WatDabney

That’s actually sort of sad and disturbing.

I thought Scott Adams was just an asshole. I didn’t realize he was insane.

The high tech version of the Nazi yellow stars.

I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn’t put that together. You might be onto something.

“All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight,” Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted on July 18th.

She sounds deranged.

i wonder what her own perversion is. It’s likely quite disturbing - nobody has that much anger and scorn over other people’s sex lives and a healthy sex life of their own.

How did you manage to miss the other six letters?

Of course - this administration is serving the interests of its constituents.

Which also, ironically enough, pretty much dooms the US into being a bankrupt has-been in the future, desperatly clinging to outdated technology that nobody else wants any more, while China easily saunters into position as the new world leader.

Trump continuing his lifelong pattern of patting himself on the back even as he blunders into bankruptcy yet again, except this time he’s dragging all of us along with him.

Ah well - it’ll be really, really ugly for the US in the relatively short term, but it could be to our overall advantage in the longer term. All of the anbitious psychopaths will go somewhere else to make their fortunes, and the US could be left to just sort of toddle along, quietly decrepit and generally broke, which might actually give us a chance to do some good for ordinary people for once, instead of being warped to serve the greed of psychopaths.

Of course.

Readiness is just an excuse. The explicit goal is to undermine Ukraine for the benefit of Russia. It’s not a coincidence that this came immediately on the heels of a one hour phone call between Trump and Putin.

Yep.

Political power is a commodity, and most of those who hold it today do the exact same thing with it as anyone holding any other commodity - they sell it to the highest bidder.

You say yer life’s a bum deal

'N yer up against the wall

Well, people, you ain’t even got no kinda

Deal at all

'Cause what they do

In Washington

They just takes care of NUMBER ONE

An’ number one ain’t you

You ain’t even number two

-Frank Zappa “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing”

…he can do real damage to conservatives and establishment Democrats just by showing everyone there’s a better way.

Exactly.

Which is why both Republicans and establishment Democrats are so desperate to malign him — because the dirty little secret of American politics is that the actual meaningful choice is between people who will work for the good of the people as a whole and people who will work only for the good of the wealthiest few. And maintaining the status quo requires stopping people from figuring out that virtually all elections come down to just two somewhat different versions of the latter type.

No jelly - it’s peanut butter and honey (and cinnamon), and no bread - it’s on a tortilla that’s then fried just enough to make it toasty warm but not crunchy, then rolled up.

Brands don’t mich matter. The only ingredient that can be problemstic is the peanut butter, and so long as it’s just peanuts, it’s fine.

I was actually just thinking about that, sort of.

The childish and sort of pathetic nature of the whole thing led me to visualize a hardass middle-aged mom dragging Trump up to Canada by the ear and standing him in front of everyone and saying, “Donnie has something he wants to say to you all, don’t you Donnie (pinch)”

In a way, that’s exactly what that manbaby needs.

Actually, US senators are in a position to do something that would actually go some way toward repairing relations with Canada - they can (with the House’s cooperation) remove the profoundly mentally ill, immensely dangerous and brazenly corrupt demagogue Trump from office.

Nothing short of that is going to accomplish much of anything though. As long as that psychopath is in office, incrementally turning the presidency into a dictatorship from which to pursue his literally insane agenda, nobody will or should trust the US for anything.

People end up with some truly bizarre beliefs when they’re determined to decree what it is that made this country great and so could make it great again, but immediately reject the things that actually did make it great - good wages, progressive taxes and social services.

Mostly Fabled Lands. It’s fun exploration, but the dice roll mechanics get tiresome - especially when you need a particular dice roll to trigger or complete a quest, so you just end up triggering the dice roll over and over.

And sort of inspired by the remaster, I’ve been playing a bit of Oblivion lately. I have thousands of hours in the game, spread over about forty characters, but I haven’t played it in a couple of years now. I toyed with the idea of getting the remaster, but my game is so extensively modded - mostly landscape and gameplay changes - that I don’t think I could go back to the vanilla game, even remastered. But it did get me thinking about it…

The mental gymnasics part is the claim that Bluesky is decentralized.

Unfortunately, what it’s likely going to take, just as it has with past civilizations, is complete collapse.

Our descendants will hopefully build something better in the rubble we leave behind.

I got all the way doen to “One trump son, who asked not to be named, said, “This is bullshit. Eric and I work really hard and we never get chosen to be pope” before I realized it was the Onion.

Everything up until then was believable. Well - even that was believable, but he wouldn’t have said it on the record.

That’s the correct choice.

Granted, China cannot be trusted. But China cannot be trusted in the same sense that a used car salesman cannot be trusted. The US, by contrast, cannot be trusted in the same sense that a rabid weasel cannot be trusted.

A high tech variation of “the Devil made me do it.”