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Some gay he/him doing big data in Arizona (Striving to be) Anarchist. Some wonkery, mostly nerdery
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Calvinism! Good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people. That’s how you can tell whomst amongst us is God’s Elect

I love it when a plan comes together (Perfect amount of rye and vermouth left in the bottle for a Manhattan)

How about a reality show where Noem has to fend off an ever increasing number of wild dogs?

Both are concerned with extreme performance of femininity. The difference is, one set uses that performance to subvert gender norms. The other uses that performance to reify them. It's worth remembering that fascists absolutely recognize that gender is a performance. They just use it differently.

Y'know, if you have to resort to de facto vs de jure then you're only going to win over annoying pedants while alienating everyone else, all while appearing okay with ethically bad actions

I'll forever thank my college freshman English comp teacher for having a HP section that let me come to the realization that the series sucked. She was awesome, she even let me do an essay on an episode of The Office and got me interested in media studies.

The bad thing about being partnered is that you'll be a little buzzed at home and your husband will be all "I'm headed home, want me to pick you up anything?" and next thing you know it you'll have 14 of Jack in the Box jalapeno poppers sitting in your stomach like a time bomb

Eating a slim Jim so the 10% TIPA won't completely fuck me up (it will)

She's really good at parting VC rubes from their money. I just hope the common man gets more cringe texts from this whole ordeal.

Gallows funny that some other US admin's head diplomat and/or prez would probably get a Nobel Peace Prize for de-escalating this, but instead it's going to to be Xi or some other nearby head of state. High key hilarity if it otherwise ends up being Starmer.

We're (probably) going to pay off our mortgage by the end of summer so sure, nuclear armed countries warring, why the fuck not

Chicago Pope's here

God bless them, they picked the stock image of what you think of "American Catholic priest" as if you were playing some sort of Sim City or reading an Onion article

Sufjan Stevens voice:

Is the pope Catholic?

Less white smoke, more White Chalk

The thing about MAHA is that it's basically the Prosperity Gospel but for Wellness. Part of it is a response to the absurdity of disease and disabling accidents. But most is just grift. If you "believe and trust" the cure (that only they have access to, natch) then will you be actually be cured.

“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.

This sort of unambiguous, unapologetic pro-immigration message is so much more effective than unconvincing hemming and hawing about how actually Democrats would do a better and more effective job of being anti-immigration.

How TF are you playing 3 hours straight at that high a level, Sturgill?

I'm honestly glad my grandparents aren't around to see how much the Witness of the church has deteriorated.

Suggests that the Houthi got close enough with a drone or missile strike to force the Truman to maneuver hard, tossing the Super Hornet overboard. This is the second F/A-18 lost in the past six months, along with at least 9 Predator drones. This "cheap" war in Yemen is starting to add up

The Houthis took out an F/A-18 on Pete Hegseth's watch. This is the first one lost as a result of hostile fire since the 1991 Persian Gulf War more than 34 years ago. This conflict is such a directionless waste of time, money and effort.

What these fuckos don't know about their own supply chain could fill a warehouse. Of which there are tens of thousands of them soon to be empty.

my favorite scene from Conclave (2024)

"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

I feel like these things are being done on purpose, like the firing/rehiring of federal workers. The uncertainty causes them to seek other opportunities, all the while also making it seem like the government acquiesced.

i've noticed a lot of left liberals on here saying that people have "Stancil derangement syndrome" but come the fuck on, he says stuff like this.

Here's the thing, Signal's only vulnerability is installing it on a computer because of how it stores chats. He took one of the most secure messaging apps (purposefully?) used it in the most data insecure way!

Peggy Hill is the prototypical Michael Scott

Apostate here and was never a big believer in literal interpretations of Christian eschatology when I did believe. But the destruction of the Witness of the church is just horrifying to the extent of being worthy of Revelations