Alyssa

ASOIAF, Politics

[Alyssa @lyssajaime]

Obsessed

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I don’t think mainstream Dems understand just how incredibly enraged normie liberal voters are by the My Good Republican Colleagues bit and how central it is to their alienation. It’s another substanceless thing the establishment is willing to burn tons of political capital on.

[𝐵𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝐾 @misskerrington]

My dream relationship is one where I can be a princess and a dictator at the same time

[taylor gates @Elphaba_Anne]

if you guys need a reason to watch the diplomat let it be the fact that they let allison janney do her own devil wears prada cerulean monologue in it

[🪐 @Degentle_]

People hate Sansa because of her unapologetic femininity. Even the tools and weapons she wields are inherently feminine, using her needlework and social graces to create alliances and prove her worth. They indulge Arya’s arc because she rejects the rules of being a noblewoman, is rough and tumble and physically aggressive. But they could never forgive Sansa because she gravitates to girlhood.

Nothing but respect from my lips for the Lady of Winterfell and Queen in the North.

[Aegor Rivers @bittersteel196]

- Closeted homosexual
- In love with his blonde ruler
- Support a foreign army known for committing war crimes
- be Jon Connington
- pic unrelated

[the doogfather @thedoogfather]

lindsay graham in hell trying to get ronald reagan’s attention

[Rayyvana @RayyvanaTTV]

Does nobody leave the house anymore or is everybody just delusional. Men absolutely still approach women in public and I assure you they are not concerned with how creepy they come off.

[Parker @Pareidoliac]

It's almost like "Westeros respects bastards more than women as leaders" is the entire thesis of the war being fought

[Preston Winter @PrestonWintArch]

“GRRM hates heroism” is such a strange take, that I wonder if those pushing are reading the same series. Let’s compile just a brief list of a few heroic moments from ASOIAF:

[DSA @DemSocialists]

DSA is proud to endorse Evan MacKay for State Rep from the 25th Middlesex District. A union organizer and a @Boston_DSA member, @Evan4Cambridge is committed to bringing socialism and the labor movement together in the Massachusetts State House.

[Max @maxtmcc]

The whole thing where Americans say “of course we cannot have walkable cities with trains; we have GDP growth” and Europeans say “of course we cannot have GDP growth, we have walkable cities with trains” must be confusing to residents of several Asian countries

[Zach @zjfrank13]

I’m a simple guy. I just want to see Taylor Swift in her wedding dress or proof of death from Mitch McConnell. I don’t ask for much.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Imagine a job posting: $174K salary, four hours of cold calls daily, your family loses their privacy, and just applying costs a couple million dollars.

That's Congress. The leaked orientation deck for new members recommended four hours of donor calls per day against two hours of actual committee and floor work. Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z congressman, maxed out his credit cards to win, tanked his credit score, and struggled to rent an apartment in DC after taking office.

Anyone with the skill set politics demands, persuasion, coalition building, thriving under public pressure, clears double that salary in law, tech, or finance. Without surrendering their privacy or spending afternoons asking strangers for money.

So the pool self-sorts. People who weigh costs and benefits normally exit at every stage. What survives is people for whom power itself is the compensation. The job pays badly in money and extravagantly in status, which means it selects for people who price status above everything else in their lives.

Economists call this adverse selection. Plato called it the reason the people most fit to rule never volunteer. Sherrod Brown raised $100 million for one Senate race and still lost. Run that job posting past any normal, caring, intelligent person you know and count the seconds before they decline.

The pipeline screens out everyone who does the math honestly. What remains is whoever wanted power at any price. Then we act surprised at who governs us.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Say what you will about Dem HR ladies and middle-aged wine moms, they are very unlikely to torpedo their party’s electoral prospects because they raped someone.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

My position on platner is the same I had on changing out Biden

We should be 100% behind our nominee until the moment it becomes necessary to cut them off for the good of the party and country and if that occurs it must be swift and decisive

[Is Mitch McConnell Dead Yet? @IsMitchDeadYet]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Matt Herdman @MattHerdman]

Europe: “America has no soccer culture”

America: *does a wildly corrupt thing with the president of fifa*

Europe: no not like that

[Quinn The GM @quinnthegm]

This episode of House of the Dragon was insanely unique; The key to the main ASOIAF book series is GRRM's incredible use of each viewpoint's perspective to shape the world, and this was the closest we've gotten to a POV chapter in an adaptation of his work. I loved it.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Whoooooooooooooooooooosh
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Nnnnneeeeeeeeeoooooooooowwwwwwwwwwssssssssh
Whoooooooooooooooooooooasssh

— living in Washington D.C. today

[͙͘͡ ⟢ @shierakstar]

“And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.” Might be the best closing line of a book ever written.