Cynically that means that the spoiler effect might actually work in our favor if he does go through with it. I’m not gonna hold my breath for it, but it would be so funny if Musk’s ego actually leads to the Republican party splitting and losing because they can’t decide how many poor people and minorities they want to throw into a wood chipper.

1992 when he was an MP according to this article. He’s been saying they’re only X years/months/weeks away almost as long as I’ve been alive.

B-but, if we stop rewarding seniority and nothing else even if we run terrible losing campaigns… Multiple times in a row… Th-then it’ll never be MY turn…

Didn’t Pelosi say she wasn’t going to run for reelection this time around? Or am I mistaking her for one of the other Do-Nothing Democrat Fossils?

At a minimum this guy won’t have the same level of intuitional clout Pelosi used many many times to hinder progressive policies and engage in political horse trading. So even if this guy is literally a 1-for-1 Pelosi clone he’ll be a much weaker hurdle to overcome than she was.

Something something accusing their opposition of doing the thing that they either are currently doing, or 100% would be doing if they had the opportunity.

Less assuming it is one or the other than guessing which one seems more likely of the two. Probably I’m hoping that it’s just the pee tape because it’s the most funny option I’ve seen laid out. That all of this stems from an act that in and of itself registers at “okay, that’s kind of weird” but isn’t like omg your life is over y’know?

I still kinda want it to be the “pee tape” everyone was speculating about last time around. Because that’s the funniest possible piece of kompromat I can think of that Putin could have on ole Donnie Boy. Realistically though considering his longstanding friendship with Epstein…

Out of curiosity, when did they show that? Every interaction with demons I remember from it they are shown to be manipulating people at best.

The “Diplomatic Envoys” were literally trying to figure out the town’s barrier so their master could come in and slaughter them.

The “little girl” in the flashback with Himmel outright says that she called out for her “Mommy” despite demons literally abandoning their young once they’re born because “that word stops humans” and nothing more.

Like yeah it’s inherently difficult writing something that looks human as actually an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction because dehumanizing vulnerable groups is pretty much always the first step in real life genocides. But I don’t recall any instances of demons in Frieren actually showing “humanity” for any other reason than to manipulate and kill humans.

People: “We’re tired of all these ‘misunderstood villains’ we want unapologetically evil for the sake of evil.”

Frieren: “Okay here’s monsters that learned to imitate human language and emotion solely to manipulate and kill humans.”

The same people: “No! You’re wrong! They’re just misunderstood and you’re doing a genocide!”

Yeah, any media that depicts something human like being an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction is inherently tricky because dehumanizing is pretty much always the first step in mass atrocities irl. But my God I’ve seen so many people tie themselves in knots trying to give the benefit of the doubt to demons in Frieren.

Well yeah the AI support is just the next iteration of confusing telephone trees and long wait times. The direct hope is that they make it just convoluted enough that a chunk of people that they before would have to “waste money” serving and fixing whatever problem they had will instead just give up without opening them up to liability for denying service. Only now they can do it while hiring even fewer actual people to handle the cases that get through.

As far as I’ve seen their argument is usually something along the lines of “The West is so antagonistic, of course they have to cozy up to Russia. They’re pretty much the only country not trying to destroy them.”

It’s all bullshit of course. In reality it’s almost always just Campism. North Korea opposes the Great SatanUS therefore they must be good. Any evil they’ve done has to be actually our fault and not any kind of evil or corruption from them.

I’m guessing some variation of “You don’t understand… The West forced them to go all those things with the sanctions or whatever” has definitely been said by that individual before.

Knowing him he’ll probably allow them to get on that “Gold Card” track without the money as a show of “combating the horrible racial injustice” in South Africa.

Every accusation is a confession after all. So it would be very on brand for them to fast track granting these people status that allows them to vote so now they’ll be the ones with the “millions of illegals voting” for them.

I think I get what it’s saying? It’s saying that while your phone isn’t directly listening to your conversations in any meaningful way they collect crazy amounts of other data on basically everyone and can piece it together in such a way that they can make some scary accurate guesses as to the kind of ads to serve you based on what their systems have gathered your interests are and where/with whom you spend your time.

I’m not entirely sure. They didn’t really seem to present much more than speculation on it.

It was only supposed to be a little instability Donald! Give us a little dip that we could use to buy up another chunk of the pie. NOT BLOW UP THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE DONALD!

• The Cato Institute, probably?

It appears to be called Takopi from the manga Takopi’s Original Sin. I see a book for it and the first things I notice are the tagline “Time travel can’t heal all wounds,” and that it’s listed in the dystopian, horror, and sci-fi lists. Okay yeah I feel like I’ve got a pretty good grasp of what goes on here.

Being entirely oblivious mostly. I make shonen anime protagonists and lesbian stereotypes look like love gurus by comparison. I am so dense my sexuality actually collapsed into a black hole and that’s why I’m asexual.

I missed my wife trying no less than 6 times in one day to get me to come to bed with her. A little while later I noticed her go to the bedroom and thought “Oh sweet, she hasn’t gone to sleep yet. Maybe I can get some snuggles.” I was then delivered an ultimatum. I either get fucking, or fucking get. I blue-screened so hard I apparently just closed the door and left. I don’t actually remember what happened in that moment. That’s how hard my brain broke.

Luckily when she eventually was done and came out to tell me it was safe she was laughing her ass off. Apparently my look of utter confusion and bewilderment was something to behold.

I also keep ≪Existential Dread≫ in my closet. How did you know?

Literally from your link they quote him saying.

…but it does not have the right to use US dollars to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.

But Oh No he didn’t say the Magic Word to the press 2 months in when we still have 0 idea what internal discussions were happening. Can’t give the guy with probably the longest track record of being on the right side of pretty much every issue any benefit of the doubt. Especially not when he has before been very vocal about Palestinian rights. Couldn’t possibly be any good reason he didn’t use the Magic Purity Word.