you made me cackle hahaha

dudes teeth are as yellow as the wine

Counter-counterpoint: rural Virginians are the ones *currently* fucking *themselves* over with their votes. Gerrymandering that away from them fucks them over *less*, by any meaningful metric.

No, no one knows and one is omniscient. I'll add this: I'm not paranoid nor do I spend time thinking about conspriacies and yet there are all kinds of questions that come up when looking at that event in hingsight. So to say all you see are paranoid conspiracies is to suggest you don't care to ask.

I can't wait until we break diplomatic ties with Israel over their bahavior. They are second only to the Saudis in States that claim to be our friends, but aren't.

Mexico—a nation with 1/17th GDP of USA—is rolling out universal healthcare to its 130M citizens.

Starting April 13, Mexicans 85+ will have access to universal healthcare. By Jan 2027, Mexico will expand universal healthcare to all people, with full coverage of drugs, lab tests, etc by 2030.

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Theory and practice

Does what the public expects/foists upon tech leaders have any relationship to how tech leaders portray themselves? You can't divorce the two. And that may be the rub in whether or not to read the Futurism article as reasonable in its critique.

Yes. Don't tell us. Tell your colleagues.

How about you guys lobby the fuckput of them to impeach. Stop pussy footing around with half measures and the hope that the cabinet will 25A him.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is.

People seem excited by it because they are.

It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding.

One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

We'd be too lucky to have an actual leader

I'm convinced that there is a paradox requiring extrajudicial, illegal acts to undo the extrajudical, illegal acts previously committed so that the country can return to the rule of law. Impossible. Incoherent. Yet absolutely required.

It was a coup, the completion of the coup Trump started on Jan 6, 2021, and it was successful. Reversing it will require similarly extreme measures from whoever comes after the Trump regime.

I will say that Trump appears able to do this kind of thing without planning it. He's a goddamn reptile...an efficient killer that capitalizes on opportunity. Somehow he's able to sniff these opportunities out. Look how far he's comes since birtherism. It may be checkers, but it's something...

The only flaw in the slaw I see is Trump being smart enough to do it. He probably isn't. But otherwise, what Snyder says is exactly the kind of power consolidation move you'd see elsewhere. Putin/Chechnya come to mind. So give Snyder some grace. His books are instructive.

Jesus... well I guess I would've figured that out if I read them anymore. I started reading Politico when they first published and I thought it was awesome. Quenched my thirst for indepth political coverage. But they eventually went off the rails....especially with the HRC/Comey bullshit.

Honestly, I didn't know that. I've been busy raising my kids during the endtimes and have become somewhat dulled in terms of my political astuteness and the content I consume in order to be so. Shit happens, I guess. What happened to their news? Buy out?

Is axios really a ratfuck org? I used to read them years ago....have they changed?

You think so? My assumption is the most racist actions are Miller's project....Trump may have those leanings, but I can't imagine he'd care enough to follow through if Miller wasn't steering the ship.

Otherwise, that thread is killer.

Not only that, but the post glosses over the gulf between what it is they signed up for and what the elected have them do. It's disingenuous to claim that they signed up for doing whatever the elected say. There is a reasonable expectation of lawfullness and support from your own nation

The post directly after that is also fire

That's absolutely fucked. They don't deserve to be killed, attempted to be killed, or put in a position to kill others themselves in an unjust war. I'm an aviator and could very well know the people in volved.

Look, I'm not longer going to debate someone who I'd fight alongside. If you can't see that I'm engaging you because I actually care what you think, then I don't know what else I can do. If I were a true antisemite I wouldn't give a shit. We're not enemies. That's all I have left to say.

hahaha this made me chuckle

Yep. A tool for whatever purpose....

And yeah, that'll be an interesting interview with St. Peter. I'm sure it won't go well.

Excellent gif choice

JD Vance is not a real Catholic. He's a convert that sees Catholicism as some sort of of tool to be wielded. That's weird considering it's never been particularly effective in the past.

As a Catholic, I'm not at all surprised.