pantoum.bsky.social
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I fail to see the intelligence in this guy. Is this "smart" reputation a legacy of his older days? In retrospect, it was obvious the "Tony Stark" comparison was a marketing thing on his part. But he comes off like a mid-brow goober to me.
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The more I think about this post, the more I realize my use of "sure" contradicted my sense of ambivalence regarding justified violence. How do we decide that violence is justified? Criminal justice methods can be sadistic in practice instead of restorative, going further than protecting the public.
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I often think about that brief strike storyline they did in the early 2010s. Triple H, in full executive mode, did a promo like he was the underdog in the fight.
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Make no mistake: There is no means to an end for this administration. The means is the end, and the end is power for its own sake.
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Even good, wise people fuck up, and when people in power fuck up, it can irreparably damage someone else's life.
The damage is all the more widespread, more catastrophic when the reckless, the selfish get both hands on power.
Nothing good comes from gleeful, unfettered authority.
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Do we need guns? Do some bad people need to die for unforgivable crimes?
Sure, but collectively, we're blind to the fact that even well meaning investigators can screw up when trying to solve a case. And we savor harming defendants more than healing survivors of crime.
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For decades, I've heard this talk about small government, but it's always about cutting social programs and never taking a skeptical eye to cops and the military.
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I'm hard pressed to imagine society without police and prisons -- it's obviously going to be best that trained, coordinated people respond to violent or otherwise damaging incidents -- but as a group, Americans are too damn comfortable with power.
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They don't want to just get rid of bad people. They want to get rid of anyone who doesn't toe the line they've drawn.
The law and order talk is just a cover for something far more vicious and controlling.
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It feels incorrect to even call it "deportation" in this circumstance. This administration is gleefully vicious about redefining what it means to be American -- who is in, and who is out.
They're going to try to do whatever they want to do, regardless of collateral damage.
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The shape of the flag in the top right reminds me of a speech bubble from a 19th century political cartoon.
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"I'm just a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know the part I'm playing ..."
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It's a shame that worm in his brain died. It had some good ideas about infrastructure.
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Tfw one's life is so good they look for problems to make it interesting.
In related news:
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Thank you! I don't have any questions right now, but I've had my eye on Linux Mint. For gaming, the goal is to run Cyberpunk 2077 on 1440p on a high at a steady 60 fps. I will also want to use certain apps for work. It'll be a transition period for sure, but it is what it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I admit to being extremely ignorant about all this through the years -- woefully and even willfully ignorant.
I'm off the bus. Fuck this shit.
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And with that magnificent trick, Cooper saved the earth from destruction.
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Peter's face: "This blonde motherfucker better not interpret that as innuendo."
Thor's face: "I'm definitely going to interpret this as innuendo."
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I, too, love vacillating on decisions that touch the lives of billions of people.
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Tapping the sign.
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Growing up Republican sucks, because either one drinks the Kool-Aid, or you're like me, and you realize you spent way too much of your life thinking these fucks had any sincere principles beyond attaining power.
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"tHeY sHOUld nEFf hiM."
Stop with the lies. It's a great air-to-air attack, but DPs run the meta. He cleans house in Bronze rank, but becomes obsolete by Gold. Give him a better ground game, and then we can talk nerfs.
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Okay, but this actually sounds like a fun thing for you guys to occasionally do.