I understand why people think it, but the all too common “they (republicans) vote for bad stuff so when we (democrats) win we should give it to them” is an anti-social, essentially secessionist impulse and we should recognize it as such.
i will not accept this man as zsinj
where is his mustache
Can we get someone who likes star wars like 46% less to be in charge instead
Hey, please don't email me at work to ask me to post about something, especially if we've never interacted. That's just weird.
You've got your own account here. You can actually do this yourself and not hassle strangers.
I believe in you.
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
The view is looking along to the bow of the ship. To the right are burning oil storage tankers with red flames and black smoke billowing into the air. To the left, a small boat is on fire while a different, firefighting boat is in the foreground spraying water out of multiple on-board hoses. To the left, other buildings on the port shoreline are on fire. It is a scene of chaos
PHOTO OF THE DAY:
The view from a cargo ship at the port of Salalah in Oman this evening. It is surrounded by burning port facilities after a reported drone strike by Iran.
(📸 OSINT Technical)
Why does *this one guy* have an unlimited pass for morally repugnant shit he did in his past but like, Pete Buttigieg being in the military and working for McKinsey and being gay and *not* having a Nazi tattoo is evidence he’s a secret right wing sellout or some shit?
We lost something when Ebert died. He was a critic-and he could be critical AF, but he was also a dude who just loved movies. Loving something often means you love the garbage as well as the gourmet. I feel like folks have forgotten that, today.
If the alt text is just "george lucas" then people who know who that is, but who are faceblind or who might never have seen a picture of him or who are visually impaired or whose phone isn't loading the image can still enjoy the joke while that entire generation can still go "huh???" at us.
We're ten or so years into this & STILL I see people shouting "stop talking about the Evil Wizards who are Doing Evil Wizard Stuff, this is really all because of the rotten institutionalists" and "stop saying the institutions need pervasive ground-up reform, this is all the Evil Wizards' fault"
But, hell, "oligarchic institutional rot and elite capture have left this society vulnerable to exploitation by Actual Evil Wizards who want to do Actual Evil Wizard Things" is a better political analysis than 95% of what I see running around out there, on the internet or off it
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
”You are one of the 50,000 Dark Jedi Who Technically Aren’t Rule of Two Violations, We Checked With Legal. Will you continue to serve the Empire, defect to the fledgling New Republic, or strike out on your own?”
I'm normally not a "what's the point in reusing the name if you don't bring the rest of the character over" guy - the world waits for a canonical version of Mara Jade - but without the ridiculous mustache and all that it stands for, that's not Zsinj.
Tbh, I think the best way to bring Mara Jade back is to make her a RPG protagonist. Easiest way to cut the Gordian knot of “how do we handle her Disney canon story?” is to toss it to the fans and say “Figure it out yourselves, assholes.”
it's worth thinking about this as a kind of Nazi ideology: a belief that the country's military failures are a result of insufficient brutality rather than poor political decision-making
And this is a huge issue for the whole world because this is TRUMP’S ONLY TACTIC. He can’t solve anything, can’t understand anything, can’t out-negotiate anyone. He has no capacity to end a war. He will just keep making increasingly delusional pronouncements in an attempt to manifest reality.
It turns out you can make people see many things that do not exist at all - scary things, good things. You can claim that you have absolute power as president and many courts will agree rather than challenge you.
You cannot, however, declare a seaway safe and have it become so!
Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.
It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.
If anyone is willing the share the following, I would be so grateful!
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It's a cozy repair shop sim, you play a woodland fox who inherits his grandfather's store. You fix up items with your hammer and paintbrush 🔨🖌️🦊
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A YouTube thumbnail depicting a monstrous and dead-eyed Mr. Beast, mouth wide, in front of the strait of Hormuz. SURVIVING HORMUZ CHALLENGE! WHO MAKES IT THROUGH WINS BIG $1,000,000 PRIZE!
#YHGtBFKMwTS
And by the way? This is why people talk to 'AI' about their medical shit or use Luxury Surveillant Wearables: Patients feel like they can't get a doctor who Actually Fucking Listens to them or understands their actual concerns, so they pull toward the thing that seems like—SEEMS LIKE— it does. Sucks
"No" is a valid choice! Saying "we won't do this" is not avoiding a hard choice, it is making one! The only logic under which not attacking Iran is "dodging a hard choice" is if you think the answer must be "yes we should attack them"
(Not disagreeing w/ article, just adding)
a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'
you want to see a murder
Incidentally the “Gaiman is autistic” defense these people use is not only very insulting to autistic people, who understand consent, but is … a little implausible given that he’s an incredibly emotionally skilled person! That - and talent - made his career: LBJ level social skills.
"The lesson that the Trump administration seemed to learn from the failed planning for postwar Iraq is that planning isn’t worth the effort at all."
#GiftLink 🎁
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I am appalled, nauseated, and only not in jail right now because I wasn't able to be present last night.
To my fellow emcees & panel moderators: DON'T FUCKING DO THIS.
Seanan is amazing and writes perfect books and deserves so much better than this.
