Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely

Later, in the smoldering ruins:

“I meant 🌹 🌺 ❤️ Balkanization🌈 🎂 🦄, not 🔫 💥 🔥 Balkanization 💀 🪦 💣!”

If the votes had been even a fraction of a percent in either direction, the Supreme Court wouldn’t have had a role to play.

I checked, and we do have an extradition treaty with Albania, so it’s not what I figured.

If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he’d have become president.

Card is confounding because those first few Ender books are unequivocally about the importance of empathy and recognition of common personhood, even across seeming-impenetrable species boundaries, and how mutual respect and love are the most important quality a person can have. And then… yadda yadda yadda, OSC is a gigantic bigot. The. Fuck?

Kent, with the Micronite™ filter!

Or… switch to menthols!

I still can’t get over how they stretched that short of a book over that long of a trilogy of movies and still managed to not show enough of Beorn. All of the party arriving at Beorn’s house is one of my favorite chapters and it’s just… not there. The. Fuck.

Sore lungs, you say? Hmmm…

“Surely all those other people who tried to beat this carnival games were simple country rubes, whereas I have finally figured out the winning strategy that will surely allow me to beat this definitely not-rigged game!”

ADBS originated over fourteen years ago.

gamma ray baddies

• Be born rich

• Spend the rest of your life falling up stairs

Ezekiel 23:20

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

It’s not all boring!

They are so grateful!!

Mind you, this was from 2010:

See also: Sears pioneering the concept of ordering things through the mail from a catalogue, and then getting demolished by Amazon’s online ordering system. Way to go guys, you got destroyed by some upstart punk doing what you got started doing, but doing it better and cheaper than you could.

Nice warm cave

You don’t have to like Gavin Newsom. I don’t particularly love him. Now is a great time to promote the living fuck out of the most progressive candidate you can find. If the hypothetical highly progressive candidate wins, then that’s great! And if they don’t, then having a strong progressive in the primary will force Newsom and any other centrists to address their issues, possibly even adopt their policies or offer them a position in an even more hypothetical Newsom administration. All of those would be good for the progressive cause.

But.

The next president cannot be a Republican.

As much as you may find Newsom distasteful, you’ve got to see a meaningful difference between a President Newsom and a President Vance, Carlson, or Don Jr., and all of those are very real possibilities.

So don’t say anything you can’t take back. Don’t actively sabotage whoever the Democratic nominee might eventually be. Try to win your primary, but acknowledge that we have more in common with each other than we do with whatever godforsaken thing is going to emerge to run as the Republican nominee.