InevitableSwing

Grrrrrrrrrgbrtt

"Boris, the weapon has worked! The president has been turned into a hopeless, sundowning 81 year-old!"

"That was the sound of the weapon malfunctioning, Natasha."

When there's political violence between leftists and police - I bet both those posters will be quick on the draw to lecture the net with phrases like "Don't give the fascists an excuse to be even worse." But those posters won't have anything to say about what to do when the cops aren't handing out citations - they are handing out nightstick fractures.

Vote for me! And then after I win... Erm... You will have voted and showed you much value the democracy of these United States! This glorious City on a Hill may have darkened a bit now but its light will...

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It's utterly bizarre. Biden and the DC democrats won't even lie and say if they grab the reigns of power they'll do something. Their entire shtick begins and ends with the word "vote".

Meanwhile - choo choo!

I just realized that libs are going to be insufferable from now until... Forever?

So say we all.

I've never met anybody in real life who considers themselves to be a centrist. Maybe they're sort of rare in the US - I don't know. But the ones online are so weird. In everyway imaginable - they seem soulless, heartless, and awful. Yet they believe every single take they have is highly principled, well-reasoned and well-thought out. But they're wrong. Sometimes they are stupendously wrong to the point they have reached Not the Onion territory.

My favorite centrist is Noah Smith. After October 7th - although he didn't know anything about Israel or Palestine - he came up with what he thought was a workable solution.

archive.today • Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith

It doesn't hurt to dream of better days.

NOAH SMITH

OCT 19, 2023

A sampling - he has a section called "Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas".

I think he's 100% serious. I made a joke about a party filled with centrists - https://hexbear.net/comment/5069712

At least libs have a sense of humor and their passionate outrage about Trump (and the GOP) could be amusing. But a party filled with centrists would have smugness, arrogance, unfunny jokes, takes so wrong they weren't funny and a pronounced lack of empathy (and sympathy). Imagine if somebody told a joke about the homeless [redacted].

I'd rather spend a few hours in hell instead.

I didn't put this in the_dunk_tank because I don't know if Barro is important enough. And I really hate it when my posts get deleted.

I was actually first going to write "2,000 miles" but on second thought I didn't think it was that far.

I'd love to watch a HBO recreation of the party. Especially Reiner. Which actor could play him with or without Oscar-level makeup?

My answer is Gary Oldman.