federal judge appointments alone are worth far more.

The supreme court will be a rotting. decrepit institution brutalizing working class people for decades to come, Biden and the Democratic party steadfastly refuse to stack the court and thereby offset justices put in place by Trump. They legitimize his legacy at every single turn and still expect us to believe they oppose anything about Trump but his aesthetic. Day by day the Democratic party inches ever closer to being the Republican party from a couple years ago, yet it still has the gall to say at least they aren’t the Republicans.

I’ve legitimately seen people say this as a reason to vote for Biden

Yeah that’s kind of a bizarre take to have because it’s explicitly saying you’d prefer Biden’s unelected gang of advisors over Trump’s unelected gang of advisors. Maybe the president the individual can be convinced to support good things every once in a while if enough people get him on a good mood on a topic he has an emotional connection to. But you certainly can’t push the executive branch as a whole in any way shape or form.

You’d think people would be accusing us of wanting a senile president. After all, is it not better for the rest of the world if the president of the great satan can’t remember what he was talking about 10 minutes ago?

Or is it an admission that who the president is doesn’t actually fucking matter if Biden can still be elected?

They would have unironically been better off if they just continued with Mayo Pete. The only reason I can imagine they didn’t is because of how new he was to the game, long time loyalists like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden needed to have their turn first. It disturbs me that the Democrats might recognize their mistake and then I’ll be stuck hearing this asshole’s name for the next several decades

Counterpoint: Saying you won’t do jury nullification only to later do jury nullification is an impossible crime to prove as perjury because the prosecution can’t read your mind well enough to determine you knew what jury nullification even was at the time you promised no knowledge of it.

Seconding recommendations to be normal.

If you want to get on this jury, make sure to look like your average tax paying citizen who doesn’t pay much attention matters of politics or current events. The law? You respect the hell out of the law! It should never be broken for any reason ever! And the law is whatever the prosecutor and defense think it is, that’s jury selection. Lean toward appeasing the prosecutor, though. Once you’re in, do some jury nullification if the defendant is a working class person accused of some bullshit like drug possession or petty theft

If you don’t want to get on this jury, then you have strong opinions about jury nullification. You believe it is your civic duty to bypass immoral laws as a member of the jury, and you will do it. They’ll tell you that if the evidence proves without a shadow of a doubt that the defendant committed the crime, then you legally must vote to convict. That’s a load of shit, it’s your right to vote however you want for whatever reason you want, let them know this!

I keep forgetting how much liberals seem to literally believe the DPRK is this Truman Show esque society where everything and everyone is performative, existing only for the benefit of onlooking western liberals.

This sort of belief is extremely pervasive and keeps coming up time and time again whenever I talk about the DPRK with literally anyone in my irl life, and it still manages to blindside me every time with how truly, deeply unserious this shit is in the west

Many observers have high expectations for Ukraine’s attacks, starting with an intangible one: boosting Ukraine’s morale and damaging Russia’s.

Oh god are these people still talking about morale? Ukraine’s ability to do attacks on Russian fuel and general logistic capability is so pitiful that it’s questionable whether said attacks impact the war on a level distinguishable from normal market fluctuations, but they still think doing more attacks like that is worthwhile for the boost in soldier morale?

Western opinions of the DPRK are downright wacky, the propaganda against this one country is absolutely saturated in society. The average westerner knows just as much about what the DPRK is actually like as the westerners who consider themselves well read on international politics. It’s like the one country where almost all people think it’s ok to just never read anything about it, never investigate it, and never make a single good faith attempt to understand it. Instead it’s always just repeat the last insane gossip you heard coming from the last large news media company you recall talking about scary North Korea

I don’t know if it’s still like this, but there was once a wikipedia article about homeownership rates by country. It made note of the DPRK specifically just to say the home ownership rate was 0%. The justification for this in the talk page was that the DPRK is an absolute monarchy, Kim Jong Un is the monarch, and therefore he owns every home in the DPRK and the ownership rate is thus 0.

Nonsense like this so pervasive that I am of the occasional mind that near all English speaking media about the DPRK should just be dismissed out of hand.

You can pry it spinning out of my cold hands, officer!

One more for the ages: This potential international incident is plausible because it can conclude in a way that doesn’t significantly veer from the international status quo! If the current administration deemed this necessary to win the election, it’s plausible the security and intelligence apparatus might deem it harmless enough to go forward!

This is on the basis that:

• China only loses an empty capsule and possibly their already poisoned reputation as a scientific and capable modern country among imperial core libs and chuds. Annoying, but ultimately this just confirms where they already stand.
• Russia loses two astronauts to this bullshit but is already in a proxy war with NATO anyway. Whatever their response is will be seen on the battlefield in Ukraine, only wasting lives that US state leadership has already demonstrated it does not care for.
• This means not much materially to the remainder of the imperial core than another civilian airliner accidentally shot down by some national military.
• And it all matters even less to the DPRK.
• China, Russia, and the DPRK all totally ban aerospace scientific cooperation with the United States going forward.

The US population as a whole memoryholes this after the media botches the story and the conspiracy somehow becomes a culture war issue, deciding the election one way or the other. By the inauguration, it remains too partisan for any respected government authority to declare any sort of realistic official story. Despite this, they are sure to keep any discussion of this being a deliberate move by the United States catergorized as misinfo under some new, vague internet regulatory agency started by executive order and later codified by congress.

Mainstream media diligently follows along with all the recommendations like the good little stenographers they are, and large lib social media companies follow suit instinctively, for a time banning the topic for being a foreign conspiracy. It doesn’t matter which country they impotently end up blaming to anyone but US immigrants from that country.

If things were to get that far, low key honest to god, I’d have fear in the back of my mind that the US might just lock down the media with every state apparatus available, shoot the fucker down, then manufacture a ballistic missile scare to somehow blame it all on Russia or the DPRK.

Country the USA does not allow on the ISS, builds its own space station, proceed to rescue all astronauts on the ISS

I swear to god, I I can’t fucking wait. Ultimate China space race 2.0 victory

If there’s any company that would kill a bunch of astronauts through sheer incompetence during an election year and at a time when the US is looking weak on the national stage, I’d definitely put money on Boeing.

There is also a SpaceX dragon capsule currently docked to the ISS. That seats four. 8 people in space on the ISS right now. Maybe there’s enough space with suits on, but I can’t imagine there’s much leg room for that road trip.

That’s really funny at least, though! These are shows, but Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul disappoint me with their casting of people who speak Spanish. Can’t believe no one figured out how bad it was during production of either show. Except for Lalo, Nacho, and Nacho’s father. They were great!

Yeah I love this. I wish more media depicting marginalized communities would actively take writing direction from the actual communities they are attempting to depict.

In 1000 years scientists will find the paint residue and people will appreciate it as an interesting historical fact that Stonehenge was once vandalized by a psyop meant to hurt climate change organizing

Tbh sometimes i want to replay a game in a way that isn’t fully engaging with all the game mechanics because i’m having fun seeing the story play out but i’m not in a place where i can put in any effort, and this seems great for that

Does it actually work?

…not the AI button of course, what I mean is are there really people out there who bought this mouse who wouldn’t have if it didn’t include the dedicated “AI button”?

Hello, I’m here to apologize for the lack of terror. Someone needs to do it, might as well be me