Ivan Gayton

“What Was Israel Supposed To Do After October 7?” Is Asking The Wrong Question A much more useful and interesting question than “What was Israel supposed to do in response to October 7?” is “What were Palestinians supposed to do in response to all of Israel’s abuses prior to …

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- "It was cold in January!"
- Winter is a phenomenon known to science

- "We can adapt!"
- ok so why aren't you?

- "Solutions are expensive!"
- drought/flood/heat/sea level rise: not free

- "Climate models are imperfect"
- yes that's why they're called "models" (still better than making stuff up)

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere

-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire

-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that

-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Hey Jake Tapper -- you seeing this?

If the security guard realizes that I'm shoplifting bulk packages of paper towels, I can be outta there before they can stop me. Clean, dry countertops here we come!

The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Huh. Well, that may be the longest run of opinions I either agree with or don't have a position on, without a single disagree, that I've ever come across.

Actually, scrap the "may be," that's an "is."

Worked out great for Neville Chamberlain iirc 😂

Good morning
Woke is not an insult

The goal is slavery. The GOP, with the tacit consent of neutered, complicit Dems, wants incarcerated people, and immigrants with no rights or recourse.

They don't want immigrants out, they want them here without rights. They don't want less crime, they want more prisoners.

They want slaves.

Why would severe hunger do this

When the inevitable photos come out of starved corpses arranged in rows, I personally will be watching for the people who saved their horror and condemnation for when the war crimes were already over

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

YouTube video by OzzyOsbourneVEVO Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Official Animated Video)

RIP Ozzy Osbourne.

I bought a vinyl of Blizzard of Ozz as a kid in the early 80's, and I've never stopped liking his music and schtick.

Here's a lovely animated video of Crazy Train. Enjoy the thought that Ozzy's spending today rocking out with Randy Rhodes again!

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The denial of racism is the heartbeat of racism. It is essential to keeping racism alive.

A Nazi chatbot and I have discoved that alongside electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity, there is a fifth fundamental force animating the cosmos: anti-wokeness. The Nobel committee refuses to recognize our accomplishment because of DEI."

California Professor Accused of Throwing Tear Gas Canister at ICE Agents During Raid

goose: where'd he get the canister?

goose: where'd he get the canister, motherfucker?

@wired.com is the only media subscription I still carry. Hope to fuck they don't get acquired by Jeff Bezos; the world doesn't need another formerly-credible outlet alternating between po-faced coverage of "Prime day" and appeasing fascists.

Leftists in 2025: We will not vote for Gavin Newsom
Leftists in 2026: We will not vote for Gavin Newsom
Leftists in 2027: I'm telling you if you put that Patrick Bateman mothefucker up we will not vote for him
Centrtists in 2028: I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T SPEAK UP AND THEN JUST DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM

YouTube video by audrey123talks Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine - cover

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We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites.

We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.

French persists in casting himself as the one trying to explain a thing that is already known, but in reality he’s just trying to convince us that conservative ignorance is exonerative. His refusal to understand the nature of MAGA mirrors MAGAs refusal to understand the nature of trump.

David French @DavidAFrench This goes to a point l've been trying to make with my Democratic friends for a long time. MAGA's ignorance about Trump's sins and scandals is staggering. Every piece of media they consume idolizes the man and trashes his opponents. And then they're told he's God's man to save America. Even after all these years they often don't know the most basic facts about Trump's misconduct. In response to Laurie Kilmartin, Vegas July 25/26 I thought the base knew Trump was an Epsteiner and didnt care- but it’s looking like they really didn't know?

Any ignorance of malice that requires an ongoing effort to maintain must taken as indistinguishable from malice.

I have not thought of this. Please, Atlas, shrug! All you billionaires, please teach us that rough lesson of how badly we need you by disappearing to a libertarian fantasy gulch and leaving us to fend for ourselves

Like arguably things would have been rough for a minute if mid-century industrialists blew up their factories and railroads as part of an Atlas Shrugging vanishing act.

But lol if any or all of these guys tried that we'd be FINE.

They know we’re in the gravity well of the climate crisis and that the conflict between our well-being and their hoarding is becoming more obvious every day

Someone else mentioned The Fountainhead, and they're not wrong about the Randian thinking.

These guys really think we'd be lost if they all went off and pulled a Galt's Gulch, which is pretty funny actually because no one would starve if Marc Andreesson or Mark Zuckerberg pulled a disappearing act

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse

It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible