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tryna get my dink sonked

[Finnobarbarian @finnobarbarian]

Spanish civil war is funny cause on other side you had:
-Long serving military personel, officers and soldiers
-monarchists
-Falangists
And on another side you have:
-chicks in heels
-necrophilic nun rapists
-couple of shitty authors

And the second one was the establishment!

[The Meteor Magazine @TheMeteorBlog]

This is a silly way to deal with this debate.

Factually, the libs are correct. People died because we rapidly ended programs they relied on. The correct response is not to shift this to debates about limits but just say, "Yes. Who cares?"

Precisely the reason it doesn't matter is that these deaths happen every day.

Africa can not develop without colonial governance or foreign aid (colonial governance with a Robin's egg mask). People die every day en masse even with all our aid. USAID saved some of them. USAID also funneled arms to terror cells, killing some others. None of it matters. Africa is worse now than 30 years ago.

We ended USAID because we lost the will to pour money into the infinite death continent.

Of course, some deaths happened as a result. The point is we don't care. Musk should just be honest. Of course, pulling aid would kill people. But maintaining aid wouldn't be good for us, or, good, long term, for Africans. The self-reliance you would need to pull aid without deaths in Africa can not and will never exist without colonial governance.

Yes. Some people died. More are going to die tomorrow. Life is cheap in Africa because Africans treat life cheaply. No amount of money will change that.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Debate over Musk and USAID reminds me of a classic post: The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

Because the United States once helped people it is now obligated to fix the problem forever, even more so than someone who hasn't helped at all.

[Forza Inquisitrix 🕵🏻‍♀️ @ForzaBombardier]

Les réalisateurs de films pseudo-historiques/fantasy voient ça et ils se disent « nan je vais mettre du cuir bouilli noir »

[SmugAlana ❄️🔥🦊 @SmugAlana]

"you peasants don't DESERVE air conditioning, WE DO"
LMFAO

[user @user84829272]

As an executive member please keep the entrance clear

[Pieter Cleppe @pietercleppe]

The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:

“It’s like feudalism,” a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a “disgrace.” https://t.co/DWUnu3Wz3C

[Mark Meadows @MarkMeadows]

That thing that never happens happened again.

[wanye @xwanyex]

This is a point I’ve made before in a slightly different way. The average liberal hears that somebody screamed the N-word at a nice black guy in a suit and they feel it way down in their gut. What a fucking despicable thing to do. The type of person who would do that is pure scum, the worst of the Earth. It’s disgusting. The feeling is visceral. Makes them wanna puke. Who could possibly do such a thing?

But then they hear a story about a black teenager who stomped on another man’s head until he died and… well they’re not going to condone it, obviously, but the passion, the intensity, the disgust — it’s just not there.

And I just think, like, you know, stomping on another man’s head is worse than saying something racist. I think that should be obvious to everybody. And I think the fact that one of these things feels to liberals like an absolute kick in the gut and the other one doesn’t is deranging a lot of their politics.

[skeleton @ThinkingBone]

accidentally used my rationalist personality with my leftist friends and got hit with that water usage stare

[Lumpy @LumpyTheCook]

I’ve been ranting for years about how TVTropes and fandom wikis and youtube essayists did permanent damage to how people analyze stuff and discuss it online, only to find out that not only is there already a specific term for that phenomenon, but it predates all of those sites

[Susan Ego @siuansanche10]

The type of shit you start saying to a co-worker you normally want to murder three hours after everyone was suppose to go home

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

BREAKING: District Judge Jar Jar Binks rules that you can’t have a country anymore, says borders are “imaginary lines on a map” and that the entire galaxy now qualifies for refugee status

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Brittany was 24 weeks pregnant with a surrogate baby when she discovered she had cancer.

Then things got worse.

The gay couple the boy was intended for wanted him “immediately terminated.”

Brittany refused abortion, and the couple threatened to abandon both the surrogate and the baby.

They threatened lawsuits against Brittany and the hospital.

Her team was even afraid to treat her without consulting lawyers.

When adoption was offered, “the fathers stated they didn’t want their ‘DNA out there’ being raised by someone else.”

They wanted a “death certificate.”

Ashley was ultimately induced early at 25 weeks, and the baby boy died shortly after because his male purchasers refused to give him life-saving care.

Ashley said the experience left her feeling like a “rented-out uterus.”

She said she would have given the baby “every chance of survival.”

This horrifying story reinforced how inherently exploitative surrogacy is.

Ban surrogacy now.

[PZ @Maiko_11_11]

The 15 year old:

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

women when you tell them to stop being a body shield for the rapist foreigner

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A federal judge has UPHELD the felony conviction against former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found GUILTY of helping an illegal evade ICE agents at the courthouse

Dugan now faces up to FIVE YEARS in prison, disbarment, and steep fines.

[Huff @Huff4Congress]

Greta Gerwig (Barbie, Little Women, Ladybird) is directing The Magician’s Nephew, the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia, for Netflix.

Meryl Streep is the voice of Aslan.

Frank the Cabby and his wife Helen, the first king and queen of Narnia, have been race-swapped to black.

The film is set in the 1950s, not the 1900s, so The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe will be set in the 1990s, not the 1940s.

This might end up being the worst book-to-film adaptation of all time.

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

I have to ring a buzzer to get mouthwash at CVS

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

You say you'd kill baby Hitler, and yet you root against Sebulba. Interesting.