Bryce Youngquist

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

to his very little credit, he clears that bar courtesy of personally finding Netanyahu incredibly annoying. as opposed to Joe Biden, who by all accounts genuinely considered himself Bibi's best pal in Washington.

quick check: were either Clinton or Obama on record telling the israeli prime minister "in your place I would kill every Palestinian man, woman and child"

actually judging him vs. the people who sidelined him due to Biden being (correctly) viewed as an insane Israeli partisan is quite easy, op

Carter deciding "look i cant ask the israelis to give anything up for peace, that means the commies win" puts him in a position where he's the only guy who can match Biden in competitive palestinian-killing

to exactly the same electoral benefit Joe Biden saw, hilariously enough

every single US president since Carter demonstrated more willingness to rein in Israel than Biden did, using exactly the mechanic you have decided was never off the table

the decisions to slow-roll support for Ukraine while simultaneouy demanding Ukrainian conscriptd clean out minefields with their teeth so they could give him a Glorious Offensive to campaign on: not great

the scary version of this is what happens when someone with delusions starts chatting with an AI, because when you tell it "i'm beginning to think I might be Christ Reborn. are there any signs and portents that would indicate this" it says "well there's x, y, and z, which seem to fit the bill"

our pal has a crank theory about how language differs when spoken vs. when written, and after telling Claude to figure out a way to distinguish those things for him, behold! a scoring system! with math attached somewhere!

this is one of those moments where the things LLMs are extremely good at intersects with the things they are incapable of in an interesting way

LLMs are capable of laundering both outright gibberish and vague bespoke mystical language into some kind of metric. they are not able to say "that's dumb"

turns out Dwarven stubbornness is powerful enough that the best he could do through the rings was make them greedier, more stubborn, and spiteful

elves Sauron can break into Orcs. the worst he can do to a dwarf is to make the dwarf a libertarian. which isnt NOTHING, but its not exactly orc level.

sir you should run for president and use the opportunity to make substantial and lasting change happen

Huan

the best part is the obelisk was originally going to be inscribed with his speeches but they couldn't find a single one that didnt come off as comically out of touch in retrospect

just a big ol' brick of concrete

in fairness the only reason it didnt do that to the elves was the second he put on the One they realized "AH SHIT FUCK WE GOTTA STOP USING THESE THINGS -NOW-"

hard to believe these guys lost, with a policy of "give ICE a Gundam in the hopes it makes Donald Trump stop calling me a commie"

every once in a while I feel a great swell of patriotic pride for my country. you always assume these people are stuck in a loveless hell but its nice to have proof, you know

there was a tradition of this kind of thing back in the bad old days of ancient nobles having very young wives

a man who cares about his wife giving her the official okay to go find somebody to fuck because lmao he hasn't had an erection in twenty years

this is the one version I can figure out

Provides ICE with almost $8 billion in emergency funding, including funding to expand the capacity of detention facilities. Specifically, provides enough funding for ICE "to keep at least 50,000 detention beds available—an increase of 47 percent from the 34,000 beds allocated in 2023, 2022, and 2021."

Kamala Harris's actual 2024 policies:

Bro, this child died on May 17, 2023.

i'm pretty sure he was the bad guy in the second Bill and Ted movie

when the subject is terrorizing a community for having brown people in it your average Canadian immediately shifts into full-on "exterminate the brutes" mode

did one of your bog-standard lib "we are here because those darned lefties demanded Kamala Harris give them a pony" rants

on being screamed at by half the site he proceeded to explain that the pony wasn't trans rights or committing a genocide, it was 'doing purity testing.'

this did not help him

meanwhile Garak and Bashir on DS9 featuring the directors saying "hey stop that shit right now" while both of the actors are like "...yeah actually this feels like it intuitively makes sense, let's roll with it"

i recognize my failing and will be sure to correct it

Voyager is not without its good episodes! but they show up about as often as a bad one does in DS9, i.e. once or twice a season.

and when a Voyager episode is bad, it is REAL bad

family where the three children are gokunaruto69, Bryce Youngquist, and That Scene In Mad Max Where The Guy Plays The Flamethrower Guitar

featuring the first of approximately Two Times Ever that the Maquis and Starfleet have any friction whatsoever

amazing that DS9 ended up doing more with the concept than the show they were invented for

steve allow me to explain this as I would to a child

outside of your country, it is generally believed that the guys who went door to door in eastern europe murdering civilians for offending their Nazi masters were the bad guys.

differing perspectives on shooting civilians in the street result.

evidently he was by far the best paid actor on the show because he kept demanding more and more money in the hopes they'd fire him and he could move on with his life

they gave him NOTHING to work with