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It's hard to say which is worse, the rampant corruption or the obvious pro-Russia bent of this entire White House.

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The Talarico campaign is bombing the wreckage at this point. I hope they keep it up.

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This is literal insanity. Fuck my years of service in the Army, I guess. I'm an enemy of the state now.

Trump announcing in a Truth Social post that use of the term AI makes you THE ENEMY.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 16h

We have become the very people we fought. The imperial boomerang has come back to us completely.

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Thank you--it's absurd that so many accept the "it's too expensive to have kids" framing when BIRTH RATES ARE ALWAYS HIGHER IN POORER COUNTRIES. *Affluence* means fewer children, in every culture around the world, not poverty. (this post is not a defense of income inequality)

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You might think the second richest man in the world would have the money to buy a spine, but, alas, no.

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What about being mad for your fellow Americans who would die in LA or San Diego, Thommy boy?

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I feel like I have been to that exact record store...

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*TikTok influencer voice* And so can you, with Kalshi--check it out, where you can place your bets anyt

They're going to accuse her of faking it, of course. And then when that's proven to be wrong, they're going to do whataboutism, and then when that doesn't work, they're just going to hint that she deserved it for some reason. I hate it, but that will be the play.

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"Mister President, the thing that would most help your reelection chances are more news stories showing nightly ballistic missile attacks, ships on fire, US casualties, and the price of diesel reaching $8 a gallon--it would show the country you mean business!"

No IRB on the planet is going to sign off on that.

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Potentially, if multiple tireme were to get close enough to board, but I think it's the wrong question to ask in terms of their relative capabilities.

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*a voice, crying from the wilderness* THE INWARD EYE!

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Juche with American characteristics is going to be just as needlessly destructive as original Juche.

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From the Seb Gorka School for Kids Who Can't Do Charts Good.

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Actually, I want to retract that answer (although it's a good movie!) in favor of LE SAMOURAI, which also might not be weird enough.

John Wu's THE KILLER, perhaps? (Don't know if it qualifies as weird enough, though.)

It turns out, internet leftists are as incapable of taking a W as they are of just taking an L.

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A question for @segyges.bsky.social: Is Roko's Basilisk related to the whole Harry Potter Rationalist thing? I always assumed he used the term basilisk as a reference to classical mythology, but I was suddenly struck by the idea that it somehow might be even dumber than I thought it was already.

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'Tis neither miasma nor germs that doth leade to thy disease, but an imbalance of the humours, as hath been knowne since the dayes of Galen.

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Go to WAR on your wrinkles and DEFEAT gray hair the EASY way so you can STAY HARD as you DECIMATE the people who want to hold you back!

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Perhaps. But it also prepped the country to accept a lot of terrible shit done to prevent incredibly implausible scenarios.

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Darth Vader is no worse on trans rights than Mon Mothma, actually, and there's no difference between Bail Organa once casting a routine funding vote for the Navy of the Republic and Grand Moff Tarkin using the Death Star built illegally out of that budget to genocide Alderaan.

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I never saw it written down anywhere, but did hear it from seniors up to and including Petraeus.

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One of these three: Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt" Sinead O'Conner's cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" The Silver Jews (David Berman) cover of George Strait's "Friday Night Fever"

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They wouldn't hang out at a pork butchers, true, but let me tell you, they would *love* The Bada Bing Club.

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The dialectic is praxis, so you're good.

EFL League One because that's where Sheffield Wednesday is currently.

His older stuff is excellent as well--I love *Trouble In Mind* in particular.

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The military/government service is pretty much the only option these days if someone wants to start and retire at the same employer.

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Such a great song, and a good demonstration of Hayes Carll's range as a songwriter.

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Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus

He has a lot of songs that are much better and different, so if you've never listened to him, just know he isn't some novelty act, but this whole thing still makes me laugh every time:

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YouTube video by HayesCarllVEVO

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Which is more likely? A) Alberta separatists being all right with a radical Jewish guy from Palestine with an arrest warrant from his local authorities who doesn't speak English telling them how to live? OR B) Them turning him away at the border as a non-assimilating immigrant?

Brother, I would have have been BEYOND thrilled if they'd bothered to read THE KITE RUNNER.

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As one of those so urged, it wasn't a bad idea, exactly, just frustrating--because for a lot of officers, that was about the depth of their mental preparation. I was like, "Hey fellas, why not, I dunno, also try READING some scholarly material as well?" Alas, no.

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To add to this a bit: in the mid-to-late-00s, military advisors going to Iraq and Afganistan were urged to watch The Sopranos to try to grasp the intersection of honor, family, money, and duty that they would see made manifest among their Iraqi and Afghan counterparts.

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ALT: Donald Trump: All Ears

You're telling me I can't can't engineer my way out of a strategy problem?

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Donald Trump: All Ears

My brain: Hey, here's an edgy joke poking fun at your identity as a straight white cis dude. You should post it to Bluesky, a site totally known to be populated by the absolute chilliest Normal Joke Getters of all time. My sense of self preservation:

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No No I Don'T

ALT: No No I Don'T

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