Surprise surprise, we have now concluded that the US is both above its own law & can impose its own law on anyone else

Whose

I'll say it again the real sin of the gun industry over the last 50 years is in drastically dropping the barrier to entry for a dipshit becoming a credible threat

I'll say it again the real sin of the gun industry over the last 50 years is in drastically dropping the barrier to entry for a dipshit becoming a credible threat

One thing I learned in school fist fights was that the latter definitely helps the former. (The first time someone's fist tried to teach me this, I was very ideologically annoyed ... but eventually I took a class on game theory.)

Slightly off-topic but I'm still the only guy my now-husband brought home to meet his dad. I was too light-skinned for him to realize I was Black and my Arab-coded name made him assume I also hated Jews — then the JFK assassination rants started and beau marveled that I didn't once flinch

Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!

Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!

The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

Something I was reminded of while finishing Andor earlier today

Gentile reminder that smart money was firmly on the same team when the current Oval Office guy said he wanted in on the Oval Office 10 years ago.

Any joke stops being a joke when enough morons forget to keep laughing

I'm sure it won't take them long to establish a POV on how free-and-fair the elections of Louisiana have been recently

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

These children are miserable. I love them.

Proud my Steelers only lost to them by 3 ngl

The regime is an empirical exploration of the limits of presidential authority under moribund party politics: it's "testing" in the sense the rest of us are lab mice.

Emperor Tinkerbell died only because no one clapped?

Also forcefully opposing the normalization of abusing 15yo girls is a great way to give the giant fuck-you to the 1970s we also need rn

If one stands athwart and shouts loud enough — say, 1100dB — history might actually stop

Not necessarily opposed to that rn

If one stands athwart and shouts loud enough — say, 1100dB — history might actually stop

Not necessarily opposed to that rn