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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”

Same

Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting

Let me be crystal fucking clear for a certain type of liberal who I will end up blocking in the future or muting because it will drive me fucking nuts

I will NEVER vote for Gavin Newsome.

Most people I know in CA feel this way (because I know cool people).

If you run him you get what you get.

White people have a real problem with incest and pedophilia. I don't know about about other cultures, but mine!? We got a real problem.

I PROMISE you...

people like this guy, specifically, when they do public performative sadism like this?

This guy has incredibly bad/dark shit in his closet.

The kind of stuff that one might be publicly hanged for.

A grim reminder he has been a benighted presence in American public life for so long a guy who died in 1998 had a firm opinion about him.

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

When history looks back on today evangelical Christians will say that the Trump supporters weren’t real Christians. They’ll distance themselves. They’ll make apologies for what their denominations did. All the while continuing to cause harm in a different way.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

What the fuck with short people?

You Think You’re Elphaba, But a Lot of You Are Glindas A conversation from the podcast Vibe Check on impending fascism and queer allegory in Wicked.

I am not a musical theater person and though I read the book a while ago I have been a bit irritated at all the hype around this all this while

but THIS read on the movie and story and how it fits into now, from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @imarajones.bsky.social is worth everyone's time:

There is no legal or ethical justification for killing shipwrecked people in the water, whether or not you’re at war with them. That’s it. No caveats. Not a gray area. In a war it’s a war crime/atrocity. Outside of war, it’s murder. Not sure how else to say it. Everyone involved is implicated.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

SERIOUSLY.

If Jesus was walking the US today, ICE would murder him faster than the Romans did.

Anyway it’s a stupid name for a color and sounds more like an Anish Kapoor sculpture name

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

The truth is that he's so impotent/incompetent/small/weak/insecure that he needs to kill defenceless fishermen from thousands of miles away to feel like a man.

I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences

Sadistic power at that.

Look how easy it was for everyone to quit talking about the Epstein files

Again, had liberals acted to roll back the police state in 2020 and prevent over a thousand people a year from being executed by police, we could have potentially avoided the full metastasis into a fascist police state

Repressing “defund the police” then empowered Trump today. Does that make sense?

This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.

When you've lost the Daily Fail...

Groups of dudes who self-segregate & talk each other into believing that they are uniquely brilliant & everyone else just doesn't get it ... are responsible for some of history's most florid horrors.