It’s more about the threat, isn’t it? If the other side believes you might be suicidally crazy, they might not want to fight the war, even if otherwise it would be a one sided victory.

Don’t discount the ability of people to follow simple directions and manuals. Also, don’t discount that there are a large number of otherwise intelligent people who are maga. They have plenty of people who can do calculus, program in an IDE or on a circuit board, and carry on with all the other things you might view as impossible to ever happen at a republican convention. We all have strengths and weaknesses, and few are immune to propaganda. There seem to be a large number of people who have a peculiar weakness to ‘simple’ logic and strongmen blowing their own horn.

Anyway, without going into the weeds, let’s just take a moment and appreciate that there was a very long and large chain of command that carried out the literal listed example of a war crime on pete’s orders. There would absolutely be no issue for them to secure the weapons for a red government that told them to do such a thing.

Agreed on the number of bad ones. I just read the first book of a james patterson series, and I don’t understand how it was ever greenlit. I know there was that quote about 90% of everything being trash, and it was just ‘in the old days’ that we never saw anything but the 10%, but I just struggle to see harry potter now as part of the 10%. I’ve read too many good books and series to believe it does have a place in the 10%. I know, on some level, that they aren’t that bad, but I just have this whiplash from the feelings I had about them as a kid and how I read them now.

The economics of the red states will pale in comparison to the question of where the weapons end up. There are a lot of nuclear weapons in deep red areas.

The poisonwood bible. I loved it in high school, because I was an oppressed little atheist/agnostic with hyper religious parents at a christian school. It was brilliant, vivid, groundbreaking, and wild in its defiance of cultural norms…

and now it’s just a sort of sad story of how the christian mindset mirrors colonial/empire ambitions and everyone gets hurt.

Oh my god. I never even thought about black beauty influencing me. I always chalked it up to robin hood, star fox and some weird fusion of the dragonriders of pern and the heralds of valdemar.

The books are good for what they are: children’s books that take you from ~8-13 years old. I loved them when I was a kid, and now it’s just hard to get through them because the writing is just average at best, and the plots are so basic they undermine the actually interesting setting and prevent it from being as mindblowing as they could have been.

He seems almost entirely complacent about the other aspects of his and everyone else’s oppression. He even scoffs at the rumors of rebellions and mocks those who would try. The one thing he cares about is his lack of sex.

gestures wildly around at america

I think that’s the most humanizing and realistic part of the writing, honestly.

That’s odd; I’m almost the opposite. I definitely enjoyed lord of the rings more as a teenager, and struggle to really even appreciate them now. I still like the world, but the writing just seems off.

I’m dead in a month as soon as any major part of our infrastructure/supply chain crumbles. yaaaay.

I do wonder if I’m on somebody’s list.

Humorously, they have an actual tool on standby for this in the boot camps. Apparently there are (or were, I haven’t actually checked in the last two decades) enough rubes coming in who always had button flys while growing up that it was an occurrence about once a week.

People that hatch plans like the federalist society, to corrupt the courts, and project 2025, to destroy the administrative state and consolidate power into the executive, and congresspeople who will support the descent into violent fascism

That’s where we are really fucked. So many of the project 2025 goals have been accomplished. Having a partisan supreme court, and this bare minimum majority of congress, has allowed them to change our course forever more.

Well that’s a strange segue.

I also seem to recall plenty of effective anarchist defense groups in the various civil wars.

“I set a personal record.”

Was this an ad? Then yes. Is it a crappy phone picture ad? Then maybe. Is this a crappy phone picture of someone’s measly deep dish? Then no.

It’s a no pasta lasagna.

Look, I would happily pull the trigger on the execution of a convicted ice, but defense attorneys exist for a reason. Yes, they’re often scum. Yes, they often ‘know’ that their client is guilty (paraphrasing one, don’t tell them you did the crime if you actually did it, it does make their job harder because they do have a duty to not lie in court) yet defend them as rabidly as a junkyard dog with a cat wandering in. Yes, they often posit logic or reasoning that makes the average person want to spit at them for their sheer gall. Yes! THEY GET SOME FUCKING SICK FUCKS LIGHTER SENTENCES OR EVEN ‘OFF…’

But they are critical in a sane world where the law matters not just as a set of rules but also where there are people dedicated to truth, justice, and ensuring a short-lived tyrannical government cannot just throw people it doesn’t like into jail based on allegations of crimes and get convictions based on whimsy.

John adams may have helped those six get off, and done it in a manner so similar to modern law enforcement court strategy that it assaults the nose with its stench, but don’t smear him because he did that. Smear him for his presidential actions enforcing the class war.

Just let me be clear, it incenses me just as much as you, lol, but here’s the thing, run on sentences are much worse for us in the interim and we need to circle back around so that that issue becomes a lesser thing, lest we forget the true horrors of english perpetuating themselves through a normalization of nominalization that makes a trivialization of our original lines in the sand aaaaand now I’m just getting into the weeds with my niche micro-interests and brought in too many limes.

Guess it’s time to go start up that computer game I’ve been putting off.

“Exceeds expectations”

“Exceeds expectations”

“Exceeds expectations”

“Exceeds expectations”

‘Well, nanner, you got one write up, which is lower than 95% of the company, so looks like you’ll only be getting 1.5% instead of the 3% for average, and I don’t personally give out the 6% raise I’m allowed to.’ - my fucking supervisor, while other supervisors hand out everything like candy (not really, they just shower their favorite)