Any association she has with Jan 6 - and therefore any obvious indication of conflict of interest from the feds - buried in the caption of her photo for the article.

But since Jamie exists in a context where power is shifting rapidly, no one one has a script to rationalionalise his allegiance to power, and neither does the audience who identifies with him.

Also, Empire of the Sun. The costume party scenes (including the drive there) is probably one of the few cases of effective criticism of imperialism from the perspective of the colonisers. The combination of Stoppard's writing and Spielberg's direction make the film better than the book.

The former SFO in question. It looks like she was spying on hate groups for a reason and the politicised DoJ does not like this one bit. Sort of weird that this detail is buried in a caption of her photo.

Truman was also motivated by balance of power politics. He also wanted the UN to stop wars for territorial gain, and he saw the invasion from the North through that lens. Again, relatively reasonable justification from the US, but no assumption that the North would be cray-cray.

But look at the text of the 2nd Amendment. The right to bear arms is buried under a lengthy clause explaining the purpose of this right: 'the security of a free State'. This does not look like rising up against a tyrant. It looks like the tyrant wants simps to secure the state for him. /12

Americans often believe that the 2nd Amendment protects them from tyrants. The cultural legacy of the Revolutionary War is a big part of that belief. Yet this is how it actually is: /11

Especially because Ireland, for its part, explicitly removed this section of the Bill of Rights for use in legal precedent in Statute Law Revision Act 2007, the year before the US Supreme Court used it in District of Columbia v. Heller. 8/ www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bil...

I thought you meant rationalists like Descartes or Kant and was confused. Then I googled it.

I wish I could photograph the iridescent quality of their feathers - they're so beautiful in the right light.

...cantcha just open it?

Kingfishers where I live actually don't eat much fish. They're more into small reptiles here.

AND YET. Do you know who establishment Dems blamed? Not the GOP. Not voter fraud. Not the electoral college. Not their own strategy. Disloyal non-reactionary subjects who had the audacity to vote third party during such a 'crucial' election. Sound familiar? /9

While the role of voter fraud as a deciding factor in that election is disputed, it is still damning that (white) Dems did so little in response to a. something that was objectively bad and b. the fact that the pre-Trump GOP was willing to bring sarin gas to a knife fight. /8

The (white) Dems were largely passive in the face of obvious voter fraud that harmed *them* and disenfranchised black voters in a former Jim Crow state. Gore pushed for a recount, but when this was overturned in the Supreme Court, he folded. /7

One person responsible for this was Katherine Harris. She was Secretary of State for FL and a leader of W Bush's election effort in FL but as the governor of FL was W's brother, no one cared. She hired a private firm erroneously purged black voters from registration roles. /5

I'm sure Dems thought/think/claim Al Gore, Hillary, Biden, Harris, were safe options for a conservative people with smol bean memories. Those constituents also respond to vibes, and this strategy is giving lack of ideas since at least Bush v Gore in 2000. 3/

Since 2000, there have been 3 former vps and one wife of a former president who has won the Dem nomination. In 2000, dawn of the new millennium, the Dems were serving up Al Gore, a VP of a president who dominated the 90s. 2/

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

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Because most of their funding comes from donations. According to financial reports you can find on their website, most of that funding come from Europe. The reports don't do a breakdown of donations by country, but I'd imagine most of their donors come from the UK. JKR is a fucking bitch.

They've got false consciousness baaaad

Not many Wes Anderson films *without* flashbacks. Rushmore maybe?

So I'm not a fan of leftists willing to gloss over Planter's bs. But I'm less of a fan of centrist Dems acting like they wouldn't be fine with the same bs coming from a more 'market friendly' Dem, and using Platner to lean into this:

So if protection of rapists and support of the far right is a reoccurring theme in the US military, from individuals to much larger policies, and Planter was a part of that system... isn't Planter a normie?

Military veterans are favoured 'normie' Dem candidates by the Dem establishment, even if they don't win. Tim Waltz and John Kerry spring to mind.