1. Emotional reactions do not follow moral logic they are emotional reactions. I would respond stronger to the Eiffel Tower being destroyed than the *spins wheel* Berlin TV tower because like other Americans I love Lafayette and watch disaster movies.
2. Blowing up holy things is a bad sign.
Wood. "Everything seemed to be coming apart," Wood writes in his The Radicalism of the American Revolution, "as if all restraints were falling away." Many worried that the public was increasingly confusing freedom with debauched egoism. "A new competitiveness was abroad in the land," Wood says, "and people seemed to be almost at war with one another."4 It was a season of "inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for," as the theologian William Ellery Channing described his times.
"Everything seemed to be coming apart," Wood writes in his The Radicalism of the American Revolution, "as if all restraints were falling away." Many worried that the public was increasingly confusing freedom with debauched egoism… It was a season of "inward and outward revolution
They're finally, after decades of laying fallow, turning the Philadelphia Navy Yard into a biotech company campus and apartments; this is hilarious tbh
Prototypes don’t look cool while jumping, tbh, they look fragile
Common mistake, we don't blame you
The amount of rage that the Dem base will have this November has been drastically underpriced by the media
"Being a normal fucking human being" has been drastically underpriced, it seems
Chrysler Pacifica Time motherfucker
You're not "taking a bong rip at 1am", you're a nocturnal cosmonaut
PATHETIC HUMAN
Civic project number one after this is shaking men out of this perpetual Peter Pan Syndrome
I'm getting really fucking sick and tired of everyone running around like they're in elementary school and just got denied a cookie. Act your fucking age, you pathetic cretins!
Grow - and I cannot emphasize this enough - the fuck up.
Of course you do, you're twelve
My grandfather would have capuzzelle at least once a quarter, eating the brains and exclaiming how tender they were with each bite.
I do not eat mutton to this day.
Not even close
something that broke me about this case is how much Roy Anthony Scott was trying to do The Right Thing--the reason why he called the cops in the first place was because he was scared and wanted help
the cops said they were there to help, too
then they killed him
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
This is done by design
russia in 2022: 3 days max the azov state falls
russia in 2026:
Flying my x wing, desperately firing on Mary Poppins
How Not To Get Hired: A Short Story
"Hereditary leader who can't tie his own shoes" is the demo
Like Machiavelli's "The Prince", "Art of War" is targeted at some of the stupidest people alive
I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"
Accusations, confessions, things of that nature
I'm on the ground here: PA Senate is very, very much in play.
Your regular reminder that everyone should read @alexkeyssar.bsky.social's history of this www.liberalcurrents.com/a-compromise...
