Thinky McDrinkface

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
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#drinkanddrive

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Credit Score // Alcohol Consumption

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it” as @PerthshireMags said.

[Klonopin Centaur @facetedcarapace]

Digital billboard advertising presidential debate glitching out in rising floodwaters is a little too on the nose. I think we need to dial back the Meta.

[Freddie Shanel @freddie_shanel]

your 20s are for gathering brick and wood and your 30s are all about ore and wheat

[dan nolan @dannolan]

On the face of it alcohol is so funny - you can take a potion that makes you so good at driving the government has to make it illegal

[Thinky McDrinkface @achidyemay]

@OliLondonTV @jakepaul No men fought in this competition. Hell, no males fought in this competition either.

[Thinky McDrinkface @achidyemay]

@macaiyla @EndWokeness It's already illegal to be trans in Algeria, what on Earth would Trump do about this?

[Thinky McDrinkface @achidyemay]

@timelineearth is brat

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Do not let the funny headline distract you, a la the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit, from what is actually a serious case that further erodes consumer rights.

[Thinky McDrinkface @achidyemay]

@ToastSalad Bocci, or indoor bowling, and loud sex are other great options. Thankfully one leads to the other.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

He called the dog "habibi"
 — my darling  —
as it mauled him to death
while his family listened nearby.

They had never heard him speak before.
He had the mind of an infant.

"Enough, my darling," Muhammed said to the dog,
because it was killing him,
and because he was in pain,
and because his family had spoken to him 
so lovingly all his life.

Those were the words he knew.
That's how he was spoken to.
That's what you say to someone 
when you need them to stop.
When you need them to listen.
When their behavior is challenging,
but you have deep love in your heart.

Enough, my darling.
Enough, my darling.
As Gaza burns: enough, my darling.
Enough.

As attack dogs on two legs
send attack dogs on four legs
to bite and maul and kill:
Enough, my darling.
Enough.

A murder of crows 
follows a murder of IDF soldiers,
cawing, "Enough, my darling.
Enough."

The bombed out hospitals.
The children without limbs.
The sniper drones playing recorded babies' cries
to try and lure out civilians.
The attack dog maulings.
The hunger.
The fear.
Enough, my darling.
Enough.

As we kill our planet
and kill each other
because we cannot act kindly,
cannot let love guide us,
cannot call off the dogs,
cannot rescue their victims,
cannot stop the attack,
cannot awaken from our confusion,
the stars call down to us from above:
Enough, habibi.
Enough, my darling.

Enough.

Enough.

Enough.

[Stephen with a PH @Stephen_witha]

“You’re just a #ConspiracyTheorist…”

A thread 🧵

[St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 @St_Rev]

Oh no Algorithm what are you dune

[Thinky McDrinkface @achidyemay]

@beinlibertarian Bwahahaha, Trump only ever ran in the first place to own Obama

[Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 @ING2Firebrand]

Ben Franklin didn’t plow through dozens and dozens of French whores so that you could abide by fireworks ordinances

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

In case you're curious, this is why people are upset about the Chevron decision.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

If you were lucky enough to have missed the debate, Biden was so confused and zoned out that not only did CNN’s audience overwhelmingly say Trump won while the word “dementia” was sent trending on Twitter, but it was also uniformly acknowledged to have been a horrifying catastrophe by Democratic Party operatives and liberal media pundits, who are now widely suggesting that the president should withdraw from the race.

But the conversation has almost entirely revolved around Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, with relatively little attention going to the fact that this person is the president right now. Everyone’s talking about whether Biden can assure American voters that he has what it takes to be president, and nobody seems all that concerned about the fact that he is already president and will remain so for half a year.

What this suggests is that people already kind of know on some level that the president of the United States doesn’t really run the United States, but are still mentally compartmentalized away from this reality enough to care who wins the presidential election.

If people really believed the president runs the country, they’d be freaking out that Biden in his demented haze might order an attack on the Soviet Union or nuke Libya to kill Muammar Gaddafi or something. They’re not worried that this will happen because they know their government is actually being run by unelected empire managers from behind the scenes, and that Biden is just the official face on the operation.

So in order to hold their mainstream worldview together, liberals are simultaneously straddling the two completely contradictory concepts that (A) it doesn’t matter who the president is because the country is actually run by unelected empire managers, and (B) that Biden’s debate performance was very concerning because it means Trump will become president.

If they let go of (A) then they’re no longer in the mainstream worldview where their country works how they were taught it works in school, and if they let go of (B) then they’re no longer in the mainstream worldview where presidential elections are super duper important and all their country’s problems are the result of Americans voting incorrectly. So they straddle them both and try not to think too hard about the obvious contradictions between them, in order to avoid the crushing cognitive dissonance they’d experience if they looked at them too closely.

In reality the US empire has marched along in all its usual depravity despite its official leader having Swiss cheese for a brain this entire time. They got their genocide in Gaza and their world-threatening proxy war against Russia, as well as China policy that is vastly more hawkish than that of Biden’s predecessors. The imperial murder machine hasn’t skipped a beat in its nonstop campaign of steadily increasing global tyranny.

This has happened because US presidential elections are fake and the results don’t matter. It wouldn’t matter if Americans elected a labrador retriever or a bottle of Tabasco sauce; the empire would roll forward without the slightest interruption. The wars would continue. The economic injustice would continue. The surging authoritarianism would continue. The oligarchy and corruption would continue. The ecocidal capitalism would continue. The imperialist extraction would continue.

US elections are just a diversion to keep Americans from pushing for real change in ways that pose a meaningful challenge to power, and Americans already kind of know this. The sooner they stop compartmentalizing away from this fact that they’re already dimly aware of and face reality, the sooner they can start bringing health to both their nation and the world.