rules aren't there to be enforced, they're there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

when the people who make the rules say "Sorry, the rules are the rules, there's nothing we can do" remember that they literally gave a tree human rights just because they felt like it.

Silicon Serfdom?

No that's still capitalism. Capitalism is still the problem. To call it anything else is apologetics, the core issue is that the private ownership of the means of production leads to a concentration of power in the hands of precisely the wrong kind of people after selecting for and reinforcing the most selfish behaviors in them. It then allows them to essentially usurp whatever form of government exists.

it's only dumb til it works

Thirded

The reservists were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings in central Gaza

Why would you be doing a controlled demo of buildings when you're only there to root out terrorists and, as a member of the most moral army in the world, you respect the right of peaceful people to live?

YOU GET OUTTA HERE DICK CHENEY WE DON'T NEED NO MORE FOREVER WARS

That's it, from this point on im adopting a trans inclusive radical liberal position. Only trans people are allowed to have guns or healthcare, every t shot or titty skittle will require proof of firearm ownership, and doctors are legally required to prescribe hrt with any other procedure. Rolled an ankle? Get ready for a journey of self discovery!

grilla warfare

Could he swim?

`Frank, the new CEO had to answer to the board.

The board was getting anxious, and the shareholders were

on a bed, legs in air, ass-cheeks open wide

They were about to get fucked like it was their first time.

When one makes 20 million, ten thousand people lose.

What keeps that one from swallowing a shotgun?

Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the corp.

After 16 years of service, and a family to support

He actually started to believe

the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense.

'Cause Danny had a mortgage, and a boss to answer to.

The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.

Helen is living in her car, trying to feed her kids.

She got laid off at work, and her house was repossessed.

It's hard to think clearly when it's 38 degrees.

Desperate people have been known to render desperate deeds.

But when she shot that family and moved into their home,

The paper read she suffered from dementia.`

---NOFX - The Irrationality of Rationality

welcome to the reagan democat future. the drones will be operated by queer PoC and fire environmentally friendly missiles into hospitals

let's dive in here: what's wrong with following the constitution as its clearly written? please come up with a legal justification to ignore this amendment that doesn't apply to any of the other amendments.

if this is legal in one state it's legal in every state. the argument is based on constitutional law. not sure if (assuming the ruling survives the openly corrupt SCotUS) this would automatically disqualify him everywhere or if there would have to be separate legal proceedings in each state that wants to disqualify him, but those proceedings are already happening in several states and upholding this ruling would essentially mean Trump has to try to win without several swing states. PA and WI have dem majorities on their state supreme courts and there's already a 14th amendment challenge over trump's candidacy in PA.

I watched the government hamstring itself in response to covid. masks were mandatory unless you didn't want to, vaccines were mandatory except for this one because something about this one in particular is special (the answer, of course, is that conservative babies threw an extra big fit about this one). i watched government officials claim that if a pregnant woman takes the vaccine her baby will be born with a full head of hair, a full set of teeth and eyes that are black from corner to corner. I watched them tell us to stay home, but we have to go to work, and we have to go out and support small businesses, but then we have to go right back home. I watched government officials say that the key to getting the numbers down is to test less, and tell people not to report their positive tests.

But I think the thing that gets me the most, the thing that has eroded my trust in government as an entity able to organize and manage a population rather than just in the bad actors that were in place during covid, is that IT'S STILL FUCKING HAPPENING. The answer to "How did the government handle the pandemic?" is "They haven't yet." We just did covid exactly the same way we did Vietnam: we realized that it's expensive and people don't like it, so we gave up and declared victory.

Same person in both pics. It starts with "this is running a little slow, I wonder if I could get another year out of it before I need to replace it if I install Ubuntu" and it ends in thigh high coder couture

it's the libs co-opting "cis is a slur" and adapting it to their pet cause. all you have to do is declare a false equivalence with the most horrible thing you can imagine, assume that equivalence is true and then carry forward as though you're the victim. "Um, sweaty, 'Don't bomb hospitals' is actually a call for genocide, so if you're against leaving babies to starve to death in the NICU you're basically a Nazi".

what's fortnite's anticheat like? my understanding is that a lot of games that would normally have no problem running on some flavor of linux or another but their anticheat software requires some ridiculous level of privilege that linux won't (and shouldn't) give it

Run the lie as the headline, run the retraction quietly on page four below the fold, everyone will see the headline and even among those few who see the retraction the initial emotional impact of the headline will still stick.

why is gender the only genetic advantage that should be accounted for?