goblin living in courthouse drop ceiling

i'm unmentionably fresh, i'm a mensch, get correct i will walk into a court while erect, screaming, "yes, i am guilty, motherfuckers; i am death." aye, you wanna hear a good joke? nobody speak, nobody get choked www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

People are hating on this, but it's objectively true. There's a LOT of conservatives in this country, and we DO need a non-crazy, pro-democracy conservative party they can vote for. The problem is, in absence of sane Republicans, way too many Democrats have tried to make the Democrats that party.

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Osita seems to fundamentally believe real Republicans dont exist

there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

THE MAYOR-ELECT HAS OPENED A PORTAL

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

this is extraordinary, both as an intelligent critique of right wing nihilism and also a piece of character assassination from someone who is perhaps a bit too close to the subject

This isn’t true. I was there. (from The Argument)

chat is it good for your far-right personalist regime when the right-leaning local security forces openly delight in cuffing your sloppiest stormtroopers

Cuomo spent the entirety of the campaign just being racist against Mamdani, the leadership of the party stayed out of it or attacked Mamdani, and nobody in the party seemed much to care about it!

no one wants to make jews stateless. we want israelis to stop making palestinians stateless.

it does seem as though this should mention that the CCC is not a climate think tank and is primarily funded by by the Danish government

this guy would be a serial killer if no one would catch him

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

sandpoint also had a dem mayor until like last year, when he was replaced by an independent!

case in point

he has repeatedly said that he does not support any country's right to exist exclusively for the benefit of a single religious community, a position he takes from postcolonial scholar... Mahmood Mamdani.

not only is qud in there, every book in qud is in there, subjecting openAI to potentially infinite damages

you should want to work with Lea

Its fascinating and kind of gross to watch irony curdle into a genuine vice and revulsion for The Good. Its like watching a zombie turn and rot and melt before you.

your basic idea is that an Indian Muslim whose father was expelled from Uganda for being Indian and whose maternal grandparents lived through the violence of the Partition, on the wrong side of the border, is predisposed to believe that countries have a right to maintain an ethnoreligious majority

absolutely baffling. grammarly... has more or less always been an AI company?

FLY ME CLOSER. I WANT TO HIT HIM WITH MY SWORD

it’s so telling and fitting that silwa was the only one to call and congratulate mamdani cc @theophite.bsky.social

fun fact: the totonacs conquered the city of axiolitico shortly before the Spanish conquest

yes, for those who've blacked it out, Jared Golden is such a quisling he was conceding defeat and laying out the welcome mat for Trump II in *June 2024* www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...

no. hope that helps. :)

fun fact: I met the developers of Trombone Champ randomly because they were in the same complex as I gig I was playing. they are not musicians and do not actually understand the mechanics of the trombone past a cursory level, which I first found annoying but have come to find hilarious.

dan's given me a preview of some of this stuff and i'm super excited www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihVW...

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

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Wrong—the Arms Export Control Act and Foreign Assistance Act both have provisions which enable the Presidency to withhold aid under specific conditions— and these provisions override individual MOUs that are held between the USG and a foreign country because they are actually-existing binding law.

we still do not know what kash patel was doing between january 6th, 2021 and january 20th, 2021. what we do know is that whatever it was, it got his badge deactivated and got him locked out of the Pentagon.

like at his core mamdani’s platform is “things should be more affordable” and he doesnt seem particularly ideological about how he gets there

the leftist fantasy of building a large, complex bureaucracy to handle large, complex human problems without any technocratic expertise whatsoever

I suppose if you spend your whole life believing in government conspiracies and then you get a job with the government and see how things actually work it’s gotta be more than a little disorienting

not yet, alas. may it be 2026.

Some people fear him because he's a sewer socialist and could expand what normie Democrat means Some people fear him because he's not bought into the ecosystem that produces stuff like la sombrita

there are multiple extended plotlines that are "leslie fights privatization tooth and nail." leslie is a caricature of a government maximalist. there are honestly not many possible analyses more wrong than "leslie knope is neoliberal"

Also on this point, something that a lot of folks don't appreciate is the fairly large swath of people who would qualify as "natsec liberals" who are now fully radicalized onto a "fuck the state of Israel entirely, not just Likud" platform It's more of a localized problem to the ME specialists

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

absolutely true

catwoman didn't vote (felon); joker didn't vote; poison ivy and bane voted mamdani (left-wing); mr. freeze, scarecrow, and harley quinn voted for mamdani (edpol); killer croc, two-face, and clayface voted for cuomo. penguin voted for adams (also on the turkish payroll).

who do you think the Penguin would have voted for in the NY election

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

antisocial impulses of some kind are probably universal - what matters is the particular outlet you find for them, art being one. there's a weird sort of parallel here between like, death in june and tubby suburbanites in straw cowboy hats getting wasted before seeing florida-georgia line

i really do think this is the core of it: trump himself is mostly impervious to the consequences of his antisocial behavior, and because of this he can uniquely create space in which people feel permitted and safe to act on their own antisocial impulses which would otherwise ruin them.