former blizzard game dev

i used to work at blizzard and am very happy that people bought diablo iv (a game with my name in it)

I AM SO TIRED OF THESE GUYS

very shitty foresight of the founders to name the american Upper House after the deliberative body that was most historically notable for falling victim to usurpation, despotism, tyranny and dictatorship

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet

“for indeed none can love freedom heartilie, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence; which never hath more scope or more indulgence then under tyrants.” - john milton, “the tenture of kings and magistrates”

read theory

the concept of a senate was created when the tyrannical roman king tarquinius was overthrown and exiled while the roman republic was founded

Congressional supremacy is the only way out. Democracy lives or dies via the legislature.

read about the english civil war

read theory

like if you have the seats and you can’t pull it off, you’re a fascist

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

it’s for math people who really wish they were doing analytical philosophy instead

it’s monday

Men will literally gift u a white horse with a fancy name & then abandon u for their fiancée in london

God I hate the word drone

the polycule reaper plushy is there to confuse the real one

I see it's going to be a very "credulous people read an IPO prospectus and go 'ooh' and 'aah'" week

bring obama back, i heard about a birthday party

Campaigning on "my opponent allowed South America self-determination", winning 50 states.

I'm 35. Barack Obama is the only president in my lifetime who did not leave office after being impeached or in disgrace.

this is the power of mail-in and early voting. people who want to restrict the ways we vote want to restrict the franchise.

hot take: nuclear is steam

y’all if the us can’t coup brazil, which is bread and butter south american foreign policy, maybe it really is time to topple these fucks over

solar:nuclear::The Stranger:jacking off

desperately trying to remember how to multiply CXXIV by XLIII