Look, I know it's funny, but we don't need to start claiming he pissed his pants on stage, there's absolutely no evidence for that. He says he spilled some water, that's it, and we should trust him.

It is literally as unacceptable for these morons to remain in government, as it is for Trump to remain in government.

Oh, also he's an effective altruist person. You know, one of the few issues I have with Leverage is that they did introduce a group of people who did that as villains on Redemption, but it seemed like they didn't really have time to explain what was so evil about effective altruism

Oh hell, I hadn't realized that he was one of those lunatics. That's fucking great, maybe we can figure out some way to deliberately aim those people at the AI people and they can destroy each other!

I'm confused by this. It's behind a paywall, so I haven't read it. But I could have sworn the problem with that situation was that the decision was up to the government to fly literally any flag there, and the lawsuit was mainly to get it on the record that they were doing this maliciously.

Ha. Literally been saying that's one of the only ways to get out of a situation like we are in, to join the ICC, to actually have investigations. And apparently they figured it out in Turkey.

They should. Not only would it win votes, but it would tee up perfectly the next election cycle where people run primary ads showing how the Democrats weren't doing their jobs, just clip after clip of them refusing to impeach, or refusing to prosecute after.

A reminder that fascism is only barely a political system. A huge chunk of it is aesthetics and dumbass philosophical beliefs.

You can best understand Singal best by realizing that he's a sadist that gets off on hurting trans people. The gaslighting, the victim blaming, the fake act of "just asking questions," are all a part of it. Everything is downstream of it.

Okay, quick correction everyone, apparently the first rule of fight club is that you DO talk about fight club. That was a printer's error. It's the second rule that says you don't. Honestly, should have caught that one sooner, why would you have the same rule twice?

This is, flatly, an utterly ludicrous take. I'm not even sure how you can attach the word journalism to ethics. How can those words possibly connect to each other? I am pretty sure that the only important bit of journalism is to print things that people tell them to print.

It is important that everyone understands that Melania Trump has never been criminally convicted of cutting a child in half with a sword on a dare, or even been _indicted_! What are people even talking about?

"death before detransition" is absolutely real, but i don't think the folks trying to cut access to my medical care quite grasp whose death it's going to be.

A reminder: there is a option here to get around presidential pardons, and that is to join the International Criminal Court, which exists to go after people that committed war crimes on behalf of governments, that the government obviously declined to prosecute.

Ooh ooh, and next Democrats should talk about the foreign steel he's using to build the concentration camps.

It's always fun to take anything written about men and swap in other groups. Yeah, you could just switch men and women here and the con would be obvious. But you could also do 'the last majority of new jobs have gone to white people, we need to embrace ways to make jobs appeal to Black people'

When all is said and done, let it be remembered that the ones that fought against the trans community hardest were a bunch of warmongering, sex trafficking, racist pedophiles.

God, Democratic messaging is sooooooo fucking stupid.

you consider the few things that have pushed these guys into action, and the many things that haven't, and increasingly coming to the conclusion that no matter what the issue you care about is, you need to jam up airports

*opens contacts case to put in contacts* *drops a screw-off cover* *proceeds to spend 3 minutes bending down, trying to find cover in mess* *finally realized the search for the case cover would go a lot easier if I had my fucking contacts in. I put them in, and yup*

This is a garbage read because "When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020"? No such thing happened, you fell for an op. You quickly and readily believed conspiratorial nonsense because it was about people you already hated, and you still believe nonsense so you learned nothing from this.

Theological implications for the living/dead winners/losers here: God likes the American people and hates the Iranian people, young girls specifically. But he likes the Iranian government way more than the American government. Also he's fond of Oman. Or maybe he just thought that would be funny.

Yeah, I mean, huge props to Oman, which could realize a 40% increase in its GDP for doing absolutely nothing in a war in which it was neutral. Solid play by Oman.

Hey, quick question for everyone, when you're held up at the customs and immigration line because there are nowhere near enough people, does it make you annoyed at the city you happen to be in, or does it make you annoyed at customs and immigration who deliberately withdrew the people?

He's right about the first thing, but what's he talking about with Catturd and the NYT? Doesn't that disprove his thesis, that only some complete crap doesn't get good engagement, because catturd does get it and the NYT doesn't? What is even his premise here?

I'm going to repeat this at top level, cause it is vitally important: Something the Democrats could promise to do is repel the Hague invasion act and join the International Criminal Court which means war crimes would be prosecutable, pardons don't help there, pardons actually make it worse!

I try to get a quick car wash on the way to Easter dinner, and there is a Tesla in front of me that requires apparently 10 minutes of conversation between the owner and the car wash people before it can go in.

Oh, I get it. He's saying there's nothing to see here, while the fireworks factory explodes behind him, which objectively is something fairly interesting to most people. The comedy is the position between what he's saying and what is going on. It's simple.

Everyone in ABBA has seen everyone naked.

A hostage crisis? I thought we agreed that no quarter was to be given in this war.

That's an interesting point he's making about the second amendment. Oh, sorry, what's that, we shouldn't care about that there?

The entire jurisdictional argument is hilariously stupid: What if we argued that people we are extremely racist towards, and thus very much dislike us, had absolutely no ability to be convicted of crimes under US law because we have no jurisdiction over them. I am very smart boy.

I feel this question, by itself, should get him impeached. But I am willing to compromise, and only impeach him if he lets this question, and his stupid racist ideas, cause him to vote against the Constitution.

"The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Yeah, this. I was a Harry Potter fanfic writer, trust me, the setting is utter crap, and I knew that a decade before she went crazy.

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

There's one way I'll accept death of the author for Harry Potter, a thing those fans could do to convince me to accept it and be okay with the fandom. But I can't say it on this app.

I think a lot of people are missing the fact that Iran probably isn't going to toll ships, what they're going to do is use their ability to toll ships to actually get concessions and agreements out of other countries. 'Well we could charge you, or you can get rid of that American Base...'

Being killed in a car accident is worse than being in a car with no brakes going at 100 miles an hour through a dark forest and a driver who sees no problem with this. That's a true statement, but kind of meaningless. The second thing is, at some point, going to transition into the first.

We all know this is fascism.

Please, everyone, enable either fingerprint unlocking or facial recognition. Failure to do so makes things incredibly difficult for both the police, and anyone who has quantum leaped into your body.

I think a lot of us are very slow to blame the AMA here, and I think the AMA does deserve some blame if the NYT was able to contact anyone at it and get them to 'confirm' anything.

The actual lie here, and it's kind of hard to notice, is they are pretending that what is being stated is a change. But their fact check completely fails to cite LITERALLY ANY EVIDENCE that it used to be different.

I think this repeatedly: the only way to fix problems in this country is to make the powerful people suffer them. Ergo, one of these stupidest things imaginable is to allow powerful people to opt out of things.

There is very few ways to adequately describe the cognitive dissonance of watching your impending demise on the daily and watching those with the power to stop is just do absolutely nothing for the sake of their sycophantic egos and careers.

I don't want to tell people how to live their life, but that was either way too long to become an archbishop or way too long to become a female. Most of us don't even live that long!

I told y'all this was all ahead of the inevitable lawsuits.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, he can do what Spider can. Catch a wave, steal a car, tries to run but he don't get far. And his mama cries as a crowd-gathers round, an angry young Spider-Maaaaan.

This should result in some very serious questions asked, but I fear it's probably going to be brushed under the carpet and ignored. But taxpayers should demand an accounting, exactly how much wasted resources have just been left in closets like this, uninventoried?

Be allies, facilitate crimes.