So... Has Sohrab finally come around to David French's position?

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They will have to change its name to the Department of Special Military Operations.

ICE also hasn't beheaded anyone... But they have executed people on camera. So I guess maybe not much of a difference there now that I think about it.

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Right? Me too. Kinda sad. We thought emulation magic could take us back to 1996. But the game aged badly. Technology can't give us back what we missed by not playing it 30 years ago. Because it kinda sucks now.

I wanted to play it SO BAD in 1996, but alas, I didn't have a Sega Saturn.

(Don't feel bad for me. I had an N64 and Playstation.)

Me either. I'm getting passports for the whole family made/updated this weekend in case we need to get out on short notice.

Long-term, we're looking hard at moving to Portugal with a digital nomad visa.

It's not going to get better. They will not leave power. Many people are in denial about this.

If only Merrick Garland or Robert Mueller had watched Revenge of the Sith...

Yeah. My church friends on FB are rationalizing the execution as justified. I thought nothing could shock me anymore.

'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill

They can't rig 435 congressional elections, but they can rig one presidential election in 2028; and SCOTUS has flushed so much power into the executive branch and so thoroughly destroyed the checks and balances that the presidency is all that really matters anyway.

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I love Ezra Klein's work, and he doesn't deserve this, but it's still hilarious. 😂

The objective is to sow chaos, terrorize Trump's enemies, undermine the rule of law, grab new powers through the Insurrection Act, and then use those powers to manipulate the midterms.

Institutional checks may prevent this outcome, but that seems optimistic to me.

I grew up evangelical. All the stupidity is in my tribe. I'm just having a hard time with it.

I posted on FB that the military incursion into Venezuela violates International law. My friend replies, (summarized) "What're you talking about? NO ONE AT THE UN IS SAYING THAT.

So I post all these fucking headlines, and he's come back with, "I dunno, that's pretty weak condemnation."

Send help.

This is not a persuasive argument against it. If soldiers need more education than a few PowerPoint, those terms are acceptable.

I got it for my kids a couple of years ago. They still play it and love it and laugh about it. They have like 50+ games across Switch and PC, and Goat Sim 3 is one of their all-time favorites.

Here's the sensational claim. A victim who was allegedly raped by Trump and Epstein was later found to have committed suicide in disputed circumstances. (Coroner ruled it a suicide, cops were skeptical.) Major outlets aren't running this probably b/c the allegations are unverified.
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Your source is a subscribe link? Give me a break!

what? no glowing compliments from JD Vance? Oh...

Don't worry, that's the Supreme Court's job.

I can't even fathom kids not reading whole books anymore. It's dystopian.

Yep. There is a tension between belonging and critical thinking, and it's pointless to reason with those who cranked the dial all the way up on tribalism. They have accepted blindness as the cost of belonging in their cult, and they'll only ever see your facts and reasoning as threats.

NYT: analysis, news developments on governmental institutions, policy, international affairs.

Fox News: human interest stories, culture war bait, tabloid gossip.

Makes sense why people would vote for Trump when you understand that their information diet is the intellectual equivalent of Cheetos.

Yep, and cults have built-in norms, incentives, other mechanisms of pressure and control to keep people in the cult in the face of circumstances and fact patterns otherwise discrediting.

Trump's first term was disastrous enough to anyone paying attention and not compromised by brainwashing.

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That sucks. Hope you can get some rest and be a person for a little bit and that your Trojans win.

nice fluffy kitty *pat pat*

I'm treating the rumors surrounding his health as unconfirmed rumors until I see credible reporting to the contrary.

Trump will issue pardons before leaving office. Illegal activity will continue. More pardons will be issued. Blah blah.

This is the new norm. The Supreme Court broke everything to save Trump from prison.