Republicans should move to the center and adopt these policies

Picturing Dark Souls text that says like ASS CONTOURED lmao

Every tech article nowadays be like

"Biology makes another step forward curing deadly diseases"

"Computer scientists panic as they cram the torment nexus into something unrelated"

"Engineers make record growth with renewable energy"

This is my entire political philosophy - upper middle class whining is the most powerful force in local politics.

Letting them buy their way out of public goods and services focuses that power on escaping the system rather than using it to make the system better.

In those sorts of situations, the proliferation of breathalyzer door locks and GPS/machine-vision speed governors seems a reasonable imposition to balance continued employment, behavior modification, and public safety.

is “abolish america’s boner for prison torture” a better slogan? like, some people belong in timeout, maybe even for good! we can do that humanely

And just profoundly absurd, given that capitalism is pretty new in the world and sexual violence is very much not. I think it’s accurate to say that it’s inherently tied to power imbalance and hierarchy but those things obviously exist apart from capitalism. And certainly in “community.”

Would being shipped off to a military academy as a child count as a "no" to whatever he was doing at the time?

there was no prime minister of covid to give him a face saving out, no covid majority leader that he could browbeat, no covid media reporter he could schmooze with. its a virus. it spreads and adapt to spread better

its important to once again point out COVID-19 was the thing that really sunk his first term bc it was a nonhuman force that had no mind and therefore no social interface with him

Democrats never truly framed climate action in a way that felt real or significant enough to voters. It was always abstract or a degree of separation from impacts on voters’ lives

It needs to be made more tangible: it’s about personal safety, national security, lowering energy costs, and jobs

“This can’t continue” yes it can

“This can’t get worse” yes it can

“This can’t be fixed” yes it can

to be fair though, Oldendorf was absolutely slamming an electric guitar and belting out the lyrics to Body Count's Single from their 2020 album "Carnivore" on top of Turret 2, totally exposed and wearing nothing but his boxer shorts, flak jacket, pistol belt, combat boots, and a tophat.

When you can reach out and touch someone at 23,000 yards with a 16" salvo, you've got the right to do pretty much as you damn well please.

An Allegheny Base Tunnel, built to HSR specs, would be the crucial piece of infrastructure to connect the Northeast Corridor with the Midwest with reliable, frequent & fast passenger rail service, avoiding the terrain encountered by existing rail lines that limits speed & capacity.

>crams connections by multiple Class 1 RRs (UP, BNSF, CN, CPKC) across a single connecting track

🤯

If Virginia can do the Franconia Flyover, hopefully they can fix the Metairie Meltdown.