we should all become more insane

the Outstanding Timing award goes to Brett Kavanaugh's law school buddy

>Battleships >No VLS on the new Frigate

I have full faith in President Trump can get the numbers even lower.

woof

It's bonkers that the Pentagon attack has largely faded from both cultural and institutional consciousness. I understand why, but it's still odd.

am i drunk or is this fucking hilarious

Our great national humiliation continues apace.

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed

I will mea culpa on this one. It's often easier to imagine complex reasons for profoundly anti-social behavior than it is to accept that sometimes people are just anti-social. (Anti-social here being used in the original "anti-society" meaning).

This happens because if you’re a well-liked high-follower account it is extremely important you always keep the mob behind you rather than in front of you. So even when it behaves abhorrently it’s essential to find a way to criticize the target - they were unclear, perhaps, or need a thicker skin

Sometimes it feels like that Upton Sinclair quote about it being difficult to get a man to understanding something when his salary depends on him not understanding it could work just as well if you replaced "salary" with "internet clout"

Can I just say that I also find something really smelly about a housing expert describing people as "pressure" on public services. Why do you care about housebuilding if not to house people

Violence is not the answer. But this isn't the fault of a 13 year old girl going through one of the worst things imaginable. It's the fault of the alleged adults who let her suffer, and then punished her for trying to stop it. Those men are unfit to hold any authority, least of all over children.

xi jinping is a chemical engineer by training

This is a farce, and the manner in which it is being taken credulously is infuriating. Sea-skimming hasn't been viable for decades.

What Blackman asserts has happened since the Carlson-Fuentes Incident--which of course he may be exaggerating for rhetorical purposes--but which largely has the sting of truth, is nothing short of the collapse of its ability to get expert input, even from hard right scholars and jurists.

"America chose this. This is our revealed preference."

The primary lesson here is that they think having principles is the same thing as being left wing. Which... Well. It doesn't reflect well on their morals.

the post revolves around two very basic tactical points: one, the culture war exists and can't be run from, and two, the "richardsonists" are the most committed base of the democratic party conclusions? don't run against your own base. you have to fight the culture war so you might as well win it.

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

Yes, for those wondering. This does mean that we are effectively claiming to be suburban Train Protestants. I leave the implications of this to the reader.

Some clever fellow said of the great Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson that he had long lost his belief in God, Jesus, angels, salvation, or any divine purpose or meaning of human life, but he still fervently believed in Hell. I don't know where I read that but I think about it fairly often.

kinda starting to worry that an American Papacy has had unexpected ramifications for sports outcomes I care about

The thing is that Casten doesn’t say he overperforms! He says that he wins.

want to do reasoned center-left policy? congrats you need to throw red meat to furious liberals all the time because all the rich people you used to count on to pay for your shit read Bronze Age Pervert now

Anyone who spends a lot of time at young conservative conferences can tell you this is fairly common. Or who goes to a happy hour in D.C. for AEI, Heritage or any of the other big conservative think tanks.

The thought has crossed my mind a couple times that we may need some forces that can combat the influencers, and the method or form is gonna look more like a “liberal youth pastor” than many of us would like to admit.

WHY IS BANK OF AMERICA *WILLINGLY* TYING THEIR NAME TO THIS?

Figured some moots would find this interesting. And greater religious BlueSky (FaithSky?). www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-...

>"Some people shy away from that term. But there was a *class* effort to protect Epstein." how did we get here

Welp, it's a good time for everyone to be thinking of Nicholas of Myra. And maybe time to break out the Creed of St. Athanasius.

Anyone stupid enough to take the job under *this* illegitimate BoV ought to be exiled from the state.

Scott Beardsley, you will quickly learn about the separation of powers between branches and what happens when one branch gives a middle finger to another that funds, regulates and allows their existence. Buckle up.

The BOV must be high on its own supply. He could ~*~literally~*~ be the best person for the job and this sham of a search has tainted it. Though, again, given that he said yes, the idea that he's good at making decisions is called into question. www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

Brok: BoV Woke: New BoV Bespoke: governance by committee of academic and non-academic workers, students, and townies

I was raised generically Catholic and it was kinda insane to realise that like. Yeah, no, those weird evangelical motherfuckers believe that shit directly and literally

Have a good holidays guys :)

There are *very* limited circumstances in which to use anti personnel land mines. Ukraine is one of them. There is very little reason for the US to have them outside of Korea. And, I doubt we have the stocks outside of Korea. This is just signing up to create UXO for the love of the game.

i don't think it's good that most major christian praise and worship (especially CCW!) is primarily monopolized by megachurches!

the problem with "trust the handful of purple state Democrats" is that they all owe their seats to running against the worst opponents in the fucking world

Why Biggs? Was Gosat unavailable? Did Masters rule out another run?

be safe out there physicists please

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

The older I get, the more I am absolutely convinced that Rorschach is the morally correct character in watchmen. “Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon.”

One of the other things that strikes me about this cohort is that many of them have NEVER had contact with military people in a meaningful way and either they go "ugh, babykillers" or "heroes above me in all ways" and have no idea what being in the military is like AT ALL.

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

the media is so transparently in the tank for the GOP at this point

I think like 20% gender, 40% the appearance of disorder, 40% the fact that Democrats are constantly shadowboxing the notion that they're peace loving hippies so do a lot of very warlike rhetoric explicitly in a way that reads as hawkish to people who don't remember the peace loving hippie reputation

I'm a moderate who merely just wants transgender for all who want it