Not to be confused with the riverboat gambler @riverboatjack.bsky.social

Well also, consider the role of Pikuach Nefesh. If you're a survivor at Bergen Belsen in April 1945 and a British soldier offers half of his ham sandwich, do you take it?

Yeah that checks out. In other words he's a fan, but hasn't done the work to actually figure out what's going on.

The issue with Thiel is that, unlike most of them, he has encountered some real philosophy, especially Christian theology.
And yet he still doesn't get it.

Well the solution to these two things is vastly different in scope and scale.

Also that when we have a President who levies import taxes on a whim, and starts a major war on a whim, that President is operating as a dictator.

Racist police in Canada have a term for this kind of homicide. The term is "Starlight Tours."

Right but if anything, Peru seems to have the opposite problem. It's a little bit too easy to remove the President lol

I was under the impression that Berlusconi didn't bother to attempt most of the procedural end runs we see under Trump either.

Even? Seriously? In that case, let me be the first to apologize for my fellow gringos who fail to appreciate just how far Brazil has come, and just how important Brasilia now is on the world stage.

There was already a big downturn in the US wine industry before Trump came back to office last year. The Canadian boycott certainly doesn't help, but it's not the main driver.

I have thought about this, and I think it's more than that. It's also a sign of sunk costs in the tech companies dating back to the pandemic when they assumed everyone would move online, so now they have a vested interest in keeping as many people online as much as possible.

What do you think are the chances that "AI", as in the current wave, is an operation specifically dedicated to wiping out what remains of the corporate middle class?

He wasn't wrong about that.

What was George W Bush then? Moderately intelligent, evil in his own way, and good at playing dumb?

Took me a moment. Referring to Epstein himself?

The bar is in the Mariana Trench.

A really important negative side effect of particularist Holocaust education that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is that if you teach about one set of historical atrocities and no others, a lot of people are going to have only one historical reference.

We already have experience with this, or something like it. During COVID.

Previous comment might be grading on a curve. It's not hard to find earlier times in Israel's relatively short history when foreign policy was less insane compared to now. Not healthy mind you, just less bad.

Does Schumer know that saying things like this will keep Democrats from winning elections and doesn't care, or is he too oblivious to understand? Either way it's disqualifying.

Written like someone who definitely doesn't want comparisons made with the George W Bush Administration.

What was that JD said again about "Absolute Immunity"?

@qasimrashid.com pointed out that this type of torture meets the UN definition of genocide.

Next dangling block is probably Noem.

My impression is that getting through the Minnesota winter as a city, together, teaches people to run towards danger. Also, Pretti was an ICU nurse. Running towards urgent situations was his life's work.

They shouldn't be brutalizing undocumented people either.

Solidarity with Minnesota. An attack on one is an attack on all. #ICEOUT

A blue sweater background with the text: You invaded a winter people in ✨️January?✨️

In order to keep the @nerdykeppie.bsky.social FB page active, I post random shit I make in mobile graphics programs with random stock photos.

This made me laugh to make.

Doing my best impression of Andy Borowitz, I'm pretty sure that Leavitt got confused by that phrase "piece of ice" because it sounds a lot like what Trump calls her.