state song thread guy

sorry you had to figure out this way lil guy

Thought process The user wants me to check the news about Greenland. Given what just happened with Venezuela, I'm genuinely nervous about what I might find...

poor claude

i was completely off-guard for this one lmao

Nuclear weapons are *really* not cheap though

"why did the people i was protesting against not support my protest" the two clauses in that sentence are the explanation for each other

the biden administration had no causal power with respect to shutting down the pro-palestinian protests, which successfully converted virtually the entire left-liberal complex to their cause. everybody is wrong about this.

the word "illegal" is a derivative of the phrase "ill eagle", reflecting an American folk belief that violations of the law weakened their national bird

Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.

"We demand you accept these conditions, and we will continue to try and kill you whether you do or not" we are adopting the Israeli approach to ceasefires, and we better get used to having an Israeli approach to Middle Eastern conflict, because this isn't ending anytime soon.

again, this should be illegal

guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies

I want to reiterate as often as possible that as much as this is often taken as anti-liberal, anti-democratic, or whatever, it almost certainly is the case that a big reason politics sucks so much now is that most people can and do participate in it and care a lot about it, which is not always true

@actualnames.bsky.social you may need to see this

I find it very funny that a lot of MAGA were gloating today about Saudi Arabia diverting tankers to the Red Sea/oil to pipelines near there and I was like HMMMMmmmm aren't you forgetting someone? and now guess who's back?

This is maybe the single truest "you can't understand America unless you read this" story

People overrate how destructive nuclear weapons are and underrate how easy it is to kill by creating humanitarian conditions incompatible with human life

i would love to stop seeing people here argue that it’s not antisemitic to kill random jews in america as retaliation for israeli policy. if people would stop doing that, that would be super cool imo. not being a bigoted sociopath on main — what a concept!

A certain kind of person hears "anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" and understands it to mean "all antisemitism is actually anti-Zionism."

"It's utter garbage but its the kind of utter garbage we need to feed the voters in order to win the Race To The Bottom"
depressing bit is I don't really disagree with this

Split seems to be between "Katie Porters tax plan is incredibly stupid" and "Katie porter's tax plan is incredibly stupid (laudatory)"

Re Katie porter's Taz plan: I think more people are beginning to come around to the realization that the obstacle to nessecary reform in the US is the voting public, but are unwilling to accept the reality that this problem has no top-down solution in a democracy

You’ve all used up your political posting allowance

You’re only allowed to post about The Last Jedi and Star Trek Discovery S3 until your allotment resets tomorrow at 11PM EDT

All the policy nerds are like “why does all the latest Democratic messaging assume voters are innumerate morons who care only for treats?” and, uh…

I have some theories about how they reached this conclusion.

“Their genetics are not exactly your genetic.”

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

It is Good, to me, that the United States is now permanently invested in underwriting with blood and treasure an unstable and paranoid local hegemony in the Middle East that refuses to abide any rivals.

(*comics)

(It's VERY helpful that the xkcd explained wiki has transcripts of all comments to provide alt-text)

[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.] Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model. Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it? Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.

unmatched experience

The “no quarter” declaration by Hegseth (war crime!)…

Such atrocities we have already committed and enable with many many more, and worse, to come id we leave Trump et al Regime in power.

Done in our names.