Nobel Peace Prize? Motherfucker just bombed Iran. Pick a lane you lunatic.

Lemmy.world is the largest instance, for what it’s worth.

Definitely an accurate prediction for Collins - she already called in sick so she didn’t have to attend the hearings.

You need to have a clearance to communicate classified information. Asking her a question about something classified would likely reveal information that can’t be transmitted to an uncleared person. As an uncleared person, she can’t say anything classified even to someone who has a current clearance.

At last someone has answered the call for new, young leaders with fresh ideas.

After spending decades slavishly carrying water for the moneyed class

That hasn’t been my experience reading his columns, you got some examples of this?

That said, Krugman says the opinion editor for the last 4 years had interfered with his work, toning him down and adding false equivalences.

So his Substack is basically “Paul Krugman Unleashed” which it turns out is pretty glorious. Example: his “Health Insurance is a Racket” post starts off with a bit of Saint Luigi art.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

(I’ve been getting SOOO much mileage out of this headline over the past few months)

The thing is, many of the people who were hurting economically and wanted Trump to change things are already crediting Trump with fixing the economy. Polling in swing states between October and November showed a huge swing in voters perception of the economy even though nothing actually changed. So I’d argue this is just emotion for a significant fraction of voters.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

“Masked man with a gun ordering the teller to put the money in the bag faces criticism for risking a bank robbery.”

Hey, he had a degree in “meats” from Texas A&M. That’s basically an alternative prerequisite for nuclear stockpile maintenance.

Supposedly when he was picked for energy secretary he thought the position would be “symbolic coal baron”. He eventually found out about the nukes part, and to his credit he apparently realized the significance.

I certainly can’t think of a more relevant background than “gas executive who goes on Fox News a lot” for leading the organization responsible for the nations nuclear arsenal.

Same here, which is why my Bluesky feed is much better. Everyone wants to be where everyone else is (that isn’t X), and it seems like that’s Bluesky.

I’m gonna echo what others have said here. The mastodon signup process is too complex, and searching for instructions just leads to “what is the fediverse and/or activitypub” explainers.

I created a mastodon account a few years ago and it was my first introduction to the fediverse. It was frustrating and I only persevered because I REALLY wanted to replace twitter.

Once I got it set up, I realized that no one who I followed on twitter was there. My feed is currently like 2 people, plus a bunch of dead accounts from people who dipped their toe in but didn’t stay.

Joining Bluesky was simple, and there were already a bunch of accounts I wanted to follow. The recent influx has increased that, and it feels a lot like old school twitter without the nazis.

People originally joined twitter (and stuck with it for so long) because that’s where everyone else is. Mastadon is too clunky join and use, so people aren’t.

“Yeah but the Bible was talking about Christians, not Haitians and Mexicans”

-evangelicals, probably

I’m pretty sure that time he altered a hurricane map with a sharpie was in the Oval Office.

It’s also an unnecessary use of the passive voice. Did the nativist attacks fall out of the sky and land on the rally? No, Trump made them himself.

Maybe “Bleach blond bad built butch body”?

Referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene as “it” isn’t very nice

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