PKMKII

The “success” of the post-Soviet Baltic states is the ultimate case of “line go up thinking.” Yes, they had a massive brain drain and QoL factors all caved out, but they got “fiscally responsible” and the GDP per capita shot up due to mass wealth concentration.

It’s too raunchy for The Onion, but a satire article about conservatives banning bottom surgery for trans women but all the quotes from Republican politicians in the article are them being very thinly veiled for girlcock would be hilarious.

He’ll fight Republicans by coming to a bipartisan compromise with them.

As someone raised in a non-religious household: from the river to the sea.

Why is no one talking about the epidemic of pig-on-pig violence?

Georgia's Republican Attorney General Chris Carr clarified in a statement that the state's law doesn't compel medical professionals to maintain life support for a woman declared brain dead.

"Removing life support is not an action 'with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy,'" Carr explained.

Even if he’s not straight up lying, it’s not the AG’s call to make. If some local prosecutor wants to go full hog and bring charges against a hospital, it’ll be the courts that determine the purpose of the action and who knows what they’ll decide.

Installing an out of touch expat in power after destabilizing a country in the Middle East, when has that ever gone wrong?

It depends what kind of war. Drone warfare is great if the opposition is a non-state actor or a weak state where obliterating them at a distance and letting someone else deal with the clean up is on the table. Against a state on relatively equal footing that has the capacity to deal with drones and would require a proper occupation in order to defeat, it’s not that useful.

That’s what happened in Ukraine, a lot of the weaponry the U.S. sent over that was good at taking out ISIS didn’t fare so well against the proper Russian army.

Just in time for postal worker shorts season

The nationalistic/jingoistic Pavlovian response in the American chud is not activated by seeing soldiers in service uniforms, it’s activated by seeing them in fatigues. If you look at the propaganda, it’s almost always troops in combat uniforms, very rarely will they be in service uniforms.

I think it goes back to the mythos of Washington’s army being this ragtag of volunteers in plainclothes beating the royal military in their bright red uniforms. It creates an expectation in the minds of Amerikkkans that the military should look a little dumpy.

Bernie didn't get massive crowds because he was just so good at campaigning, he got massive crowds because he was promising good things instead of bad things.

See, from my perspective “offering good things” is good campaigning. That the DNC doesn’t see that just speaks to how much the consultant class that wants to make everything about crafting the perfect (and expensive) TV ad have taken over the party.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “we all eat out of the trash can” is a great turn of phrase and clearly outlines the problem with the liberal ideal of “non-ideology.” But clever quips do not a Marxist intellectual make.