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You misspelled Grunk

I guess if I squint it's sort of like "The role has no real power, e.g you aren't allowed to actually advise Johnson, but regardless you should be grateful for the prestige of it, i.e *other people* don't know it's insignificant"?

Kind of like "You got this 'job' because you're my nephew, shut up"?

Wait, is this unnamed aide saying "Johnson gave you a fake job and you should be grateful for it?" Very kettle, much Derrida

It seems like the important distinction here is between judicial and prosecutorial sectors. Like, obviously if KBJ posted anything at all about this it would be Very Bad

But I see no meaningful limit on what people with either investigative (Congress) or prosecutorial (potential future POTUS) do

I'm skeptical. Do prosecutors literally never signal an intent to prosecute a high-profile target such as a mafia/gang leader?

I'm not 100% confident even of that, though!

The classi sci-fi trope of planets so abundant with gold that it's just a bunch of worthless shiny metal to the aliens thereon is basically meant as a huge mindfuck for the reader because the human intuition about "natural" value is so innate

I think if you measure by “% of thoughts which are racist” the case is easy and almost inarguable. Like, Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump are/were both racist pedophiles, but Jefferson at least had some other ideas rattling around in his head, too.

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

I work at an elementary school where the hours go to 5:30pm with very good reason: there are in fact literal dozens of children still on the premises, at our after-school program. Don't just assume that 3pm means no kids about and that's that

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.

Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Upside of his brain being stuck in the 80s rather than having lived through the embiggenment of cars like everybody else did

I'm not sure anyone had clarified yet but one of the assumptions underlying part of this is that the USA is generally less antisemitic than modern France is

The original argument is that there shouldn't be an impeachment because the inevitable acquittal will be perceived by the public as vindicating Hegseth's innocence

Also, there's a specific major (and quite possibly economically load-bearing) aspect of the antebellum slaveholder culture that was not *put* front and center despite its importance, one which any man may well have dueled over its accusation: the rape of enslaved women

Right, but what's an example of how current Republican behavior is meaningfully different? They have all sorts of views, some of them incoherent, and most of which simply involve values that differ from liberal ones (to be clear, when I say a value differs from a liberal one I'm saying it's evil)

Maybe, but that just raises the question of why not make them

Most honor culture was that in practice too, though. An actual-factual duel was a last-resort kind of thing

Heck, your example of jumping straight to violence (e.g the caning on the Senate floor) is as much a demonstration of the technical breach of honor culture as anything else

If the Antebellum South "really" had an honor culture, would all of its rich white men have been killed or exiled for the shame of owning human beings?

Everyone's afraid that saying that last bit aloud just turns into "The Democratic Party thinks the public consists of idiots"

I think some democrats should probably say forthrightly that though Hegseth among others deserves impeachment and removal, the process is broken because the republican majority has forsaken their duties to the country, and pursuing it would risk misinforming the country that acquittal = innocence.

Technically I'd say it's technically true but directionally incorrect!

On top of everything else, it's like the least harmful imaginable way to accidentally "destroy" Mad Men. It's just a fun mistake that will undoubtedly be fixed soon. People's saltiness about George Lucas constantly altering Star Wars (with originals ever harder to access) makes more sense than this

I mean if anything it seems a LOT more Gen X men are like this than the (somewhat deservedly) dreaded Zoomers are

To the extent that going by cohorts makes any sense as a frame of analysis, it feels like Gen X men are, right now, culturally holding everyone else hostage

This is true but you still easily get the misperception that you're *uniquely* right, that People in General are basically nazis. At minimum you have to spend an equal amount of online time not on X (no, offline isn't the same because your subconscious won't extrapolate from a dozen acquaintances)

I feel like a lot more people could grasp the extreme difficulty of one person committing 200 crimes than of a small population committing 200 times as many crimes, even though the one basically implies the other

"We have nowhere at home"

The nowhere at home:

"Narco-oblivion" will unfortunately have appeal to a nontrivial portion of people no matter what, and indeed that very fact is why wars on drugs are misguided and unwinnable. The overall solution is decriminalization, not just making life "that" good, which has never happened in any nation.

I mean, to a first approximation I think very few people deeply understand that these protections are necessary even in cases where someone seems "obviously guilty". They think you hold back only because you might be wrong, but people across the board get bloodthirsty about "actual" crime

His worldview on the matter was formed in a context where Israel was widely seen across the board as the necessary Jewish refuge, and people in general rarely dismantle and rebuild their worldviews to reflect shifting realities

Gen Xers and older always believe that crime is always rising, etc