it's a fundamentally unserious way of looking at the world that merely postures as if it's the voice of world-weary experience

there's a whole sub-genre of kid's fiction that was scary or disturbing that people still remember and think about. sometimes you gotta have the frightening muppet or the disney villain go to hell at the end, y'know?

it was always a big tell the first thing they thought of when plugging in "what would people in power do first if they could get away with it?" they came up with...abuse children as the first answer

not hunting people for sport, not destroying precious art or sacred relics, not calling up Cthulhu..

you are also completely in line with the empirically demonstrable reality of human differences as repeatedly and comprehensively established by modern biology, and basic science literacy is apparently beyond the capacity of any media organization

this is the entire reason we are fucking fighting for our freedoms here. the fact that you have convinced yourself it was always this bad does not make it true. you are now in danger of the government pretextually arresting you because the government is now corrupt in a way it wasn’t before

they had their image of war formed by WW1, where “it will get worse the longer it goes on, ending it asap by any means is the right thing” and that’d probably be right if nuclear weapons hadn’t rolled out a new consensus “oh shit these things will kill everyone”

and as soon as Elvis and Black JFK figure that out, they’ll kill him. He’s not even a supernatural entity

disturbingly plausible

the only correct ruling is 9-0 in favor of "everyone who brought this to our attention is hereby exiled to spend the rest of their lives camped in the waiting room of an unpopular dentist's office in Davenport, Iowa, prohibited from ordering any non-fish related magazines."

this foxhole is getting fuckin' crowded, I swear to god. Bill Kristol is in here and he's been hogging the aeropress.

so long as he is a designated enemy of the regime, we cut him some slack for speculating a passenger airliner was swallowed by a black hole

Republicans have majorities in both chambers of Congress, Sarah

i have had too many frustrating conversations that boil down to this

i don't know what people expected when they gave the Republicans a trifecta! american politics doesn't have a democratic super-saiyan mode where if you're desperate enough you get access to a legendary power and defeat Frieza

I am truly not sure to do with the fact that Jeffries can demand express statutory authorization for states to prosecute ICE agents and because some random website didn’t put that in the headline nobody knows about it, and in fact get mad at him for not demanding the thing he is actively demanding

a bunch of people who want power so they can abuse it and an entire demographic of voters and audiences who want those same people to have power so they can watch it abused

not sure it's gonna work out well for anyone, long run, ngl

that said, yes, this is a completely insane way to legislate and our government is nonfunctional when it comes to policy