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Same SCOTUS declared that any consideration of race whatsoever in admissions (to promote diversity) was unlawful. But to gerrymander, no problem. The throughline is white supremacy.
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Same SCOTUS declared that any consideration of race whatsoever in admissions (to promote diversity) was unlawful. But to gerrymander, no problem. The throughline is white supremacy.
Can we include ambient tensions about a video game that doesnt exist being controversial and banned for reasons that never quite make any sense but which a lot of gamers are passionate about?
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Can we include ambient tensions about a video game that doesnt exist being controversial and banned for reasons that never quite make any sense but which a lot of gamers are passionate about?
I like your katamari analogy but also, it makes me more sympathetic to megacorps, because who can resist "must grow" with a katamari.
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I like your katamari analogy but also, it makes me more sympathetic to megacorps, because who can resist "must grow" with a katamari.
I.e. it's not outside the realm of possibility that congresspersons calling this a war crime is one day cited by SCOTUS as evidence congress tacitly signed off on a war.
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I.e. it's not outside the realm of possibility that congresspersons calling this a war crime is one day cited by SCOTUS as evidence congress tacitly signed off on a war.
I'm on the fence about whether it's a good strategy. The power to declare wars matters, and probably shouldn't be conceded by congress even to catch someone in an act like this.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I'm on the fence about whether it's a good strategy. The power to declare wars matters, and probably shouldn't be conceded by congress even to catch someone in an act like this.
I think the point is, if it's not a war, it's just murder. If it's a war, it's still a war crime, and the strategy is, let's just skip past that debate and give you that it's a war to remove the argument.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I think the point is, if it's not a war, it's just murder. If it's a war, it's still a war crime, and the strategy is, let's just skip past that debate and give you that it's a war to remove the argument.
"For fucksake, Wallace, the ship is sinking. We're not going to do Puccini. This calls for a fucking hymn."
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Tearing down the ballroom and rebuilding the east wing would have tremendous symbolism of moving on from this era.
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tearing down the ballroom and rebuilding the east wing would have tremendous symbolism of moving on from this era.
That would be... Bill Murray's famous, not his thought, right?
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
That would be... Bill Murray's famous, not his thought, right?
Let me guess, "don't drown" was among their mission objectives?
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Let me guess, "don't drown" was among their mission objectives?
Well judicial review is a type of review...
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Well judicial review is a type of review...
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yeah but Trump's superpower is the ability to always make the wrong decision.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yeah but Trump's superpower is the ability to always make the wrong decision.