I am aware that filing a lawsuit is a good idea to attempt to handle this via… our perhaps still somewhat legitimate legal system at this point?
But it very likely will not be sufficient on its own… and this entire situation is still very, very likely to end in bloodshed, lawsuit or not.
Wait untill you learn that Israel just struck Iran’s nuclear sites… including the capital, Tehran.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/israel-strike-iran-trump-nuclear-talks
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear
“Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.”
I have also heard the catheter bag explanation, and that seems to make good sense to me.
I appreciate the sentiment, on a human level, but on another, the grand scheme of things, the historical level… we deserve it, but the rest of the world doesn’t deserve what will happen because of our self-imposed stupidity.
We are a dying empire, going supernova in spectacular fashion.
I can only hope that we as a country do not lash out further… but we probably will.
As I am from los Estados Unidos, I am the one that should be apologizing to the rest of the world.
When, not if, the US Dollar collapses, it will have an exaggerated effect on South American and Central American countries in particular, many of whom have largely tied their economy to its stability.
Yeah, we are now at about 30ish % of the adult population with reading skills under 2nd grade level, ie, functionally illiterate.
… And that metric is almost 10% worse than it was 10 years ago.
We’ve gone from about 20% illiterate to about 30% illiterate in 10 years.
Normally you only see a decline like that in a country that is an active warzone, or a smaller country has been utterly devestated by an immense disaster.
If you go by ranking of countries by literacy rate, we dropped from somewhere in the top 20 to 30… to between the top 80 and 90… in ten years.
It is an utter disaster.
Autistic people do not struggle with empathy.
They struggle with being perceived as expressing empathy, and they struggle with others not being empathetic toward them, instead just feigning it or using it as a manipulation tactic, which autists are much more likely to recognize as such.
People tend to sympathize, not empathize, with autists.
These are not the same thing.
Wow, Satan, haven’t seen you drop character before.
I guess from ‘your’ point of view, I’d call them good company.
=P
As a corollary:
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
This seems to have been bastardized by history into the following much more well known, but never actually directly stated:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Entirely seriously:
The average American has a literacy level of a 6th grader. That’s the mean literacy level of the entire adult (meaning 18 years old or older) population.
So… yes.
Yes, the average American is essentially a 12 year old, that is generally how old a 6th grader is in our education system.
Americans are shockingly stupid compared to most other developed countries.
Despite something like 38% of our population having a 4 year degree or higher… only somewhere around 10% or less are capable of objectively comparing and contrasting multiple news articles about the same story, highlight the differences in phrasing, framing, and identify information and context that is or is not present, and also have a general background knowledge of the publication itself, as well as general background knowledge pertaining to the story itself.
Our education system has collapsed, after 30 years of the Republicans working toward that goal, knowing that idiots are easier to manipulate.
alternatively phrased:
reddit is leaking.
Ok, add another bunch of people to the ‘Israeli hostages’ count.
At least they didn’t blow her up, but who knows how much they’ll torture her.
Hi, actual leftist here.
Is Newsom a garbage person, a slimy politician with no real core beliefs, who just tight rope walks a balance between the desires of his constituents, and his wealthy donors?
Yes.
Can garbage people actually do the right thing from time to time, be on the right side of an issue?
Also yes.
Keep it up Newsom, maybe this will be a genuinely radicalizing experience for him.
They won’t.
All of their rhetoric is bullshit to obscure the fact that they hate brown people, queer people, people who aren’t their religion, just anyone they’re angry at, really.
It really is that simple.
They’ll believe, to some extent, what they are saying, they’ll tie themselves up in knots, but ultimately, they’ll default to anything that allows them to laugh when people they think they are better than are made to suffer.
The few that manage to resolve the cognitive dissonance and realize they are in fact hateful bigots, and that… that is bad?
At that moment, they are no longer right wing.
This is the declaration of Martial Law.
New Republican child incentive for young families:
All babies get a pair of made in America bootstraps!
… choking hazard you say? Eh, God’ll sort it out.
DON’T TRUST HIS LIES
Yep, same, exactly.
This is way, way too in depth to be an elaborately staged, intetional hyperreality performance.
These two just actually are this stupid, this self-centered, this insecure and ego driven.
If this is some kind of an act, it would require both of them to have been method acting at Daniel Day Lewis levels for about a decade with no breaks.
Its ‘performative’ in the sense of intentionally being catty, shit-disturbing, dramatic, old men acting like the cast of the Mean Girls… but it is not performative in the sense of ‘entirely staged to fool us dumb rubes.’
That being said, this all still does function as a grand distraction to any other person or kind of nefarious nonsense… but no, these two are having the messiest, most high stakes, most public breakup in probably the history of the world right now, and they are both totally genuine.
… It is also arguably the funniest way concievable for the American Empire / Era to end.
How in the fuck do you write a history book about this in 20 years?
… I don’t fucking know, but I do know I want Larry David to write a script for a ‘The Death of Stalin’ style movie about the last 9 months.
EDIT: Wait! Mel Brooks is still alive somefucking how, get in him in the writing room too!
Oh, hey, no problem!
I’ve accidentally replied to the wrong comment a few times as well, sometimes some network lag in a very active thread can make things a little weird, or a mobile app UI can get confused, or you can fat finger something.
All good =D