Oh yeah, I forgot about the Episcopals

Still, I think every schism probably had people saying “But we already have [religion]” before they went down

Whether or not there are decent evangelicals was kinda beside my point (I was just imagining historical parallels), but I agree and it’s definitely worth repeating

We’re gonna get a schism and the Church of America because Trump is basically Henry VIII but somehow even more disgusting

I’m kinda tempted to whip out that community meme with a “human rights violations I can stand, but I draw the line at market destabilization!”, but I’m pretty sure we’re imprisoning and brutalizing more Latinos and other migrants than China is Uyghurs and other marginalized communities over there at this point

The first step of the campaign was getting the average person to hate “politics” “the government” “Washington dc” etc., vague ideas instead of specific people and policies

Then it’s easy to sell people on the basic idea that “the government is too dumb and evil to help anyone even if it tried, but it can punish your enemies pretty good”

Would you rather they weren’t concerned and talked about something else? The problem here is the god damned politicians who keep blowing off stories like this.

demonstrators face violent crackdowns by Israeli police — while opposition lawmakers are still nowhere to be seen.

As an American that feels all too relatable

THE POST DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL ITS JUST A PICTURE OF JEWS

“… and then he responded ‘Never has been,’ and that’s the last transmission we got from Artemis II.”

You have to understand how awful our public transportation systems are and how close to broke like 75% of us already were

a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it’s so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers

Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it’s fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn’t a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid

Doesn’t seem to be what this article says

To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the “Commercial Off-The-Shelf” (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.

To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.

Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are

One of the most infuriating aspects of western imperialism and corruption is how douchebag leaders in non-western countries can point at it and say “See? This is why you need the kind of strong ruler who is willing to massacre unarmed protesters.”

This sounds like a metaphor for American politics

Except your whole argument requires migrants to still be getting paid sub-minimum wages and denied access to the social safety net which obviously isn’t something anyone left of center supports. Instead of advocating for the state to harass poor brown people yet again why don’t you direct some of your rage towards the employers who profit off of their exploitation instead.

These are legal experts and have lots of skills in this area

Nah, they’re hack idiots who couldn’t reason their way out of a haunted house and cover up that fact by just throwing fancy words and empty latin phrases at stuff until normal people just give up and assume they must be smart and serious people. Translate their arguments to 8th grade English and they sound dumb as shit because they are dumb as shit.

Kind of an empty news story when DOJ is simultaneously fighting over half the states in court to even get this data in the first place and likely to lose that fight, but I’m not surprised CBS is pretending this is a done deal to scare people away from voting

Yeah, I mean on the one hand I think what Dems were theoretically asking for here was stupid (more regulations on ICE in exchange for more funding for ICE when they have already been flagrantly violating laws left and right), so in terms of actual policy coming out of this I think this is the second best outcome we could have gotten (best would have been keeping DHS shut down until Trump was impeached and removed and ICE was totally defunded or until midterms and reassessing from there).

But on the other, the fact that Dems didn’t get the stupid thing they were asking for is a pretty hollow victory to campaign on for anyone paying close attention, and (assuming the House and Trump sign off on this) now we can’t point to the TSA and FEMA and etc. agencies being unable to function under this administration as further evidence they need to be removed from power as quickly as possible, which is really the only logically defensible position anyone can take.