Hegar

They definitely have not. Not publicizing a fool proof nuclear counter-measure defeats the purpose of achieving it in the first place.

You’d MUCH rather your opponent know a nuke strike is pointless, rather than they try and later be surprised that only one lucky one got through.

Prosecuting and jailing fascists for the crimes they commit is a requirement for fighting fascism. Here in the US I’m just not convinced yet that Dems are willing to break the taboo on jailing the rich.

Sometimes I miss australia.

Oh lol, oops! Organism, as I’m sure is pretty clear, but I’ll leave it since it’s funnier that way.

This plan is part of our fascist regime’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Send non whites to death camps and bring in more white supremacists.

This is factually incorrect though. All human language is natural language. We’re an orgasm that has human style language as one of it’s traits.

It doesn’t really make sense to say that birds don’t naturally sing because they teach their children, or that ape gestures and calls are just made up. Incidentally we share a lot of those gestures, showing that human communication systems emerge from the natural processes of evolution.

sin is religious bullshit anyway

Yep, that’s why I used the word.

Suggesting that “people are idiots” actually explains behavior is just like believing in sin - it’s just giving up on understanding reality. It makes as much sense as a right wing christian trying explain away their opponents as sinners.

Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.

Australia has compulsory voting, parties with only minority support can’t win by suppressing turnout.

Sin is never a sufficient explanation for human behavior. Meaning anytime we think “it’s because they are bad”, we’re missing something big.

All behavior is an attempt to meet needs. Any correct explanation of behavior identifies the need and how the behavior is believed to meet it.

They may not be smart, on average as a group. But that’s not why they keep doing this.

Identities with more rigorous behavior requirements often persist longer. It seems counter-intuitive but the greater the buy-in required, the more appealing the identity seems to be.

In some weird and deeply human way, displaying your devotion to these doomed and unreasonable defenses probably increases the individual’s status among their sovereign peers. That’s the payoff that we don’t see when we only look at the financial and legal costs.

“Proto” usually implies that it’s a stage that may develop into the thing, not yet the thing. Whereas “early” implies it’s recently become the thing. Or at least that’s how I usually hear them used, and what I meant.

Republicans have ruled for half of the current century, but only legitimately won the election after 9/11. I don’t think it’s fair to describe US elections as functional, even arguably.

This is what fascist states look like at this stage of their life cycle. I think the most generous description of the US is an early fascist state. If we really want to argue about whether a spade is a shovel.

When I look at the quality of prominent Americans who went to ivy league schools, I don’t think cheating your way through college will make much difference.

Pete hegseth graduated from princeton without the use of AI and he is one dumb fucking cunt, for example

place idealism above hard work

To translate from rich asshole, this means act ethically instead of do what I say.

I don’t see Aeon Flux mentioned yet. The Maxx is very good too. Duckman I remember being hilarious, but I dunno if starring Jason Alexander counts as a deep cut.

A purpose-built expressway is not the same thing as a slippery slope.

An old boss gave $100 of the store’s money to a conman claiming to be the star player of the West Indies cricket team, who promised a sizable donation when he was able to get back to his hotel room. She got interviewed by the local paper about how she got swindled. Not a lot of money, but not a good look.

Shortly before the interview, write out the details of a time you overcame a problem or did something particularly competent. What you did, how you overcame, the effect it had, the recognition you got.

Not for use in the interview, just to get yourself in a good headspace for displaying your strengths.

Ah! Yep, “brought under control” is something I’ve heard said about fires before. Interesting, thank you!