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Came here to be the Alaskan pointing out that it's Utqiagvik, but then Sophie did it for me because she's fucking awesome.

You will own nothing and you'll be happy.

It's gotta be blatant for the NY times to be willing to publish a detailed exposé on it.

Oh god, I'M JG

I'm kinda surprised there was a discussion of trans gaming without any mention of Fallout: New Vegas.

"Even if you're not licking the boot, you at the very least don't want to scuff it up."

That's a damn good one; I might need to steal it sometime.

Goddamn was that a Stephen King's Gunslinger reference?

God that Donald Trump impression was goofy 😂

Y'know I can think of a lovely piece of land right nearby that all Palestinians could go to that's not Jordan or Egypt.

Secret Hamas doc from 1935 reveals draft of the Nuremberg Laws

Yeah we're gonna go ahead and keep calling it Denali up here, thanks

As their buddy Alex Jones loves to point out, "ideas are bulletproof." He is, of course, quoting V for Vendetta, a movie he is incapable of distinguishing from reality.

I think it goes well alongside something like Eco's "Ur-Fascism", which digs into the more "squishy" aspects of fascism, which Paxton isn't terribly interested in.

"Anatomy of Fascism" is great, but I do feel like he's a little too strict in the definition. Like his conclusion is that the only proper fascist regimes that have ever existed were Nazi Germany and Italy. A real thorough examination of the technical aspects of it though.

Suppose that's the difference between having something defined by sci-fi authors, and having it defined by upwardly-failing management consultants with buttloads of VC cash.

This is giving me vibes of the computer in Foucault's Pendulum that randomly strings together conspiracies.

Well, I'm two out of those four things!

Had to date a signature today and almost wrote "11/22/63"

Whenever they talk about how they're going to reduce the waste in government, part of me hopes they'll actually recognize what the most wasteful part of our government is, but I know that's too optimistic.

I just realized that I have a hard time recalling what Jair Bolsonaro looks like. It feels nice.