28087 pts ยท August 1, 2019
Yeah they're not real, just a bunch of blueAnon grifters trying to sell merch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5NUJ40oQs
Right! Time was Democrats and Republicans were both liberals--not a lot of daylight between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton's policies, if we're being honest. Now Democrats are liberals and Republicans are fascists.Both parties will run against Mamdani. If he somehow does manage to beat Cuomo in the general, they'll both strive to make him fail (or appear to fail) in office, same as Chesa Boudin was run out of San Francisco.Democrats would rather lose as liberals than win as socialists.
I'm a vet and citizen, and the only reason I haven't left is I'm too poor and disabled.All y'all should get out of here if you can. It isn't gonna get better.
Speaking as an autistic person who's lived a good half of my life in the PNW (including Seattle), I'd say that's wildly overstated. I've certainly never heard of "the Seattle Freeze" either.
Canadian forces were NOTORIOUS war criminals in WWI as well.
You, uh...you know who they've given the Nobel to, right?Sometimes it seems like you gotta do war crimes just to make the short list.
We're still trillions of dollars and perhaps more than a million lives short of what Iraq cost (nobody kept especially good track of how many Iraqis died; funny thing, that), so let's not be hasty.Early days though.
You guys are getting benefits?
Nah my year's more like 2001. Things were already irretrievably fucked long before 2019.
I jaywalk whenever I can, since all our pedestrian crossing infrastructure does is funnel bodies in front of cars. All my close calls involve me crossing (or about to cross) with the right of way in a marked intersection while a driver accelerates into me. Sometimes they shrug as they do it. Worst thing that happens to them, even if I die, is they have to tell a cop it was my fault and maybe their insurance goes up.So yeah, whenever I can I just cross the street when there aren't any cars.
I'd like it if they started at home and spoke out against the Irish government's use of Shannon Airport as a transshipment point for the US military and contractors, including arms transfers to Israel in support of their ongoing genocide.There's extensive reporting on this, but here's a story to get you started: https://www.ontheditch.com/third-flight-transported-idf-weapons/.Even the Irish government's bought and complicit, sad to say.
I would be surprised if there isn't broad support for strikes on Iran among Israelis. My guess is that this is one of the most popular things Netanyahu has done in months and, if anything, a useful distraction from the less popular genocide in Palestine.It's not as if Israel's getting the short end of the stick here; Iran suffered far worse than Tel Aviv. Indeed, Bibi's been saying exactly what you're saying, but to the Iranian people: rise up and overthrow your regime (so we don't have to).
It's only hyperbolic in the sense that these events have been in train for much longer than a few months. Trump and those in his orbit have been explicit about much of this for years. It took decades to construct the Supreme Court that said in Trump v. US that evidence of the president committing crimes can't so much as be admitted into evidence.There's been time to respond, for people in power to choose a different course--that was ostensibly Biden's whole damn mandate. Oh well.
My curiosity about the LAPD Mounted Platoon led me to https://www.lapdmountedunit.com/ (which is kind of an amazing cultural artifact), where they explain that "Since ancient times, the cavalry has been instrumental in battle, and the Los Angeles Police Department Mounted Platoon embodies the modern adaptation of these time-tested tactics."Motherfuckers think they're Alexander the Great's Companion Cavalry or some shit, riding down Persian savages for the glory of the empire.
World's full of tech critics like Emily M. Bender and Molly White and Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron and Paris Marx who've been working against all of this from jump.It just doesn't amount to much in the face of many TRILLIONS of dollars of market cap pulling in the opposite direction.
It's not obvious from the video whether that's what happened or not. Needless to say, I think police shooting reporters either directly or indirectly should be criminalized.Probably also goes without saying that I think homeboy's likelier to get a commendation than a sentence. Israel and Russia are our future.
Again, because they wanted to make more money.In brief summary, the growth of Google's search revenue slumped because they had functionally maxed out their 90% market share monopoly, so the provocative wunderkind they hired from fucking Yahoo search proposed making search worse so that you'd do more searches and they could serve you more ads.We know this because they wrote it down in internal emails that have been discovered in the multiple court cases Google's lost over the search monopoly.
#3 Pakistan's Chinese-supplied fighters shot down around three to five Indian fighters. For their part, India claims to have shot down eight to nine Pakistani aircraft. Obviously details are sketchy since neither side is inclined to transparency.Regardless, it wasn't a one-sided affair by any means.
Senators don't have Secret Service protection unless they're on the temporary list due to running for [vice] president or some such.
And what the fuck do we mean by "when the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed?"The whole world had that information years before an Allied boot touched German soil or liberated the camps. As a rule, they systematically chose to cover it up, minimize it, and do as little as possible in response--especially including the vaunted FDR administration.All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
100%. Idk about you, but from where I'm sitting, we're draining my extremely limited ability to be in the same room with you for no damn reason.If that's something you need--something that fills your cup instead of empties it--we just aren't compatible.
I hate small talk and that's just one of the reasons I have no interest in cohabitating with ANYONE, no matter how dearly I might love them.If we're spending so much time together that we're scraping the barrel and talking about shit that we don't really care about, I'm already halfway to becoming catatonically nonverbal and dipping out of the relationship altogether. Might be even worse if we started on small talk and routinely can't get past it to anything that matters. I've had both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMpJFbwR8OM
Yeah my mom and sister got super into both Myers-Briggs and astrology (among other things). They're totally compatible. And of course, Briggs and Briggs Myers were both women themselves.The disconnect is that Myers-Briggs was the only crackpot, New Age-adjacent psychobabble that came up again during my law school's orientation. It's been co-opted from the women who originated it, same as incels.
I don't feel comfortable doing it when other people are in the gym, because y'all (meaning OP and besties) have beaten sincere self-expression out of me. I'm too afraid to take up space. I do my level best to not be perceived at all. But my god, does it help and feel GREAT to finally be myself when I'm lucky enough to get the gym all to myself at 2 AM.Not that OP's feelings aren't valid, mind you--they are. Men are scary as fuck, and we SHOULD try not to be. Shit just sucks, is all.
World's full of places better than America today. America's getting worse faster than most of them, and will be for the foreseeable future.Y'all get out if you can.
Posie Parker has literally called for armed cis men to use women's restrooms in order to "protect" women.It's never gonna make sense, y'all. Not unless you become a psychotic transphobe yourself.
Here's an example from Spirit Lake, Idaho, where the fine was $500 in 2014: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/aug/13/man-fined-500-for-sharing-city-water-with/
Yeah they're not real, just a bunch of blueAnon grifters trying to sell merch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5NUJ40oQs
Right! Time was Democrats and Republicans were both liberals--not a lot of daylight between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton's policies, if we're being honest. Now Democrats are liberals and Republicans are fascists.
Both parties will run against Mamdani. If he somehow does manage to beat Cuomo in the general, they'll both strive to make him fail (or appear to fail) in office, same as Chesa Boudin was run out of San Francisco.
Democrats would rather lose as liberals than win as socialists.
I'm a vet and citizen, and the only reason I haven't left is I'm too poor and disabled.
All y'all should get out of here if you can. It isn't gonna get better.
Speaking as an autistic person who's lived a good half of my life in the PNW (including Seattle), I'd say that's wildly overstated. I've certainly never heard of "the Seattle Freeze" either.
Canadian forces were NOTORIOUS war criminals in WWI as well.
You, uh...you know who they've given the Nobel to, right?
Sometimes it seems like you gotta do war crimes just to make the short list.
We're still trillions of dollars and perhaps more than a million lives short of what Iraq cost (nobody kept especially good track of how many Iraqis died; funny thing, that), so let's not be hasty.
Early days though.
You guys are getting benefits?
Nah my year's more like 2001. Things were already irretrievably fucked long before 2019.
I jaywalk whenever I can, since all our pedestrian crossing infrastructure does is funnel bodies in front of cars. All my close calls involve me crossing (or about to cross) with the right of way in a marked intersection while a driver accelerates into me. Sometimes they shrug as they do it. Worst thing that happens to them, even if I die, is they have to tell a cop it was my fault and maybe their insurance goes up.
So yeah, whenever I can I just cross the street when there aren't any cars.
I'd like it if they started at home and spoke out against the Irish government's use of Shannon Airport as a transshipment point for the US military and contractors, including arms transfers to Israel in support of their ongoing genocide.
There's extensive reporting on this, but here's a story to get you started: https://www.ontheditch.com/third-flight-transported-idf-weapons/.
Even the Irish government's bought and complicit, sad to say.
I would be surprised if there isn't broad support for strikes on Iran among Israelis. My guess is that this is one of the most popular things Netanyahu has done in months and, if anything, a useful distraction from the less popular genocide in Palestine.
It's not as if Israel's getting the short end of the stick here; Iran suffered far worse than Tel Aviv. Indeed, Bibi's been saying exactly what you're saying, but to the Iranian people: rise up and overthrow your regime (so we don't have to).
It's only hyperbolic in the sense that these events have been in train for much longer than a few months. Trump and those in his orbit have been explicit about much of this for years. It took decades to construct the Supreme Court that said in Trump v. US that evidence of the president committing crimes can't so much as be admitted into evidence.
There's been time to respond, for people in power to choose a different course--that was ostensibly Biden's whole damn mandate. Oh well.
My curiosity about the LAPD Mounted Platoon led me to https://www.lapdmountedunit.com/ (which is kind of an amazing cultural artifact), where they explain that "Since ancient times, the cavalry has been instrumental in battle, and the Los Angeles Police Department Mounted Platoon embodies the modern adaptation of these time-tested tactics."
Motherfuckers think they're Alexander the Great's Companion Cavalry or some shit, riding down Persian savages for the glory of the empire.
World's full of tech critics like Emily M. Bender and Molly White and Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron and Paris Marx who've been working against all of this from jump.
It just doesn't amount to much in the face of many TRILLIONS of dollars of market cap pulling in the opposite direction.
It's not obvious from the video whether that's what happened or not. Needless to say, I think police shooting reporters either directly or indirectly should be criminalized.
Probably also goes without saying that I think homeboy's likelier to get a commendation than a sentence. Israel and Russia are our future.
Again, because they wanted to make more money.
In brief summary, the growth of Google's search revenue slumped because they had functionally maxed out their 90% market share monopoly, so the provocative wunderkind they hired from fucking Yahoo search proposed making search worse so that you'd do more searches and they could serve you more ads.
We know this because they wrote it down in internal emails that have been discovered in the multiple court cases Google's lost over the search monopoly.
#3 Pakistan's Chinese-supplied fighters shot down around three to five Indian fighters. For their part, India claims to have shot down eight to nine Pakistani aircraft. Obviously details are sketchy since neither side is inclined to transparency.
Regardless, it wasn't a one-sided affair by any means.
Senators don't have Secret Service protection unless they're on the temporary list due to running for [vice] president or some such.
And what the fuck do we mean by "when the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed?"
The whole world had that information years before an Allied boot touched German soil or liberated the camps. As a rule, they systematically chose to cover it up, minimize it, and do as little as possible in response--especially including the vaunted FDR administration.
All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
100%. Idk about you, but from where I'm sitting, we're draining my extremely limited ability to be in the same room with you for no damn reason.
If that's something you need--something that fills your cup instead of empties it--we just aren't compatible.
I hate small talk and that's just one of the reasons I have no interest in cohabitating with ANYONE, no matter how dearly I might love them.
If we're spending so much time together that we're scraping the barrel and talking about shit that we don't really care about, I'm already halfway to becoming catatonically nonverbal and dipping out of the relationship altogether. Might be even worse if we started on small talk and routinely can't get past it to anything that matters. I've had both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMpJFbwR8OM
Yeah my mom and sister got super into both Myers-Briggs and astrology (among other things). They're totally compatible. And of course, Briggs and Briggs Myers were both women themselves.
The disconnect is that Myers-Briggs was the only crackpot, New Age-adjacent psychobabble that came up again during my law school's orientation. It's been co-opted from the women who originated it, same as incels.
I don't feel comfortable doing it when other people are in the gym, because y'all (meaning OP and besties) have beaten sincere self-expression out of me. I'm too afraid to take up space. I do my level best to not be perceived at all. But my god, does it help and feel GREAT to finally be myself when I'm lucky enough to get the gym all to myself at 2 AM.
Not that OP's feelings aren't valid, mind you--they are. Men are scary as fuck, and we SHOULD try not to be. Shit just sucks, is all.
World's full of places better than America today. America's getting worse faster than most of them, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Y'all get out if you can.
Posie Parker has literally called for armed cis men to use women's restrooms in order to "protect" women.
It's never gonna make sense, y'all. Not unless you become a psychotic transphobe yourself.
Here's an example from Spirit Lake, Idaho, where the fine was $500 in 2014: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/aug/13/man-fined-500-for-sharing-city-water-with/