I've heard this song before

Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

On the other hand, how many people think the Hitchhiker's Guide series was noticeably improved by Arthur Dent fucking in formation with an airliner?

If that's not you, I'm sorry, that's a skill issue

A modern-day Hamilton story would be infinitely more comprehensible to the average Blueskier if it cast Will Stancil in the title role

I would say it's even worse than that, they are incapable of accepting the concept of an adversary *who is going to shoot back no matter what*. So much of this stuff boils down to "well we'd use our tech edge to reduce the enemy capabilities until they couldn't shoot back & then it's Miller time"

If you think of conservatism as a protected identity (absurd, but these are not serious people), it makes perfect sense to claim Charlie Kirk as conservatives' MLK.

this is just Call of Duty

It codes as nerd shit, not operator shit

Reading this made me actually LOL

They're ergonomic nightmares but that's fine, all I'm doing is looking at them

*Wife takes control of the car radio* "Finally, time to play some *bangers*!" The bangers:

That one doesn't count, because the Obama policy agenda was good & the Biden policy agenda was bad, by these guys' reckoning, largely IMHO because they enjoyed being 20 & broke a lot more than they enjoyed being 35 & working from home

It's not just that the idea of returning to Bagram is stupid. It's the stupidity of this piece's idea of how it should happen, in which we agree to operate on Taliban territory & secure their control over the country without granting them diplomatic recognition

You can tell how good the economy is because there's so much money around to let people do what they want

The three pillars of literary Bluesky are Tolkien, Borges, & Melville, & any bit that features them skillfully wins a poster immortality

This might be what gets me most about Charlie Kirk. If I told someone ignorant of all this about a guy who did obnoxious political stunts for years & years until he pissed off the wrong guy & got shot, their response would rightly be "damn, that's fucked up", not "this is a crisis of free speech".

I can only imagine how big Harry Potter would be if old JK hadn't alienated a huge swathe of disproportionately educated, literate, & high-earning fans.

"yes my advice is worth what I'm charging, why do you ask"

Amazing what happens when we arm & empower the worst of us. Thank goodness people are standing up to their lawlessness.

It worked pretty well when we were the incumbent party & they were just obnoxious, it had damn well better work when they're fucking with everyone's shit

Has there ever been a service whose independence is less operationally clear than the USSF? The Air Force had years of practice functioning semi-autonomously before it got the call-up to the big leagues

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

seems like this ought to be a scandal I dunno

God is great

This is a skill, & it's a skill that's damn near impossible to teach unless a body can't hardly bear to live without learning it

I look forward to the day that we may all shake hands in friendship.

I can't decide what would be more of a farce, Trump fighting the Taliban to RETAKE BAGRAM or Trump being given Bagram & trying to figure out how to use it

not just racial, you also see it in age discourse (of which I am sometimes guilty!) where suddenly Zoomers are pro-Trump or whatever. Everyone wants someone to blame, & groups make more winsome targets

the shape rotators' dirty little secret is that they are just as innumerate as the rest of us

the biggest tempest in the history of teacups

cyberpunk that's foggy & dark (bad, outdated) cyberpunk that's hot & dry (correct, excellent)

I again encourage my fellow Americans to embrace the humble legume

I'll believe it when it happens. This is so ambitious & costly that it will require far more planning & support than anything this administration has tried before. These guys struggle to muster a thousand Guardsmen for a month.

Republican governance: defunding the federal government, obliterating rural services, & malding when people respond by moving into the cities

we're working hard to figure out a way to use Patriot to target fishing boats

voters out here begging for whig policies & tory men

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

Every elected official who dares to stand against criminality & injustice deserves to be praised for it

"No one has ever convened a court at sea before" says the world's smartest joe

"It is possible to commit no mistakes & still lose" is a lesson completely anathema to the Ezra Klein crowd, where all achievement is earned, & anything earned is an achievement

If you run a Democrat who doesn't believe in anything Dems are thought to stand for, all you get is a candidate neither Dems nor Republicans want. The closest thing to this that would be a good idea is encouraging independents to run on such platforms & then keeping Democrats the fuck away from them

Inspired by this to indulge shamelessly in the basest pleasures

The law remains the law, & this administration remains thoroughly, utterly lawless.

I was raised strictly on the classics

Anyone who puts this many restrictions on your conduct should have the good grace to pay you a salary

I've hated ABC ever since they canceled All My Children and One Life To Live. So boycotting the whole network is easy for me. I'll watch General Hospital until they cancel that too, but as far as other shows, I hope they wasted a lot of money making a new fall season and everyone boycotts them.

I think part of the reason Vance and Trump get along in a sense (it has never not been awkward) is that both of them believe everything they say in a way most people would rightly find alien

Decades of financialization have made the material basis of the economy basically foreign to its greatest beneficiaries. The most serious tech billionaire is a guy who decided to take over retail, made big profits selling spare server space, & now spends his days taking steroids & getting laid