I can’t imagine a full-scale war with Iran would end in Israeli victory. Iran’s population is 10 times that of Israel’s. It’s mountainous too. They don’t share a border. There’s no way Israel could do any sort of significant ground invasion even if the IDF wasn’t already stretched thin fighting on multiple fronts.

I’m not saying Iran would be the big “winner.” I’m saying no one would win. Both countries would probably just indiscriminately bomb the shit out of each other and everyone — especially civilians — would be worse off after.

Trump’s economic policies aren’t neoliberal so much as mercantilist. He wants tariffs and trade wars. (There’s obviously also a dash of fascist policies where he wants companies to serve him.)

You can all downvote me for making a joke about the WWE Attitude Era. I didn’t come here for internet points. I came here to layeth the smacketh down, jabronis.

I should probably pre-apologize for that joke. I don’t play a lot of fantasy games and I don’t really know what gets summoned. I promise, though, I’m a big enough nerd for Lemmy. I have 3 telescopes and probably every Raspberry Pi model if we look through the drawers in my soldering desk.

I should probably pre-apologize for this joke too.

But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?

Why? Was he a completely unqualified rapist who looks like some weird mix of Beavis and Butthead?

I know she’s a terrible person, as is Kristi Noem, but I do instinctively feel a little bad for them that they might have to be the eye candy in the known sex criminal cabinet meetings.

Linda McMahon? Not so much. She’s been in the squared circle. If she didn’t learn how to give a good People’s Elbow or Stone Cold Stunner, that’s her problem.

I wasn’t thinking about the atmosphere. I meant in general, Pluto surprised more than other first fly-bys. Uranus is obviously extra weird in a lot of ways but who was expecting Pluto to be as interesting?

I don’t think any planet¹ has surprised us more than Pluto.

¹ I know. If anyone gets pedantic, they’re reclassified as a dwarf clown.

Who gives a fuck if you have a mandate if you won a trifecta? In 2 years, maybe some working class voters will realize they were sold magic beans and put a check on their power but mandates are a bullshit concept. Exercise power when you have it.

In the case of Texas, malicious compliance would just be “directly” quoting Jesus. Make a few 7th graders write essays on the Sermon on the Mount and the Texas board will be racing to replace Bible studies with some “free enterprise” course about the magic of capitalism.

Edit: I added quotes around “directly” because obviously, Jesus didn’t write the New Testament so the quotes aren’t direct.

I just read that one of the Democrats said none of that is true and there was no deal. So, I guess we’ll have to wait for more reporting.

In fairness, that movie is about a sex worker with a heart of gold. There’s worse examples for teen prostitutes than Julia Roberts’ character.

He also wrote a check with a memo that said “tuition reimbursement.” Just pisspoor criminality. Even high school weed dealers know not to leave a paper trail and use cash. (Or maybe whatever anonymous cryptocurrency the dark web uses nowadays. I haven’t talked to a high school weed dealer since I was in high school many moons ago. You could tell me kids buy weed with Roblox Buxx and I’d believe you.)

Dude, you were the coach at Auburn. No one is scared of your threats.

I know regions of India and China would be considered “developing” by any standard but as a country, if you’re doing fucking moon missions on homegrown rockets, you don’t need foreign aid.

There’s not that many bots yet and people are big into blocking (and you can subscribe to block lists so it’s automatic). I’m sure as it grows, bot traffic will too — it’s seemingly inevitable — but 20 million users isn’t really that much compared to legacy platforms. I think is mostly news because lots of people are fleeing X due to the election.

If you think “being in charge” and “urging” are incompatible, I would encourage you to talk to someone with young kids who think chicken nuggets and Frozen are the only acceptable dinner/movie options.

They published a 900+ page manifesto on it. Project 2025 won’t all be accomplished but it’s the policy agenda.

Knowing a human made it is the point. To be crude, if a sex doll is your girlfriend, you’re single.