what's funny about the epstein class discourse is that if we use the term properly as an analysis of the impunity that rich men (esp white ones) have, it immediately and obviously applies to hasan piker

Lots of people who made the "vote blue no matter who" argument for Kamala on Gaza are abandoning it for Platner. Sorry. Doesn't work like that. Your personal limit isn't better than theirs.

Maybe I'm a bad gay, but making fun of Republican glass closets is fine, actually. We're well into the 21st century. Own it.

"Means to an end" was right there.

Must read. A military strategy guy writes: “There is a frequent mistake, often from folks who deal in economics, to assume that countries will give up on wars when the economics turn bad.“

🚨Attention to people living in Illinois, Chicago: you have until Thursday to register formal messages to the state legislature that requiring age verification to install Linux, use smartphones, is a horrible idea. This doesn't require writing anything, just filling out a form. See this quoted post:

Ukraine showed the world how to fight an arrogant former superpower. Now it shows the world how to fight two.

Delivery robots are good to the extent they reduce car traffic. But they should be in the streets, not on the sidewalks (and not in the bike lanes either.)

When the very name of the airport is evocative of disasterous Republican wars in the middle east.

OTD 1949 March Deportations (Operation Tidal Wave in russian) started. USSR deported 90 000 Estonian 🇪🇪, Latvian 🇱🇻 and Lithuanian 🇱🇹 civilians marked as "enemies of the state" 70% of them women and children. It was followed up bu next wave in April. If you ever wonder why #NATO is popular in here

With the record selection And the mirror's reflection

Tbf, even without AI, anti-immigration arguments are based on hallucinations.

One Battle did it!

It's fine to be normielib, but there are limits. One is sharing painfully unfunny Borowitz bits as if they're real headlines. Best to avoid Borowitz altogether, to be sure.

Fuentes on the Spencer track. What a ride!

Travelers, please (rhetorically) roast these guys: "Not working too hard, are ya?" "No wonder you guys wear masks." "If i forgot my real ID, do i get a free flight to El Savador?" "Do you guys shoot dogs to free up kennel space for children?"

🧭 🇪🇺 A simplified viz of the four quadrants' strengths. Quadrant size by the combined vote share of all parties in the quadrant as per CHES @chesdata.bsky.social 2024 estimates. Political compass mobiles, with apologies to Alexander Calder.

While this report does not conclude Mueller is dead, it also does not confirm that he is alive.

Honestly, i love it. 1. Diverts ICE resources 2. Pisses off ICE agents 3. Inflicts ICE on more voters, making it more unpopular 4. Makes Trump more unpopular

The naifs have invaded these replies as well. Westerners born yesterday once again lack any fucking perspective.

Oooh! Moody!

Tired of waiting for the ever-delayed Monon Corridor to open? Here's a first look for you! The line seems like it's finally going to open on March 31st, but here's a sneak peek/deep dive into the new branch to Dyer. youtu.be/XhETDX2X77M?...

Bank of America should merge with Germany's DZ Bank to form BofA DZ.

Seems like a prime way out of this not being discussed. US imposes export controls on domestic oil and butts out of the situation. Everyone else cuts a deal with the Iranians.

Just because it makes Trump look bad doesn't mean it has any basis in reality. Way too many people who should know better reposting absolute shite.

DJT could impose oil export controls under the EPCA.

Unsurprising but very pronounced demographic splits in Hungary election poll: - Among 18–29 year olds, Tisza leads Fidesz by 67% to 8% (!); among 65+, Fidesz leads 48%-26% - Among university grads, Tisza leads 63%-13%, but Fidesz leads among lowest education groups - Cities/towns vs villages

It looks like Chicago is the center of a vortex sucking in the rest of the U.S.

Can’t even burgle nonces anymore. Because of woke.

Breaking: Lewandowski to remain at DHS in same role. Ongoing discussions with Mullins about who is going to top.

Geopolitics! In the Persian Gulf!

Binding Poland is in crucial. I've heard a lot of American defence analysts recently speculate about Polish nukes who don't seem to be aware of how Euratom has integrated much of the supply chain needed for that into a dispersed European level

A USian is short for United Statesian. It could be USan or USAian if you prefer. See also Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, Venezuelan, Argentinian, Chilean, etc., all of whom also live in the Americas. Plus, the rest of the world isn't interested in prioritizing your USian feelings right now.

Boundless USian self-regard across political disposition. Everything is about us, and if it's not about us, it needs to be clearly labeled. This is obvious, and how dare you call us knobs for saying otherwise! You can get USians to believe anything as long as you make it about them. Putin knows.

Ring theory: bluesky range

Good thing congress got that war powers resolution on the schedule for next week. No hurry, guys.

Preach!

Good thing congress got that war powers resolution on the schedule for next week. No hurry, guys.

Ring theory: bluesky range

Thune apparently on board for impeachment if Trump starts war without congressional authority.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Germans started writing 40,000 years ago! You know what that means? Any day now they might be getting to the verb

Cartoon villainry.

Excellent thread. South Florida Cubans now ideologically flexible enough to accept communism as long as it's sufficiently corrupt.

Since there is no conceivable mechanism to refund tariff costs to consumers, this great debt has to be paid back constructively. Dems just loop this back to reversing health care cuts, right?

God bless us, it finally happened!

More adventures in measuring around the ring: Putin's playground.

My fave version so far. I've gotten some pushback on the x axis, but im sticking with it. The intent is to call the political spectrum fully bent round. "Third way" sits at the north pole. "Third position" sits at the south. Third from what? The extra dimension was already implied from both ends.

They're slow readers.

All the more humiliating in context. The king's brother has been stripped of title, responsibilities, and now his name. He is referred to only anonymously as a common criminal.