“Republicans made your gas prices higher by giving the Iranians a tollbooth.” probably works.

How Iran gums up the strait:

Kind of a shame that they missed the chance to call him Aayatollah Khamenei.

This story is, excuse my language, absolutely fucking crazy

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This reminds me of my favorite fact about Sherman: marching bands were determined to relentlessly troll him by playing “Marching Through Georgia” whenever he was present. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchin...

The background to Jeb Bush’s “please clap” comment in 2016 was actually way more depressing in retrospect — he was saying he wasn’t going to be a divisive jerk and his audience of Republican voters just sat there stone-faced. bsky.app/profile/dept...

Incredible things are happening on r/litrpg. www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/com...

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@jonrauch.bsky.social I'm glad to see you finally acknowledging it, but I'm surprised that you're not really grappling with why you were personally so late to recognizing it or dismissive of people who got there earlier. Seems like an opportunity for reflection or like some mea culpas might be due.

another day volunteering for the greenland invasion. everyone keeps asking if they can fuck the penguin. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

All I’m saying is that there’s no evidence that Ted Cruz doesn’t munch on Texas’s power lines shortly before migrating south to warmer climates to spawn.

I do think there is something like The Blob and I also think it cannot be blamed for Trump’s foreign policy decisions. Both are bad, albeit in distinct ways.

Reupping this because it is even clearer this the end goal of Trump and Vance and Rubio. It will be the most catastrophic strategic own goal as well.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.... For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Really sketchy and misleading fundraising email from the @roycoopernc.bsky.social campaign — they edited the sender’s name to make it look like I’d already talked to them even though it was the first email from them.

it's Khmer Last Christmas season

alt history where the louisiana territory stays culturally french but has a revolution to become independent; spain keeps the western US but mexico still has a revolutionary war; and Greater Mexico is the dominant superpower in north america

“I think the subnivean domain will define the 21st century.”

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Their heads were buried in the sand.

Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character: Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!

(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet): “Status” “Skills” “Stats” “Inventory” “System information” “Log out”

“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”

Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...

I think often of Tether. It is my claim to fame. You haven’t heard? Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.

Department of War, but the wars are: War on Drugs War on Terror War on Woke

It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.

(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)

"Join the National Guard and fight vagrants"

I want to write a time loop story with Trotsky as the protagonist, where he loops back to Lenin’s death whenever he dies. My working title so far is “First Pick.”

There was a request for Benny Hill

The people who are supposedly guarding this system from misuse are in some cases “former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.” yikes

I would heave a massive sigh of relief if I found out that Trump had been magically replaced as President by King George III. It’s not even close.

“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.” —Frederick Douglass

I have grown increasingly more sympathetic to Lincoln’s argument that the slave power was preparing the way for another Dred Scott decision that would prohibit states from banning slavery. When I first read it in grad school, I thought he was being paranoid. No more.

this is an elite thing, but i also just see it among my lib friends--the feeling that even knowing stuff about how modern militaries operate is a bit distasteful, impure, sus--"why are you so interested in all that military stuff? isn't that a conservative thing?"

If I was trying to join an established institution in a leadership position, I would simply do every single thing possible to show that I took it seriously and was willing to work to show that I belonged.

Absolutely. I’m personally incredibly grateful to the people like @wlknsn.xyz who were writing about “liberaltarianism” in the early ‘00s and helped provide me with an ideological bridge to becoming a plain old liberal.

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