Adrift in the ocean, no land in sight: "I am the driest anyone has ever been."

In bad country, every bag of popcorn comes with a risk of medical debt

The Wire doesn’t have to mention it, it literally shows that policing is systemically racist

years ago I remember getting into a twitter argument with David Simon about this when he came out against local “defund the police” efforts. he insisted that his intent in making The Wire was not to show that police were systematically racist or incapable of reform. his position was basically that The Wire shows the negative outcomes of American police being underresourced and hamstrung by excessive red tape from out of touch bureaucrats. I still think the show is generally great, but I’ve never quite gotten over how Simon was able to make something so completely at odds with his stated real-life politics. My takeaway was mostly that the things I think work best about The Wire may have been totally accidental, which in a way almost makes it more impressive.

You’ve just described the core constituency of the Democratic Party

said he has stood “alongside an Army of the Dead” to file unsuccessful legal complaints against vaccines in Florida

Is this the sort of shit the army of the dead has been getting up to since helping Aragorn fight the armies of Mordor? Sounds like Isildur was right to curse them.

Have you tried being born white and inheriting a lot of money? That seems to be working pretty well for a lot of people where I live.

“It’s 1971 and I’ve worked at Dow Chemical for the past decade, but I’m choosing now to speak up because for the first time, I’ve started to wonder if my work might be used to hurt people.”

1. "I want to split off my own ML forum/group/party."
2. "It's too small, maybe it should be open to non-Marxists"
3. "It's too small, maybe it should be about broad left-unity"
4. "It's too small, maybe it should be about rejecting labels and traditional political divides"
5. "Maybe I should get into crypto?"
6. "You know the thing they don't want you to know about the COVID vaccine is..."
7. "Guys, the FBI just rolled up to the compound of my ancap sex cult where my sister-wives and I are stockpiling explosives and waiting out the end of days, what should I do?"

I think that sounds like speedrunning Western leftism

Wild that cops in the US can shoot you in your own home and then you’re the one that gets charged with attempted murder for surviving to testify.

Imagine both Trump and Hillary dying

Oh, I do...

Considerably less than the chances Hillary Clinton runs again

this will be the hard evidence that gets the people who believe Qanon is real to reconsider their core beliefs

Palestine also conspicuously missing. Indivisible has always been Democrats trying to dig in like a tick to co-opt and neutralize popular rage against the government. It’s trying to replicate the Obama campaign model of co-opting popular rage against Bush and the terror war, then neutralizing it from above to preserve all the policies people were fighting against.

I was reading MSM articles yesterday that noted with confusion that these protests seem to skew much older than larger mass gatherings in recent memory, and seem to have more overt displays of “patriotism”. No mention of the students out here the whole time getting kidnapped off the street while every DNC-aligned institution cheered. No mention of the crackdowns on the popular uprisings against police brutality under Biden. No mention of all the people acquitted for shooting unarmed protestors in the past several years. I can’t imagine where young people would have gotten the idea that peacefully standing around an American flag respecting the sanctity of police, private property, and non-violence would be a waste of time at best and suicidal at worst.

Yeah man, Russia so badly wanted to be rid of the people living in the Donbas that it gave them citizenship after overwhelming public referendums. Putin then went back in time and tricked them all into speaking and identifying as Russians for the past hundred years. Russia just wants land, because if there’s one thing that anyone can tell from looking at a map, it’s that Russia lacks uninhabited land.

“Guys, the left made me sig heil over and over again”

Damn, an Italian that thinks we should give Nazism another chance? It must be tough typing while hanging upside down

best case scenario: EU continues stagnating and splinters into traditional intra-European nationalist squabbling. Worst case scenario: the EU remilitarizes, takes up the mantle of the Axis powers, and goes out giving Operation Barbarossa one last try while the US nukes east Asia.

this was always the reason for 2a: empowering white settlers to “defend” their land (stolen from indigenous people at gunpoint) and property (African slaves held in captivity at gunpoint).