jhohoho.bsky.social
I am, in fact, an island. Suck it, John Donne.
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This post makes me wish that bluesky had a level of "like" equivalent to Care Bear Stare.
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"squashing the beef"
Urg.
There's no way I'm the only one who's thinking what I'm thinking.
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Things worse than people already know or suspect about him? I doubt it. I think we need to stop expecting normal standards to apply in these abnormal times
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I get the impression you think that he hasn't already.
ALL of the Doge stooges will have to spend the next 20 years looking over their shoulders.
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Coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb is my new favorite name for a band.
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I like my scars, thanks. I think I earned my body art the hard way.
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That's basically the Republican playbook as well. Unfortunately, they only gave the Democrat one term to fix things this time, so the Republican kind of inherited a renovation in progress.
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Hey, we're already sold on the idea. No need to make it even more attractive.
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Because he's ... stoned.
Stinger please, bandleader...
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One occasionally gets the impression that the fantastic four franchise is cursed.
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Those are two smart guys, but "straining at the leash" isn't really the way you picture them...
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Losing is always more awkward than winning. Ironic that a Democrat president took the hit for the unwinnable war started by the Republican. Sigh.
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The main difference between Republican "Christians" and a death cult is that there is no difference.
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Even if you're one of the people in your red state who can still afford insurance, when your local hospital closes because it lost so many Medicaid customers, it closes for you too...
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Ironically, the hollowing out of the middle class is what has led to the declining importance of the US as a trade partner. If the oligarchs really wanted to have a big stick to bargain with, they'd back strong unions and institute a basic minimum income.
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Until both sides of the political spectrum are on the right side of history with regards to basic human rights, I will vote only for the side respecting basic human rights, disregarding any economic issues. Want my vote to balance a budget? Respect people's differences. It's not hard.
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The amount of "influencer" manliness that involves doing things that attract other men isn't even a little bit homoerotic. Not even a little bit. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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Little Johnny Wick...
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As soon as they start shooting, it's game over for them. They exploit the *threat* of violence; as soon as it becomes *actual* violence, they go down under a wave.
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Centralization of power is a classic short-term authoritarian advantage.
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Yeah, no argument there.
There's a mistaken impression that we're asking billionaires to do us a favor by requesting that they pay more in tax, but what we're actually doing is asking them to pay to maintain the social order that enables their very existence.
It's not a favor; it's owed.
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If you're suggesting that he should be leaving more of it to American causes, I can see your point, but it is pretty indisputable that the Western world has been looting Africa for a long time. Gates won't even come close to righting the balance.
So many buckets, so little water.
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To paraphrase the great Douglas Adams, it's easy to sit on something for a long time without thinking about it; it's far more difficult to be sat on without developing some thoughts about the thing doing the sitting.
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I see what you did there.
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The obvious conclusion is that he's high as a kite.
But there's a corner of me that's wondering if what we're seeing there is just the fatigue of ignoring all the drivel one has to bear in the presence of Trump manifesting as physical discomfort...
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So many people don't understand that those with *property* benefit disproportionately from our *property-based* system and should be willing to pay the bulk of the freight to maintain it. Stop asking poor people to fund a system favoring the rich. It makes no sense.
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"Shut up and die" is the way that Republicans deal with anyone who doesn't fit into their agenda.
Black people. Gay people. Trans people. Poor people.
Heck; women.
When met with objections to how the GOP treats them, the answer is always "you're in the way; shut up and die, already".
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Because the viewership is aging.
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Or at least it would have been one of his own generals who overthrew him. Nukes ain't much proof against internal threats...
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Yes, there were multiple levels of betrayed trust here. If anyone wonders why Iran and North Korea are so reticent about nukes, all they really need to do is look at the fate of nations that agreed to give them up.
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One of the clear ways you can tell that you're dealing with a legitimate bully is that they want to be the ones who decide how far is *too* far.
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Even if they *did* participate, somewhere flapping around out there in the breeze there is a treaty from the 90s stating that Russia will respect Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for giving up its nukes.
If there are no rules, there are no rules. For either side.
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Believe so, yes. Because a larger ball would result in the buoyancy of the water supporting a larger weight. It would still not be supporting the total weight, but it would be supporting more.
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A little while ago my Albertan brother-in-law tried to win an argument by quoting Liz Truss at me. I was like, well, that fits. Alberta is indeed the epicenter of white supremacy in Canada.
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I don't think Americans actually care about global opinion, and I'm not sure they should. However, there's "going your own way because it's what's best for you", and then there's "sitting in front of the TV all day in ever-expanding sweatpants with a heavy dusting of cheeto crumbs on your chest".
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Yeah. This is a waste of time.
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So having dodged any evidence of your claim with irrelevancies and annoyed responses, you now claim to not dodge evidence with irrelevancies annoyed responses. Okay, check please...
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The most strange thing about this for someone of my age is that Bill Clinton took the Democratic Party HARD RIGHT. If modern conservatives can't get it on with *current* liberals...wow, would time machine liberals ever fuck them up...
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If you call that lashing out you might be a little bit fragile. But okay, you say you can demonstrate that eating a dog is immoral. If you mean that you can demonstrate that *not* eating dogs is a moral obligation, I'm interested in seeing your example.
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I've got no interest in watching golf, but I think I'd tune in to see what Maxi or mega-golf looked like.
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There is no such thing as tangible, physical proof of an abstract concept like a moral obligation. It is an issue that is decided on the quality of the arguments around it. I think I know I need to know about whether or not this is a useful conversation.
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I can do better than my first try. If humans have the right to exploit less intelligent lives, then veganism is a moral virtue. If we do not have that right, it's a moral obligation. So, if you think a more intelligent life form than yourself would owe you any regard...
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Your argument appears to hinge on the idea that humans have a right to treat other life forms as disposable. Otherwise, why would you even be bothering to defend? If humans have no moral obligation to treat other life forms as valuable, would a superior life form have any obligation to you?
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For a long time Republicans have tried to vote away women's rights, but their recent success has made them unusually undateable.
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Wow, I've scrolled this thread top to bottom and all its branches now. I wish it were possible to nominate a thread for "The Most Arrogant Defense of Wrongness". I know it's only May, but I feel like we'd still have a contender come December.
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Space is not nothingness. Space is a form of emptiness which is capable of exhibiting properties. Not the same thing.
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So, if someone can demonstrate that they're superior to *you*, do they have the natural right to treat you as if your suffering is meaningless and your life is only valuable inasmuch as it serves their purposes?