Shutdowns have externalities in "real people really suffering" that this analysis doesn't take in to consideration, and the "leverage" such as the Democrats had was "making the suffering last longer." Even if that was a desirable outcome, there's no mechanism to force party unity to achieve it.

Today the Senate will vote whether to lower health insurance costs for Americans, or let them double for millions. I urge my Republican colleagues to join us and address this crisis.

Don't play the "wanna try me?" game; NATO did try Serbia and the result was a decisive victory for NATO.

Killing retreating soldiers isn't just a modern-war thing!

I dislike weighing in on stupid and pointless discourses, but the idea that you cannot target retreating troops is one of the most grating topics that people bring up. You retreat so you can conserve combat power and come back to fight from a better position the next day and kill your adversary.

America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now: -The US had been attacked -Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks -They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky -Congress authorized the action

Oh Christ, we’re doing “Anne Frank had White Privilege” AGAIN?!

Black people in Nazi Germany were oppressed but not industrially slaughtered, one wrote an autobiography www.amazon.com/Destined-Wit...

How did this Gaza scam post end up in my notifs??? I don't follow this account, never interacted with the thread, it doesn't mention me, nor does it QT me. The fuck?!

Oppositional defiant disorder as a political movement

We have a brain atrophied electorate but this is why Republicans love Trump and will never ever turn on him. He's basically untouchable when it comes to corruption and he will reward you for your loyalty/bribes.

Normal Men getting a shout-out in my Spotify wrapped

The same people who rage about the 'evils of capitalism' consider Democracy a good to be consumed, and themselves to be helpless consumers.

“That sounds illegal”

I Thought World War I Was Going to Be Fun But it Sucks Actually!

Sometimes, when I take my ADD prescription consistently enough, I remember that I'm just capable of doing adult things that make life easier? Like... I can go onto the world wide web and buy new lenses for my glasses, I don't have to keep looking through blurry scratches and scars on lenses.

despite my cat's best efforts, the PC booted fine post-flash

I'm not religious, but I am flashing a UEFI/BIOS update from USB, so I need your Thoughts and Prayers.

seeing one of my mutuals get dogpiled for multiple days running for asserting that lower income people make free economic choices once again reminds me why i will never be comfortable on the left (as opposed to liberalism) as long as its core thing is noble-savaging poor people

You know what? You're not allowed to post like this if you spent last summer eagerly lapping up every piece of trash article that Nuzzi and her ilk put out while cheering on the fall of Joe Biden like it was the politics super bowl and your team was winning.

I do believe there is insufficient wonder at the fact that we are somehow capable of bootstrapping something that sounds like people and packaging it in less than 4GB.

If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh

Blueskyism

I wanted to see if this puzzle was still an eldritch horror to Gemini 3, or if the new model could solve it. (it could not, see thread) Last time: Gemini obsessed in its 'thinking' about me yelling at it and then called itself 'less than useless'. It also couldn't count the rows or columns.

I understand wanting to be on the Mamdani hype train, I really do. But I think he's just a charismatic guy that knows which of his opinions are problematic, and how to hide them really well when he needs to. Throwing in what amounts to suntweet shade @ Jews in a synagogue while 'denouncing' the

Do you hear that, voters? You chose this man to lead you in the hopes that he would publicly call women piggies and tell them to shut up. He's done this for you, in your name. Ain'tcha proud?

His actions say otherwise.

Only Democrats have agency because they are responsible for anything bad that happens in the world

I thought everyone knew by now that America invented racism and bigotry, then in the 1930s Adolf Hitler was the 1st person to import it to Europe.

people on this site are in fact denying that the Taliban oppressed women so that they can continue attacking my friend Starfish, if you want to know where things are at

Yes, the JAG corps will be back

Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.

It’s shocking: for years, the right would conflate not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for supporting Israel. Now the right is conflating not supporting Israel with anti-semitism, to make the case for anti-semitism.

I wanted to see if this puzzle was still an eldritch horror to Gemini 3, or if the new model could solve it. (it could not, see thread) Last time: Gemini obsessed in its 'thinking' about me yelling at it and then called itself 'less than useless'. It also couldn't count the rows or columns.

I wasn't prepared to read flowery language about a journalist (who takes herself very seriously!!!) sending a man (the subject of her reporting) a picture of her butthole, and a breakdown of how cold and bothered he was by having seen her butthole.

Normally I wouldn’t bother but since he is talking about the place I live, I want to emphasize that the state has not disappeared 15% of the school age population of Charlotte. 99%+ are at home with friends and family. That is not “disappeared by the state” in any common parlance.

Gabbard and Fetterman were both handpicked by anti-Dem leftists bsky.app/profile/xiru...

I’m struggling to imagine, say, a nurse getting fired for diverting drugs and then getting hired as Chief Nursing Officer at a different hospital as a reward. Just complete moral bankruptcy.

I'm becoming more convinced that when the MAGA bloc fractures, we're going to see some weird movement across lines. Where one of the splinter-remnants of MAGA (MTG, Boebert) takes on members from the tanky far-left, essentially just united in being pro-Russia, anti-Israel, and antisemitic.

Did you know that 2,00 years ago a Roman Citizen could walk across the face of the known world, free of the fear of molestation?

the "trans culture" that Nicole calls "we" is based around reifying oppression and suffering and a refusal to participate in mainstream society. that culture absolutely is going to die out, and future generations of trans women will be like Sarah McBride and not like what Nicole imagines she is.

Can these people just post the actual verbatim Blood Libel already and get it over with, because they're clearly just about there

Capitalism is the best system we have yet developed. It is obviously superior to socialism as implemented (Nordic social democracy is neither socialism nor viable in the US, but it *does* fall under capitalism broadly)

it was actually really bad that Vietnam + Iraq made sure two successive generations of people thought war was only for imperialism and evil motives. The anti-interventionist mindset leads to a morally vacuous reification of the idea that countries own their citizens&cultural norms supersede morality

I bring this back for the morning crowd.