SolidPhil

For both species, from the look of it.

The game’s afoot!

I dunno, Job is pretty funny.

Mar-a-Lago is going to be the loveliest landfill one of these days

i am a "billionaires shouldn't exist" person for "sufficiently concentrated wealth is caustic to society" reasons and: the widespread belief that we could have everything we ever wanted if we just Taxed The Billionaires is wrong for SEVERAL reasons and is absolutely gonna KILL us in the long run

Many years ago I was driving through Jamaica Plain and was slowed and amused by an old gentleman in a long black overcoat and unsnapped galoshes very carefully carrying shovels full of snow from his driveway, across the street, and dumping them in his neighbor’s driveway.

Who is “we,” white man?

Feels to me like whoever runs on "I am going to put into prison every single person currently in power in government, business, or law enforcement" has a decent chance at 500 electoral votes.

Photo shows young white woman in a white tan top with from the river to the sea in black all caps text. She’s flanked by security or police Text of X screenshot: An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." In Australia, you can bankroll mass murder and sleep fine. But wear a shirt that says "from the river to the sea"?Two years in prison.

I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.

the answer to the trolley problem is that we have to blow up the fucking trolley i think

Dear companies,

I will never take a customer survey after dealing with your business.

Let's just get through this. No need to linger after to reminisce about all the valuable lessons we learned along the way.

The United States is being governed by twelve-year-olds who enjoy pulling the wings off flies and watching them drown in the toilet.

and just as goodness is composed of hundreds of menial decent acts, so too is evil composed

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

Shaming, shunning, and reviling is what makes free speech work. You want to be a racist bigot, douchebag, and/or twatwaffle? Have at it. The government won't stop you. However, prepared to be rightfully shamed, shunned, and reviled. The problem is these guys are getting too much of a free pass.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Haven’t we been reading “Ackchully, it’s worse than we thought” articles for the last 15 years or so?

🇺🇦🇫🇮 Russia’s war in Ukraine could have ended by now if Kyiv had received the level of air defense deployed in the Persian Gulf countries during the week of the war, — Finnish President Stubb

I too have fond memories of the happy innocence of america when I was a child (a meatgrinder war in Vietnam, huge constitutional crisis with watergate on the horizon, gas shortages, inflation, political assassinations, etc etc)

it is insane how evil the tech industry is like we need to do something about these people

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

It's worth noting that Israeli Jewish leaders & American Christian Nationalist leaders are cynically using each other in the sure knowledge that the other believes nonsense & can thus be instrumentalized toward specific ends. There will be no 2nd Coming & Israel cannot shape the region as it wishes.

Even if some people in this administration must be aware that Trump is constantly making stuff up, most of them are convinced what they are doing is popular. The degree to which the Trumpist leaders have bought into their own propaganda is astonishing.

the “financial adviser” industry is virtually the definition of scam.

Yeah, uncomfortable about being all Chris Hitchens about it but isn’t it getting to be time to betray the Kurds again?

Eh, CEOs are a dime-a-dozen.

I’m working on a theory that the great untold story of our time is the depth and power of the righteous rage of normie liberal Americans

There's a non-astroturfed Tea Party coming for the Dems, and they're going to have no idea how to deal with it.