The difficulty of parsing the distinction between evil and illness leads me back to my basic outlook: harm prevention. It is less useful to place others in moral categories than it is to create specific policies which prevent harm to the most number of people.

Dark irony in seeing all these Pizzagate types turn out to be sex criminals. A bit of projection there, perhaps. Accuse other people (Hillary Clinton, perhaps?) of what you are doing.

If we're honest, Kash Patel has always seemed pretty unhinged. Medical professionals will have to determine the causation there.

I got a bit misty at the end of the Pitt season finale. I admit it. They got me.

And remember: ALL of this was optional. Trump never had to attack Iran at all. So all the consequences of this war were a CHOICE. A bad choice.

Remember when you were told that Joe Rogan had turned on trump? don't be so naive, please. And for the love of god, please stop pretending Joe Rogan has anything smart to say about anything.

yeah it is critical that dems win the senate

It's a tricky balancing act. If one were to run on "holding the trump regime accountable" in 2028, it might backfire. On one hand, of course these criminals should be held to account. On the other hand, if you did a thorough job of it, it would become your only job.

Conspiracy theories are inevitable with this kind of thing. My own impression is what it usually is: The world isn't that organized. People are not that organized. Trump is an impulsive sociopath. He doesn't feel alive unless he's causing mayhem. People take advantage of the situation.

The art of the deal (continued)

Never tell a psychopath that their actions are making you sad. They enjoy inflicting pain on others. You have to attack them. Not describe how their behavior is causing others pain. Do not frame the situation as "I am the victim, you are the aggressor" They know this. They like it.

Asking RKF jr about mental stability is itself an insane thing to do. He is a lunatic, so how can he judge anyone else's mental fitness?

Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Just imagine if a sitting Democratic president did this. They'd be drawn and quartered within a day. But for trump? Just another day in paradise.

This illustrates why I would like to create a buffer between religion and government. Because although to religious people there is a huge distinction between the content of their special book, and a comic book or novel, to me there really isn't that much of a difference. It's fiction, either way.

Ditto. Even for people I end up voting for, "fan" behavior is not for me. In 99% of cases you don't actually KNOW any of these politicians, so to treat them like you do is weird to me. They are not your family member, your close friend, etc. They are workers in the political power industry.

Guys like Dave Chappelle win the game. And then whine that some people made them feel weird. Buddy, you f**king won. Please don't play the victim now. YOU WON. And stop making fun of trans people. They clearly have enough bullshit to put up with already. Write better jokes.

🤮x 1000.

Maximum stupid is no way to run a country.

It is WAY easier to create a profile on social media with a hammer and sickle than it was to survive in the USSR under Stalin. Orders of magnitude.

I remember going to the deli a while back. The container of egg salad was the same price as the year before. The container, however, was half the size. There's your inflation.

Next Dem running for pres should look at this strategy. Looks like a lot of energy just waiting to be tapped.

Perhaps the biggest liar in human history. Truly, it is remarkable.

It's very difficult to do politics at a time like this. And do it honestly. You will have to promise voters that "affordability" will increase. But also probably taxes are going to have to go up in order to fund the basics of society. Including taxes on non wealthy people. Tough sell.

I heard reports that the younger supreme leader was in serious medical peril. I wonder if that's true. If he's alive and on the mend? Trump has just created a very devoted enemy. If you kill a person's entire family, and they survive? They will make it their life's mission to destroy you.

He's a jackass, temperamentally unsuited to congress. Those who think he will win are busy saying it's fine. He rhapsodizes about canoeing. Not the boating practice. The practice of hollowing out the bodies of dead enemies with a machine gun, turning them into a "canoe" of sorts. This is your guy.

As a total atheist I will still side with the pope over this depraved doll person, Mike. Concepts like "jesus" and "prayers" don't really mean much to me. But still, the pope is pushing the needle in the correct direction at the moment. As far as "just war", it's just war as far as I'm concerned....

Democrats increase the number of citizens who have health coverage. Republicans decrease it. Vote accordingly.

Because he's an a**hole. This has been made abundantly clear.

I maintain that asking this lying psychopath questions is simply pointless. He loves talking. He's never more comfortable than he is spewing utter nonsense on camera.

I don't usually say "the chinese foreign ministry is correct" but...in this case they are. This is in fact what happened. Trump CAUSED this. All the things he's now trying to fix he broke.

Ok let's open up the ol computer and see what's going on...well ok then.

I want there to be a positive ending here but I know it's not possible. BFF just not in the cards.

For anyone who reads author autobiographies the Atwood one is very entertaining. In all honesty I'm not even that familiar with all her work, mostly just the famous stuff, but the story is still interesting and the writing is propulsive. And since she's 86 there's a lot of years worth of material.

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social I was curious whether you read that new Margaret Atwood autobiography? extremely entertaining. Very funny, among other things. Quite a long book but does not drag at all. You are mentioned in there, toward the end.

Not to belabor the obvious, but one thing to note from the Hungarian election is that who you defeat is as important as you who elect. Preventing bad things is a huge part of politics. Preventing cancer won't make every other problem go away. But still, you don't have cancer. good.

Doing all this dumb expensive shit. Instead of doing the one smart thing: not doing a war in the first place.

One of the things I've found is a problem with home ownership is not just the cost of the downpayment and mortgage. It's upkeep. Insurance. real estate taxes. It honestly makes more financial sense to rent and invest that downpayment money into the stock market.

People are still making bad tempered racket with guitars and drums. Good. youtu.be/ScEdlsksK-E?...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Holy crap. It is done. Eat it, JD. You got nothing.

I stole this quote from an anon on reddit, but it's undeniably true:

I maintain, and I'm hardly alone in this, that the main takeaway from these space missions is to emphasize how unique and precious the earth is.

Vance is running for president and wants voters to believe he was always against the war in Iran. A war which is not going well, should never have happened, and is not polling well. Trump strokes out, Vance steps up and says he was always against this thing that most voters hate. Very convenient.

In the mid/late internet age (whatever you want to call "now") everyone is a pundit with a little platform. What you start to notice is that the wisdom of actual pundits who make money from their punditry, are not much more insightful than random people. They just dress it up and are focused on $.

Eventually one of these flunkies is going to snap on camera and just yell "Stop asking me these questions, it's whatever Trump said. Whatever he said whenever is correct."

The abusive criminal father of he richest man on earth (also a bizarre, destructive person) is hanging out with Vladimir Putin, currently engaged in his multi year invasion of Ukraine. Strange times.

Whenever I see some leftist online these days say "Al Gore was actually not that bad," my blood pressure spikes. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. He was fantastic. He would have been an exceptional president. Glad you finally got the fucking memo.

Agreed.

Watch the stock manipulation begun: