Mark Willard

I’m pretty sure this administration will throw your resume in the trash if there’s not at least one attempted rape on there

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Most people's worldviews don't change on a dime. It's possible you're right and she's lockstep with Trump except her kids' healthcare. It's also possible that this is an opening for her to realize that MAGA politicians don't care about her or her family at all.

I don’t disagree, but also welcoming people like this into the anti-Trump movement is how we win.

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Not for nothing, Signal is at least a reasonably secure communication medium (even though Hegseth et al were likely using it on unapproved, insecure devices).

Anyone wanna bet if Truth Social has ever passed any kind of independent audit? Do they even have an Information Security department?

Their prayers are to themselves. They’ve flattened the Christian faith into a theological license to carry out their violent political program. In the face of actual prayers in line with Christian teaching, this is how they respond.

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

Welp. Good thing no one wants to hack the US government I guess.

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Actually I can be serious

We should not be bailing out people who voted to pull the trigger on the shotgun that was pointed at their own face.

I notice a lot of catastrophizing/defeatism comes from people who live in other countries and I get that a fresh set of eyes can be useful but also you should at least have to know how American government works a little bit before you say we're a step away from Radio Rwanda.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Did Kingdom of Heaven restock? That’s another one I missed out on and haven’t been able to find

That's encouraging to hear - I assumed they already released all they were going to. Thank you!!

(And yes, I realize that purchasing physical media at all now is "niche," but if people are buying the limited edition 4K releases at over 200% MSRP, clearly there is far more of a market for this than the extremely limited quantities that are being released.)

I don't care about the steelbook. It could be in a 90s CD jewel case for all I care - I just want the movie on 4K disc. Why not provide that in reasonable quantities in addition to the extremely limited steelbook for collectors?

So annoyed that extremely, stupidly limited quantity steelbooks are the only way so many movies are released on 4K Blu-ray now. Somehow I missed that TRON: Legacy got a 4K steelbook last month. Already sold out everywhere and only available at 200%+ MSRP on the secondary market.

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

Live your life in such a way that if federal officials are ever asked under oath if they have evidence that you may have participated in child trafficking they can simply say "No" instead of repeatedly deflecting and refusing to answer in an attempt to avoid perjuring themselves.

Just like the dot-com boom, you can believe the underlying technology is real and important, and still realize that the market has gotten way ahead of realistic expectations.

This happens *all* the time with most airlines. Not a big deal and not necessarily related to the shutdown. "Crew" could refer to pilots or flight attendants. Likely their connecting flight was delayed. If it's delayed enough they'll get someone else.

If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately come after the first and smallest, thousands—yes, millions—would have been sufficiently shocked if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German firm” stickers on the windows of the non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course, this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C, and so on to Step D. And one day, too late, your principles—if you were ever sensible of them—all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident—in my case, my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jew swine!”—collapses as it all at once, and you see that everything, everything has changed, and changed completely under your nose.

The world you live in, your nation, your people, is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there: all untouched, all reassuring: the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now, you live in a world of hate and fear. And the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves. When everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system that rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself, it was compelled to go all the way.

A German academic recounted this after the war, recorded in Milton Meyer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45”

"Hunchback is one of the most sophisticated films in the Disney filmography for how it makes such huge themes accessible to children including genocide, justice, manipulation, sin, morality vs. legality, racism, allegorical fascism, and obscene abuses of power."

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

The End Of Non-Sequitur Politics Let's have more politics about the thing itself.

There is no sense in which the Enabling Act of 1933 would have become an acceptable piece of legislation if it had included a carve-out requiring Hitler to stabilize out-of-pocket health care costs. Same goes for the Enabling Act of 2025. www.offmessage.net/p/the-end-of...