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take collector

[em 🐬 @brbtea]

get in loser

[Doc Coyle @DocCoyle]

I’ve lived in LA for 12 years. The voting system is set up for convenience. I think I’ve voted in an actual booth maybe 1 time. Other than that I’ve filled out a mail-in ballot and just dropped it off at a drop box or polling place. And some reason, people on here think I shouldn’t be able to do this. That I should have to wait in line, take up a huge chunk of my day. Voting should be easy.

[Al Shipley @alshipley]

wonder what southern california republicans are smoking that they thought they were suddenly going to start winning elections

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

No one had even heard of this nobody that...polled higher than Pratt in the last major poll before the election!

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

This is like if AOC ran for Governor of Alabama and lost and we tried to argue it was fraud.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory.

Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous periods of regional escalation, including immediately after the outbreak of war in late February, collectively punishing Gaza’s civilian population.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

The entire IDF military strategy is doing the "time out, time out, time out, TIME IN" trick in a fight and getting pissed off when someone starts hitting them back

[beef heiress @rebirthcanal]

love a movie where eccentric divas break down in chudsville

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

Acting as if there is no future and the world is definitely ending is an extremely good way to avoid feeling accountable for things but unfortunately you guys are still going to be around in your 70's too, and the world will be way worse by then because you preemptively gave up.

[em 🐬 @brbtea]

a tourney watch party outside of harrenhal has been canceled, with king aerys and lord whent expected to attend the joust

[Thing Bad @Merman_Melville]

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

[LeCanard (Commissions open!) @iniemohk]

Beowulf but in Florida: The unarmed hero Benny Wolf confronts the demonic Bucc-del inside the great drinking hall of the Waffle Wouse, in the lands of the mighty Burger King of Jacksonville.

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

This makes perfect sense if you don’t know anything about anything.

Fucking half of the US’ interventions over the past 40 years were explicitly conducted to prevent Muslims from killing other Muslims. We invaded Somalia ‘with UN support’ to quash a famine that was being instigated by warlords (and when we had to get our hands dirty trying to hunt down some of those warlords, we again, both had UN support and the military support of both Pakistan and Malaysia). We chucked Saddam out of Kuwait (again, with UN support) with a coalition that was half composed of Western states and half composed of Muslim states. When Saddam didn’t get the message the first time, and tried to eradicate the Kurds of northern Iraq and the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, we (with UN support) threw up a no-fly zone over northern and southern Iraq.

Never mind the fact that the Conga line of war criminals at the ICC looks like Muslim -> Balkan dude (usually Christian, sometimes Muslim) -> Muslim -> Balkan dude -> Muslim -> African warlord (mostly Christian, sometimes Muslim) -> Muslim. The current guy on trial is a Libyan war criminal named Khaled El Hishri.

The other three dudes who’ve been on the docket are ‘Rodrigo Duterte’ (the Filipino Christian president who notably waged a mass murder campaign against drug users and dealers); Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, a ‘Muslim’ leader of the Janjaweed who co-led the Darfur genocide; and Al-Hassan Ag Mahmoud, a guy who lead an Al-Qaeda affiliate in northern Mali (he beat most of his charges by the way, because the International Criminal Court is in fact nigh perfectly fair — he still has to pay restitution for a bunch of torture he ordered though).

And to state the obvious, the General Assembly is infinitely more forgiving when you’re repressing ‘your own citizens’ — that’s the rule, because ‘everyone’ does that. North Korea isn’t occupying South Korean territory right now, and they’re not actively assassinating North Koreans defectors who’ve moved to the South or elsewhere. The Houthis’ ‘won’ their election in Sanaa (technically making them the actual government of Yemen), the civil war happened because they won their election and ‘then’ marched on Sanaa.

The Syrian and Sudanese ‘civil wars’ (again, the UN is overwhelmingly forgiving when governments brutalize their own citizens, that’s why no one complained when the Russians brutalized Chechnya), also consistently drew international opprobrium. When Russia invaded Ukraine (without pretext, unlike their invasion of Georgia, which they were able to frame as an intervention on the part of South Ossetians) that drew consistent UN disapproval. With China, it’s the same canard, they’re repressing their own citizens re the Uyghurs, thus, criticism has been muted.

Including Iran just demonstrates that he’s a deeply unserious person — Iran both hasn’t had a civil war, and hasn’t conducted a formal military intervention without the request of one of the governments in the countries in which they operate. And no, supporting proxies doesn’t count as rising to the level warranting international opprobrium — if it did, the US government would cease functioning because of the number of officials who’d be rotating in and out of ICC hearings.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Israel has killed more Palestinian children in the last 3 years than Palestinians have killed Israelis of any kind over the last 80 years.

And it’s the Palestinians who are bloodthirsty and violent. Sure.

[David @dqveed]

They’re slowly taking away the second amendment see

[WARHORSE @JPWARHORSE]

When I see a little charcuterie board at the party

[em 🐬 @brbtea]

@stockpiledclay that's bugs bunny

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

I dunno this a terrible argument, it’s best to just say that “we hope our candidates can be better” Democrats stood by Bill Clinton despite his many scandals in Arkansas and he had an affair with an intern. Unless the argument is you can do bad things if you went to Yale Law?

[Matthew Petti 👨‍🎓 @matthew_petti]

What they’re trying to say is that the soldier didn’t just spray and pray, but actually precisely shot the family in the car.

[em 🐬 @brbtea]

same

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is a binturong, it’s not a bear or a cat, it naturally smells like buttered popcorn, and it’s one of the most underrated animals on the planet

[cinesansar @cinesansar]

Islands of Fire (1955) dir. Vittorio De Seta