to an extent this is just Leverage now that I think about it

you could absolutely do a heist series about a thief in it for the love of the game who doesn't steal what he gets, just leaves a note saying "I coulda stole this y'all! woo!"

for a part of the country that wouldn't have any flood or malaria control infrastructure without surrendering to the federal government, they sure are proud of briefly having a dysfunctional autocratic slavocracy that would never have been able to do more than collapse

The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press

anything derived from real world events, i mean it's literally a biopic of a real person, has additional review factors than what you'd apply to a fictional work

i'm reminded of Rick Perry learning the Department of Energy did important stuff back in Trump 1

to his credit he changed in response to external sensory stimulus and the gaining of knowledge, which means he's got more cognitive power than the median Trump 2 appointee

"lets go brandon" was a symptom of this, even if it began ironically. they were unconsciously treating the President as if it was something you couldn't directly criticize, in anticipation. authoritarian mindset capture.

they really hate anyone who isn't white, male, and their flavor of Christian, and it's just a load bearing part of Republican politics the media talks around. there is no immigration policy debate. there's "humanitarian and economic catastrophe for funsies" vs. "hey lets not do that"

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Don't trust the skull."

torment also gave life advice I have passed on to my grandkids at their weddings

"don't trust the skull"

yup. the real thing that woman is afraid of is not her son being unable to make friends, but her son making friends with "others"

dang it i should have put iron giants and stranded aliens in the list

aren't there like a hundred other vaccinations the army requires soldiers to get? why aren't they ending that too?

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

"more difficult for my son to make friends"

kids can make friends with imaginary beings, demons, stuffed animals, snowmen brought to life, and their pokemon collection, but a language barrier is what this woman worries about?

skill issue

you'd also think that given how many cops die in traffic accidents they'd be urbanism/auto safety's strongest advocates, but no, they want the big death trucks too

you ever have a minor embarrassment pop into your head and physically cringe at it

i didn't hate the Pedro Pascal one, but then again, I didn't hate the Eternals but I loathed No Way Home, so maybe my MCU radar is broken

honestly if we could have just trapped him in Twitter like it was a haunted mirror, most of MAGA wouldn't even notice he wasn't the real president, and they'd be just as happy, if not happier

i can't help but feel like our era is watching a dominant political strategy, "pretending to be stupid", being replaced by a new apex predator, "being actually stupid"

the most famous and defining event in Oklahoma history was only salvaged by FDR and they're like 85-15 Republican to this day

i mean otherwise we might have tyranny!

well of course, as the constitution clearly says, the armed agents of the state can kill anyone at any time for any reason

i climbed to the top of a really desolate mountain and declared it a Waffle House, since only MAGA gets the teleportation ability, I figured, hey, they keep saying they're self reliant alpha males, right?

"boo hoo we planned on going to the bird museum."

your plans failed. god sent you to the world yarn historical society. get something from the gift shop. form some memories.

if you accidentally go to the wrong museum by misentering the address into GPS and dont go in, i fundamentally do not understand you. thats pure discovery. go into the erotic clock museum god damn it

i hope he's happy off in the one place not corrupted by capitalism

SPACE!

my vague conclusory argument t-shirt answers all your questions about my vague, conclusory argument

a little patience and cash goes a long way when you've got way more treasure than blood

a law professor once digressed during a lecture to state, "except for the ADA, that is an 800 pound gorilla and you do what it says"