Probably a handful. But 35% of a congressional district is (in the lowest population district, which this one isn’t) is 190,780 people. You can easily get a small town community center full of people who voted against him and didn’t ask for any of this.

It’s bud. Like cut it off before it blooms into whatever awful thing it’s growing into.

I’m all for sticking it to the chuddy guys who call themselves ‘alpha’ and behave accordingly. But there’s a bit more to it than “alpha wolves doesn’t real”.

The scientists who observed the ‘alpha wolf’ behavior were seeing something: wolves in captivity. Which is something that has an analogous human experience in prison.

But since there are an awful lot of these ‘alpha guys’ who have (somehow) never caught a charge, much less spent a stint in prison, maybe it says something about how, maybe, they feel imprisoned on the outside. Like maybe their school, work, home, or social life feels penned in in a way that is not healthy.

She also asked that people do things that she specially could not do due to having no authority to enact policy, whereas Musk is interacting directly with levers of power (whether he has any legitimate/legal authority to do so).

Of course these dumb motherfuckers would be one ones to finally defund the police. And of course it’d be the nuke police they defunded.

Who? The horses? Let them try.

No need for anything so drastic. Just find him a wall to sit on.

At least this actually is clapping back. I’m still waiting for all the eviscerations of shitty senators I’ve been hearing about for years.

Goodwin says go ahead.

From the Godwin’s Law Wikipedia article

In 2023, Godwin published an opinion in The Washington Post stating “Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.” In the article, Godwin says “But when people draw parallels between Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy and Hitler’s progression from fringe figure to Great Dictator, we aren’t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy.”

He won the election and got exactly what he wanted and he’s still mad as hell about it.

If he didn’t make it everyone else’s problem too, I’d feel sorry for him.

They’re paid out according to their contributions. But they’re paid with money current workers are paying in. It is technically a ponzi, but was designed to be sustainable instead of promising reckless profits.

The money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.

There’s no such thing as ethnic cleansing. It’s just a weasel word for genocide. It’s all it ever has been. When “ethnic cleansing” was going on in the Balkans in the 90s, it was just a genocide that nobody was intervening to stop. Same for Myanmar in the mid 2010s And for Karabakh in 2020.

He can’t say that in a meeting that will obviously have leaks. It would be “value-destroying.”

What’s the point of having “Fuck You Money” if you don’t say “Fuck you” when it matters?

Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they’ll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.

Can’t get there. The Bosphorus is closed to warships

It is bad that vigilantism is being celebrated (though I’ll admit to being aboard the “laugh about this specific murder” train).

But I think the reason that this is being celebrated is that this is the only kind of justice this guy could have ever faced because his crime is legal

If he was shtupping your wife, what better way to direct suspicion away from you than to play into the angle that would give every American not on the Forbes list a motive?

I’m saying you can’t get pregnant if you’re dead.

If they were worried about birth rates before…