Feeling like the white labubu

At the rate things are going I wonder if the Turks are going to cure baldness one day? One of many reasons it would be bad if the Israelis try to wreck their country next

if the holy father of the roman catholic church, by canon of the faith a man with a direct line of communication to the creator of the universe, can admit he is an out-and-out fan of the chicago white sox and not the cubs, it is beyond the pale for a politician to do the "i like em both" schtick

Our first time flying together and of all places it's to our homeland JAMAICA! The stars finally aligned and got to fly with my friend of over 25 years. Seems like yesterday we were sitting in the 3rd grade in Jamaica dreaming of being pilots. DREAM BIG! #jamaicanpilots

After watching The Rehearsal I believe this to be the safest flight of all time

Northerners in the 1850s didn't realize what they were up against until a Senator was almost beaten to death on the Senate floor by a Southerner. What will it take before the Dems wake up to the danger they're in?

TYPES OF CIVIL WAR OFFICER 1. Autism's strongest soldier. Has a personality disorder but lives in an era where psychiatric medicine consists largely of laudanum and different temperatures of bath. Famously effective, enduringly divisive. Postwar career: promoted far beyond the level of their incompetence or skeletized remains in a ditch somewhere (Grant, Jackson, Longstreet) 2. Messy bitch who loves drama. Actively worse leadership than pointing anyone who shows up with a gun in a direction and telling them to go nuts. All things being equal, every commissioned officer rank will be occupied by these guys in peacetime and arguably a large part of the gradual snowballing success of the Union consisted of more vigorous sectional politics weeding them out faster. Postwar career: photographed in uniform and maybe a very tedious statue and biography or two (McClellan, Lee, Rosecrans) 2a. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Antietam: messy bitch who loves drama and also loves posing for photographs and has become good at it. Would be very good at dying gallantly in a meaningless charge into a fortified German trench, but is tragically too early for it. Postwar career: universal admiration followed by complete historical oblivion a generation after their death (Burnside, Bragg, Hood) 2b. Messy bitch who loves drama prestige class unlocked after Chancellorsville: submissive and breedable partyboy inexplicably wearing stars. Each army gets exactly one; reporters love them, nobody exactly hates them, but when the red mist dies down historians unanimously agree they were a liability. Postwar career: who cares (Custer, Beauregard)

3. Ideologue. The higher the ideologue gets in the chain of command, the less interesting they are as officers qua officers. The ideology is usually just racism, but there were also a few extremely weird German communists exiled to the Midwest who imprinted on the Union like a lost baby bird. Every Confederate officer you've never heard of but have seen statues of is this guy; they treat war as posting by other means. Postwar career: forum avatar (Early, Sherman) 4. Fighting Joe. For whatever reason, the officer's contemporaries have decided a fine thing to call him going forward is "Fighting Joe", and now here we are. You are watching Fighting Joe, the worst general officer in the American civil war. Postwar career: being Fighting Joe (Hooker, Wheeler) 5. Steppe warlord junior varsity. A late development, largely on the Confederate side; these officers, like a dog fed on human flesh, have decided they're done with civilization and, after a failed attempt to inaugurate iron-fisted strongman rule over a random scrap of the deep South, keep wandering off into places they consider uncivilized and being just about as useless there as they were in Arkansas or wherever. Postwar career: incarceration in a Turkish prison (Kirby Smith, Sibley, Norris) 6. Dark triad sicko. Perfectly functional within an organization if properly contained, but if left to their own devices will absolutely start rounding up civilians and doing Saw shit, and you just gotta account for that when having a civil war. Postwar career: bedwetting and starting fires (Forrest, Butler)

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

the bit about Africans being active in the slave trade is telling. it’s something that is only relevant if you think the point of discussing slavery is to disburse racial blame rather than understanding history.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

* onion sickos guy * hahaha yes!

ever since they started dressing football players I’ve been finding bode a bit overblown tbh. Really into some of the Kartik Research and Wales Bonner stuff in a roughly related vein. Also out of my budget lol

What if I spent the money I save by not dating on Kapital Century Denim

The longer I remain single the more money I spend on increasingly ambitious pants…

Swagapino pope

it's gonna be so awesome when a democrat comes into power and suddenly it's not "gulags in el salvador" it's "we have to protect our relationship with an important regional partner and continue to work together to ensure humane detention facilities in the central american jungle"

Let’s fucking goooo

I voted!

In Tartaria they only played Real Tennis

A key part of bluesky is libs being appalled Jeffrey Goldberg style that our security apparatus under Trump is incompetent, not that it’s rapacious and evil

'Abusers are enforcing abortion bans on their victims' Reproductive coercion is a growing threat to abuse victims.

I interviewed @kylietcheung.bsky.social about her essential work (and upcoming book) detailing how abortion bans are a state-mandated tool for abusers to entrap and coerce their victims—as she put it, “If we lived in a direct democracy, abortion would be legal.”
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Imagining a guy who has a parasocial relationship with the AIA the way some libs do with the Democratic Party

If any libs followed me on here bc that, get lost! Obama deserves to be sent to The Hague and it’s his and your fault we’re in this mess with Trump

I wonder if the reason I had a slow drip of followers on here without posting much is bc for a few months my name on here was “Barack Obama”