3119 pts ยท August 22, 2022
I'm hating that it feels like he was right for the wrong reasons. It feels like Obama brought out all the reactionary racists and gave us Trump which has subsequently seen America lose its place economically, diplomatically, militarily, and to what degree it had it, morally in world standing.
I would take what you've said a step further. It isn't that he's "incapable of telling the truth unless...", but rather he has no relationship with the truth. What he says is rhetoric that exists for the sake of his own power and ego. Truth never factors into the picture of anything he says, but sometimes he says things that align with the facts and he says true things as a result. Truth's connection to his words are always an accident, an afterthought.
For every fallout, there's a Rings of Power that's just bad, or Wheel of Time that gets canceled right as it starts to find its footing.
Yeah, I'm not hopeful. I think the choice not to do a reboot is a really bad one. SG1 had kind of ran out of bad guys to fight. They killed fake gods with alien tech, then they killed robots with the ability to reshape planets. Then they killed less fake gods with supernatural powers that transcended reality. There's no more escalation to go in the Milky Way galaxy. SG1 was about military going out and finding tech to protect the world, and they did it, they won.
I've said it before, but I'll restate it here. Trump is ignoring congress anyway. He's got the appointments he needs, he's got funding for his secret police. The person who 100% loses their job if the GOP loses the midterms isn't Trump, its Mike Johnson. But nobody cares about Mike Johnson, so he's trying to tie his fate to Trump's because he hopes that the MAGA faithful will save him from becoming irrelevant again. This is Mike whining about how he's going to lose his position as speaker.
If he won 26 cases out of 26 cases, I'm guessing that anyone who sued him for not being a lawyer had no damages to sue him for? If a guy pretends to be a lawyer, takes your case, and wins, what do you have to sue him over? Other lawyers might try to sue him for stealing their clients, but I don't know if they'd have standing over a potential, unprovable loss of business.
Can't shit your pants if you aren't wearing any. Modern problems require modern solutions and all that.
It was the Three Doors Down singer... apparently he was also against funding research for the cancer that ended up killing him.
This is like the third anti-medicine celebrity to have died in as many months. Scott Adams died pretty recently, and I feel like there was another major MAGA celeb that died from a cancer that he wanted research funding cut on, but the name doesn't come to mind.
Yeah, we need an entire overhaul on the constitution.
I think "aggression" is the better word. Violence against an aggressor is usually justifiable. Violence by being an aggressor is very rarely justifiable.
I think I'd say I'm anti-aggression. The guy defending a woman being assaulted is not comiting an aggression here, he's stepping in against an aggressor on behalf of a victim. Being pro or anti violence feels like it is asking a less clear question than asking about aggression.
With dogs, it doesn't feel particularly strange. We wouldn't be humans without dogs. We basically co-evolved and co-domesticated each other. We've had dog companions for almost as long as we've been "human" by some definitions of the species.
I said the same 4 years ago, but at this point I genuinely believe it is too late. I honestly think we need to put his corpse on trial in 4 years just to set precedent about his crimes so we can fast track them next time it happens.
I don't know that I'd say he is responsible for the people killed by ICE outside of MN. At least not until after it is very clear that Good's murder will go unpunished. And honestly if it wasn't him, Miller would have gotten someone else to provide justification. Not saying this to defend Shirley, but to point out that he's just not a major player, but a pawn.
One of those clips that I'd worry was AI today, but I know for a fact that it was around 5 years ago before AI could generate this.
eh... Trump is worse, but with the Senate as it is, you'd never get a conviction. Target the cabinet, build some momentum, get GOP senators to flip on Trump on the minions, then go for Trump himself.
Trump specifically would target small businesses for contract work on his real estate projects because then he'd stiff them on the bill and they couldn't afford the lawyers to fight him. There was a pretty striking story of one who had to settle for like 20% of the actual bill. He then emptied his bank account, sold his truck, paid his workers with whatever he had, and then killed himself.
Ok, glad someone else agrees on this one. A slice would indicate that it was... you know... sliced.
This is just what some banks do when there's fraud on the account and they need to lock it. A lawyer is going to tell you there's nothing to sue over, and to call your bank and talk to them about why it has a fraud-lock in place.
I was going to say: "but can she undo a bra strap with her butt cheeks?"
This is why there's a big problem with Copaganda television and movies. They always portray law enforcement as the good guys while simultaneously giving them carte blanc to use lethal force. These shows have tried to engrain that cops are just allowed to execute people for breaking the law. De-escalation doesn't get ratings.
Multiple districts reporting zero votes for Harris is more than a little fishy.
Just a FYI, these two are now married.
I was really hoping it would end with the giant spider picking the gun back up and pointing it at the couple. I am very disappointed.
My understanding is that a) you do have to sell books across more than one "storefront", so you can't just sell all your books on patreon or through an exclusive retailer, and b) the list isn't actually about sales figures, but it is an editorial decision made by the staff. In 1983 someone with a lot of sales failed to make the list and sued, and lost the suit. (see William Peter Blatty)
Yeah, I had the thought today that Venezuela might be Trump's Poland. He's now talking about attacking Mexico and Colombia if not the entire hemisphere.
That's another good question. The US definitely launched bombs into France, but it was against German nationals. This statement definitely needs clarification. What is a "bomb", what is a "country". I assume any "drone or missile or other ordinance strikes within targets of a sovereign nation not at war" would count today.
Did FDR not bomb that many in WW2? France, Italy, Japan, Germany... Belgium? Morocco? Libya? Tunisia? I guess WW1 probably didn't have much in the way of bombings. First bombing was apparently in 1914 from a German Zeppelin.
Well, specifically the financially illiterate. That often corresponds to the poor, but being poor doesn't mean you are financially illiterate. And if you are good enough at fraud you can be financially illiterate and wealthy; you can even become President.
I'm hating that it feels like he was right for the wrong reasons. It feels like Obama brought out all the reactionary racists and gave us Trump which has subsequently seen America lose its place economically, diplomatically, militarily, and to what degree it had it, morally in world standing.
I would take what you've said a step further. It isn't that he's "incapable of telling the truth unless...", but rather he has no relationship with the truth. What he says is rhetoric that exists for the sake of his own power and ego. Truth never factors into the picture of anything he says, but sometimes he says things that align with the facts and he says true things as a result. Truth's connection to his words are always an accident, an afterthought.
For every fallout, there's a Rings of Power that's just bad, or Wheel of Time that gets canceled right as it starts to find its footing.
Yeah, I'm not hopeful. I think the choice not to do a reboot is a really bad one. SG1 had kind of ran out of bad guys to fight. They killed fake gods with alien tech, then they killed robots with the ability to reshape planets. Then they killed less fake gods with supernatural powers that transcended reality. There's no more escalation to go in the Milky Way galaxy. SG1 was about military going out and finding tech to protect the world, and they did it, they won.
I've said it before, but I'll restate it here. Trump is ignoring congress anyway. He's got the appointments he needs, he's got funding for his secret police. The person who 100% loses their job if the GOP loses the midterms isn't Trump, its Mike Johnson. But nobody cares about Mike Johnson, so he's trying to tie his fate to Trump's because he hopes that the MAGA faithful will save him from becoming irrelevant again. This is Mike whining about how he's going to lose his position as speaker.
If he won 26 cases out of 26 cases, I'm guessing that anyone who sued him for not being a lawyer had no damages to sue him for? If a guy pretends to be a lawyer, takes your case, and wins, what do you have to sue him over? Other lawyers might try to sue him for stealing their clients, but I don't know if they'd have standing over a potential, unprovable loss of business.
Can't shit your pants if you aren't wearing any. Modern problems require modern solutions and all that.
It was the Three Doors Down singer... apparently he was also against funding research for the cancer that ended up killing him.
This is like the third anti-medicine celebrity to have died in as many months. Scott Adams died pretty recently, and I feel like there was another major MAGA celeb that died from a cancer that he wanted research funding cut on, but the name doesn't come to mind.
Yeah, we need an entire overhaul on the constitution.
I think "aggression" is the better word. Violence against an aggressor is usually justifiable. Violence by being an aggressor is very rarely justifiable.
I think I'd say I'm anti-aggression. The guy defending a woman being assaulted is not comiting an aggression here, he's stepping in against an aggressor on behalf of a victim. Being pro or anti violence feels like it is asking a less clear question than asking about aggression.
With dogs, it doesn't feel particularly strange. We wouldn't be humans without dogs. We basically co-evolved and co-domesticated each other. We've had dog companions for almost as long as we've been "human" by some definitions of the species.
I said the same 4 years ago, but at this point I genuinely believe it is too late. I honestly think we need to put his corpse on trial in 4 years just to set precedent about his crimes so we can fast track them next time it happens.
I don't know that I'd say he is responsible for the people killed by ICE outside of MN. At least not until after it is very clear that Good's murder will go unpunished. And honestly if it wasn't him, Miller would have gotten someone else to provide justification. Not saying this to defend Shirley, but to point out that he's just not a major player, but a pawn.
One of those clips that I'd worry was AI today, but I know for a fact that it was around 5 years ago before AI could generate this.
eh... Trump is worse, but with the Senate as it is, you'd never get a conviction. Target the cabinet, build some momentum, get GOP senators to flip on Trump on the minions, then go for Trump himself.
Trump specifically would target small businesses for contract work on his real estate projects because then he'd stiff them on the bill and they couldn't afford the lawyers to fight him. There was a pretty striking story of one who had to settle for like 20% of the actual bill. He then emptied his bank account, sold his truck, paid his workers with whatever he had, and then killed himself.
Ok, glad someone else agrees on this one. A slice would indicate that it was... you know... sliced.
This is just what some banks do when there's fraud on the account and they need to lock it. A lawyer is going to tell you there's nothing to sue over, and to call your bank and talk to them about why it has a fraud-lock in place.
I was going to say: "but can she undo a bra strap with her butt cheeks?"
This is why there's a big problem with Copaganda television and movies. They always portray law enforcement as the good guys while simultaneously giving them carte blanc to use lethal force. These shows have tried to engrain that cops are just allowed to execute people for breaking the law. De-escalation doesn't get ratings.
Multiple districts reporting zero votes for Harris is more than a little fishy.
Just a FYI, these two are now married.
I was really hoping it would end with the giant spider picking the gun back up and pointing it at the couple. I am very disappointed.
My understanding is that a) you do have to sell books across more than one "storefront", so you can't just sell all your books on patreon or through an exclusive retailer, and b) the list isn't actually about sales figures, but it is an editorial decision made by the staff. In 1983 someone with a lot of sales failed to make the list and sued, and lost the suit. (see William Peter Blatty)
Yeah, I had the thought today that Venezuela might be Trump's Poland. He's now talking about attacking Mexico and Colombia if not the entire hemisphere.
That's another good question. The US definitely launched bombs into France, but it was against German nationals. This statement definitely needs clarification. What is a "bomb", what is a "country". I assume any "drone or missile or other ordinance strikes within targets of a sovereign nation not at war" would count today.
Did FDR not bomb that many in WW2? France, Italy, Japan, Germany... Belgium? Morocco? Libya? Tunisia?
I guess WW1 probably didn't have much in the way of bombings. First bombing was apparently in 1914 from a German Zeppelin.
Well, specifically the financially illiterate. That often corresponds to the poor, but being poor doesn't mean you are financially illiterate. And if you are good enough at fraud you can be financially illiterate and wealthy; you can even become President.