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Yeeesss. Medieval 2 was the best installment after Rome 1.

MAGA going through a full on fist fight to determine the successor. This is Kelly's version of Hegseth saying 'I support the admiral but had nothing to do with it'

We need to realize that this is a thing that was *done* to us. Corporate media is incredibly biased for the wannabe dictator. And republicans have spent years gutting education. The stupidification of America is by design.

I listened to the interview but I hadn't seen any video - the cheap tik tok filter on Nuzzi makes this a hundred times worse. Absolute narcissist.

I think the wealth gap got so insane because of neocon/lib policy that the poors became utterly exploitable, then rich white dudes convinced them it was the immigrants.

I've been following polymarket for a while now just for kicks because it hilarious how wrong that shit is all the time.

I can't wait to get a Panama papers style drop about all the dudes in positions of power at companies, congress, etc who were making real decisions & profiting off of it using a dumb fucking app.

You can see the danger there. House members are almost certainly going to make a bunch of money by defecting on a bill they know will pass after, placing a huge huge bet on themselves defecting.

Money in politics needs to be abolished. I propose we put it in the constitution of the 2nd republic.

Kalshi is a gambling app where you can bet on almost anything. Like... I don't think you can directly bet on whether a particular political figure will be assassinated but you can find ways around it.

You can bet on whether any particular congress person will vote a certain way on any obscure bill

All these billionaires openly talk about how they need a police state and AI monitoring to keep the population under control because they know their end-goal, techno-feudalism, is going to be unpalatable.

If it happened literally 12 months ago it would have been made into a huge scandal.

Corporate media loves Trump, has no morals, and wants him to be king.

It's been said endlessly but the media is such a failed "institution." It's not even that they're cowards (they are) but they want to be close to the circles of power so badly they will humiliate themselves to do so. Just debate themselves. So they can sit @ a dinner party & say "I talked to Trump"

He literally mixed up hell and paradise in back to back sentences. His brain is fucking gone

And the whole system is set up so stupid, horny dudes can get dating advice from a pedo. That was my main takeaway from Epstein's emails. They're all horny, they all know each other, they're all incredibly fucking stupid, and they run the world while jet-setting around the globe. And we pay for it.

Twitter actually fucking scares me. I use it to monitor what the right is up to (they are approaching new levels of crazy) & every time I end up yelling at people like a mad man until I remember it's not worth it.

The Villeneuve version was extremely well received?

All good points but I think the party is too far gone. The party has always been too far gone but if you're willing to subject yourself to the "bad places" on the internet you'll see they're reaching next levels of craziness. I never would have believed what I saw 10 years ago & this is x1000 worse.

He's exactly right. It's engineered obsolescence in software form.

Both versions are great. The show is extremely faithful to the book but it kinda cuts out the coda at the end that explains everything. Ciarin Hinds, Tobias Menzies, and Jared Harris are some of the best character actors ever.

It's his brain, we all know it's his brain. He literally bragged about taking the Montreal cognitive assessment & confused it w/ an IQ test.

I'm literally learning Linux bc it's gotten so bad.

What she doesn't realize is that when we get our "news" from social media, we're actually seeing what's happening on the ground in Palestine. That's why Israel cut the internet so fast this time around. In 2012 you could go on the internet & just watch war crimes in nearly real time.

We can't chicken out again, there has to be many prosecutions. The problem I see is that the people in power know this. They're going to jail if they lose power. That's why ICE has a bigger budget than the marines.

They've simply gone too far & they know it.

I take your point but I'm just trying to emphasize that I've been following this shit for 10 years & it's reaching new & unique levels of madness. I feel sick to my stomach that something terrible will happen.

Like... if the right loses power I think Jan 6 might be a footnote in how crazy it gets.

It's gotten bad-bad. Like new levels of insanity. Even my very liberal friends don't understand. These people are going fucking crazy.

I just want to point out, in case anyone sees this - Heller was in *2008*. It's not until this century that we defined the 2nd amendment as a personal gun right.

The second amendment isn't the only time militias get mentioned. It's clearly "amending" back a little power to the states because congress got so much control in the original consitution.

It's a right for states to *have* a militia.

& at the time militia guns were stored in common armories.

The craziest shit the NRA pulled was a nearly century-long campaign to convince people it is.

Anyone even mildly versed in history can tell you it isn't a personal guarantee, and nobody thought it was at the time.

Pull up the constitution & ctrl+f "Militia." It's talked about in other places...

Woke Bill Kristol has actually won me over. People can grow & change - my first big college paper was in defense of the Iraq war.

"She was six years old when her entire pod was captured in Yukon Harbor, Washington, on 15 February 1967."

As a Washingtoian this fills me with rage. The pods here are really struggling to produce viable offspring.