Contract for Peril

This is going to work, by the way. 40 fucking Democrats will cross the aisle just to keep the machine operating.

I'd love to read the sequel to my friend's wonderful novel, and seeing his first one get a little attention is probably a nice motivator.

Fact is Serenity was not that great. There's simply a contingent of millennial (and let's be honest, specifically millennial women) who will consume any whedonslop in front of them. Even though Whedon's a creepoid. Also he named the protag's defeated faction the Confederacy, so... 🤪

NOT participating

the transfeminine urge to utterly mog you in the Hermaeus Mora soundalike competition

He sent out covidbux. The dems enormously blundered by 1) letting the child tax credit expire and 2) not just throwing cash at the electorate. I guarantee you a huge percentage of approving minorities were just like "well, I could use another check."

Behold, I am a messenger of THE LORD and I come bearing a message. But I'm having trouble remembering exactly what the message was. What were we talking about a minute ago? Maybe going through it again will re-trigger the memory?

rodney dangerfield

They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!

That radical critique of social life class was formative, tbh

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. The Radical Critique of Social Life
2. Philosophy of War and Terrorism
3. Natural Kinds
4. Symbolic Logic
5. Philosophy of Emotion

(Contra stereotype, I did not actually get into gender and race at all until graduate school.)

Paul Frazee isn't actually Karoline Leavitt, but there's more to compare than to contrast.

More body cams = more depraved POV snuff tapes, that's all. Abolish ICE is already a compromise. Fuck I hate living in a one-party state.

side discussion but anyone saying the real issue with ICE is a lack of proper training is subtly arguing for increased funding and should probably be ignored going forward regarding all substantive matters

That's a really good point, but I still don't see Hegseth putting up with a Vance presidency, and he and Noem are the only ones that really control enough (para/)military power to effect another result.

I think it would likely be Hegseth or Noem. That's crazy bad news. Maybe they'd try to make it Noem based on the hope that a woman can't hold MAGA together, or something. IDK. It's possible, but I don't think it's likely.

I don't think there'll be a decapitation strike. I don't think any state actor on Earth wants to see the final product of the palace intrigue that would follow his death. Too many of the people around him are worse than him.

I wouldn't count on it. There's no succor in the line of succession. Though I think it would be a fight, anyway. Not left vs. right, of course, just various cabinet members who think they could take the ring.

I have to hope this is a malicious compliance thing. Someone read the policy and saw exactly how to make the "Western Culture uber alles" train collide with the TPUSA train. Not saying Plato doesn't run afoul of the policy, he does. I'm just saying no one who liked the policy would admit it.

Okay, so I've been running a Plato reading group (not institutionally affiliated, for I am a disenfranchised trans chased from the academy) for a few months and it just got so much more punk rock.

.se still works

You wanna talk "qualifications", Trump had 4 years in the job he was applying for and Kamala had zero. Trump win. Dogshit metric. Stop it. Stop making every type of decision mirror corporate decision making.

Nothing irritates me quite like whining about a presidential candidate's qualifications. Who the fuck cares. If their values and associations are good they can appoint their way to competence. If they only associate with grifters and their values are dogshit, you get a confederacy of grifters.

So what exactly happens if Maduro is found not guilty, or better yet, if the court refuses jurisdiction? Put Humpty Dumpty back together again? Disappear or execute him anyway?

"The nearness of the disaster now provides consolation, the certainty that the eons of endurance, preparation and restless perfection are coming to an end and the reward is at hand: suffering, having suffered." -Urlich Horstmann, Das Untier

I hope you get to a place you're satisfied with your voice, too.

I prioritized voice training immediately and also had the experience of going too high (plus I'm 6'!), but when I was chased from the academy and had my pariah era I backslid a lot. I could probably benefit from the app, too, honestly.

Yeah I transitioned at the end of the aughts so I trained with Adele.

... Ya got me.