isammis.bsky.social
Low-level tech peon; I've also mathed and arted for food.
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Don’t think it ever hit the movies; happened in a comic arc.
There are wonderful plots in the comics, but there’s also a LOT of dreck.
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Er…. The guy in the video, not you.
Getting very tired of people who voted to screw with people they hated only to discover that Trump is everything we said he was and the only thing protecting him last time were the democrats, who he’s note rendered powerless.
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If he weren’t a vicious nutter, I’d say that that’s way too much load for one person. Since he’s planning to run a circus, I suppose it doesn’t really matter how many clowns are in the car.
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He was elected president in at least one arc. They certainly did.
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Let’s say… differently dangerous? It’s the difference between Lex Luthor and this administration.
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1. Did my job
2. Also did my job
3. Did an unrelated aspect of my job
4. Told a South African putz to go fuck himself.
5. Did another aspect of my job.
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Oh, certainly, but most non-reporters don’t read readouts from presidential meetings.
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Damn right. You finally owned the libs, and all you had to do to do it was wreck your life and your country. Great fucking job, and go to hell.
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I was half afraid that you were Canadian, and that was going to end “And pour one out for our southern neighbors who weren’t as fortunate.”
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They are. They’re also aware of how lazy much of the US media are (present company excepted).
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Although unfortunately incompetent and not dangerous are absolutely not synonymous.
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Our Nazis are not very competent, even by Nazi standards, is probably the shortest answer.
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He might have been the model, but you guys at least had the decency not to make him PM.
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Oh, for god’s sake, Ontario, most of us down here _want_ you to boycott us! Don’t break the boycott for Musk’s business!!!
(And yes, I’m aware of Ford. We lost our whole country to guys like this. C’mon, Canada, don’t follow us into the dark places where we’ve gone…)
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Beat, not bear.
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It’s going to be hard to bear John Oliver’s “What You get If You order Tony Stark from TEMU.”
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I'm not convinced of the existence of "bathwater" in what Trump's throwing out the window, but otherwise excellent!
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Looks familiar.
Mi esposa es intelligente.
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My kids (now adults) joke that I have three solutions to every problem: Eat! Sleep! Bathe!
You're all over solution #1 :)
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It's too late for us — we'll be digging out of this hole for a very, very long time, if we ever can. But Canadians — Britons — Australians...
I suspect you have your own Pakled. And you're laughing at them now.
Don't. Beat them now, before it's too late. /Final
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After all, they were obviously a joke! They were morons! Anyone could beat them!
I hadn't understood the point they were trying to make until now, a month into the Trump administration. Who could take that guy seriously? He's a moron! Obviously a joke! Anyone could beat him!
Except, we didn't. /4
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By Star Trek: Lower Decks, they've gotten enough tech to be a _serious_ threat. They destroy one of the sister ships of the Cerritos. It takes a Federation heavy cruiser to rescue the main characters.
How did they become so powerful? Again, no-one took them seriously until it was too late. \3
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To become stronger, they'll beg for technology, buy it if they have to, and steal it if they can. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, they try to kidnap the Chief Engineer to force him to upgrade their systems.
Still, no-one really takes these guys seriously. They're morons. A joke. /2
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Does… he think we don’t remember solid growth literally last year?
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The media will be the _last _ institution to notice and react when the zeitgeist finally changes. They’re used to driving the narrative, not reporting on it.
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THIS MUST MEAN SOMETHING!! (Begins connecting Polaroid photos of poutine with yarn on the curd conspiracy board…)
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While you’re not wrong, I still feel that a threshold has been crossed. It’s the flip side of why Democratic supporters are in shock — they’ve finally reduced Democratic power to the point that we can’t even slow them down anymore. So they finally have to live with what they voted for, unmitigated.
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True, but not usually this directly. Usually “voting against their best interests” means “sticking with a bad status quo,” not “voting for an asshole who directly calls you unproductive and then fires you.”
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I sent one of my daughters to UVic to investigate. She reports amazing poutine from a place called “420 Poutine House,” which I suspect contains a vital if cryptic clue…
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It’s this sort of thing that makes me strongly suspect that for all its high ratings the Citadel is kinda shit at its core mission of being a college.
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He’s also talking about cutting the military by about 35%. There’s going to be a lot of vets on the other side of that. That’s going to get hella ugly.
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I might. Trump finally crossed the bright red line of hurting the livelihoods of his supporters directly over a very short time period.
It’s one thing to gradually make your constituents’ lives worse. Firing them en masse is a whole different kettle of fish.
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Pass everything themselves without opposition. They have the majority, and iirc this is the one bill that can’t be filibustered.
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It's a loser's bet for the United States. I think we can't overstate the degree to which US interests and the interests of Mr. Trump fail to coincide.
Trump's actions can be fully explained if you assume he's very selfish, very stupid, and doesn't give a flying damn about the United States.
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I think we all understand and are prepared for that.
We'll be happy to welcome you back when this stops, one way or another.
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No.
It is, though, extremely questionable to vote against the Democrats to “send them a message,” and then scream when they can’t protect you from Republicans anymore.
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Actually, the more I think about it, the Pakled may be exactly the correct parallel — particularly the tendency of... absolutely everyone... to underestimate how dangerous they are because they're so very, very, stupid.
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For better or worse, our role in the world seems to be slowly settling into "extremely informative counterexample and cautionary tale."
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Or, often, just people he saw and liked on TV. I swear sometimes the basic principle at work is just What Would the Pakled Do?
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I will note that he _did_ undermine the principle of civilian control of the military by putting Lane in charge of DoD.
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I think we're seeing the key difference between "supervillain" and "evil asshole" here. Luthor knew how to lead an organization — an evil one, yes, but an organization nevertheless. Trump... doesn't.
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Yes, when your capital is on fire you've certainly failed to effectively invade your opponent. There are colloquial expressions that might convey the outcome of our little excursion into the Napoleonic Wars a bit more clearly.
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Honestly at this point that works for me. If it helps, California went almost 60-40 against that orange maniac.
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Hey, now, this is our home! We're at least provinces eleven to twenty-something!
(The fact that Trump somehow missed the provinces makes that idiotic "51st state" thing almost fractally stupid — it's stupid and insulting and is made up of stupid and insulting parts at all scales!)
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Not hardly; look at this thread. A whole lot of us Americans are flying l'Unifolié tonight. 🇨🇦
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Yeah, sorry about all that. Any interest in taking parts of ours as an apology? Please? Say, bits under my feet right now?
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Judging by that CPAC interview, possibly weeks.
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Hey, if you're taking Washington and Oregon, you might as well pick up California while you're down here and invite Hawaii to come along.
That'd get you some sweet beaches and LOT of produce. Seriously, California is crazy when it comes to vegetables.