Wandering Hoo

Kassabian's Maxim is a powerful thing.

Shit if you're going to make the Soviet Union your emotional support autocracy, then it did one of those a *lot* better than the other.

I would point folks towards the Second Inaugural.

"until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"

I think they only work when you're doing a racist accent impression.

Up there with

"Vala, it is in *Kansas*"

"Please don't make me beg."

I need to find some time to rewatch a whole lot of Stargate SG-1

The Aeneid is best understood as in dialogue with a massive community project rather than fanfic.

Thousands of Georges Bailey stopped staying in Bedford Falls, and stopped being the primary gatekeeper for these places.

This was bad.

more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.

somehow, liberal Trotskyism returned

It is.

Because you can argue Bush v. Gore was a jump-ball.

You can't really for the plain text and ridiculously well documented context of the 14th Amendment.

Yes, but even still.

I suppose having a lifetime tenure means you can actually say what you believe to them, which is likely why the Judiciary looks better comparatively.

SMH, no credit to comrade Stachybotrys.

Teenagers, famously supportive of top-down proposals from administrators who make Reverend Shaw Moore look like Sabrina Carpenter.

It's interesting to note how much Trump's appointees seem to be despised by their colleagues.

Even the rather reactionary and regressive ones.

Where's the Wiimote (and Wiimote with nunchuck).

She also has a partisanship that is sorely lacking in the New York Democratic Party.

This was a murder.

The negligence and manslaughter is on the local police and DA.

But for the driver? This is plain murder.

TBH, matching Javelin isn't that crazy.

The current model seems to be from the 90s/Early 2000s.

And there's definitely a number of captures out there.

As they say, this is the moderate position.

Everyone involved in this should not die free.

everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison

Does it have a separate command unit?

There's a social argument about the youth being owed that's separate from the natalist one.

I increasingly understand the other 20s and late 19th in the US.

Mass death and disorder does things to you.

I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days

They exercise relatively little power *except* when they become sufficiently pissed off to sit out entirely.

At which point, well, there's a reason Sinema is a lobbyist now.

I'm sure atheist senators are fi...

*Glances at Arizona's Favorite Problematic Bisexual*

Okay, nevermind.

Shit, if they had gotten a staffer or caught a CPD officer alone, it would have gotten ugly.

Small donor Voltron only emerged in 2017, and Congress runs largely on seniority.

Any change will take time.