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Vancefucius says: "Man who uses couch store as brothel should not rely on pull-out method."
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John Fetterman is the Eric Cartman of senators
You might've had a joke faceplant in your day, but at least you've never deployed your brand new zinger put-down of the governor of Illinois who lives in Chicago & it resting on "Dominos Pizza." Pathetic, even by Cancun Cruz standards
Isn't there a dog somewhere Tedwardo has to freeze to death or something?
Love the idea of starting every season's first few games trying to play "spot the roid-raging freak this year"
"A Dance of Elephants & Dragons Together" By: Xi R. R. Jinping
my god, you're on to something!
I am insanely hype. Tonight is the night...
Loomering a genocide-in-progress.
We have top men working on it right now. ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ? ๐ง๐ผ๐ฝ. ... ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป.
Never in the history of time have out of touch, existentially remote individuals sealed off from any possible direct consequence of their decisions been bamboozled into ruinous decisions. Hang on a second, let me just confirm by cracking open this convenient history book & - ... oh my...
it only took me 10,000hrs
Pete Hegeseth not only watched the snuff film live, hell, he's the director.
When even the Trump administration is saying "Oof, give it up, Eric. You're just too corrupt and compromised to have a viable shot" ... it's time to take a long, hard look in the nearest available mirror.
Well, well, well... it would seem that my days of considering Gladwell to be a worthless, unsufferable hack with nothing useful to contribute have at long last come to a definitive middle.
Very much in line with the *even more* famous Spartan one-liner: "ฮฮฮฮฉฮ ฮฮฮฮ!" "If you want our weapons, "spake Brave Leonidas, Blood Of Heracles Himself, "then... COME & TAKE THEM!!" And so the Persians obliged &, 3 days later, took their weapons from their dead bodies.
All future lists of global so-called โfailed statesโ would, if they were being totally honest, necessarily include Florida near the top
โThe โSecret Third Thing,โ in this case, is fascism.โ - Molly Conger is a banger machine
The true Son Of Heaven bends the environment to his will, as instrument of the imperial prerogative!
โฆ & if you are this prepared, there is a 99.9% chance your perfect, informed, non-dunce answer will end up on the cutting room floor because it doesnโt fit the narrative of the program.
Your occasional reminder that โman on the street interviewsโ are deliberately done and frame to maximize the perceived idiocy of the general public and/or extract specific answers for a political objective. Unless you are as immediately & totally prepared as this guy, you shouldnโt agree to themโฆ
Dr. Gerbil P. Betelgeuse be smacking that extra dollar out of the evil potato farmer's greedy hands & keeping hit for HIMSELF because **THAT** is Godly, Biblical, Pure, Holy Capitalism!!
Please go away, Clintons. You've caused more than enough damage already.
not to paternalize or coddle the newjaks, but to just remember that they are around, they are lost & confused, they are incredibly self-righteous about it... and it will always be the case. And that is, actually, a good thing. It speaks to growth.
One of the things about an online community that is experiencing growth rather than decline is that us oldheads do need to remember that it always is and will always be Eternal September
or - here's a thought - you could learn the common parlance of discussion of the community (neither "Hitler" nor "particle" are all that long of words, after all), rather than insist that no one ever say anything with which you are unfamiliar.
Organ transplant?! Really, Xi? You so easily give up on the First Emperor's dream of alchemical immortality in favor of crass clone butchery? Peh! I should've known you could never hope to inherit the Mandate. You don't have the courage to drink mercury!!
I mean, say what you will, but this beats the ever-loving tar out of that weird 6/14 "trump birthday parade" bullshit in DC. If you're going to have a military parade, you've got to at least be able to match - if not exceed - the PRC.
Look, the PLA isn't know for much - not its combat prowess, nor its morale, nor its materiel, nor its command & control... But, goddamnit it, no one puts on a better "Raa-Raa Authoritarianism" parade than the PRC. And I stand by.
At what point can we replace the contraction of โNational Conservativeโ from its current โNatConโ to the far more accurate โNat-Cโ??
Trying to squeeze out every last โsingle issue: do the trains run on timeโ votes (4)
Hakeem keeps reaching across the Siegfried Lineโฆ
I see you quiver in antici- โฆ
How dโyou do, I See youโve met my
jfc, this fucking guy. blocked, obviously.
We've certainly establish that you're little more than a hollow, mealymouthed slimeball more interested in batting at rhetorical balls for nonextant head-pats than engaging in anything of actual substance.
So, you're saying that you're a patron of the Nazi bar?
LMAO. Dude, you're not the center of - *anyone's* - universe. No one is personally calling you a Nazi. But, if I say that "the patrons of the Nazi bar are Nazis," ... and you decide to take offense to that. Bud, you've said more about yourself than I ever could.
No one - that's half you problem, dude. You keep putting words no one said in other people's mouth.
there were a lot of people in Germany in the 30s who also were just trying to get by, and keep their heads down, and be apolitical, and just use the systems in place because they were already there. It was the de facto town square. Do you know what history calls those people??
Yeah, did I stutter, DJ? The CEO of the company is flagrantly a white supremacist. He flaunts it. He pushed and re-tweets content about it. He hijacks his own AI to puch "white genocide" kook shit. Where's the disconnect here, DJ? What's not coming through the transmission, bud?
The part where any of what you said is relevant to the actual argument in question. It's entirely missing.
Alright, but I'll for real be checking out the Marvel Zombies show. That's more than I can say for the MCU in several years...
My dude, the fucking bartender himself is hanging the Hakenkreuzflagge across the entrance & leading all of the regulars in a bawdy round of "Deutschland, Deutschland รผber alles/ รber alles in der Welt" Yeah my man, the patrons of the Nazi bar are Nazis.
Duran is such a Zhao Gao that he risks outstripping the original
Some readers may ask, โwhat about the Protoss? Where are they in this comprehensive & authoritative analysis?โ Iโm glad you askedโฆ Standing as the ancient, unyielding, stolid, & timeless immortals of the story the Protoss symbolize the final vestiges of the fallen Zhou Dynasty & the Mencian promise
Of course, any analysis of the Koprulu Sector would remain incomplete without its wildcard agent: Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades. As the mutant, soulless revenant enslaved to an inhuman will, she stands as the soul of Legalism itself, ultimately both the revenge & validation of the philosophy
โฆ the Terran Confederacyโs dependence on minerals & gas is a clear analog of Imperial Chinese state prerogatives : Minerals = the Stateโs monopoly on critical material goods: salt, iron, & bronze Vespene = a resource ethereal๏ผsymbolizing the Throneโs monopoly on the spirits of sky & earthโฆ 36/478
The male urge to sit in a hot boxโฆ
The amount of performatively dismissive hate that the Pod Save Boys pour onto Bluesky isโฆ very telling. We must redouble our efforts.
This is obviously a terrible tragedy, but itโs also Texas very much reaping the inevitable whirlwind of its psychopathic โCastle Doctrineโ lawsโฆ Sad, sad, avoidable, unnecessary stuffโฆ www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/u...
It may be one of my more petty personal traits, but when I discover that Iโve been blocked by someone - anyone - I almost always block them right back. No take-backs, motherfucker.
Yes!
You can actually make a fairly compelling case that that "period of 2 emperors" confusion was certainly an abetting factor in the entire Qing Empire going from zenith to rock-bottom in the span of 40 yrs. Thanks to Qianlong's bizarre infaturation with that era's Elon Musk: Grand Councilor Heshen
Actually, the emperor who I just "finished" is an almost sterling example of the latter: The Qianlong Emperor reigned for 60 years before "retiring" at 85 (to avoid out-reigning his grandfather, Kangxi)... but he didn't go away. His son Jiaqing spent the next 3 yrs hobbled by Dad refusing to let go
This new crop of Good China Foreign Friends have absolutely Zero Juice. smdh...
"I stepped outside of my luxury hotel plaza in central Beijing, and I was amazed by just how All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Smiling everyone was! In the course of my 2 week, all expense paid, fully-guided trip, I've come to Truly Understand China!"
Most think of the classic franchise "Starcraft" as a scifi action RTS. But they're wrong. It's actually a methodical re-telling of the Chu-Han Interregnum between Qin & Han Dynasties.Arcturus Mengsk is Qin Shi Huang, Jim Raynor is Liu Bang, The Overmind is Xiang Yu. In this essay I shal 1/478
Reluctantly crouched on the dragon throne Officials & eunuchs bowing & prone Yellow robe shimmers, Wanli stands up Memos unending, they never shut up The endless plots, their cliques & ranks His patience used up on an empty tank Trembling, timid, they're on their own He's had enough, he's going home
We've gotta get an age-ceiling on Congressional seats. The boomer gerontocracy's death clasp on all levers of power is proving to be exactly the downfall of us all we've long understood it would be
Quick, everyone, start casting your hexes at the moon!
Hell, according to Republicans all through the campaign, he hadn't set foot out of his bunker since 2020
The Presidential Medal has always been garish, purely political trash... but this is just filling in the grave plot with manure
Stop ๐ saying ๐ Bluesky ๐ is ๐ internet ๐ Taiwan Start ๐ saying ๐ Bluesky ๐ is ๐ internet ๐ Zhongshan It a small state that no one's quite sure where it came from, or how it got there in the first place... but it lasted for a remarkably long time in a very rough neighborhood
Nate Silver should be considered the Jim Cramer of internet/culture advice. Is he telling you to hold? SELL!!
The coffin was carried by litter, guarded by eunuchs. Officials reported on their affairs, & the eunuchs approved their reports from the sedan. The carriage began to reek in the summer heat. Thus, Li Si ordered his staff to load the carriage with abalone, to mask the inescapable stench of death.
The First Emperor abhorred the thought of death, & so his ministers never dared mention it. Thus, when he fell ill at Pingyuanjin, there was no plan for when he died. Li Si, fearing the Emperor's death would cause unrest across the empire, kept the matter secret until its return to the capitalโฆ
And another thing! Please don't put in the newspaper that Curtis underwent Total Protonic Corncobification...
guys, I think JD Vance's personal guru might secretly actually be kind of a total fucking idiot...
I hear when he moved to Trantor, he had to go door-to-door telling everyone he was a pederast. #Foundation
This is where a conversant knowledge of Chinese history comes in quite handy, because it not only anticipates types of guys like Mike Johnson... it shows them s so inevitable that any competent government just builds an Imperial Eunuch Dept. to contain their oozing evil.
lmfao
"It is time for the dragon and the elephant to dance together." - George R. R. Martin -- Wayne Gretzky --- Xi Jinping
#304 - Qing 39: Twilight of the Dragon Qianlong's reign was China at the height of its power and glory, but as that era draws to its close, the winds of change are blowing ever stronger... megaphone.link/ARML9928344296
"Nazis are actually welcoming & accommodating IRL" IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII FFFFFFFFF III FF III FF III FFFFFF III FF III FF IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII FF .......................................
Iโm banking on the fact that, if charisma was dynamite, JD wouldnโt have enough to so much as blow his nose.
Saying โโฆ y-y-yesssโฆโ through cracked, gritted teeth and a billion-yard stareโฆ
well... shit. good thread:
"it was rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone" ...
Hereโs the โoffendingโ post, btw โฆ from notorious sinophobic orientalism webzine, Radiiโฆ jfcโฆ
We know words. We know all the best wordsโฆ watch us chant them now โฆ all-singing, all-dancing, all-smilingโฆ
Love coming across comment sections like this where China is mentioned in anything less than an incredibly simplistic and complimentary manner, and they instantly start throwing out all the world dirtbag leftist tiktok taught them like โinfanilizationโ & โorientalismโ โฆwhile directly practicing both
Get you a sovereign who's a confucian sage in the capital, but a buddhist bodhisattva on the steppe.
I will honor It-mas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year!
Let's just give it 2 more weeks
The Great Yglesiasification is nigh...
Alas, he's temporarily still slightly less dead
Wow, very cool DHS. That was definitely a huge thing that was for sure happening a non-zero number of times. I hope they're next able to tackle the 2nd most dire problem facing these dangerous times: making it illegal for vampire-wolfmen to resurrect mummy swampthings.
Red Alert! ICE is a 0% power as long as that t-shirt arm sling is on!
the boy can't help himself when he doesn't hear those magic words...
lol... what a weird, sad, dumb guy
It would actually be just as hilarious if this turns out to be a living funeral. Imagine waking up, finding out that everyone thought you were dead ... & everyone was just ecstatic....
ๅญค็บข่ฑ้ฃ็ถๅ ไธ ๅคฉ่ฝๅคฑไธฐๅฝฉๆดๅ
Anyone in DC smell fish?
Remember: If you see me saying "It's happening," I'm talking about GRRM completing the last chapter of TWOW and sending the whole manuscript to his publisher.
definitely the opposite of stand-up comedy...
ๅฅๅค้ปๆๆถไปฃ "Cheeto Dusk Era"