Well you see, she’s a woman

She’s a loyal member of the fascist police state. The laws aren’t for her, they’re for the millions of working class stiffs who need to be harassed and intimidated into pacification.

Wife tried to unsubscribe from the WaPo a few years back and got such an insane run-around that she opted to go through her credit card company instead. They tried to re-sign her up twice before the cancellation stuck.

Chinese governments like speech that is friendly to China. US governments like speech that is friendly to the US.

We call it censorship when a government censors self-criticism, but a big part of that calculation hinges on how much criticism a government is subjected to at any given moment.

If you’re seeing a lot of Chinese criticism - and a lot of second-order “China is censoring the criticism!” stories - that’s more often the result of a national media push to divorce the US public and economy from China. If you’re seeing a lot of US self-criticism and resulting domestic government backlash, that’s more often the result of a divided US populace that’s lost sight of it’s Overseas Enemy Cold War fixation.

The day Trump leaves office, you’re going to see a tidal wave of “China Bad!” articles slam into your news feed, like the Red Sea after Moses squeezes it shut again. Then we won’t see “US censorship!” hand-wringing until the political scene starts polarizing again.

What could have possibly prompted this?

A(ctually) I(ndonesian)

If the Pentagon doesn’t want someone in Congress to see a document, they simply put a large folder labeled “Very Real and Serious UAF Photos Inside” directly on top of the document so that the investigators waste the next two weeks chasing bullshit.

On the flip side, we’ve got a bunch of Obama/Biden Era Woke Gay Liberals who think smoking inside the building shouldn’t be allowed. Under the new Based Administration, hotboxing Ring B is mandatory.

Eroding the essential humanity of the population you wish to eradicate so that you can come back in twenty years and write fascist pop psychology articles about how Arabs and Persians are heartless towards children.

• Degrade and underinvest in rail networks, so you can’t move coal cheaply across the country

• Knock out Russian gas production, so it’s more profitable to ship NGLs overseas than use them at home

• Blockade the Straight of Hormuz, so you lose access to cheaply refined petroleum.

• Also, sabotage productive capacity in Venezuela and tear up all your sulfur refining facilities, so you can’t exploit the largest fuel reserve in the Western Hemisphere

Sunny Days Are Here Again.

Thanks, Donald!

I told you it was always about oil

More broadly, it is about western imperial expansion. Control of the Red Sea. Control of the Suez Canal. The ability to cut China and Russia off from international markets (specifically, trade with India and West Africa).

Oil was a big part of it, but not the whole.

It was always not only about israel colonial interests but also american imperialist interests

They’re joined at the hip.

Hegseth enters the chat

She regularly touts her history as one of the first women to graduate from The Citadel. And she campaigns as a Girl Boss personality. Much of her anti-Trans rhetoric involves accusing trans women of sexual assault and claiming they undermine women’s organizations.

It’s a very Republican brand of feminism.

Morrowind, Fallout, and Dragon Age are all quality contenders.

Spending ten hours of spamming resumes to get one hour on an interview call sounds like a bad way to make money

If you’ve got enough money, and you don’t step into any big scams, sure.

But the first is hard and the second is arguably even harder. The Tech Sector was flush with greenwashing under Obama, for instance.

Carney dodged a bullet when a much more popular Conservative party took a tumble in the face of US tariffs.

Now he’s trying to placate a bunch of Trumpy Albertans on the on hand and tech sector landleeches on the other, which is roughly the place Biden found himself two years into his term.

Canadian politics is fully in the grip of the oligarchs - many of whom straddle the border.

• Very difficult for an outside investor to gauge the ethical practices of a business outside the broad brush stuff (war bad, solar good, etc)

• The volume of cash you’re investing is likely a rounding error on a rounding error for the business, nevermind the industry as a whole, so you’re unlikely to shift behaviors with your choices

• Ethical investing is riff with affinity scams.

• It’s hard to gauge long term net benefits of an investment decision, which can lead to “Longtermist” style behavior.

I spend all my sick days and a non-negligible number of vacation days on the kind of chores you can only get done during work hours. Back when we had “Work From Home”, I would also squeeze these tasks in during my lunch break.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it.

Well, good luck with that. My retired mother-in-law helps a lot with my son when he’s ill. And we can juggle my son between our individual sick-day allotments such that I haven’t run out yet. But yeah, eventually they’re all just “hours to spend that my boss won’t gripe at me for when I use them”. That’s meant dipping into vacation days when I needed to justify not being on the clock.

If only. Every Canadian politician treats sucking up to Americans like it’s half their job. Canadian businessmen, like it’s the entire job.

This has got to sting.

She got her hand in the till for a few years. And I’m sure she’ll have ample opportunity to do her own brand of “How The Republican Party Went Woke And Betrayed Donald Trump” in another year or two, right alongside her friends MTG and George Santos.

The sting will fade. The grift will go on.