I’m gonna be real- I don’t know that they ever really topped this, and I love almost all eras of Black Flag. I’m very fond of the other eps from the first 4 years, Damaged is brutally great, My War is next level, etc… but there’s something about the SOUND of this record that just grabs me.

This is correct. Surely there has to be a name for this phenomenon, where people are free to lie with impunity by wagering that their opponents don’t have all of the factual data at hand.

It’s the one thing Steve Bannon and I agree on

Oh god, they’re gonna let Thomas write the opinion, aren’t they?

When the Senate was debating the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, Senator Cowan of PA objected, worrying that it would grant citizenship to children of Chinese immigrants and of the Roma.

Senator Conness of California responded that of course it would!

That song and Closed Groove are the only ones I skip. Alternative Ulster is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs of the 20th century.

“Project 2025 is just Qanon for liberals”
- some asshole I went to high school with on Facebook

I guess I have to grudgingly respect the game they’re playing so expertly. They accurately clocked that they can troll us in a way that feels explicit to us, but when you try to explain it to a normal person you sound like a conspiracy theorist.

This metaphor has been around a while in evangelical circles. I first heard it at least 20 years ago.

Ok, but hear me out:
Maybe “hypocracy” is the new term for our form of government-
Hypocrisy + Democracy

Commit this to memory: those who place themselves above the law's reach are beyond the law's protection

I cooked a few during covid just for the hell of it

Wow, if that’s the case, I wonder what we should do with some asshole who killed 600,000 people by turning off USAid?
I have some thoughts.

Just think how much trouble we could have saved ourselves if we’d let W be the baseball commissioner and given trump a Hollywood studio.

Nothing disabused me of the notions of conspiracy like actually standing behind the fence on the grassy knoll. It is just not possible that a guy fired a rifle there and no one saw him.

I’d put Guiteau into the incel column as well

Yeah I read this article and was like, how tf are we just gonna let these guys do this?

Man, that live album with this lineup is so good. I played it at a party recently and several people were immediately like “who tf is the keyboard player on this?”

Every once in a while I get going on Advanced Taylor Swift Theory, and it’s always a good conversation. Generational artist.