Ah but who owns many places outside? Capitalists.

You know, it's deeply funny, because one of the places where I have been the most influenced *by* hard-left writers is the idea of "authenticity"- specifically, how Albert Camus engages with it. There isn't some pure reality beneath the noise, there just is what is.

I am calling for a moratorium on calling older men "daddy" until we can stop this from happening.

America is a creedal nation and our team is a demonstration of this truth. Stephen Miller would do to half this team things that'd get me banned if I described them.

Balogun and Robinson grew up in England Dest grew up in the Netherlands Tillman and McKennie learned to play in Germany Pepi grew up between El Paso and Juarez Weah's dad was the fucking president of Liberia I don't think one nation means what they think it does

Not trying to start beef with this person, but- most people in the US object to Napoleon because he was a monarch, more specifically an imperial monarch, and even more specifically an imperialm monarch who couped an (admittedly foundering) democratic government.

leftist crakkker rally in the replies to the latest edgy and heckin cool takedown of cringe libs cringely being cringe about voting (CRINGE)

Bovino is doing this because his squat ass is never getting near power again. He can either become some fascist microceleb pounding Nick Fuentes's bussy or go back to being an irrelevant gnome from Boone, NC.

Like, here's the big thing- if you are not already a Republican or, like, one of the kids raised entirely in the Jesus Camp reality bubble, why would you ever vote for the GOP? "Rank bigoty" can't carry you to electoral majorities outside of TN and AL.

Self-respect. The love of his children. A woman who would have sex with him even if he wasn't paying them. Something that can fill the yawning void of emptiness he very obviously feels in his soul. Salvation in the hereafter for his many evil deeds. Lots of things, really.

What is *especially* striking is that the politicians understand it's not merely a losing issue, but an issue *they have already lost*. Ted fucking Cruz is wishing people Happy Pride- that's a sign they understand they can only really go after the T.

People On Here are really convinced that "Trump goes for near-maximalist terms of surrender to Iran (and likely tries to whip the House and Senate into consenting)" will cost the GOP nothing with a voterbase that has defined themselves as hating Iran since Reagan, and- find some spine people!

Something that strikes me is that the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights Era- even destructive ones like Elijah Muhammad- articulated a radical vision of the future based on love and hope. They were ideologically positive. Bluesky would hate all of them to a man if they were here now.

You know your baseball cards are a form of ad, right

Not an original observation, but- this is literally just Musk's stalking points with a thin veneer of "Satire" over them.

I don't want to beef with them, but- I'm going to point out that Sky Marchini believed that the tariffs would result in empty shelves in grocery stores within 3 months and that oil would go to $150/barrel by March 1. Their analysis should be considered in light of that.

TL;DR: it is deeply ironic that the author of this piece basically agrees with Colin Firth's character that people are ugly hogs that need a farmer to keep their noses in the slop.

This is cynicism and cowardice disguised as savvy, the argument that beauty is barbarism post-Auschwitz applied to an incident (Jan. 6th) with far lower stakes. This reaction is exactly why *Disclosure Day*'s expression of optimism and faith in human nature is needed.

I come from a culture where "ruthlessly mocking you for saying dumb shit" is normal, regardless of gender. Matt Taibbi has no clue about that sort of thing. Nobody's friends put them on a slow boat to China or puts a permanent face tattoo as a prank.

Anyways, Kwame Appiah once said that the greatest error of nationalists is to think that, because a cosmopolitan finds value in all other cultures, that he must find none in his own, and it's nutso to me how many "cosmopolitans" just agree with the nationalists.

Anyways, I'll indulge my own negativity for a second- fuck this guy and everyone else who tries to recoil from having to say anything nice about America by going "Actually (place I live/like) has some magical pneuma crackling over it that separates it from AmeriKKKa".

There's a lot of ugly negativity in response to this and all it reminds me of is the CS Lewis quote about how the soul starts to rot when you start to actively want things to be worse than they are.

america is an ideal worth fighting for

The worst part is that he really believes this. This is not pretense to justify some insane gibberish. The reason why RFK is probably the most dangerous Cabinet member besides Miller is because he thinks he's on the side of the angels.

That food composition lady had better get to what the sick, twisted agricultural companies are doing to our crops. Most of them contain dihydrogen monoxide, the binding agent for almost all natural toxins, which is lethal in high doses!

Those who know, know I have the right to say this- everything about this is almost elementally offensive to me, from the DE fan (derogatory type) co-opting this poast for their own rant about AmeriKKKa to the shit-assed AI art behind it to the fucking awful chromatic aberration.

The thing is that I am open to left-wing critiques of American foreign policy, and how often foreign aid can turn into golden handcuffs. The thing is that when we are talking about food or medical aid it is better to have aid with conditions than no aid at all.

To all people screaming about how someone should stop Musk- The option to stop him was to not reward his ideological fellow travelers control of the government. I was told it was actually very important to reward them in order to punish the Democratic party for their failures.

"Indie" describes a business model and access to financing, not how hostile to mainstream culture something is. This is about Glitch and Fortnite.

Not going to link it, but- if you're reading an Atlantic article that hunts down former Obama staffers and does some selective quoting to try and paint the party as a bunch of hollow suits and MAGA-lite people and conclude that's an accurate depiction of the party, you're getting rolled.

There are mechanical criticisms of implementation, but I'll make the philosophical point instead- this case for the Great Firewall is the same case that the Soviet Union made for their own totalitarian measures in controlling conventional media and inculturing sousveillance.

No, pasteurization doesn't break down the protein structures in milk. It leaves milk chemically identical. What you're talking about here isn't based in anything real, you're advocating for a religious prohibition against fire. I hope you also don't eat anything made in a bakery.

Most people have the "non-pasteurized animal milk is a strong vector for illness" angle already covered, so instead I'll take a different approach- do you know what pasteurization *is*, Olivia? Because I do. It's boiling milk in a controlled environment to kill germs.

It's literally the same shit as using "Heritage American" to define out people who've lived here for their entire lives, and whose *parents* have lived here for their entire lives in many cases, as perfidious foreign invaders, and will lead to the same end (extirpation).

After today's interactions, I've reached the conclusion that there is a substantial number of people in the US who think *hukou* is too permissive and in fact want a neofeudalist system, in the sense that people are indentured to where they were born in 99.9% of cases.

As a resident of the Carolinas- sure, if you moved here and started saying you were a Southerner the next day, but if you'd been here a few years and had no plans of moving anywhere else you'd have to be on crack to think calling you a Southerner wasn't fair.

blushing kakania sketch #Reverse1999 #Kakania

Barcarola skin where instead of the Crackling Box she has a MiniMoog.

Sorry for not finishing with the blogging. Bad mental health day for understandable reasons. Anyways, I'm going to try to be more active on here, because I really just... want to be a person who isn't constantly tasing themselves online, or something. Life's hard enough as it is.

As the joint Zeno-Gryphon forces move through Bereggrad's streets, Ivan and Igor lay out their plan of attack- the Flying Witches will attack the ritual site to end the Golden Famine while the body of the forces engage Krutov on the ground. Meanwhile, Vertin meets Igor at an abandoned church...

Lilya has taken over the New Flying Witches, and *I SWEAR TO GOD BLUEPOCH YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS A NEW SKIN I'D PAY MY LEFT KIDNEY FOR IT!*

Right, hope everyone slept better than I, but we're back on the horse.

Anyways, game night tonight, will pick up tomorrow.

Zeno soldiers fishing in the Don for food thanks to the "Golden Famine" have pulled up an unusual catch- Merel, accidentally saved from drowning!

Meanwhile, at the Zeno camp... hot older men. This one is named Ivan Ivanovic Bukharov, and is the commander of the time-displaced Zeno contingent. Man, he's got drip.

Right, my midterm hell is finally over, it is time- time for Chapter 12.

#リバース1999 #Reverse1999

Today is the birthday of some very special horsies: - He famously looked so much like his sire he'd be used to play him in movies, and his weight fluctuated wildly due to the stress of travel. Despite his sickly constitution, he's a three-time G1 winner. Happy Birthday, Manhattan Cafe!

20 PULLS TO MARSHA YEAHHHH Sadly, will have to wait a few days to liveblog the next chapter, as I've got a project I need to be working on.

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