the Founders knew about the value of reason and the danger of extreme religious fervour...
I wasn't even talking about Epstein until this week because I thought they were going to eventually tell us something but to tell us all to forget it? Umm no, we think all the victims deserve a lot more justice (and compensation) than the only person imprisoned being the only woman involved.
He should try his identity as a creep next, he might have more luck with that. "As an ordinary or garden-variety creep, the kind girls' mums warn them to watch out for, the last week has been brutal"
Wow this is funny because none of the working class autistic men aged 40+ I know do this shit. Could it be because none of them find it a barrier to knowing it's wrong?
Yes, 🎯 So he could be out aged 50? For the worst crimes... life should mean life. The perpetrator's chances at redemption do not outweigh the need to protect the public from the risk of reoffending when the offense was *so* severe.
He's being eaten alive by the well-documented facts that he was big mates with Epstein, he's wealthy enough to pay for a place at Epstein's-child-trafficking-for-rape parties, he's proud of being an abuser of women, and he owned a child beauty pageant. So... who were at those parties?
These are terrorist tactics by Russia.
"The people who wrote the constitutions of many states sought to learn the lessons of history and the horrors of religious wars by insisting on the absolute separation of religious practices from public life." - Colin Ward
2/2 We don't count even the economic contribution of our cultural sector correctly. Never mind the hugely valuable cultural contribution.
1/2 I've been going quite regularly to the IWM over recent weeks - because it's incredibly good. A huge proportion of the visitors are tourists from abroad. People who've paid to fly here, stay in hotels, buy meals out, to spend entire days in the galleries of our free museums.
Mute button has never been hit so fast
You absolute beauty, 10/10, no notes, 🎯
Not surprising! People with food in their bellies are ready to work, it's that simple.
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Awesome. Love astronomy photography.
Aw no, really? It would be relatively easy to do it for the Moon though, since it always shows the same side
Self-defined alpha male who can't even find the willpower to shed a few pounds, interesting definition of personal mastery there
These people have created God in their own image.
I know right? But the answer's in the question.
Literal baby killers. They seem to think these atrocities will make Ukrainians give up? That Russian leaders can't understand that this motivates people to resist harder shows how alienated from human feeling they are.
Floor time
"They're calling it Oogie Boogie syndrome, it's remarkably common in GOP lawmakers"
A wet beef is a summertime water fight, right?
I am so sad for the cat, the feeling of poverty. But I also cat, I also.
Amazing, paulpro
"Measles cases reach highest level in 33 years amid disinformation about vaccines"
No, they don't have any capacity to do that.
Shocking how much there is! Got to stop their shadow fleet or this will be the result on other countries' coastlines.
Ghislaine Maxwell serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody
Thanks for posting, yes, should be a bigger story.
"Performative contrarianism," thank you for naming this, very helpful
"I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop" Absolute 🎯 A take that blasts your skin off 💀
So often the way!
These Republicans saw the future impoverished US portrayed in the background of "Looper" and said "Yes, please!"
A system, an "archipelago of gulags" if you will
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He was an experienced professional writer but didn't take it very seriously as a project at the start, which is a bit of a surprise. But you can see from this article how low stakes it all was back in 1996:
No shade on him, but if he'd thought of it as one big book right from the start he wouldn't be in this position. He didn't have an overall narrative worked out for all the books, and he's written himself into a corner. Maybe another writer could fix this, but GRRM is very good so probably not.
The purpose of the American political system is to prevent the rise of tyranny. It has failed in that purpose.
Yes, this, immediately following the cartoon where one guy is calling another a snowflake, because he criticised him for axing a hole in the bottom of the boat they're both in.
Why does ChatGPT create garbage? Artificial blueberries are chunks made from sugars, starches and oils colored with blue and red dyes and flavored with perhaps trans-2-hexenol, trans-2-hexenal, cis-3-hexenol, cis-3-hexenal and combinations thereof. You can eat them. But they're "artificial".
I really like your idea that no-one would be surprised to hear that artificial cream is not cream. Metaphors like this are a good way to get the message across.
"Trump Administration Decides Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law"
😲 He could literally be a recurring character from a sketch show
Varied Sunday, read the Sermon on the Mount, cleaned the bathroom, changed oil and filter in the bike. Titanic: Ship of Dreams is a great podcast series 🚢
Love that this diagram from breedingbusiness.com includes the stockbroker from American Psycho
"One soldier described the situation as a total breakdown of the Israel Defense Forces' ethical codes in Gaza." Later: "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons."
It was probably only a matter of time before that charlatan escalated to the point of getting himself arrested
😂 Still sounds like an insult from a 10-year-old. It's obvious from my profile pic that I don't care about profile pictures, that's the message of it smh. Are you moving this on to profile pictures because you're giving up ground on Morons Are Governing America? Guess we agree that they are, huh?
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Feel pretty confident that they won't
Boffin is a word 👍
You must have something better to say for yourself than that the other team suck and that their fans are dumb, right? Your account is about 4 days old, so you joined when Vance did. Do you run a bunch of accounts to support him? Because you do seem to be posting as if you can't wait to clock off.
This is amazing, this is like being 10 again. All you have to do is swap the word 'leftist' for the name of a football team and you could be having an argument at the school bus stop.
As a moron, I guess you can't see any downsides, huh?
The lack of ambition from this administration is abject. US used to lead, now it follows. Israel, Russia and China dictate global relations, domestic policy is grift and ethnic cleanising. If any of you had more balls than a carrot listening to violin music you would least release the Epstein files.
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Still going to recycle, still going to not fly, still easy to avoid Amazon by just thinking of his huge gross face
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High quality comment 🏆, I was looking to see if someone said it
Thank you for engaging with my question.
Thanks. To confirm, are you saying that firearms are rare and that is the answer to the question?
Cheering you on!
Sure, I'm game. My guess is zero? And if that's not correct, my next guess is one?
No-one can make me go to bed and that is a problem for me
Very well put
Yes, much easier to count the wars that were just for the US to go into
It is so, so bad but with no-one yet held to account. Our country is crying out for reforms.
(I'm saying it's an excellent cartoon of an absurd situation, potentially a catastrophic situation.)
We're in another golden age of political cartoons. Sadly.
That's probably going to be much more dangerous than either a Waymo or a regular, old-fashioned taxi with a human driver.
Targeted hate rhetoric
Maybe. Maybe not.
You have certainly been proven right, though I imagine that is no comfort.
I see, thank you for explaining.
Meanwhile, in Russia, the only native English speaker I met was an American, aged 60 or so, who was travelling with his 16-year-old Russian 'daughter'. Yeah, right.
In Russia I've been to Moscow, St Petersburg, and Petrozavodsk. I live in the UK. I have no problem with Russians liking where they live, but I can't help but notice that in the UK I meet lots of Russians who left because 'it's not free' or 'if you make a nice business the mafia will just steal it'.
God help the USA
2/2 Too many people like me believed the gun fondlers when they said government power should be kept in check. Turned out they're not supportive of that when it's a racist government. It's very hard because there are 13 US airbases in my country and if the US is no longer an ally... are we occupied?
1/2 Well, I'm not a cop, but maybe I should keep my nose out of bad trouble happening in the US when it pops up on my feed while I'm waiting for a haircut. This almost unbelievable situation of encroaching fascism is genuinely THE nightmare scenario.
An excellent suggestion
Permissiveness for this has also now been created in the US
Yeah, another European here, same question. Not to endorse turning these situations into moronic gunfights instead moronic kidnappings.
Definitely! "Saddam has WMDs" It was a lie for attacking Iraq, and it's a lie for attacking Iran.
It worked in the UK, after our shootings in Hungerford and Dunblaine. After 1987 in Hungerford we banned semi-automatic rifles. After 1996 in Dunblane we banned handguns. So later incidents have had far fewer victims. Telling that our media called both of these 'massacres', not 'mass shootings'.
I don't know what entity Hesgeth is praying to but it isn't god.
I think vehicle weight as on the V5 is a pretty easy way to separate into different rate classes. Justified because heavier vehicles take more space and wear roads out.
It was extremely stupid. There were lies about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction as a reason for toppling him but Bush never talked about it until after 9/11, and Saddam hadn't gotten new ones, so it was obviously bullshit. Not everyone could see it but public opposition in the UK was gigantic.
Yep. Look at him standing there all sad like Droopy the Basset Hound when he should have brought a crowd to shove past that fat fuck. Better not to go if you're not fully committed. P6 = Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.