It’s good that a “true believer” stepped down and I’m all for it. His reason for doing so isn’t super noble though. MAGA Classic isn’t a whole lot better than New MAGA. They really just have different awful priorities. And both parties in a ‘wrong kind of asshole’ fight are still assholes.

I think this says more about how universal opposition to the war is than anything particularly good about Kent.

You can read the whole resignation letter here. You’ll find the catch in there!

We’re expected to believe Graham was speaking in metric?? Fake news!

Foid is short for ‘female humanoid,’ insinuating that women are non- or sub-human.

Hey now, the 90s had a thing or two to say about rich dicks and sellouts…

I just realized this post is a dupe so I’m going to delete it in a bit. It seems like you put a lot of thought and effort into this comment. Thought you might want to move it to the other post before I nuke this.

https://archive.is/Yf3KP

Should’ve made them slide across the courtroom in their underwear to teach them a lesson.

https://archive.is/kEcyB

Sure can!

The post doesn’t say who published this. It’s just an archive link (yaYKS isn’t very informative). I had to click through to find that info. Now it’s in the thread for anyone else who wants to know who it is before clicking a random link.

This is a PC Gamer article.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the ‘five eyes’ agreement applies. The “Epstein files” aren’t signals intelligence and weren’t gathered by an intelligence agency. They were seized as part of a legal investigation.

I’m not entirely convinced that you know what words mean, but…

This is part of the comment I replied to:

We shall ignore your weak and insincere apology [edit: <— see? Do you see it?]

To which I said that he’s not capable of making an apology so holding him to that standard is weird. Really, it’s weird and ableist. People should stop doing it.

https://archive.is/Gz9q9

Why are you misrepresenting what I wrote?

Just as a practical matter, demanding any kind of apology or explanation from a guy who physically cannot communicate seems like a big ask. In this case ‘quality of apology’ is a foolish metric. It would be nice if Chomsky could explain himself, but he can’t.

Chomsky is 97 years old and had a massive stroke several years ago. He’s not capable of speaking or writing.

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.” - Howard Zinn

Well shit, that was a absolute banger of an article. Thanks for posting it!

Thanks. Good catch! I’ll add them to the post.

Exactly. Everything this administration does is also a meme to appear strong. I don’t think we should accept the story they’re selling or declare victories for them they haven’t won.

I think even their legislative control is far weaker than many realize. Yes, the Republicans are cowardly, traitorous fucks who’ve abdicated their responsibilities. But they’re also not really passing legislation. The majority of their policies have come through ephemeral executive orders because they couldn’t pass them. They haven’t really tried because it would expose that weakness and their most important priority is appearing strong. They would if they could. Repealing law is difficult, reversing executive orders is just a signature.