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He should have a solo song called "I'm a Weathervane!"
  • They have a recurring bit where they pretend to break up pretty often. I genuinely don't think that happened this time, I do think Jack Black actually weaselled to protect his image. But it would be an amazing bit had they planned this.

  • Chuds: "The US is too big for high-speed rail"
  • Thanks for the reply. For the record I'm talking about exaggerating the tactical utility (or even outright lying) of highspeed rail so normal people can benefit, in a shit post at work to distract myself.

  • I still can't believe they tried to assassinate our President. And it seems like everyone has just fucking forgot about it.
  • It's wild. I'll admit I was worried about it helping him swoop back in.

    I think the fact the shooter was a white reactionary just looking to kill anyone famous nearby took some of the wind out of their sails. That and how Trump wasn't really that badly hurt, like it turns out it was a scrape from some glass not an actual gunshot wound. It's not like Reagan having to have surgery.

    That and the timing of Biden stepping down and Harris ascending.

  • Chuds: "The US is too big for high-speed rail"
  • I guess the answer is to sell high speed rail as having benefit as military project like the interstate highway was.

    Like we can have a million soldiers moved from east coast to west coast or vice versa or the borders in less than 6 hours type of thing,

  • "Accidentally brutally stabbed herself multiple times, including in the back, while brushing her hair."
  • Probably needs a content warning somewhere.

    I think about how the joke "shot himself twice is the head" thing sometimes is sometimes actually true. Like sometimes suicidal people fail the initial attempt and keep going instead of seeking help or stopping.

    But there's like no way that happened here, this seems like the fiancé killed her.

  • Why does America need to stop existing in a communist world? Why can't it simply have it's inner power structures replaced with communism while remaining in existence?
  • Lot of good answers here. As I always keep bringing up contradictions are resolved by practice. The USA is built on a whole host of contradictions international, national, economic and societal, and we can't predict how they will be resolved. Even if the very unlikely event everyone somehow peacefully threaded the needle to resolve all these contradictions in a way that a USA still exists it would not be the same USA through the process it's been through.

  • Electoralism meme
  • Carson is the guy at work you’d never hang out with after hours, but time flies because of the bizarre stories he tells. JD Vance is the guy who makes you feel like you dread coming in because he’s so off putting.

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  • Thanks, it’s my understanding, that it’s quite likely that I’ll probably keep posting this way due to the whole bundle of neuroses, anxiety and imposter syndrome that makes up my psyche. But that’s just what I’ve heard.

  • Questions for non-US people here: Is joking about prison rape a part of the culture in your country? (CW for obvious reasons)
  • It does feel it’s fallen off a bit. And it was I think largely a cultural import from the USA.

    I’ve on and off done some work helping prisoners over the years and I can’t remember the last I’ve heard any jokes, but might just be I keep good company.

  • Tim Walz, the Midwest Avatar, selected as VP in first evidence of Dem competency
  • He’s still quietly very pro-Israel but better than Shapiro. Also almost the anti-Vance in terms of appearing like a normal guy.

    I’m a bit disappointed it wasn’t Beshear.

    He’s term limited out of being governor of Kentucky and is unlikely to be able to win a senate seat there. His Lt Governor, she might have had a boost in her chances (given Beshear won by a slim margin).

    A dem governor in Kentucky as we saw with Beshear can mitigate some of the worst transphobia there. Which is why I liked him, even though he was boring Christian moderate (with no doubt a bunch of shitty opinions), the fact he seemed to take every opportunity to unprompted state that the republican transphobia was evil and cruel.

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