It is but the most recent event warranting reparations

The US should auto-Versailles

Trump does not deserve credit for anything beyond one thing: being willing to push Israel even slightly, a very low bar that Biden was simply unwilling to clear

State has been rudderless for almost a decade, with Blinken of a piece with Tillerson, Pompeo, and now Rubio. Shameful.

Trump is a buffoon and windbag, but it'll take years for Democrats to admit that their party, in spite of claiming to stand for diplomacy and intelligence, backed a profoundly sadistic punitive expedition by a fascist race state and burned more credibility than Trump did during his first presidency

If you are continually surprised or disappointed in institutions and people in them your analysis / understanding of capitalist society needs some kind of adjustment

Consistent surprise means you don’t actually understand the world you live in

Also bye Jonas, you started as such a goofy buddy but your last couple of chapters got dark quick, it was nice knowing you, bye (maybe) forever depending on the Miles theory

Rereading Book of the New Sun and it's cool to have a book i can literally not discuss with anyone i know irl

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Another opportunity for this pic!

Iraq was bipartisan
Afghanistan was bipartisan
Vietnam was bipartisan
Korea was, you guessed it, bipartisan

Libs, encountering the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the strangling of the West Bank:
Republicans bad, Dearborn so dumb, why doesn't everyone love us

Butbutbutbut tricky dick bad, Humphrey would have been gud for South Viet Nam

I keep saying the same thing so I'm sorry that I'm just gonna say the same shit but

VIETNAM WOULD HAVE MADE THESE PEOPLE'S SKULLS POP LIKE A BALLOON

Wait, Johnson and Nixon and Kennedy and Eisenhower all fucked with this shit, what what what muh binarybwain huwt

Biden incinerated children and lied about other dead children to justify the incineration, shooting, and starving of more children

Trump is president now and he's a real piece of shit, and his shittiness is running on a track greased by Biden

But liberalism is perfect and doesn't need to be fixed

Basically my entire politics. I am interested in your liberalism if it's liberalism that takes liberalism seriously but I can't consider it to be such a thing if there is some racial exemptions made simply for the benefit of your preferred group in MENA. This is what liberalism in the US does.

Everyone knows radicals love Chuck

Racism? Seems pretty obvious

Politics creates strange bedfellows but also strange opponents; Biden gave Netanyahu everything he wanted except Trump leads the baying pack of hounds on which Israel has based all its hopes for hegemony

It's a tragedy she's not romanceable but she's married to the Republics

It was absolutely a big departure and literally stopped the whole Trek part; people forgot that Next Gen was literally born from a soft reboot before we talked about reboots, and then DS9 came out and it was... very different

Glad you're giving it a new chance!

Little man? Guess he just delivers a speech and drinks and whores; did i miss a scene where he got a head injury?
Wheels? Becomes inhuman professor x and maybe an immortal evil king
No balls? Sails away
Hot translator? Dead
Red lady? Thanos snap
Last dragon? Flies away

Cool eunuch? Dead
Mean queen? Rocks fall
Sean Bean? Averted, died early, great arc
Sansa? Became bitter and cold? Ok, don't get me started
Mhysa? Killed by romantic partner
Jon Snow? Back to the wall, see what I'm saying about the resumption of starting points? It feels like the fn prequels!

It is not without its flaws but is worth the time, and it's a very important lens through which to view all of Trek but really all of popular mainstream American scifi, I think you can make an argument about pre- and post-DS9 scifi in the popular imagination

What was Maisie Williams' arc? Revenge? That got close to satisfaction, specifically with the Titus Andronicus bit

But then... [fart noise]

Sure forgot about pacing set up and payoff over the seasons, didn't they

It warrants more thought even though it's been over for decades! DS9 rocks

But then you have characters who grow but then just return to dynamics they had at story's start, specifically the Hound and Jaime Lan, who like, um, the conflict with bro and the, um, great love with sis, these aren't the most interesting things about these characters at all