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happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

It's March 2, 2025, and where we are as a country is that this tiktok has 20,000 comments all saying the same thing, because 20,000 people watched it for 1 second and all instantly thought the same thing

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

This remains the most accurate thing ever written about the democratic party.

A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them.

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence.

I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading

For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

i hope everyone realizes the reason there’s so much attention from the media about catching and prosecuting luigi mangione is if they don’t the social order of the wealthy being above us all would break down

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all human life is sacred, so it's not proper to laugh when serious harm befalls someone. the moral thing to do is instead charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars

relatable www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

when a picture says a thousand words