In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I wonder if those TradCaths felt empowered as American Catholic conservatives were tussling for dominance, but now they’re feeling a bit on the outs. Kind of like a Jewish convert who feels the pinch of imposter syndrome lurking. Cradle religious know this tradition stuff in their bones.

Catholics Assemble!

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

So at this point this stuff has value because people keep buying into the scheme. Are we dealing with Glorified Amway, or at the minimum some serious gambling addiction problems?

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

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May as well just call it a pyramid scheme at this point. Glorified Amway.

Ugh. I guess we’re going to have to go through this stupidity every 20-30 years now, aren’t we. Although judging by the pace it could become 10-15 year Stupidity Cycles. Meanwhile the billionaires at the stop just keep on fleecing everyone else below them.

Regulate and tax these reckless MFers 😠

Again and again showing themselves to be the worst people.

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

That in turn highlights that there really isn’t going to be a ‘return to normal’. If/when Democrats are reelected they will be existing in an even more hostile media environment. Difficult to see current Dem leadership surviving that, let alone thriving.

What could go wrong? 😒

He’ll probably make himself feel better by eating a rotting alligator or wearing a koala carcass as a hat after swimming in a leech-infested pond.

Well one thing they have in common is targeting women and girls judging by the number of videos of women being pulled out of cars and thrown to the ground.

The global role played by the CDC means this is a horror for everyone that is compounded by defunding the NIH. An utter disaster.

Maduro is an authoritarian from the left. Machado has flirted with far-right radicals who paddle in the fascism pool. I’m not sure she is very ‘antifa’ if we’re going to agree that antifa = anti fascist.

Well, yes. Traditional left vs right had Stalin out on the left while Hitler was on the right. The extremes love their authoritarian dictators.

Liberalism and democracy are centrist views. The people who fight for those values are the ones we should be lionising.

(Yes, more nuance needed, I know)

Machado is a political chameleon who has flirted with the far-right. Whilst she is definitely battling Maduro’s authoritarianism I suspect she and her supporters may be quite happy to institute their own version if they got the chance…

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Machado is problematic. And yes, she dedicated her win to her supporters and to Trump.

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The Republicans used to have shy billionaires and millionaires - not so much anymore. They’re definitely out and proud (and growing their ranks eg Benioff).

Do we now have ultra-wealthy Democrats who don’t want details available because they’ll be shunned as class traitors in their social circles?

Their brains are broken and, globally, we must rein in their power. Billionaire have proven themselves to be malevolent actors against the common good. They should be taxed out of existence because they would not care one bit if the majority of humans are impoverished and starving.

Thiel talked about Carl Schmitt being one of his ideological heroes that forms part of his core beliefs. Why do we treat anything he says as anything more than utter nonsense?

We may as well say that billionaires are a bunch of shallow, credulous idiots at this point.

I’m just a reader of things. I suggest you try it.

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