Pete Hegseth really is an astounding idiot who truly does seem to believe that the way to win wars is just to war crime harder than the other guy.
Just an endless 'taking the gloves off' until your hands are reduced to bloody stumps because it turns out taking the gloves off usually doesn't help.
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
A propos my hypothesis that those looking for democratic unity lack the the psychological fortitude to weather personal conflict
When you avoid the unpleasantness of -gasp- rejecting association with your opponent, you displace your discomfort onto those most vulnerable to your opponent’s abuses.
it is a little amusing to me that Trump is indicting Comey, the federal official who took arguably the single most effective pro-Trump action in the last 10 years. getting a little chuckle out of that
A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist.
Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.
Dutch late night TV has its take
can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.
Guy whose job for 6 years was going on fox to demand a birth certificate very concerned with treating presidents with decorum.
look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans.
it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.
What I can't get over is that they're bending the knee to this guy. Like, this fucking guy specifically. Not a military genius like Caesar or Napoleon or a psychopathic god like Hitler or Mao but this fucking rube. I don't understand how democracy can work in this country if this is all it takes.
People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel
Doesn't Marquis literally translate as edge lord? (or perhaps edge duke...)
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
One of the greatest inventions of the last 48 hours
insane to me that anyone can watch a video of ICE goons tearing someone apart from their family and then go on national television and say we're focused on the crime. The crime is the disappearance of our neighbors. If you can't confront this go ahead and resign, you are now an obstacle to justice.
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
Laura Loomer as the Rasputin figure in a decaying American empire really does make total sense. An attention-addicted College Republicans washout who looks like she told her plastic surgeon "just keep going until I say stop" is our rough equivalent of a Siberian sex wizard.
The best scenes in The Magnificent Seven were the ones that were literally straight-up copies/homages/whatever to the original. But that may just be because I saw the much better original and got the reference.
My sincerest compliments to @colewehrle.bsky.social and @leder.games on ARCS. We just finished our second campaign, and it remained so competitive into the final chapter that it came down to whichever faction could control First Regent would win. Just a masterpiece of game balancing.
I'm the guy who decided to put a bunch of steam-filled pipes in every spaceship. Make 'em real brittle, I said. Have them violently spurt at the most inopportune moments.
first man to get disowned by both his physical and digital children
again, i get how we got here and i'm not sure how to avoid it, but the shift in understanding "religion" as protected by the 1st amendment from "membership and participation in organized faith communities" to "whatever idiosyncratic beliefs you happen to hold" is potentially pretty destabilizing
as i wrote about yesterday, reality is a perpetual source of irritation for fascists because it undermines their claim to power
i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK
As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.
Have you tried running a diff on the two files as plain text?
Ah, but Duamn, you misunderstand the intent: rather than fix the Wizard, every new edition must come up with a more powerful replacement cast that does its core combat job better. (I don't understand why they want to do this, but all three CHA casters are "wizards but better").
Duamn, don't undersell yourself on the number of sincerely held crank TTRPG opinions you have. You can do this all day. I believe in you.
