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Oh, I don’t give a shit about his “keys”. I was talking about the part I linked to - basically, why the fuck are you guys covering this like a normal presidential election instead of as an effort to hijack the presidency by a hostile and malevolent force that’s explicitly hostile to the whole American system and willing to kill to get its way. Especially since anyone in the media will be first in the Gulag line if it is able to come to power, it seems like an absurd and horrifyingly dangerous dereliction of the media’s responsibility.

I think you vastly overestimate how much the average Democratic voter cares about the Palestinians

😢

Everybody else in the world is like “Holy shit the French beat the Nazis, that’s some pretty good news at a time when it’s badly needed”

Not the New York Times though. They’re mad because it means “gridlock” if the Nazis are gonna be obstructed on what they wanted to do and the left is gonna get a say in government again

I suggest that we take the cubby that was left unfilled after the gradual retirement of “Russian Warship go fuck yourself” and fill it with “New York Times go fuck yourself”

Needs too much setup

The whole point of the oil is that a lot of it is all hydrocarboned together into these long chains and loops that bust open real energetically. It's big and energy dense so it's hard to produce naturally without a lot of existing chemical energy to store and pack together and then condense over geologic time. I don't think it's gonna come together for you in the clouds whatever you do to your atmosphere.

Titan has lakes of liquid hydrocarbons though. Simple stuff like ethane and propane. If we could get the propane cars going mainstream, we could try to talk them into going out there and scooping it up for them; I think there's a fuck of a lot of it.

🎶 You'll never never know how close you came /
🎶 Until you fall in love with the diamond rain

Don't let him have one more; he's trying to roll it over back to -4096 so he can clip away from the courthouse any time sentencing starts in one of his trials

That looks like it would get stuck on stuff all the time

I see you're not familiar with our media

Wait, hang on. I didn't mean I want Trump to win. Trump in charge is a global catastrophe. I'm just saying that Ron DeSantis or something, in charge of the machine that's now been created for Trump, would be a several times worse catastrophe.

I'm saying that defeating Trump is absolutely vital, and that we're a little bit lucky that it's Trump, because he'll be a lot easier to defeat than a lot of other people that might have been in charge of all this stuff that's been building ever since Roger Ailes had his bright idea, now that it's come to its fruition.

You're delusional.

No. I am objective. You are committed to a narrative so thoroughly that you're trying to make me look like the out of step one.

I'm extremely concerned about Biden's performance in the debate, and his chances in November.

I'm also extremely annoyed by the news's wall to wall coverage which suggests that Biden's performance in the debate was an emergency. That, to me, is a much bigger, much longer-lasting, much more sinister and dangerous thing for our democracy than is the fact that Biden is old as fuck and did horribly in the debate. If you are hand-wringingly concerned that Biden did a bad job, you should be apoplectic that the media is as bad as it is, and trying as hard as it is to hand the election to Trump. They're doing infinitely more damage to Biden's chances than Biden himself ever could. He could have literally puked on somebody and passed out like George Bush, and it wouldn't have been as big a deal as what the media does every day.

The news -- and, presumably, you, although I don't feel like looking back in your history to check -- freaked the absolute fuck out about how Biden was doomed because of the debate, and started writing all kinds of articles with it as a foregone conclusion that he's fucked and we need to find a replacement. The electorate barely cared. He was like 0-2 points behind going into the debate. He was like 2-4 points behind after the debate. Is that a big deal? I mean... yeah, it's relevant. It's definitely not good. But to me it is shockingly small.

The media pivoted absolutely effortlessly from "OH MY GAWD Biden is tanking in the polls and it's a FUCKIN CATASTROPHE" to "OH MY GAWD Biden is 2 points behind in the polls like he's always been and it's a FUCKIN CATASTROPHE", without even having enough shame to acknowledge that there was any discrepancy. And you know what? It fuckin worked. Most of the American people were too stupid to even notice the bait-and-switch. Including, apparently, quite a lot of people right here in this thread.

I won't say Biden's not in trouble, and with him, the whole country. But the exact people who are so running-in-circles-wailing-in-panic concerned about how he fucked it all up, are doing their level best to create the fuckup and accelerate it as much as possible. I talked in the other thread about how unhappy I am, also, with our chances in November given Biden's performance in the debate.

Before I continue, how do you feel about agreeing to abandon any effort to pretend I said something different than that last sentence I said above, and talk about the polls without pretending I'm trying to put my head in the sand about the danger we're in because of the debate and the Democrats' prospects and options in the election?

I used to periodically imagine that it would be funny when talking with one of these people to just out of nowhere tackle them and take their wallet

I never did it and I don’t think I would even if the situation somehow presented itself, but I do think it would be wonderful if someone would. Like bro… you just said that this was okay. How can you possibly be upset about this outcome.

Yeah, “Alaska” is kind of a nice name too

Also Idaho lol