Probably a mix of both, but definitely think that our society rewards anti-social behaviors when you go big on them, and also if your desire is to be a nazi pedo, the safest way to achieve your dream is to pursue vast power so that no one can hold you accountable…. I think the basic might makes right foundation of right thinking selects for this also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dt8plL8akE

So like if you have the flu, you have to go out in public and expose other people to get your paper signed? Was gonna say something about a doctors lobby, but Germany must have some variation of public healthcare, so this would just make it worse and more over burdened (maybe this is the idea, secondary to disciplining labor)

The design of stage visually is horrendous. Like McDonald’s Golden Arches with purple construction paper backdrop, and the hilariously bland and tiny “US” in the back. It’s like everyone involved knows this is a sham, and they’re also incompetent. Who even wants this other than Trump (Does he actually want this even? Eros he even know what he wants ever?)

Sanctioning relief might be more valuable… if the Iranians could at all trust that said relief would happen and not be reverted in 3 months. Whereas establishing a toll system in Hormuz is something they can control and enforce, and the longer it goes on the more solid Iran’s position of “ownership” of the strait is, as well as their regional dominance.

No reason they can’t have both ultimately… the western system is pretty close to the edge/minimums and Iran seems capable of withstanding hardship, after all they’ve already been doing that for decades. If I was them I wouldn’t budge on the Hormuz thing and keep starving the market of oil and derivatives until Trump admin just accepts terms. But also I’m safe far away and there may be other factors that Iran factors on a decision like this.

Yeah that seems more realistic. Newsome is the only Dem like that with national standing and the profile at that level. Just can’t believe Kamala would even make motions about running, such a joke.

Pritzker could be also, but I feel like newsome is better known and “more presidential” looking, I guess.

They cannot run Harris…. They cannot. Fuck, guess they’re running Harris.

Oh apparently they struck down the birthright EO, so you were right on that one.

Yeah these predictions feel pretty good to me as well. Roberts often seems to like presenting a “win” to moderates that can hide or temper the other horrible decisions, so this would align well—birthright is spelled out anyway so take the L and further cement corruption and oligarchy.

That said, the court has recently had numerous ruling batches that have been pure reactionary with zero fig leafs so who knows.

It’s insane to me that 9 appointed people get to decide the way 350mil people get to experience life.

Oh, shit. My bad. So maybe she likes axe murderer a little too much.

She sounds like a pretty cool person, NGL

The levels of recursion and reality bending going on everyday is really starting to confuse me.

LOTR Sean Bean Meme: “one does not simply TAKE kharg island!”

How come the FBI is investigating this and not like local cops or university police? Is it because they’ve classified being part of Palestinian supporting actions as domestic terrorism?

Oh snap had completely forgotten about this song until you reminded me, awesome.

Yeah I know it’s Putin thang, but if anyone on earth could achieve something like this at this point, I’d put my money on china. Anyhow it’s a joke, but also: old people in china are generally pretty spry (thinking of all the grandmas I saw at night doing dance music aerobics in xian) so a Chinese 80 is a hell if a lot different than an American one. Plus Xi is rumored to be lifelong moderate in terms of his appetites no?

Him and Putin were allegedly talking about living forever via organ transplants (I think on a hot mic at the PRC military parade) so maybe we’ll never have to find out!

I haven’t sussed out the details of this proposal so don’t know, but could we speculate that this is similar to the disavow AIPAC then take money from an adjacent org that is essentially AIPAC without the name thing? Ie no more direct funding bill to give israel money to buy weapons, instead this will now be done through a budget line at the DOD, and this will be great because no one can untangle the DOD budget and it’s a meme they can’t pass audits, so no more congress funding votes, just reliable cash stream that the public can’t fuck with.

Ok but the CIA being just one big chain of idiots and the George Clooney robo dildo machine were pretty amusing.

Fair point. Monsters still have mothers…