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zoo wee mama

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@LegacyKillaHD I just hope that for a game like that or even ESO, when it eventually dies they would make some kind of offline version that still works after they kill the servers

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@KJeromeM @SerperiorG @oprktr The crank would’ve been a good idea if it didn’t consume ammo. Sorta like the recharger rifle but you have to crank it to generate power to take a shot

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

the synthesis between the obnoxious far-left "America is an ontologically evil nation built on white supremacy" belief and naive "America is da best" belief is that America is defined by its liberal principles constantly struggling against its original sin

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@CDRomance_Spike Well you wake up in a cave somehow but it does come following a shipwreck

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@DeMickyD “What matters is that we act. That we do what’s right, when confronted with evil. That’s what you did at Kvatch. It wasn’t the gods that saved us, it was you. Were you acting for the gods? I don’t know. But now it’s my turn to act.” —Martin. At least he acknowledges it

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@ProgChris @sofiartworks I know, that doesn’t go against anything I said. And it doesn’t say they’re aiding the stormcloaks in any direct way. The dossier also says they want to avoid a stormcloak victory in the war, and that it’s unfavorable

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@ProgChris @sofiartworks Hammerfell is still holding out. And I feel like even if Skyrim wins its independence, that doesn’t have to preclude an alliance with the other nations of men. They can ally with and fight alongside imperial forces even if they’re no longer ruled by Cyrodiil

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@sofiartworks I’m progressive but I’ve never got why it’s so controversial of an idea for Skyrim to be ruled by the nords. Every province is associated with one of the races, that’s how it is. Theres a line between supremacy and self-rule, but why can’t the nords rule themselves like others do

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@stellarflows @apollipino I mean that’s what I do I’ll admit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@stellarflows @apollipino Yeah but that doesn’t work if you’re trying to get a new haircut for the first time

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Y'all remember they promised to drain the swamp ? Instead, this is the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it.

While Americans are struggling, the first family raking in billions of dollars. 

Just listen to this. Last September the president of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining to an American company.

And the very next month, Eric and Don Junior get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal .

6 days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get the largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world

The US government, run by father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project.

All this while you pay more for groceries, gas, and healthcare.

If you're involved in any of this—next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God in front of the United States Congress

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

King Charles reminds Trump and MAGA that NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time after 9/11, when all alliance members came to the aid of the United States.

“Today, Mr. Speaker, that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people,” the king said, receiving a standing ovation🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump’s 2027 budget:

Cuts $234 million in funding for worker protection agencies

Fully eliminates a HUD program dedicated to increasing affordable housing supply

Fully eliminates the Job Corps program, which provides tens of thousands of students vocational training each year

Fully eliminates the Food for Peace program, which provides $2 billion in support for the U.S. farm economy

Fully eliminates a second HUD program dedicated to increasing affordable housing supply

Cuts $1.3 billion in FEMA grants

Cuts $82 million in funding for a USDA program dedicated to creating job opportunities in rural communities

Fully eliminates HUD's Fair Housing Initiatives Program

Fully eliminates LIHEAP, which helps struggling families with energy bills and energy crises

Fully eliminates a third HUD program dedicated to increasing affordable housing supply

Cuts $1.6 billion in funding for NOAA, which monitors and predicts natural disasters

Cuts $297 million in NASA funding for space technology

Cuts $5 billion in NIH funding

Fully eliminates a fourth HUD program dedicated to increasing affordable housing supply

Fully eliminates multiple small business development programs

Cuts $354 million in funding for minority-serving institutions like HBCUs

Cuts $40 million to DHS's Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

Cuts $2 billion in humanitarian assistance

Cuts $1.1 billion in NASA funding for the International Space Station

Cuts $204.5 million in funding for expanding economic opportunities

Cuts $3.4 billion in NASA science and research programs

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

At Newburgh in 1783, Washington walked into a room of soldiers who wanted to march on Congress and install him as a constitutional monarch. He reached into his pocket for his eyeglasses — the calculated theater of a man who understood exactly what the moment required — and said he had grown not only gray but nearly blind in the service of his country. Some men broke into tears. The conspiracy died in that room.

Nichols asks us to sit with what Washington chose not to do in that moment. A lesser man, he writes, would have nodded and taken the throne. Washington had the army, the love of the citizenry, and a government too weak to stop him. He chose to go home instead.

Trump stood in Arlington National Cemetery and looked at the graves of the honored dead and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” He said that in the same country, about the same army, whose commander-in-chief he was.

The distance between those two men is not partisan. It is the entire argument for why the republic was designed the way it was.

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

It’s crazy that we’ve gone from “Jimmy Carter has to place his peanut farm in a blind trust” to whatever this is in 50 years.

[aetherus @Aetherus754]

@Never_Trumpism @Askwhyisit No Morales??