"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." MajGen Smedley Butler
#NoWar
So, to recap:
You cannot mime drinking...ANYTHING...because they'll assume it's beer, and that's promoting an act in bad taste...Brought to you by Budweiser, the official beer sponsor of the NFL.
And woe betide you mime dice, because that's promoting a vulgar act...brought to you by THREE SEPARATE OFFICIAL SPORTSBOOKS OF THE NFL.
KNOCK THIS BULLSHIT OFF FFS.
These lima beans are even better than the ones we had for breakfast and lunch. Oh! A lima bean that looks just like the Leader! I'll put it with the others.
DHS agents tracked people observing ICE, took photos of them, ran their license plates, pulled their personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to new court filings
@tenuous@dmehro:
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The "History Guy" continues to betray his baffling & oblivious ignorance. Lev 25:35–43 explicitly contrasts Israelite debt slaves who are to be treated as servants/workers & not treated harshly against foreigners who can be enslaved & treated harshly. Lev 25:47 also says >
The problem here is the state isnt infallible.
The state has murdered innocent people who were after the fact exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused.
One is too many and it happens far more often than you think.
We must outlaw the death penalty.
This is Christian nationalism in action: a senior Pentagon official wrapping government power in biblical language and casting himself as commissioned by God.
The U.S. military serves “We the People,” not “the Lord.”
One of my favorite social bonds is the quiet, collective fury of people in line behind a group that, we realize, is going to spend 2 minutes per person asking questions and making substitutions.
Then they wrap up and the rest of us try to use as few words as possible to just order what we came for.
Victor Wembanyama was asked if he would ever sign a deal with a sports betting company: “Absolutely not. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it.”
Our tracker of hyperscaler off balance sheet liabilities shows $3.8 trillion as of Sept 30, up $700BN from June 30.
Adding $250BN in hyperscaler IG debt, the DV01 issued by the AI ecosystem in Q3 was about 25% higher than all Treasury issuance
That's why yields keep rising
The Rams persecution complex continues.
They don’t like legit calls that go against them.
They don’t like bad calls that go against them.
They ignore the bad calls that go in their favor.
Maybe try not throwing picks sixes and allowing punt returns for TDs.
Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not fall in love with a Native American woman who could talk to willow trees and paint with all the colors of the wind?"
Jack Smith: "That was John Smith."
If there's one thing both we and the Soviets learned during the Cold War, it was never to co-locate your illegal drug operations with your nuclear stockpiles. Otherwise, an an enemy can drop a bomb down your air chutes.