Warren Terra

It's kind of amazing how many Home Secretaries are the children of immigrants, given the job of persecuting immigrants.

Burning Rubber.

In the "successfully elected" category there's also William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe, arguably one of our better presidents.

Also flops though: MacArthur thought he was an inevitable political juggernaut, and after the Spanish-American war there was some admiral (I don't even remember the name) who was supposed to get a tour of victory parades and even a triumphal arch in NYC paid by public donations, and it all fizzled.

They absolutely were right to cancel those wagers, but they were wrong to allow them in the first place, and that's true about many more of their wagers that they didn't cancel.

Notably their statement didn't say anything about rethinking which wagers they'll allow.

Goddamit it's getting hard to keep the Naomis apart.

The Economist is *always* not only wrong but ridiculous about American politics. And they never let that stop them.

He didn't just go on a Nazi podcast; he told the podcaster he was a longtime fan.

I'm sure he will now say insist was an empty pleasantry and wasn't true. But he could have said he'd heard great things and was glad for the opportunity.

Antitrust is good. Stoller is not, and he's not sincere about wanting antitrust.

I posted a screenshot elsewhere in the thread; I obscured their ID because that's not really the point.

A screencap from before they deleted; the text of their deleted post is below. I removed their username, no need for anyone to go yell at them. Text of post: You know I do remember basically every single person in Congress except for like five people supporting the war against Iraq, which basically set up the situation we are in today. Just because a bunch of them later on denounced it doesn’t mean that they didn’t support it

The deleted post is below.

I think they may be thinking of something more like USA PATRIOT, which was 98-1 in the Senate (and 357-66 in the House)

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 - Wikipedia

Yeah, I wound up in the same place:

215 (96.4%) of 223 Republican representatives voted for the resolution.
81 (39.2%) of 208 Democratic representatives voted for the resolution.
(Sanders was the only Independent in the House, and voted against)

The message of the thread is that all the chud groups he describes are the same people.

Notably it is *not* an excuse that the damage was incidental because they were targeting the state broadcaster headquarters next door. I remember the discussion when the US targeted Serbian state TV ~30 years ago, there was a pretty clear legal consensus saying that is not a legitimate target.

"the videos were so fun" huh?

Doesn't sound like a lot of mystery needing investigation tbh, pretty open-and-shut case. Unless it wasn't his own feces I guess.

Isn't the best lightsaber duelist clearly the robot "General Grievous" who's won lots of lightsaber duels despite not being able to cheat using the Force and also despite somehow suffering from emphysema? And surely no-one thinks that character is cool?

So the guy who belatedly covered the giant SS tattoo he'd proudly sported for decades with a vaguely nordic symbol is a self-proclaimed longtime fan of the Nazi podcast "Valhalla VFT"? Cool.

Also: this guy was scum but it's super hard to see any argument under which he was a legitimate target, even in the hypothetical context of a fully authorized and legal war.

Glonzo Theory dictates that if the way to get people to hate this stupid illegal murderous war is the price they pay for a tank of gas, then that's the tool to use.

It seems relevant that the US's very first move was to kill them. This wasn't some step reluctantly escalated to as a war progressed: they were killed, essentially, in peacetime.

Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - Wikipedia

Do it for the cockle pickers of Morecambe Bay, cruelly cut down by the moon in the prime of their lives!

There's only one thing I know about Pawtucket so I assume it's an immaculate baseball game, by which I mean one that never ends.

Yes but on the other hand the alternative was Microsoft Teams.

There are also other allegations about Gilliam. Which is unfortunate, his movies were amazing.

Idle gets a lot a grief for wanting money more (or more openly) than the other Pythons, and he absolutely does want money, but he does generally seem to mean well.

As a typical nerd who grew up memorizing Monty Python skits I was sad to learn John Cleese was a piece of shit, but I learned that decades ago, he was a piece of shit long before he had a chance to cook his brain on social media, he's very consistently been a piece of shit the whole time.

He may not have job security or a rich salary but The Atlantic gives him a high-profile platform and Yale trusts him to tell the children of privilege they're good actually.

The Democrats wouldn't have done this stupid illegal war; here's some complete bullshit explaining why that's bad.

And then there's always a possibility that they built the marketplace from the ground up with the intention of using it to identify their users.