FBI mole results in arrest of ATF front group. Patel too busy shitposting to brief the new acting director.

Deporting all Muslims wouldn't stop anti-Semitic terror attacks, as the Tree of Life shooting -- among many others -- proves.

But it would have deported one of the few people willing to risk their lives to stop it, all while unarmed.

Women don't respond to my offer to breed them. They don't respect my innate intelligence, which is the male offering to their female fecundity. They all want chads because they're "hot" and "don't call them females".

So you see it's not my fault I became a Nazi serial killer.

Now there's no particular reason these are true and everybody offers up multiple explanations as to why, and like all legends there are multiple tellings, so there's no fixed reason shoes fly -- just what some shoes do!

But the other thing modern fantasy did was lock in our expectation of tropes.

Witches also have a ton of association with flying objects. The broom is the most famous but they also rode (I say as if this is real) on a bunch of other mundane objects, and flying boots and shoes are common pagan folklore.

Baum reused a bunch of old tropes like Tolkien did.

Evil's vulnerability to water, at least, is an extremely old trope and, despite the association with holy water, is pre-Christian. Same goes for salt, iron and silver. Some became predominantly associated with some creatures -- water for vampires, silver for werewolves -- but they aren't exclusive.

The fatal flaw of modern fantasy is writers decided to make the wizards and witches their POV characters instead of mysterious figures who did cool shit nobody understands. Once you cross that bridge, it's inevitable that the mechanism of magic must be explained.

Noam Chomsky is a campist genocide apologist who's entirely morality is reflexively publicly opposing anything America does rather than actually trying to figure out the imperialist power in Today's War (TM) and opposing them.

Are we shocked that those who like him are equally apologistic?

I see Jacobin is still whitewashing the worst takes possible by playing madlibs with a first year philosophy syllabus' supplementary readings

Fred Phelps

So she broke her back justifying it because, in part, Ukraine is an anti-Semitic country -- despite anti-Semitism not being a problem, apparently.

The bluesky variety seem to be a combination of:

1. The genuine real person Nazis (that is, not bots in a pre-established ecosystem)
2. That recognize the need to preach to people other than the choir
3. And have a genuine need for validation from same

The incompetent state came to take the administrative state for granted.

Now the incompetent state has no idea how to rebuild the administrative state.

It's a cycle of neediness and the resentment born from that need that everybody with a psycho parent is familiar with, applied to the world.

Destroy what crushes you, and what crushes you crushes you because you need it so bad and can never be fulfilled by it or get it to need you back.

Grok, the 44 billion dollar chatbot Musk openly said he'd alter to support his deranged racism when it wasn't making him cartoon teens to lust over, is functioning exactly as intended by Musk.

It's always worth reminding people that in one of the countries where this is actually being done -- Ukraine -- Musk explodes in rage at them actually fighting back and not dying quietly.

Who should we trust: the people making the decisions, or the data we haven’t seen yet?