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Speaking of Jolly. Pretty sure he often guessed this stuff was going on.

Apparently this was a complaint filed while Biden was president. Trump would be well advised to table it while he's president, obviously.

Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a meaningful vote in a national election that will fix this. A lucky few might be able to cast their vote locally and get a responsible person into congress.

@89th said in My 7 year old daughter says she's a boy:

True story. At the kitchen counter the other day she said "I think I'm a boy".

No joke.

So I thought to myself WWHD? (@Horace)

My universal advice for all situations, is to not leave the house.

What to do during a house fire is negotiable, reasonable people can disagree.

I discovered this terrifying footage of a Trumpist special forces unit parachuting into a stadium to arrest all the black and brown athletes. This may be the same unit that set fire to the liberal judge's home recently.

Drop it off at any UPS store, no box required.

Rebrand it to something that means "focus on something meaningful ethic" and I think it sticks. Not so much "work ethic".

American cities are shitholes in Trump's America.

The work ethic meme has maybe a generation of viability left, as a thing that anybody claims to believe with a straight face.

Is that part of the effective war being waged on US cities? How effective could it possibly be, if parachutes aren't opening?

It’s not like they’re selling my body parts or something.

Chaud take!

I have a date today where i”ll be treated nicely and given free food. They take my blood, but they keep asking me back because they enjoy my company.

It's about time.

Word on the street is that all the cowards and bootlickers are in Maga, while all the cool kids hate Maga.

Can't argue with the word on the street.

"The right's George Floyd" is a smuggled in equation, because words mean things.

It strains even vaguely coherent rhetorical credibility to equate the response to the Floyd murder with the response to the Kirk murder. A few pundits fumbling around with a statistical argument about left wing violence outstripping right wing violence is a small detail of the broader conversation. And the impact of the broader conversation is obviously incomparable between the two, in any case.

I can't abide Sullivan's paywall style where the conversation is cut off in the middle. Sam Harris does that too. I'll sometimes listen to podcasts where they withhold some juicy personal questions for the paywalled version, but that's a clean breakout session rather than a continuation of the primary conversation.

@jon-nyc said in We need a Venezuela thread:

I have no idea but was charitably granting that their stated reason is the actual reason. I can’t be sure though. There seems to be more going on between the US and Venezuela than meets the eye, hence the thread.

I think a government can act on intelligence in international drug trafficking matters, that they don't want to process through domestic courts of law, when there's little to nothing to be gained by doing so.