Griffinxist @garfxist The two-party system iS the most brilliant scheme the American bourgeoise ever came up with. NOW, when capitalism fails, the people can simply blame it on the party they don't like instead of on the system itself.

Make it a reality.

The Israeli settler identified as Shmuel Vandy, director of “Yeshivat Chomesh,” reportedly shot and killed two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old child, during an attack today on a school in Al-Mughayyir.

The cherry on top was when they gave a wrong root for name of one of the spider families in total confidence, was corrected, just went “oh, that’s right!” & moved on with no self reflection or acknowledgement besides that. Just a gish gallop of half understood theories on how language develops.

Donald Trump standing at a podium holding up a Manila folder: “Folks! They said it could never happen! Yet today I received The Mandate of Heaven! I have it right here in this folder and let me tell you it’s beautiful! You can tell God wrote it himself!”

See also “well, who will patrol our borders then?”

I’m still thinking about the CS person who tried to give me a condescending and very questionable lecture about linguistics and etymological theory when asked about why computer scientists don’t use verbs correctly. It was very insightful, but not in the way they intended.

Is the virulent racism from a known racist throwing you off? Or is it the blue checkmark?

I think it’s more a “these people hate Trump, but don’t support me, yet call themselves my “ally” without any basis in material action and demand I put my values aside to make themselves feel better.”

He’s one of the republicans helping sabotage the party, but his work is done, so he can drop the act.

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

Universal school breakfast and lunch helps richer and poorer kids alike. The data is extremely clear on this. Hungry kids can't learn, and making it universal means more kids of all economic backgrounds will avoid hunger.

But even if it didn't help, it is simply wrong to withhold food from kids.

Exactly!

In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.

Budget Bar chart. The bigger the category or department's budget, the longer the bar is. Department Total Budget Police ($3.6B) $3.557.628.561 Other Special Purpose Funds ($2.5B) $2,545,282,776 Fire ($1.5B) $1.514.594.136 Sanitation ($1.1B) $1.069.890,629 Capital & Tech Improvements ($810M) $810,064,173 Wastewater Special Purpose Fund $499,903,538 Street Services $478,429,289 Recreation and Park $474.630.679 Transportation $398,059,754 Housing $384,921,950 Library $365,127,957 City Attorney $314,177,826 Building and Safety $262,923,803 Prop. A Local Transit Assist. Fund $253,358,910 Engineering $242.677,110 Other Agencies $183,707,300 Mavor $154.374.858 Bond Redemption and Interest $115,952,089 Finance $112.615.965 City Planning $111,561,348 Community Investment for Families $108,447,983 Council $106.132.869 Street Lighting $92,072,310 City Administrative Officer $88,310,805 Contract Administration $84.235,266 Prop. C Anti-Gridlock Tr

MAYOR'S $14.8 BILLION PROPOSED CITY OF LA BUDGET JUST DROPPED‼️

FEW HIGHLIGHTS 🧵

🚔 LAPD: $223 Million INCREASE to $3.6 Billion

Includes increases in salaries, overtime, pensions, benefits, liability claims, & more. Includes hiring 510 officers to maintain a force of 8,555.

The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

The biggest benefit I could imagine is lack of natural predators in the form of small rodents and birds. Humans are of course a huge one, but we are big and dumb.

The housing crisis hitting our spider friends too? SMDH

I think back to the Iranian quote about “America doesn’t have heroes. Who would we target? SpongeBob?”

Like even our genuine heroes get reduced to lunchbox versions of themselves

“It meant that the policy of extermination or abject submission, so blatantly promulgated by the pro-slavery press, and proclaimed by pro-slavery speakers, had been adopted by their enemies, and was about to be enforced with appalling earnestness”-The History of the State of Kansas, William G Cutler

I just saw somebody calling this The Good Place, unironically.

Actually, many of his contemporaries couldn’t really either.

The modern mind can’t imagine an American Christian on a holy crusade for the dignity of his brother in Christ.

I get a similar vibe when they complain about a criminal being allowed to run for president, but at a lesser scale because they haven’t had the gall to try to appropriate Debs yet.

He, in particular, makes me mourn American historical literacy, because if you read what the newspapers wrote about him at the time, the would have been howling for his head after Pottawatomie happened.

John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
But his soul goes vo-ting on....

Cowards, or worse.

Was it the exorcisms?

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."