u/TheRealKuni — TheRealKuni

I say that the US has no right to pretend to worry about and therefore control other nations when the US has a documented history of using them.

“Look, I know I used meth and got thoroughly addicted and it completely ruined my life and it has taken years to get to a place where I’m able to have a semblance of a life, but I can’t tell anyone else _not_ to use meth! That would be hypocritical of me, since I did! _No, no one has any right to ever share what they’ve learned through experience._”

This is the hypothetical situation you’re arguing for.

I believe this is the first fatal incident with the 787 _and_ the first hull loss. It has a remarkable safety record over nearly 14 years.

Let go of the hate, my friend. It does you no good to carry that weight.

I’ve got some religious people you should meet, who fly pride flags and preach inclusivity, affirmation, and love. They like to talk about how Jesus welcomed sinners and told the proud holier-than-thou hypocrite-types they could fuck right off.

Don’t paint with black and white. There’s a whole spectrum out there in this beautiful world.

I didn’t think you meant to, and I wasn’t trying to be accusatory. It’s a pretty fair assumption to think he messed himself up, judging by his…colorful habits.

Half as Interesting did one almost a year ago.

you are the first person that I’ve seen to finally mention his voice. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with his entire vocal box??

I think most people don’t talk about it because there are plenty of things to complain about with RFK Jr, we don’t have to resort to ableism.

He has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia. Legendary NPR interviewer Diane Rehm also suffered from this condition, which eventually ended her radio career.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s because of his terrible health decisions. It happens to some people.

“A certain percentage of rhombuses have four equal sides.”

“I think that percentage is 100.”

“I would say the same about rectangles, but you get banned if you say rectangles. So rhombuses it is.”

Not all rectangles are rhombuses. And not all rhombuses are rectangles. Don’t be racist and you won’t get banned.

If anyone can make it through a blockade to deliver food, it’s Davos Seaworth.

I hope it’s more than just onions though.

Because the executive branch has power over student visas.

Because someone needs to be the adult, and that person is never going to be Trump.

They should leave, go back to Holland or wherever they came from

_They_ didn’t take land. Their ancestors did. _They_ were born and grew up in South Africa.

And yes, they benefitted from an absolutely _horrible_ system of apartheid.

But telling them to “go back where they came from” is racist AF, just like it is when said to a brown person in the States. Don’t be that guy. They _are_ where they came from.

>homophonic

I think he was the first Pope Francis. But even if he were the second, that wouldn’t make him a homophone.

I guess all popes are homophonic in some languages, like in Spanish “la papa” is potato and “el papa” is pope.

>he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).

I sincerely believe that there was a concerted effort to disillusion voters in 2016 and 2024. The whole push for Bernie bros to not vote for Hillary and the push to reject the Democrats for the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza felt so similar.

Obviously plenty of people did feel strongly that the Democrats weren’t worth supporting, but I think the initial push on both of those, and a large amount of the continued support for them, was perpetrated by people who wanted Trump to win. They didn’t have to convince people to vote for Trump, they just had to convince them not to vote for the Dems. These actors understand first-past-the-post voting well enough to weaponize it.

Worst day to publish a paper, Brown University.

Edit: (Not that I think it’s a joke, but you just know someone—like my parents potentially—will respond to the paper by saying it’s just an April Fool’s prank.)

Mentour Pilot had a great video about the technology they’ve been using to pinpoint search areas last year. Worth a watch, and definitely fueled my optimism that they’ll finally be able to find the plane.

>those states are all pretty blue.

Minnesota is. Michigan tends to be (especially now that our districts are drawn independently), but we voted for Trump as a state. And New York is mostly red except for NYC.

I almost want to see our power bills skyrocket in Michigan. But at the same time I know full well the dipshits who voted red (including my own family) will blame everyone else before they blame the people who might end abortion. So it won’t matter. They won’t learn. Instead we’ll all suffer because of their idiocy and they’ll continue to think that we’re winning.

(In fact they’ll be thrilled because it will mean increased oil and natural gas production to close the gap in demand.)