Keep your yellow* off of my thin blue line.

*yellow stands for both mustard and cowardice in my clever wordplay.

I hope this brave officer gets the counselling and support he needs to move on from this.

Yeah, they really had some good old days back in the good ould days, not the watered down consumerist crap that passes for nostalgia now.

I was thinking Jason Statham, but yeah.

Did this “joke” come by fax?

We prefer “lifestyle accessory”

“I thought the Titans of industry would be the guardrails of democracy”.

Such bullshit. Industry has always loved fascism, it’s the ideal state for corporations. This explains why mainstream politics in the US has been inching towards fascist authoritanism since at least Nixon.

Trump didn’t start this… he’s just the right guy at the right time, the US would have gotten here sooner or later.

I will hand my credit card number over to the charity that gives 5 new copies of a book to any library that has one stolen.

Or even more basically:

• what’s good for business is generally not what’s good for society.

Of all his disinformation victories, anti-vaxx has to be Putin’s personal fave.

Nah, they got kompromat on her. Bribery will get you some baubles but it’s too voluntary and you can always get outbid. You gotta get coercive if you really want to own someone’s soul.

If you’re referring to popular vote share, it’s not a very meaningful number in terms of impact on the federal election.

The only number that matters in the end is seats in the house, of which the Liberals won 152 vs 120 for the fascist party - that’s roughly a 25% margin… not a tight race in any meaningful way.

Not saying it can’t or won’t happen here, just saying characterizing this last election as a 3% contest is grossly inaccurate in real terms.

Wow, brilliant take: anyone who can’t GUARANTEE what will happen in the future is obviously not worth listening to.

The streaming algorithms have really nailed “perfectly adequate, totally forgettable” content, it’s pretty much all there is.