arramol.bsky.social
Sysadmin, volunteer freelance political analyst (nobody would be stupid enough to pay for my opinions!), geek. He/him
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I loved this series so much that I badgered my wife and all of my friends into reading it. And now they've started spreading it to *their* friends because they're all hooked, too.
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Although doing it with Nazis is pretty impressively godawful.
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I genuinely think "both sides" has done more damage to our political discourse than any other method of argument. I've seen so many discussions get completely de-railed arguing over whether or not a "both sides" response was a false equivalence, original topic totally lost.
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NEW ACHIEVEMENT: Read Between the Lines
You've been caught reading DCC when you're supposed to be working. You scoundrel!
REWARD: Reading DCC is its own reward. Also, unemployment.
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I'm half-expecting him to pull a Nero and demand we watch *him* perform.
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Honestly, I don't think even a ten ringer could fuck things up worse than Musk and his pet president at this point.
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At some point in season 2, I realized I was forcing myself to watch, and quit. Being sufficiently entertaining covers over a number of sins, but RoP managed to be boring on top of the ridiculousness.
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Sacre Bleu Sky!
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At this point, I think Heater might be a better interviewer than some of the legacy media.
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Nero fancied himself quite the artist, too.
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That was gorgeously written! Out of curiosity, did you base the story of the emperor on Basil II?
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Map each one to a Pokemon and see who survives a Nuzlocke.
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What really unsettles me about this skeet isn't how accurate it is. It's how many *other* pieces of recent and near-future news you could apply it to with equal accuracy.
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Am I overreacting to think Congress is starting to look an awful lot like the Roman Senate early in the Principate? I don't think the deformation is a done deal yet, but...
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Ah, of course, he can just turn the hurricane gun off!
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Give the David Wenzel graphic novel a look if you haven't seen it. A lot of the original writing with gorgeous watercolor illustrations.
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I made the terrible mistake of reading the comments about it on Fox's Facebook page. Lots of, "Yes! America first!" So yeah, I think you're depressingly right.
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The fact that there really are people who think it's performative self-hatred to recognize skill and worth in women and people who belong to minority groups will never cease to depress me. Doubly so since they seem to be winning at the moment.
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Your personal war with K2 is one of the most entertaining things about following you. The mountain hates everyone, and Shiv hates the mountain.
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This has massive Dungeon Crawler Carl energy.
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More like "by every conservative I've ever talked politics with"
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They're going to ban ADHD meds, aren't they? With exceptions for themselves, I think, since the White House was apparently overflowing with Adderall during Trump's first term.
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I'm kinda glad I *don't,* actually. At least, I hope I don't.
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I suspect they will be quite densely concentrated in this camp...
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If a VC is pissed at you, you're doing something right.
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I've been struck again and again by people's absolute, unshakeable certainty that it can't possibly happen here. That the status quo they grew up with will endure forever, and nothing can change it. So they end up dismissing everything I say because, in their minds, it literally *can't* be that bad.
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That would make for some sick metal lyrics. Somebody get Visions of Atlantis in here. It's right up their alley.
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Oh, I agree. I'm just bewildered by the mental gymnastics I've been seeing from the "centrists."
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Would even that do it at this point?
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There's a metal song called "My Hate Will Go On" that's been playing on a loop in my head since the election.
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This not the account that I expected to see posting absolute Star Wars truth, but I'm here for it.
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Gods, that show was so great.
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Is the "finger" in "finger puppets" an attributive noun or a verb here?
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Why yes, I *am* spending Inauguration Day listening to over-the-top angry metal music. It just hits right.
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I love that cover for Old Man's War so much.
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Gotta love the politicians pointing fingers at TikTok while Trump's number one sycophant has turned Xitter into a far right radicalization chamber.
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We are all Pagliacci on this blessed day!
Blessings by eldritch gods of torment still count when I'm adapting a KenM meme, right?
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The best part is that when it does come, they'll believe with absolute, genuine certainty that it's totally unfair and they're just being picked on out of envy or something.
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They have much toh.
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But we *definitely* need to pay them gazillions of dollars while shafting our regular workers, because they're just such amazing superhuman geniuses!