Andy

FLÁVIO BOLSONARO REPORTEDLY EN ROUTE TO THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY

4o of course

If Lula pulls this off he gets to do a little more corruption, as a treat.

"Don't seige stalingrad just take it immediately" vibes

"take maga's economic anxiety seriously, it's not racism" doing well I see

I think this moment broke him

“My kids cut me off because my lesbian bar stopped requiring masks”

A Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, and James C. Scott production

Some other winning insights from Branko during this time:

The greens deciding to lie about where Polanski lives and then attacking anyone who tells the truth is such a good bit

They've finally found him, the median voter

Another interesting thing about the New Racism is it is, I think, Britain’s first totally post-imperial ideology. The hardcore racists of old thought that white South Africans were superior because they were white, they would never have claimed that they weren’t a culture distinct from England.

the only other thing that has given me this rush is telling them trump assassination images were AI fakes in 2024

Deng Xiaoping didn't just fall out of a coconut tree.

"culturally European with no significant history of oppression in their past" is an incredible claim to make about the Boers

To be fair, the UK recently got a world record for the stupidest possible answer to this question

King shit. t.co/0kwtLSmVJL

Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened

Norway has so much to learn from egalitarian countries such as the United States.

the comp i find helpful is US vs Norway and Finland. Finland and Norway have lower or comprarable shares and have seen (generally) larger declines

The saying is measure twice, cut once. Not keep measuring for twenty years to make sure this is definitely the right cut.

An aide drops a copy of Pape on POTUS' chair on AF1: This is great, let's bomb to win. An aide hooks the audiobook up to POTUS headphones for a couple of hours: Oh shit bombing to win is bad. No strikes. POTUS sees Pape on tv criticizing him: Fuck this guy, we're bombing to win. Strikes on.

‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...

Yes, but consider: If people on this website could correctly infer context to divine authorial intent, you would be a minor figure in Minneapolis bike lane disputes with 75 followers.

meanwhile arab armies when you give them toyotas and IEDs

Particularly enjoyed the reference to “an across the piece productivity improvement across the public sector” as one option for the government. Let’s just do that!

The whole “this is disrespectful to women athletes!” bit is incredibly odd, in that it is obviously less true than the same sentence minus the word “athletes”.

Remarkably similar to the earlier FT article. I wonder what their policy on citations is

Sinking a town in the cotswolds with a cultish fixation on making Village of the Year is another slept-on talent of the sea mine.

The Calvin's Dad school of minesweeping

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

Zohran and Mohran Mario and Wario Volodymyr and Vladimir

Got his ass

A practical channel for putatively legal purges: revoke musk’s clearance, prosecute officials and contractors who still have clearances who leak things to him (this will 100% happen).

Prussia got destroyed by an E4

I got the name wrong. It should be something more like the Donald J. Trump Judicial Center For Judges Who Can't Judge Good and Who Need to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.

I think we all know what the plan is

The Times copy-pasting an article? Surely not The Times who so excoriated academic plagiarism

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”