I didn’t think the skirt was mandatory? At any rate, I would put nothing past them. I mean they won’t be allowed in combat if the govt can help it. If they can’t due to court rulings? Who knows. Skirts wouldn’t shock me. With camo hosiery.

Here comes the skirt uniform for female soldiers. If they can’t force them out by law, they will make them sex objects and then shrug when they get assaulted.

Frankly, the Israelis deserve it for not learning their lesson last time. Even if you think you’re trump’s ally, you can’t trust him because of his sheer incompetence. And also because he hasn’t heard any intelligence he doesn’t brag to Putin about knowing.

You understand what you’re saying with “deal with these scum,” right? They are the government. If they don’t outright ban vaccines, they will pull all funding of them.

There is only one cure for a fascist government, and we aren’t desperate enough for that. Yet.

Until then, we’ll have to work around them. Many on the left are marginalized folks. I don’t include myself there, but if anyone in this country knows how to skirt the rules to live their life, it’s them. They will lead the way.

Underground vaccine clubs. Phrases like, “friends of Edward Jenner.” I mean it probably sounds a little more tongue in cheek than I intend. I’m not saying this will be a gay old time. I’m saying we will find ways to survive and thrive despite their best efforts, as people always have (I mean, you know, barring the occasional genocide).

And if it becomes desperate enough to remove fascists the only way they can be, we will do that, too.

If they just forcibly vaccinate and quarantine, that would accomplish the mission. Worst vacation ever, though.

When vaccines are no longer available in the US, there will be a tourism boost from Americans going elsewhere to get them. You guys can just shift us left by helping lefties survive while conservatives self-select to be decimated by disease.

I used to live in an old farmhouse. Drafty as fuck. There was a bat who kept getting inside every few months, and I’d just shoo it out or catch it and let it go outside. One night it got inside and in the course of looking for a way out, it accidentally scratched my daughter. It barely even broke her skin—there was the tiniest mark where blood welled just the slightest bit.

So when I captured him, I had to take him in for testing. Which I hated, knowing it was a death sentence, but you can’t take your chances with rabies at fucking all.

Of course, the bat wasn’t rabid, my daughter was just fine, and we probably had to suffer a few more mosquitoes that year. That was the last time we had any bats in our house.

Now, we have a very nice back yard with a deck we use a lot in the evenings and I wish I had my little bat buddy back to eat all the tasty bugs during the summer.

I didn’t need another reason.

AI is just a fun toy. It can’t make “art.” There are CEOs out there fucking thirsty at the idea of a 59% unemployment rate because everyone else is cut out of their business, but AI can’t do the job and they will learn that the hard way after fucking over a bunch of people.

Even the success stories seem skeptical. I use AI all the time at work to assist with coding, and beyond that I use it all the time for fun—my job is safe because AI is fucking awful at it.

So anyway I don’t hate it per se, but I don’t like it other than jokey shit. But I don’t want to see it everywhere, either.

It’s like watching inevitability play out. This is how it has happened before. It’ll happen this way again. Because despite the slogan, people do forget.

We have a bunch of old motherfuckers in office whose parents and grandparents lived through WW2 and they are already letting those sacrifices be in vain. If it was some Gen Z kid saying “Nazis never did anything to me, imma see how this plays out,” I’d think they were morons, but I’d sort of get that Nazis seem almost cartoonish. They are! Fucking Pepe memes and a meme-president. This will all look like a joke in 100 years, too.

But I digress, these old fucks (I say this as I’m nearing my old fuck era) are failing the one God dammed task they ought to be best suited for as they grew up in the shadow of the war.

“Think of the most average person you know, and then realize that half of all people are dumber than that every one of these morons has the collective IQ of a carrot.”

From translate so idk how accurate it is but it sounds about right.

Vince Coglianese then asks whether Donald Trump thinks Greenlanders are “eager” to become American citizens. The president replies:

“I don’t know. I don’t think they’re ‘uneager,’ but I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them, and we have to have that land, because it’s not really possible to properly defend a large part of this world without it. So we need to have it, and I think we’ll get it.”

We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.

Also, JDV:

It’s an island that—from a defensive perspective, and even an offensive one—is something we need, especially with the world as it is.

What the fuck? Literally agitating for war, claiming we need to grab Greenland so we can potentially attack someone else?

He’s rapidly becoming famous for epic levels of cognitive dissonance.

Two questions:

1. What part of what I said leads you to that conclusion? There are always ways in which a situation can be made worse if punishment is the goal.
2. Why is punishment so important to you?

It’s not so unlike my job. Things go wrong and situations get fucked up, but retribution doesn’t fix anything. You have to identify how to resolve any ongoing situation and then prevent it from happening again. If the guy isn’t in a situation where he can attack anyone else, what more needs to be done to keep people safe?

There is no fixing the damage the guy has done, with or without retribution. That is only to assuage our own emotional wants.

Look at Luigi. He (allegedly) killed one person. No aggravating factors. The laws say he can’t be executed for that, so now he’s charged with terrorism. Same with people who vandalize fucking Teslas. I doubt they are going to face execution, but nothing actually prevents that.

If the state wants to murder someone, it will find a way to make it legal to do so if there is any avenue at all. Let’s just take it off the board.

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Joe is human. He doesn’t have more rights than his wife, her right to life was cruelly taken from her in a criminal act. That isn’t fixed by taking more life. It just makes the government an even bigger criminal.

Edit: due to the scale of them taking far more lives.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s not about justice for one person.

It’s not that he doesn’t deserve it or lack of evidence. It’s because the state shouldn’t have that authority. At all. Ever. Look at the fuckery going on in the Whitehouse. Ten years ago 90% of people would’ve said this isn’t even possible. Close that door, lock it, throw away the key. It’s not about justice for in one case, it’s more important to prevent greater injustice.

It’s because he’s from North Dakota, right? RIGHT???

(No, it’s because he fucks kids.)

You want to know what happens to people who fight back? Look at Vindman and Snowden and Manning (not saying the latter two did everything right, of course, but they put themselves on the line). Democrats did nothing for them. If no one fights for the people who fight back, why would they just throw everything away? No one wants to be a martyr. No one wants to be left out to dry.

We haven’t fought for the people who fight for democracy. How surprising is the consequence, really?