TBH I think it was always clear that he was going to be at least somewhat right-coded given that he was so competent with firearms.

I personally don’t care what he thinks about pronouns or whatever, unlike Rittenhouse or that subway guy he actually went after one of America’s true villains. The right wing violence in this country finally found a legitimate target.

Biden takes his pardons very seriously. He would never pardon someone who stands accused of serious crimes.

/s

To the extent that he wasn’t a criminal it’s only because our government is too corrupt to make his actions illegal.

He wanted to kill King James. Regicide is always based.

I dropped it here but didn’t get any traction, maybe because I didn’t describe it well enough:

https://midwest.social/post/20162538

The “all in” podcast is hosted by four goulish Silicon Valley VC assholes. The audience is mostly simps but it’s an entertaining listen just to see how out-of-touch and self-absorbed they are.

Healthcare CEO be like.

It was fun watching the “All In” podcast about this. Half of the regulars didn’t even show up so they had to get seat warmers. And then they dropped the most hilarious out-of-touch takes of course, and also demonstrated their inability to sympathize with anyone who’s been a victim of the death machine while sympathizing with the CEO “he had two kids” but you could also tell how visibly uncomfortable they were even talking about it. One guy even winched at one point. It was glorious.

Norman Mailer once said “the dark cloud of fascism is forever descending on America but it only ever lands in Europe.”

South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.

I’ve actually heard that the SK soldiers attached to the US military are mostly failsons of powerful people who pull strings to get them put in US formations for their mandatory service, because it’s considered a cake-walk compared to the SK military.

How many American bases in Israel? 🫠

Cats are fucking weird man.

Not talking about the USSR there skipper.

You keep saying that people are called “tankie” for being “left of the DNC” but the only people I see being called “tankie” are folks who think a lot more people aught to be dying from polonium poisoning.

Somehow supporting colonial aggression by a totalitarian state is a left cause.

Probably because there are a lot of tankies here. 🙃

Privatized public transit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva

Lotta people here have some body dismorphia

It does seem like short shorts are coming back.

Most of the tech billionare’s ideas comes from watching a dystopian 80s scifi and saying “let’s do this but where I’m the bad guy.”

Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn’t in Total Recall.

Gonna save this one for later.

Yep this. It’s a combination of becoming more financially well-off, combined with loss aversion, combined with a sense that the culture starts to alienate you. It’s like grandpa simpson said: “I used to be with it. But what was ‘it’ changed. And now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what is ‘it’ is scary and strange.”

They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.