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no only because i can safely say, despite my many flaws and sins, i have done nothing worthy of THAT kind of punishment

Oh no now I want controversial opinions on music What instrument is overused/criminally underused in __ genre, who deserves credit for things usually given to other innovators, etc

Talk to anyone at any university whose president is going "WE BELIEVE THAT THIS TIME LUCY WILL HOLD THE FOOTBALL AND NOT SHIV US IN THE ANKLE WHEN WE RUN BY" and everyone who is not said uni president would rather put up barricades and throw rocks but the presidents are spineless morons, every time

i can at least look at big law attorneys and go "well yeah you were always going to be dipshits about this" but higher ed presidents should IN THEORY have some kind of integrity and or pattern recognition, but the role has selected for Biggest Fucking Kissass for so long now that it's not there

To be fair I'm not well-versed in Metal Gear stuff beyond the general internet meme culture but hey, love to learn something new every day! But yeah agreed that spiritually the point remains haha

Hideo Kojima, having just written a war profiteer shouting "just like the good ol' days after 9/11!" : Well that just seems a bit on the nose, right? That's a bit much.

The Second UN Charter must mandate markets be open 24/7 as a matter of global peace and stability and the fact I'm not *100%* kidding here scares me

Ironically I just found that at the same time; I'll leave my reply up so folks can find yours with the link. Cheers.

Q: (not because of skepticism but because I want to read more up on this, to be clear) where can I read about it being NOTAM'd/other details?

checking in with all the folks i follow who are natsec folks: how the hell are y'all staying remotely sane because i don't even have the same knowledge basis you do and every day it's a new

thanos snapping away a cool mil of an objectively evil government is super good and rad and might be the Ur-example of "crimes should be legal if they're funny enough"

bro really said (laudatory):

Thanos: Fine, I'll do it myselfAlt: Thanos: Fine, I'll do it myselfstatic.klipy.com

That second part is incredibly important, folks in the Bluesky age bracket of perpetually mid-30s tend to WILDLY underaccount for how much weight the Kennedy name holds with older folks across the board even to this day. (It's what let him take antivax stuff semi-mainstream in the 90s/00s!)

Ah, some of us are considerate and are just annoying but not hot, avoids the whole deal

oh NO

And massively high disapproval ratings with things not getting better (and probably worse!) anytime soon and no real deliverables to point to for the base is...approaching what you'd call perfect storm conditions for depressing turnout for the incumbent party Plus Trump isn't on the ballot himself!

Opening the door to "well a broken clock's right twice a day!" type cranks that vehemently oppose centuries-old medical science in favor of woo, who were key in installing a *germ-theory denier* as HHS Sec, and who view huge swaths of 'undesirable' people as acceptable casualties is unacceptable.

And after a moment of consideration, a corollary: anyone in the MAHA movement *right now*, even IF they only theoretically believe in the common ground, however unlikely, has already expressed a clear willingness to cross unacceptable lines (vaccines, protecting trans people, etc.) for those ends!

"The law says the former President never has to pay taxes again and also you can never ask if he or his spawn have ever paid taxes ever or where the money went" and the Rump Parliament preempted that absolute sovereignty argument via what I'd call Funni English Common Law in 1649, next question

Relatedly, kind of FUCKING INSANE that the 2010 midterms saw the Republicans pick up 63 seats in the House with a margin of only...R+6.8%? bsky.app/profile/esca...