A Cup of Squids

One thing we really don't hammer Musk and these other "defenders of western civilization/culture" on enough is that this thing they're so precious about protecting doesn't really exist (or rather, only exists if its sole component is skin color).

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There simply isn't a thing you can point to that an artist living in Spain and a turnip farmer in Bulgaria have in common culturally without falling back on them both being considered white, and my (or Elon's) life is no more similar to theirs than it is to the life of a factory worker in Guatemala.

And yes, most people who think about these things understand that this is all white supremacist dog whistling, but I still think there's value in having these people try to explain what unites "The West" every so often to make it clear that what they actually mean is "The Whites."

"Western civilization" has always been a nebulous mishmash of a variety of different civilizations/cultures, many of whom—and a lot of people don't know this—have actually hated each other, waged war on each other, and tried to wipe each other out. See, e.g., all of European history.

21 Aug

I'm sorry, is this telling me that we somehow had chocolate/chocolate syrup spiked with... Viagra?! Going to have to actually research this, because it both seems really unlikely and exactly the kind of shit that would happen under this regime. Poe's law-ass reality we're living in

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Trump caused this

21 Aug

OK, after further review they were "sexual chocolates,"so that seems at least what the product is supposed to be trying to do

12 Aug

Royce White might need to start looking at overseas leagues instead of trolling the WNBA, because he's eventually going to need a job, and it's clear he's a juiceless loser as a politician (which makes sense, since it seems his only move is badly performed culture war vice signaling).

12 Aug

Hope your anxiety doesn't get too bad on the 12-hour plane flight to Ankara when you accept an offer to play in the second-tier Turkish league. Vaya con dios, asshole

Anyway, this was fun. Keep me posted if we find out Donald some the trophy; if not, we'll see y'all for Arsenal v. Coventry

the feeling of this game avoiding pks:

Argentina should be celebrating getting a shot off like the Little Giants after gaining their first yard

Merino with the ol' Scott Sterling

also, i'm sorry, but if argentina play 120 minutes of a match with the best player of all time and fail to record a shot, they should be required to forfeit rather than go to penalties

$20 billion of taxpayer money wasn't enough; now donald is forcing infantino's fifa to give them a world cup when they can't even record a shot

this world cup ending with donald stealing the trophy after argentina wins on pks is the result our once great nation has unfortunately earned by failing to live up to its promise

james bond coworker ass scoreline from argentina so far

getting dangerously close to a double james bond

not going to miss the breaks, but am going to miss saying pausa de hidratación

That halftime show could've just been Shakira and Electric Mayhem and everyone would have been happy

17 July

Probably the least relevant part of last night, but as a dedicated hater of his I have to point out that Donald's speech makes it even more clear how much him admitting in private to Bill Maher that he lost in 2020 means nothing, and that Bill was a gullible rube for thinking otherwise

17 July

"Guy who lies constantly in public is privately willing to acknowledge he's knowingly lying" is not a positive character trait for someone to have Bill, you dolt, you absolute fool

3 July

If Mitrovic shaves his head before the game, that match is still going on.

2 July

How do you say "dos a cero" in Bosnian?

2 July

Greatest American Hero Tillman since Pat

25 June

This World Cup format is in desperate need of something akin to a Wild Card standings (or better yet, a Playoff Machine). Like, they're telling me that Ecuador is through with this win, but I had to do like 20 minutes of looking back and forth between the standings and schedule to understand why.

25 June

For those who are curious, it's because we already have three third place teams on three or fewer points (S. Korea, Scotland, and Senegal/Iraq) and Austria and Algeria are both on three points and play each other.

25 June

So if one wins, the other ends with three points. In the case of a draw, both would finish on four points, but any team with a better goal differential than Algeria's -2 would be in, and with this win, Ecuador is +0 in that category.

16 June

Maxwell's Silver Hammer: A Karma Police Mystery

DC Pierson@dcpierson.bsky.social

Let’s play a game. In your alternate universe, GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY is named after a different Beatles and Radiohead song, respectively. Quote this with the name of the movie

11 June

So, how soon after last night's game do we think an email went out from the Spurs inviting the President to Game Five?

11 June

This win probability chart is wild:

11 June

After watching this game down the stretch, I'm buying all the "Wemby is a lanky French Embiid" stock you can sell me. MVP-caliber talent, but what can he do offensively to win you a tight playoff game late?

9 June

Given last night's result, I don't know what outcome is funnier going forward: 1. The Knicks win in five, having only lost the game the President attended; or 2. The Spurs win in six, the President having so thoroughly destroyed the Knicks' good vibes that they never recover. A true conundrum.

1 June

Wild to think that she was basically the consensus Most Beautiful Woman in the World at this point in time, but if she was coming up in the modern day there'd be a sizeable group of chuds obsessed with "transvestigating" her because she had the audacity to have cheekbones and a jawline.

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social

'angelina jolie at the premiere of the tomb raider movie in west hollywood.' (2001) archive.org/details/offi...

31 May

Broke: the President needs to be removed from office because he's a threat to American democracy Woke: the President needs to be removed from office so the country's 250th Anniversary party doesn't suck

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social

Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2

28 May

Fun game: pick nine acts that you know hate the President and would make a much better concert list. My nine: - Bruce Springsteen - Neil Young - Taylor Swift - Green Day/Billie Joe Armstrong - Eminem - Rage Against the Machine/Tom Morello - Jack White - U2/Bono - REM

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

The featured performers for The Great American State Fair on the National Mall: -Vanilla Ice -Martina McBride -Young MC -C+C Music Factory -Milli Vanilli -The Commodores - Morris Day & The Time - Flo Rida -Bret Michaels

27 May

I'm very interested in finding out if a blue tsunami would force MAGA folks to realize the bubble they're living in. Like, if they lose the Texas Senate seat, do they realize everyone outside of their unfortunately sizable cult kind of hates them right now, or do they chalk it up to fraud?

27 May

My hope would be that the result of this upcoming election is sufficiently bad for them that it causes them to reassess the information sources that are telling them that things are going great, but that's more optimistic than realistic; one midterm election won't undo a decade of cult programming.

8 Apr

Checked the NHL standings, and had to make a meme:

1 Apr

Given the case in front of the Supreme Court today, I want to make one thing clear: the 14th Amendment is blindingly clear in its language and intent regardless of your lens of interpretation. If you don't want a government that has it, you should find a new country. I hear Hungary might be for you.

21 Mar

dat distinguished gentleman welbz

18 Mar

So wait, since the Venezuelans beat us in our past time, shouldn't we have to give them back their President?

9 Mar

I wonder if the fascist chuds of our great-grandchildren's generation will try to do the "actually, Hitler was left wing" thing with Donald and point to, like, the proposed $1k accounts for citizen children as "proof" he was actually a socialist

6 Mar

After today's Tottenham loss, I made a meme:

A thing I think about a fair bit now: would the country/world have been better off if Donald had won in 2020? I think it's a tough hypothetical: on the one hand, COVID would have gone much worse, with way more deaths as he sacrificed our old and vulnerable at the altar of the economy.

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believers in fascism, white supremacy, and Christian nationalism; people who want our government to be actively killing, imprisoning, and oppressing marginalized groups instead of just discriminating against, neglecting, and under-serving them. Malicious, but not consciously and intentionally so.

But ultimately, is that sort of passive systemic violence better? I don't know. But like I said, it's something I've been thinking about a lot as we've all watched this term descend towards fascism.

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So really the question is what stupid shit beyond bungling COVID he would have done in that 2021-5 timeframe. I think war with Iran might have happened regardless, since there were plenty of warmongers around in term one, but on the whole I think the rogue's gallery surrounding him in term one

would have been less destructive to the US overall, because while they were ghouls, they were mostly ghouls in the same way as the previous GOP administrations since Reagan: business fascists who were more concerned with the business part than the fascism, as opposed to our current group of true

But given that Biden did essentially nothing to quell the rise of fascism in the interim, all that for years out of power did was allow those people to reorganize and plot, and for low info voters to forget how shitty his first term was, leading us to where we are now.