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I had to read that the whole way through in order to get the joke. well done.

Well duh

Turns out naive me thought things couldn't get more fascist.

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Been off this app for a while.

They'll probably be pro-fire, since fire doesn't discriminate

How was this never brought into legislation, though?

A hot war is one in which actual physical battles and skirmishes are taking place.

What's actually happening now is a relapse into a cold war.

Not that that's better, but to describe what's happening now as a "hot" war is to be ignorant of the syntax.

I wish when I read the word "Bondi" that I could go back to thinking of a trashy beach.

Hey America,

I'm pretty sure "high crimes" include what's been going on lately. Impeachment is essential. Pull your finger out.

Sincerely,

Literally all of your actual global allies

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I've been banging this drum for a while now

People who complain of bureaucracy being bloated are people who don't understand how institutions work, and what holds them together.

No thanks. The centre isn't sensible, it's placative abdication of achieving change.

I want a more constructive democracy.

Starlink taking over air traffic control seems the most dangerous domestic policy decision from the Trump administration yet.

Well, maybe the public health crises, under RFK Jr, but those will only remain domestic policy issues briefly because they become global catastrophes.

2. This was something he said 4 years after leaving office, July 1973, right before Watergate became public. Given the timing, it was probably more aimed at Spiro Agnew than Nixon.

There's nothing false about this statement, though it's worth noting two things:

1. JFK's economic policy was as much courting the Republicans so as to be indiscernible from being a Republican budget itself, and LBJ only made moderate changes when he took office. His just focus was civil rights.

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Why else is measles on the rise?

Damn, that's really sad.

Viruses in general don't care for politics. They have other objectives.

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All goslings feel seen by this post

The paper of record should have made more of a point of explaining who he really is for the last 9 years (and earlier, of course).

The craven way he's been portrayed has mollycoddled his image such that he was tolerable to many who wouldn't have thought so otherwise.

For shame.

Shoutout to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social for amazing coverage of such a disappointing weaponisation of (what I think are) well-intended shareholder regulations.

I, in fact, think these regulations are meant to exist for the opposite effect than they're being used for.

They Got What They Wanted Podcast Episode · Weird Little Guys · 20/02/2025 · 56m

There's a really good encapsulation of why these despicable initiatives are being taken seriously here.
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Who the fuck writes this shit?

Tax cuts aren't necessary. Tax increases for billionaires would solve so much.

Ian Fleming should sue Putin from beyond the grave due to copyright violation of all of his cartoonishly villainous characters.

I reckon if you asked most people, they would understand what turbulence is, but have very limited understanding of what its causes are, nor the level of information pilots have available to them to plot their courses accordingly.

Elon's script note would be "we paid for this for with USAID money, you're not starving them, you're taking back what's yours"

The roll purges were definitely overwhelmingly in districts and redone with more people of colour, and more in Black areas than Latino. You're definitely right.

White Americans are comprehensively fucked, you're right. I wish there was a way to solve it.

Actually:
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The point isn't to actually act on this, it's to scare people. They're dickheads.

Hmmmm. Kinda? I think most white people 30 years ago had no idea who Method Man was, and only a few more knew about Mary J, whereas EVERYBODY'S across who Kendrick and SZA are.

I'd say their pairing is like this generation's version of Ashanti and Nelly, though.