also, the run of unlucky x chromosomes in question here is typically traced back to queen victoria. hemophilia wasn't endemic to the russian aristocracy? wrong on so many levels lol

It’s actually vital to the health of our country to disenfranchise rural voters, who have spent the entire lifespan of the republic demonstrating that they can’t responsibly exercise their franchise

this is the implicit consensus of the american constitutional order, too. it's so good to see it changing like this.

can the meek tweet?

that the west's silence about gaza and lebanon is partially, temporarily, half-heartedly broken by an image of a defaced statue of jesus on the cross is obscene

Later, on 18 March 2001, then Taliban ambassador-at-large Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said that the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the statues' heads. Rahmatullah Hashemi is reported as saying: "When the Afghan head council asked them to provide the money to feed the children instead of fixing the statues, they refused and said, 'No, the money is just for the statues, not for the children'. Herein, they made the decision to destroy the statues"; however, he did not comment on the claim that a foreign museum offered to "buy the Buddhist statues, the money from which could have been used to feed children".[56] Rahmatullah Hashemi added: "If we had wanted to destroy those statues, we could have done it three years ago," referring to the start of U.S. sanctions. "In our religion, if anything is harmless, we just leave it. If money is going to statues while children are dying of malnutrition next door, then that makes it harmful, and we destroy it."[57] Hashemi denied any religious grounds in the justification of the statues' destruction.[56] In 2004, following the American invasion of Afghanistan and his exile, Omar explained in an interview: I did not want to destroy the Bamiyan Buddha. In fact, some foreigners came to me and said they would like to conduct the repair work of the Bamiyan Buddha that had been slightly damaged due to rains. This shocked me. I thought, these callous people have no regard for thousands of living human beings—the Afghans who are dying of hunger, but they are so concerned about non-living objects like the Buddha. This was extremely deplorable. That is why I ordered its destruction. Had they come for humanitarian work, I would have never ordered the Buddha's destruction.[58]

i've been a practicing buddhist for most of my life and ever since i saw the image of the jesus statue in lebanon i've been thinking about the stated rationale for the destruction of the bamiyan buddhas. real "first time as tragedy, second time as farce" shit.

make a batch of neutral-ish cake, reserve some batter to mix with the bergamot stuff and bake in a muffin tin?

it turns out that even when one is richer than 99.9% of humanity one's relationship to the means of production is still quite important. huh

affluent PMC redistributionism is inherently funny but it stems from the objectively, empirically correct sense that people who are rich from wage income contribute way more to the social contract than their bosses who are rich from ownership income

I think people really underestimate the writings of Baudrillard and Mark Fisher lol

Capital will recreate ghosts of your past to exploit you via simulacra that reify its own spectacle as accumulation long after you have been fired only to stage you for further exploitation later. There’s no punchline here.

lucille bluth-ass budgeting

before 2020 i wondered a lot about how no one on boardwalk empire ever mentions the 1918 flu pandemic. i don't really wonder about it anymore.

US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of ⁠Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had ⁠paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

not beating the "organized labor has become a tool for capital to discipline workers" allegations frankly

remember when aoc was in the news for the "tax the rich dress" and seiu did a social media post a week and a half later saying "tax the ultra-rich"? i sure do. i love being part of a union that thinks aoc is ultraleftist. love. it.

more ngmi-ass posting from seiu.

i bet people would have more babies if we cut taxes to zero for anyone within $10k of the poverty line

Tumblr post from specgram: "Happy birthday! Today is Noam Chomsky's birthday. To celebrate, discuss linguistics or hegemony. But never bothered at the same time! Why is that?"

he was the lesser chomsky all along, it's true

i don't know how many times i have to tell you to watch The Young Pope

canonically, in The Young Pope, Jude Law uses his divine, entirely real connection to god almighty to ask Him to smite a corrupt nun in Africa who is siphoning funds from the charity she runs for starving children and she dies that very night. in my heart of hearts i believe Pope Leo has this power

liberal currents finally entering their bulwark era?

constitutional sola scriptura when

Deranged game show host

once again begging journalists and politicians to be fucking serious

"this popular left-wing figure is rude and has problematic views on some issues" yeah man OK the Secretary of Defense believes the fighter pilot we just rescued is basically Jesus and the FBI is building lists of anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh. But yeah that streamer sounds scary.

Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz Sharif University of Technology is not just Iran’s top engineering school. It is a talent pipeline for missile, cyber, and dual-use military programs tied to the regime and IRGC. That is why the US government sanctioned it. https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=15098&utm_source=chatgpt.com https://federalregister.gov/documents/2012/11/16/2012-27938/designation-of-four-4-individuals-and-five-5-entities-pursuant-to-executive-order-13628-of-october-9?utm_source=chatgpt.com Quote Vali Nasr @vali_nasr · 11h Sharif University of Technology (founded as Arya Mehr University in 1966) is an icon of modernization and progress in Iran. Its alumni include the first woman to win the Field Medal in Mathematics, Maryam Mirzakhani. It has been a national symbol of achievement, gaining

Pretty interesting chain of logic which, if applied in the inverse, would functionally legitimate airstrikes on everyone in Israel or the US

darkly funny to see the "not enough lithuanians in video games" account scold americans for scolding foreigners for having unacceptable feelings about the death of american troops

ontologically evil newspaper

ontologically evil newspaper