the number of deaths that will be directly attributed to the cutting of USAid internationally and the loss of healthcare, jobs and environmental regulations in the US

Hey now, we didn’t cut USAID. We just sent $40B to our good friends in Argentina. And now Milei’s party has won the midterms, which means he can continue his War On Leftism inside the state and along the borders.

We’re also helping to arm and secure Guyana, in a Kuwait-like project to drill into neighboring Venezuelan oil fields. That’s not happening for free. Lots of Latin Americans and US government contractors are absolutely getting their palms greased. It’s been a bonanza for NATO aligned mercenaries since the Bush Era, thanks to all the money we’re spending on freelance military.

We’re saving lives, man. All that money is putting food on the tables of any number of cocaine snorting, whore house frequenting, tacti-cool sunglass wearing Afghanistan washouts and their Guasano peers.

Are you just going to ignore that?

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port

That would require due process, instead of a spectacle of Shock and Awe.

Also, let’s say, hypothetically that these aren’t drug boats. Let’s say they are boats moving medical supplies or fuel or building materials between Venezuela and Cuba. Let’s say they’re actually military units working on behalf of the Venezuelan Coast Guard or just fisherman who got caught in an international crossfire.

It’s just easier to say “Drug Gang. Killed them.” knowing no major American media source is going to publish a rebuttal. Nobody in the US has access to the details of the attack. Nobody is going to interview the families or investigate the wreckage. Nobody is going to contradict this regime when it comes to butchering citizens of the Global South.

So why not call them a drug gang? Call them human traffickers. Call them roving nautical pedophiles. Call them Islamic Jihad.

American audiences won’t hear anything different.

It’s funny how blonde hair and skin-tight pants can cause every Chud in a five mile radius to pop off.

But holy hell, why do conservatives feel this aching desire to engage in endless plastic surgery? You’re 36 years old, girl. You were Miss Arizona when you had a normal looking face. Now you’ve gone through more noses than a clown at an MMA tournament.

You don’t have to keep doing this to yourself. You’ve got tons of money. You’re under a six foot thick glass ceiling. There’s no upside to continuing this charade. You can just retreat to the country club, marry a Log Cabin Republican, fuck the pool boy, and enjoy your retirement.

Hecate

If we’re bringing in mythical feminine icons, you can’t top the OG Mother-Maiden-Crone.

“What crazy kinda Spanish is this a-rab talkin?”

“Uh, that’s Aramaic, sir.”

“Ara-what-now? Tell’m to speak English, like in the Bible.”

The famously competent Dr. Doom, who put scalding hot metal directly onto his face because he was in such a rush to become a cool mask guy?

The Monarch has more "W"s under his belt than Doc Vic.

she’s basically real

The actress is real and sincere and just about as naive. But she was parodying Hillary Clinton, who was in reality deeply cynical and corrupt and malicious.

One of them came within a hair’s breath of the Presidency and it wasn’t Amy Poehler.

That’s a rich 6-year-old.

“We’re a startup”

“What’s your plan?”

“Giant mirrors in space to control the sunlight that hits the earth’s surface.”

“Wow, sounds incredibly expensive and of dubious technical merit. What are you asking to make this happen?”

“We need whatever money you have in your wallet right now.”

“And the return on investment?”

“Infinity zillion dollars.”

“I guess I’d be a fool not to hand you all my money.”

“Absolutely. Now… that’s a really nice watch. And shoes. We could get you an amazing return if you gave us those, too.”

What are they supposed to do?

My grandparents spent a lot of time playing tennis and bridge, knitting, and fishing.

Mad Max: Fury Road

One of the better action movies of the modern era

Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

Also speaks to the addictive quality of social media (or perhaps the grim state of offline society). People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America

Well, that and the 30 Years War, sure.

The cycle or Religious bullshit must continue-

The problem of lying is as ancient as the advent of human speech. Even if all formalized dogmatism vanished tomorrow, you’d still have people mistaking correlation for causation and developing superstitions and taboos as a result. Jordan B. Peterson is a great example of this in practice. In another time, he’d be a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard figure.

But, at some level, any individual’s cache of information is going to be incomplete. We all rely on the grand game of telephone that is oral and written history. “The cycle of Religion” is just a facet of this cycle of generational retelling of accrued lore. How do you keep the logs accurate and the lorekeepers faithful to accumulated wisdom? Damned if I know. Double-entry book keeping seems to help, but its hardly foolproof.

With this series, we aim to present not just the most complete picture yet of the GFW, but a roadmap for pushing back against the machinery of state censorship.

It’s definitely a deep technical dive into the underlying infrastructure of Chinese internet services. But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.

Definitely stems the tide, but it’s a long way from “never seen an ad in 25 years”

The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.

Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.

Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.

I have no idea why you jumped to it from millionaires needing to be taxed more.

But if you think knitting as a profession is some kind of joke, why would you defend people from taxation when they were profiteering off the textile work of others?

Or are you just saying people should take up knitting

Man, don’t even get me started on the fast fashion industry. We’re killing the planet so that we can turn raw cotton into landfill waste on the backs of East Asian slave labor.

If we could end that by telling Jeff Bezos and Chip Wilson to take up knitting? Yes, absolutely.

Save the planet. Shut down Temu and lock Colin Huang in an oubliete until he darns everyone else a decent sweater.