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People need to wake up and realise that there isn’t going to BE a “next election”. At least not a fair one. Trump will win it the same way Putin and Orlov “win”.

The sooner American’s wake the fuck up to this and deal with it in the inevitable way, the sooner the planet can be done with this nightmare.

Took me a second to realise it’s not “Theme at Bridge” and think “What the 'eff does that mean??!!”

Self Explanatory actually.

Because you can’t cosplay the Robber Baron age without bringing back consumption…

This quote in an article from 2012 by Katie Billotte has always stuck with me.

This war on the liberal arts is born from the same desire that produces voter ID laws: a desire to limit democratic participation. The goal of a liberal arts education was never primarily direct economic benefit for the recipient or even the sort of personal/spiritual development about which many like to wax lyrically. The purpose of a liberal arts education was always meant to be a political education. The Latin ars liberalis refers to the skills required of a free man – that is the skills of a citizen. The Latin word ars and its Greek equivalent techne do not mean art in a modern sense. Instead the word refers to a craft or a skill. Thus, history, rhetoric and literature were seen as the skills a citizen needed for his job: governing.

Trump is all about pretenses.

There are the “reasons” he’s making those decisions, and then there are the “pretenses” he uses when the opportunity comes around to make them.

Swiss banks hold a lot of money from oligarchs and billionaires. Putin wants pressure put on them. But Trump has to find the “pretense” to do it so as to at least nominally not be seen as a russian asset. But what a coincidence, Lindt announces that they’re going to supply Canada directly from Europe to avoid his tariffs. And BOOM. Pretense established.

• The BSG remake series is the GOAT
• TNG and Voyager. (Never got into DS9…too much religious hibbidy-jibbidy and scenery chewing from Sisko…come at me, bro.)
• Stargate Atlantis (And of course SG1, though on the whole I think Atlantis was the superior show)
• Bojack Horseman (Because I credit that show for finally getting a handle on my own mental health)

And yes…I realise the hypocrisy of not liking DS9 because of its religious hibbidy-jibbidy, but calling BSG the GOAT. I have no answer for you. Maybe the Bajoran religion itself was just stupid.

It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

I’ll show myself out.

Can I be nit-picky here for a second?

If you’re genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you’re not “bring a mammoth back from extinction”, you’re creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it’s not a mammoth at all.

It’s like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you’ve brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven’t, you’ve just designed a human who looks different.