I suppose my blunt and cynical take on this question is that if the Orkin Man dropped a nuclear bomb on your home if he found a termite, I would not be very interested in looking for bugs.

But to be accurate: even before this it was clear that this is a war on Lebanon and on the whole of Lebanese people on account of the Israeli occupation destroying over 80 villages in the south. It is collective punishment.

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

LMFAOOOOOOO

I like that one Chinese word for children is ‘little friend ‘

As I've said before, the veterans' suicide crisis really affects all the wrong people.

currently thinking about the east timorese political party for unemployed youth that made people swear blood oaths to vote for them

public sector graphic design is one of my weird fixations. it doesn't always map onto how yo'd expect. plenty of rich nations have pretty bad graphic design, while smaller ones can have clean, unique and cohesive aesthetics

I've said before, only semi-joking, that Canada and the EU should join forces on a 'do not admit' list of every sub-Trump politician who endorsed 51st state or Greenland conquest. And, most importantly, their spouses, children and paramours.

oh you're calling me racist?!?! ill show you racist

"Omg did you see what the latest Platner scandal is? Like he was sexting the whole ti—" You bolt awake in Washington DC. You are not online. It is 1842 AD. You are Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Canada must annex Northern Maine

Don't make me tap the sign (sign that says "everything is 18th Brumaire")

the childish resentment that running as a dem subjects their candidates to higher levels of scrutiny than running as a republican is the thing i find most tedious. sorry that the Party of Lesser Evil asks you to be a little less evil

I drove 30 mins out of town this weekend to do canvassing of immigrant businesses and once again few things make racial capitalism as visceral as driving around failed midwestern suburbs where latinos are being hunted for the crime of keeping these communities alive with their labor and lives

lunch break power rankings: 1. 1:30-2:30 2. 12:00-1:00 3. 1:00-2:00 4. 2:00-3:00 5. 12:30-1:30 6. 11:30-12:30 7. 2:30-3:30 8. 10:30-11:30 9. sad lunch eaten at desk 10. 11:00-12:00

You know, one can withhold judgement & wait on tenterhooks for him to say the N-word, or one can comfortably conclude from the available evidence that he is what he is.

some jokes write themselves

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Americans vote to kill hundreds of thousands of Africans for no reason, get offended by WWE fight in White House

Happy 11-year anniversary to the first FOIA request I ever sent.

KEEP complaining about personal computing dying and install Linux on an old Dell Optiplex

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

happy memorial day to the post of all time

The year is 2357, Great Britain is a dystopian wasteland, ruled with an iron fist of terror. Northern Ireland remains unaffected because no one wanted to fuck up the Good Friday Accords

Quote posts disabled but this is important enough that I do want to reply by saying there's a reason why the most substantial continuation of the bardic tradition is rap music

i’d even go as far as to say that memorization and recitation are still pretty important parts of black american culture!

TBH, nuclear war remains the undisputed number one seed for the apocalypse with even the most pessimistic assumptions about climate and AI. People just kinda... got tired of caring after the Cold War.

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

So, a thread about what might be called "fleeting justifications": devised novel defences of old conservative social practices, political institutions and prejudices at a point when those Old Ways become subject to challenge and pressures for reform, never raised before, and forgotten thereafter.

Washington DC is this for the entire USA unfortunately

Bubble pride- I'm in a bubble of clean water instead of hanging out in the sewage

If what's been reported so far is the peace deal this analogy held up. Good news Qatar you get to cut Johnny Sac's lawn for free now

The specific moment in Charles Sumner's speech where Brooks hauled off and started hitting him is when he brings up that there's this culture obsessed with their gentlemanly chivalry that also has a hallowed tradition of raping children

This is also time to introduce you to my theory that the United States and the United Kingdom are like this couple that had a really bitter divorce, then reconciled and together decided to blame everything bad that ever happened on their divorce lawyer, France.

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

til en Escocés hay tres formas para referirse a un objeto según esté cercano, lejano o más lejano 👀

...and they're made in america? by shifty, lazy americans? and they're designed in america, by shoddy, second-rate american engineers? no thanks, i need my electronics to be reliable

again, I cannot emphasize this enough: I hope everyone party to this conflict is found bleeding out with a prison shiv

every time a new icon appears in the Outlook or Teams ribbon i scream with rage until i pass out

"Democrats should move to the center on transgender issues, and away from their current policy forcibly transitioning one in ten men."

Europe and Somalia basically

"the world is mostly ethnostates" is a completely insane position to take that basically only makes sense if you think of "the world" as Europe

FAQ for this post: Q: Are you saying I should feel bad if I like reality TV? A: Yes, you should always feel bad about your personal choices. Q: Am I a bad person if I like a reality TV star with bad politics? A: You're a bad person for a wider variety of reasons than that.

exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

Anyway the top 5 american metros should be forced to x5 their housing stock

"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."