gravitas_deficiency @ gravitas_deficiency @sh.itjust.works

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The AMA should revoke her license for malpractice tbh

No, this is Patrick.

Dude I’m right there with you. It’s dire. But refusing optimism when it’s reasonable only just hurts morale. This is reasonable.

Hey so let’s not go ham on the pessimism just yet. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong in a lot of places, yes, but we’re seeing a lot of good things so far. Let’s not assume he and the movement he’s starting is gonna fail a priori.

It was like watching a dude clutch dump a Mustang and shatter the transmission, thus forfeiting the circuit race to this

…yyyyes? That’s what I was saying.

But I barely know her! 😱

They tried to, and tons of people immediately twigged to the fact that the footage was altered.

I want to believe this is going to start their house of cards collapsing, but unfortunately, I’m pretty certain most maga dipshits have skulls so thick that a GBU-57 would have trouble reliably impacting their trains of thought.

Yeah - the centrists and neoliberals will take this to mean “do more centrist and neoliberal things”; progressives will take this to mean “do more progressive things”; the DNC will take this to mean “give more money to centrist and neoliberal consultants and ignore what people are actually saying”. Not helpful in any sense.

So, in an unironic, but still very sarcastic and disappointed sense: thanks Obama 😒

Seriously, maybe tell the Democratic leadership to pull their head out of their ass and listen to people - as you did back in 07-08, which carried you to victory. And then gasp follow through on what they say, up to and including taking a page out of the GOP playbook - just do things that are helpful to normal people and say “fuck you, make me” when centrists and republicans try to stop you. We now have an imperial presidency, after all, so why not try to use it to do some good when (or if 😓) non-fascists get into power again.

So, yeah, it was fucking dumb, and orangeboi is a categorical fucking imbecile, and it’s comically obvious that - up until about a week or two ago - he was infuriatingly russophilic, and disturbingly friendly with Putin.

With that said: it is also absolutely true that Biden slow-walking military aid for Ukraine (largely at the behest of his NS advisor, Jake Sullivan) was an absolute ass-tier strategic play. The constant haranguing of “oh, the F-16s are too complex” (they’re not), “oh, we don’t want to peeve the ruskies too much” (relying on scare tactics is one of the core elements of Putin’s geopolitical playbook), “oh, ATACMS would trigger a real response from Putin” (it didn’t), “oh, we didn’t mean THIS red line, we meant THAT red line” (hello, noncredible defense policy desk speaking, just a moment) has been, since very shortly after the start of the more active phase of the war in Feb 2022, deeply infuriating to a LOT of people, and it served as a milquetoast example of strategic leadership that the EU frustratingly refused to step beyond.

If orangeboi simply says “fuck it” and opens the floodgates for military aid… well, I will still fucking hate the guy for what he’s doing to my country by being in charge of it, but meaningful and significant aid to Ukraine is one hell of a silver lining. I was convinced Putin and orangeboi were just gonna try to slice Ukraine up like a Molotov Ribbentrop pie, but color me very pleasantly surprised that Putin’s intransigence has somehow actually gotten orangeboi to completely lose his patience with Russia.

So it’s specifically this sort of shit that makes me want to fuck off from the US for good. I don’t think I can mentally handle dogmatically voting idiots of this caliber and prevalence.

Yes - but, point of order: kidnapping is unlawful by its very nature

That’ll never happen, because we don’t give voting day as a holiday (should be mandatory, imo), and old (retired) people ALWAYS have the time to vote, and moreover, our legislature is largely a gerontocracy. The way things are structured in the US now makes this effectively a non-starter, despite the fact that it’s clearly a good and necessary idea.

This is the story of a man named Stanley.

Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?

In the beginning was the Creation of the Universe. This has made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Nobody who actually lives in the city has any problem with the bike lanes. It’s a fantastic improvement overall for people who live in the city proper, as I do. I’ve lived here over a decade, and it’s WAY less sketchy to ride my bike around town than it was back in 2014 or 15.

Also: follow the money. Kraft is getting shitloads of money from conservatives and MAGA types. That really says all you need to know about the guy.

The way you phrased your comment was pretty unambiguously hostile and absolutist. That’s probably where the downvotes are coming from: the fact that you’re being an asshole, not the fact that you’re on point.

Point 3 looks like a pretty obvious poison pill. That is: Russia could conceivably start some sort of grey-zone conflict with Finland before the 6-month period, and thus (per international law) tie Finland’s hands in their use of defensive land mines.

In Finland’s shoes, it’d be prudent to just go “yeah we’re breaking the treaty, and were specifically ignoring Article 20 Section 3 due to urgent national security considerations”.

lol ok, Oklahoma. Go for it. Have fun. Throw Molotovs at the radars that literally save your lives in tornado season. You’re only going to decrease your own population. And I’m genuinely past caring at this point.

𝔓𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔬𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰 🫘