Testudo Aubrei

One of the clearer illustrations of Marxism where labor provides value and capital extracts a surplus. There are other cases where it may be more complicated but sports is like, Das Capital distilled.

Through his holy prophets he promised of old, that he would save us from our enemies

Fascism but specifically Imperial Japan in the Showa Era.

A large part of why American right-wing efforts to create their own versions of all the social institutions they hate - not just media, but also academia, film and TV, etc - inevitably produce such noticeably low-quality output is simply that they just don't want to put the work in.

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

Zohran making a statement that he had to know would enrage the more deranged of his supporters is more evidence of him juice-having I think.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Ah yeah.

If Trump were probably, definitively, beyond a shadow of a doubt the Beast from Revelation, what would he be doing differently

Oh but you were talking about which character they leaned into NM.

Civil War and Flashpoint are two comics crossover events that their respective owners seem to love but which I can’t begin to care about TBH.

A lot of people, including me, critiqued the mainstream consensus with a base level assumption that it’s flawed and sometimes hypocritical, merely nominal pluralism was the worst we were going to get.

It also felt different than the others movies. Very much an homage to older pulp fiction and serials as well as the original comics.

The Triumph of Death (flipped), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562

The Byzantines had sports fandoms instead of political parties or the mob and they stuck it out for 1000 years after the west, speaking of that very annoying 1500 years point.

Coalitions are a funny thing

I really like episodic tv with a little continuity. It was a good thing that the 90s did very well (see also Deep Space 9).

There were times watching something as a kid, where I knew what I was watching was special, and this was one of them. I knew it was funny, and off kilter, and it was kind of sad? I knew it was good and I didn’t get it. Seeing it later, it is a fucking masterpiece.

Probably a top 10 episode of TV for me, ever. The kind of complete 43 minute story that we have moved away from. Sad and absurd and deeply human.

Also the subject of my favorite ever fan work: www.shaenon.com/monsterofthe...

really remarkable to read the quotes from the actual text. to steal Tom's adjective, it's a very fulsome letter of congratulation. it very much does not read to me like a form letter

Jake Tapper loves Trump and wants him to rule us like a king

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Sorry it was #6

He wasn’t Elizabeth Taylor Husband #5.

The GOP has been trying to replace Obamacare for 15 years. It still does not have a plan. We are supposed to take their claim to be a party interested in legitimate governance seriously.

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president

Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.

The problem is that there is no necessary connection between duties and concrete goods toward which we actually act, see on the supposed right to lie for philanthropic reasons. And again, in the real world people invent rights and duties in order to insist that harmful behavior is morally necessary