Valastrius

Hi, it's me, the schlub from Kansas that wants to celebrate the diversity and ingenuity that have defined the best parts of this country.

I desire this very much.

"oh what a nice chinese new year card, who's it from"
"general secretary xi jinping"

The two types of AI denialism: the people who look at this and go 'nah, the machines will never get that smart' and the people who say it and talk like it is a thing you can meaningfully prepare for.

Rome is annoyed with Rome not respecting the terms of the Faustian Bargain struck at Nicea.

Yes, but only *serious* religions are religions, as determined by my Abrahamic sensibilities. Silly cults and pagan practices can have their cutesy stuff as a treat, so long as they remain few / irrelevant / unthreatening to our hegemony.

An amazing, enraging piece—and it was enabled by Georgia's Public Service Commission, which we've written about a *lot* over the last year.

Dems flipped two seats in stunning upsets last year & could take a majority this fall—they have to hold one of the seats they just won & flip another GOP seat.

When are we going to get Ted Roosevelt Jr., the big red one. and the Rangers at Gela when they literally had a panzer division in their face within 24 hours of landing on the beaches???

There is always an extra element of friction with amphibious ops but overlord was the 4th iteration of the Allies hitting the beaches, torch, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, we knew what we were doing and than some

I would argue yes, overlord was a masterclass of mass, planning, and execution. The only real intelligence miss was the deployment of the 352nd infantry division to Normandy a few weeks before D-Day, if not for that, there is a chance Utah and Omaha are taken without a shot being fired

From our boy (Citino)

I’m all for WWII propaganda but let’s not act like Overlord was a fair fight

“They will slaughter everyone on the beach”…dawg the Wehrmacht had 2 regiments defending 5 whole ass beaches lol

Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it. Sports have always been political — it's just a question of who's speaking out.

"Unlike the 'meritocracy' they are trying to build in which white men are restored to their proper dominance, the Olympics are pretty close to a true meritocracy. Conservatives can’t whine that Simone Biles or Chloe Kim must have gotten their spots by pushing aside a more 'qualified' white athlete."

we want an IOC that is run by these girls when they're a decade older and not by inbred European aristocrats and bribe-taking officials.

the thing about the Olympics is that they combine one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and also pure joy.

Laughing at this because it literally says at the bottom that it’s not from the Black Panthers, it’s from the New American movement, one of the ancestors of the DSA. It’s not wrong, but I think some people think the Black Panthers are just anything they agree with.

a) pedocon theory remains undefeated

b) I’m sorry his name is WESLEY R. DINGUS???

Kind of hard to argue about 'protecting the prestige of the Presidency' when you see the current President. Nothing could be more damaging to the institution than Trump. We have so many worms now in this can. The can is entirely worms. It's all fucking worms.

rich powerful white men in the US understandably DO believe that losing your job and having to see people say mean stuff about you on the Internet is the WORST POSSIBLE FATE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE because that has historically been the case for THEM.

we must make them fear far worse.

i grasp the legitimacy of the presidency preserving logic that Ford was operating under back in 1974, and also, we are reaping the consequences of letting the Worm Can merely get more full of big gross worms

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The weapons manufactures thought through potential collateral damage of their products, the Pop star folks did not care what effects their products would have

kpop stars

A K2 Black Panther main battle tank

Only one of these was made in humane conditions.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

there is a whole ton of low-hanging fruit for prison reform in the United States - like, literally just getting rid of policies that exist for no other reason than cruelty - and we should get those done first.

The Constitution says "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Presidents who violate the Constitution should be impeached and removed from office.

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Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place.

Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.

Then they should also charge him with embezzlement for every instance he has spent money (or claimed to do so) without congressional authorization.

Same vibes