Illi

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

They want Iran to be like Syria: consumed by factional conflict for years and absolute hell to live in

Link not working :/ Did they sell out?

You’re cool as hell, I love how you come up with the most deliciously fucked up fiction while being such a kind person. I saw your struggles with employment and didn’t feel comfortable saying anything at the time for fear of sounding inauthentic but I’m rooting for you.

I'm dying. Doctor said that it can happen anytime between tomorrow or 50 years from now, so if you have something good to tell me the time is now.

Keeping the little US flag they gave me in my naturalization ceremony on my desk as a memento mori.

So, yes, the level of scrutiny involved in publishing hopeful tales should be much higher than the one for cautionary tales, but what we see now in the ongoing caramel age of science-fiction is the opposite.

Thinking about this since yesterday. I agree with the point, with the caveat that a cautionary tale that misses the mark will still entail a good conversation/meditation on why it did so, whereas a hopeful tale that misses the mark is at best trite, at its worst, numbing, and obscurantist either way

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

"Clinton bombed Baghdad during his impeachment trial" has stuck in my craw for 30 years

As the elected government officials pop on here to rationalize their enthusiastic complicity in the bombing of children, a reminder that this fun labeler identifying who is funding them exists.

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The “Israel War Room” posts this clip of a worldwide children’s advocate and a mayor fighting for free childcare right after bombing a girls’ school and killing at least 85 students

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

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they’re calling it “operation epic fury”

we are controlled by men whose brains stopped developing at 11 years old

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

There’s value in hopeful stories, but there’s also value in cautionary tales. There are some mistakes that we cannot bounce back from.

This is the endpoint of ~HOPEITY HOPE~ as a mandate for genre fiction storytelling

Im so sorry, Livvy 💚

Stop saying “ditch”. I told you it’s a trench I’m digging for when the Kaiser’s army makes their push through Moselle.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

It’s not that crazy when you remember she famously ran interference on credible rape allegations against her husband in the Little Rock days and Ghislaine Maxwell attended Hillary’s only child’s wedding.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

I’m glad Im in the tier below the one that’d give me this “upgrade”

It was the smugness on top of the relentless fatphobia that did it for me

My latest.

Yeah, no

The reason why ethoimperialism isn’t a concept is because it’d be pleonastic

This sounds like dark hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:

Los Angeles has become a main hub of the Galactic Confederation - a relay outpost for extra terrestrial travelers coming from and going to the Norma and Scotus-Centaurus arms of the Milky Way, also known as "The Effed Up Side of the Galaxy."