Scientist: “Any interaction could alter history!”

Another Scientist: “Bro, meteor’s still going to hit if we kick back a few brews and dino-wrangle.”

Third Scientist: “Way… hic ahead of you. YEHAW!”

Crazy to turn on GOPTV and discover a Murdered White Woman they’ve decided doesn’t deserve to be avenged in the most savage way possible.

The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns.

The clock-maker is not concerned exclusively with the largest gears.

We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

“God doesn’t care about small things” is the antithesis of Biblical teaching. Both the Old and the New Testaments go through great pains to convey how the most humble individuals in the most basic circumstances still receive Divine Attention.

If you’re arguing with a Christian on these terms, you’re queuing yourself up for an ass kicking. They’ve got much better poetry than a grainy photo of a galaxy that isn’t even the Milky Way, btw.

Did you just “everyone’s a little ADHD” me?

No.

We’ve been at that for decades.

Chauvin wasn’t assaulted

That’s not what he claimed at the time. A big part of every cop-killer story is the allegation that the person they murdered prompted the killing. Chauvin insisted through his entire defense that Floyd lashed out at him in his final moments, right before he spontaneously died of a drug induced heart attack.

We’ve got video clear as day of the ICE agent casually walking up to the car and plugging the woman in the face. This was a mother who’d just dropped her child off at daycare, not some marauding vehicular anti-ICE assassin. She was given seconds to respond to a command and butchered for failing to act fast enough.

Can’t prosecute someone of they can just walk out of the state unimpeded. Has he been detained in Minneapolis, even? He’s certainly not under arrest. We’d have heard about that.

Remember that Kyle Rittenhouse was allowed to leave Kenosha, Wisconsin and drive all the way back to Illinois without city or state officials lifting a finger. After turning himself in, he was let out on bail and - not long after - spotted

at a bar with his mother in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, drinking beers and posing for pictures alongside five men who sang “Proud of Your Boy”, a song used by members of the far-right Proud Boys political organization. In one photo with two of them, Rittenhouse flashed an “OK” sign, a hand gesture that some have associated with white supremacists

And this was just some vigilante asshole, not a badged up capo in the Trump Army.

… to Venezuela.

And Greenland!

And Congress will do the same if he attacks Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Canada or any other country.

Sure. Those other countries (Canada excepted, I guess?) are Global South countries we need to kick into line from time to time. Don’t forget how we’re currently bombing Nigeria, a story that’s flown almost entirely under the radar because… fuck Africans, I guess?

Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, voted for the measure.

“While I support the operation to seize Nicolas Maduro, which was extraordinary in its precision and complexity, I do not support committing additional U.S. forces or entering into any long-term military involvement in Venezuela or Greenland without specific congressional authorization,” Collins said in a statement.

Well, thank goodness. I guess what Trump did was good but also we’ve informed him in no uncertain terms that he shouldn’t do it again.

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Hardly. Starting a project is often pretty straightforward, the possibilities are boundless, and the vision can be fuzzy without interfering with the initial work.

As soon as you get to the more complex and less fun bits of the project - reconciling flaws in the initial design, repeatedly failing in execution of a step in the operation, finding a missing piece, being forced to backtrack because you missed a step, debugging, validating results, beautifying the final project, documentation - its normal to get frustrated, lose enthusiasm, and shift focus. You don’t have to be diagnosed with anything to experience anxiety, boredom, or ennui. These are universal human conditions.

If anything, I’d argue a certain level of OCD is necessary to get a project over the finish line. If you’re not a touch masochistic, nothing will ever get done.

“White solidarity!” declares serial sexpest, anti-labor authoritarian plutocrat, and absentee father. “Now get out there and do my dirty work, while I scream slurs at my daughter and horndog Steven Miller’s wife.”

Two high-profile Democrats are calling for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer involved in a fatal Wednesday shooting in Minneapolis to be prosecuted.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called the shooting a “murder”

…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a Silicon Valley representative, called for the officer to be arrested.

…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who represents Minneapolis, condemned ICE’s actions as “unconscionable and reprehensible,” and called for “legal action.”

Cool, I guess? But, critically, we’re not hearing anything from the Minneapolis DA’s office or the Minnesota AG.

There’s entire branches of theology undermining every major world religion that dedicate themselves to rationalizing the Divine Bureaucracy. “God doesn’t care, because he is big and I am small” is as true as “The American President doesn’t care what I’m up to in Venezuela, because he’s very far away and I’m not that important in the grand scheme of geopolitics”.

What zealots are inclined to believe in is the Angelic Delta Force and its capacity to inflict sudden, horrifying, and indiscriminate violence on the wrong kind of person. If you study the history of Cargo Cults you’ll discover people who experience traumatizing, inexplainable phenomena can often build up superstitious rituals in an effort to control things that are fundamentally beyond their grasp.

It isn’t that “space is fake” nearly so much as “There are things beyond my grasp that bother me, so I’m changing my personal behavior in the vain hope it will protect me from these anxiety-inducing events”.

Setting aside the ins and outs of religious-based sexual morality, the galaxy being very big does not negate the consequences of your behaviors on your immediate neighbors, your peers, or your descendants.

Epstein was still a bad dude, despite the vastness of the universe.

The US has a military base in Greenland already. Pituffik Space Base doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, despite all the bluster.

And as the US is the military backbone of NATO, I’m not seeing how NATO as an institution would respond with the leadership structure and base management riddled with American personal.

Some people get twisted into knots when you refer to NPR as Nice Polite Republicans

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What I meant by that was that every time this sort of threat has been resolved by violence, it only sets the stage for future violence, because the true problem lies in the systems we use this violence to uphold.

The systems are the people. And when you kick out a lynchpin - be it MLK or Charlie Kirk - that system can fail.

The gun nuts do need to stfu about their hollow ideals though. I’d say we are in complete agreement on that note. If they were to actually ‘walk the walk’ however…I dread what that may usher in tbqh.

We’ve got people being rammed in their cars and shot gangland style through the windows.

Delta Force is snatching foreign presidents while the sitting president dismisses the need for next year’s local elections.

You can only waggle your finger saying “It could get even worse” so many times.

am a passificst, so the regularity and casualness of people telling me I should nut up and kill a politician is very disturbing to me on many levels.

I don’t think pacifists should be arming up and shooting anyone. I think people who cling to their guns and talk about fighting for freedom need to nut up or shut up (and I’m fine with the latter, just shut up already).

I dont think further violence has ever really fixed this problem and I dont believe that’s going to magically change now.

I think this is naive. Violence is an incredibly effective tool at degrading organizational capacity, destroying institutional memory, and quelling public opposition.

When you’re dealing with ICE agents who can cavalierly execute civilians in public, I would love all three of those things to befall them, because I don’t want an organization with the capacity, the knowledge, and the public platform to execute my neighbors.

But insurgent violence comes with enormous personal risks, it requires professional training, and it rarely produces tangible results in a single lifetime (especially the lifetime of a militant insurgent). So I’m certainly not going to ask people to stick their necks out.

I just get tired of people posting TikToks in Camo Cosplay, pretending they’re part of some Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny. You’re bad liars. No serious person takes the 2nd amendment seriously as a political deterrent.