Bring back the feast of Saint Monday

I have a bumch of these somewhere in the basement. Sick as hell but I never knew anybody else intro Necromunda so I never actually played it.

Huh, TIL! That does raise some interesting questions about discovery vs continuous settlement. Only other example of terra nullius I can think of is the Falklands-Malvinas dispute which I feel raises similar debates.

Just trying to get other countries to sell massive stretches of arctic territory to the US for pennies an acre to make themselves look less stupid.

Saying nothing about the old colonialism with Denmark owning indigenous land such as Greenland.

I don’t know enough about Greenland’s desire for independence, and I assume it’s messy the same way the question of Puerto Rico’s future is, but there’s a lot of injustice that Trump’s expansionism is just the most recent example of.

Like clockwork.

One of today’s (unlucky) 10,000 who has never read that one poem. They may come first for somebody you, a fucking bigot, don’t like, but later they’re going to come for you, too.

Miller probably wants to build a gulag system with non-citizen and, let’s face it, probably a sprinkling of black and brown citizens as well, to do some slave labor resource extraction. Somebody read the One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and took it as a handbook and not a warning.

Well, maybe not quite that far but not letting Nazis hang out at the party would be a start.

Inshallah.

Rent-to-own

I wasn’t trying to equate the degree of their misdeeds. I was trying to illustrate that political change takes time and a lot of willpower and was pointing to recent examples of other long-term efforts.

If you do want to play that game, which is kind of pointless, let me ask about when Europeans are going stop just letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean?

But I don’t blame all Europeans. I don’t blame all the French, Italians, Maltese, and Greeks. That’s counterproductive and not how we fix these problems. I know there’s a lot of people in those countries trying hard to help save the lives of migrants. Shouting “cope” at people isn’t going to accomplish anything.

Well said about tariffs. Von der Leyen should just use her “trade bazooka.” letting him set the rules of the game is exactly how he used the media to gain power in the first place: by breaking “norms” they went all Surprised Pikachu and couldn’t stop covering him and look where that got us.

I and many people I know have spent our whole lives trying to change the rigged system of FPTP/single-member constituency voting with the further distortion of state-based apportionment.

The issue, as with any rigged system, is that it’s really hard to un-rig unless either the people benefitting from the rigging let it change (lol) or there’s a major upheaval—usually a war. It took WWI for the German voting system to be un-rigged in favor of the Junkers and Belgium to end their rigged system, and it took a civil war in America to end the 3/5 Compromise which was a start in the right direction and then a decade plus of sustained sctivism for the civil rights movement to see a real impact in voting rights.

Many of us Americans are working on it. Meanwhile, it took the EU 14 years to begin to punish Hungary for Orban. The Serbs have been protesting for more than a year and still have yet to lead to lasting change. I could go on.

I know this is going to sound like a lazy American trying to do whataboutism, but I’m really just trying to say political change takes time and part of the danger of all of these leaders is how unresponsive they are and difficult they make it to change—especially the more powerful the state aparatus for violence they wield is.

Additionally, the US has regularly scheduled elections which makes just marginally harder to change governments unlike a ministerial system where snap elections can be called.

If you had square dancing at your school in gym class, it was also because of Ford’s antisemitism. He thought jazz had been invented by Jews to destroy the morality of white people so helped spread square dancing as a weapon to keep jazz music and away from white children.

Good point. Now I gotta add tubes and tires to my prepper stockpiles. Chain oil, too.

They’re hiring an army.

The article is on JSTOR. If you are reading this comment and you live or work in Massachusetts you can get free JSTOR access. With more work (you have to go to a library) you can get free access if you live in New York State. If you live somewhere else, pick a library you know near you. You never know, sometimes even more municipal networks have access.

IIRC there’s a scene in Die Another Day (2002) where James bond visits a Cuban cigar factory and there’s a lector.