The night before last night I saw that video of the US army secretary going on fox news to say he just spoke with an american soldier stationed on the moon defending our freedoms, and then I saw the news that Iran got attacked a few hours later. It wasn’t until yesterday evening that it hit me that we are basically watching the moon bears sketch play out in real time.

There was a debate in the 2016 primaries where Trump said he doesn’t forgive people and I only remember it because it actually looked good on him by virtue of making him the only one on the stage who gave an answer to the “what is your biggest weakness?” cookie-cutter job interview question that wasn’t blatantly intended to be interpreted as a strength.

Can’t find it, but I saw an article afterwards summarizing all the answers that was such a fun read. Mike Huckabee’s biggest weakness is that he believes in God. Ted Cruz’ biggest weakness is that he’s extremely smart. Rand Paul’s biggest weakness is that he cares where our tax dollars go. Etc.

I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg.

He has these ephemeral moments where he just says the obvious thing everyone around him is desperately avoiding and there’s something almost offensive about how funny he makes that.

A user accurately pointed out that the four-second-long video I just posted that was clipped out of a Trump speech was entirely lacking context, so I had to find out what other brilliant obseservations have come from this great mind and checking the profile immediately led me here.

Your original title really wasn’t that hard to decipher, at least not for someone who is not deliberately searching for a challenge.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

In many ways I’ve led a very privileged life because I read this part and at first didn’t at all get why he would say it, just couldn’t figure it out for a minute. It seems like horrific trauma to process for everyone close but especially for him, so my instinct is to think about how hard it must be to manage that - especially given that part of the trauma is being ignored by authorities in spite of speaking loudly.

Do they flip a coin before the match to determine who gets to be the driver?

I’ve only been banned once but it was from r/screenwriting because my screenplay draft violated some rule about serious submissions only.

Also, without downvotes +17 is literally seventeen people, so extrapolating that to represent the majority of a site with 837 users logging on the past day is a bit much, especially given that upvotes from federated instances outside those 837 per day are counted as well. Not to be competitive but I’ve seen much stupider takes over +40.

I do think I was wrong saying what I did but now I learn more about his gaming habit and how it affects his life and his family I think there’s more to this than we know.

Wait, does this translate to your action was wrong but you found justification for your intentions afterwards?

I had never really thought much about where people draw their lines, but at this point the democratic party really has to be past the point of redemption with almost the entire populace. Even if I imagine a fictional world where they abruptly decide to start doing something objectively good, I still can’t imagine a significant fraction of their base reacting to that in any way other than “damn you assholes had that option the whole time?”.

Telling the pope he will never be a real man to own the libs.

when he was asked about it on camera he started fidgeting like a kid with their hand in the cookie jar

I’m pretty sure I said this in a thread here when the video was posted a couple years back, but I actually think that even if someone is completely innocent, it’s pretty normal to feel anxious and uncomfortable and act weird when being asked about a controversy they know their name is tied into. I wouldn’t judge him as guilty based on that. I’d judge him as guilty because scheduling meetings with Jeffrey Epstein is simply not some unfortunate accident that a blameless soul might haphazardly stumble into.

I’ve had people tell me I’m not giving Trump enough credit before, but this might be the first time I’ve felt forced to concede they’re right.

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When I was in sixth grade we had to choose a biography from our library to do a book report on one of our heroes, but because I was wicked underground none of my heroes had biographies available in our middle school library so I got frustrated and just pulled a book at random and got this guy.

I don’t remember a single thing that was actually in the book, just that Leonid Brezhnev was officially my hero in sixth grade.

edit: I thought his first name was Lenoid for well over two decades until checking just now because apparently I was terrible at reading back then.

second edit: I never really took time to think about what a middle-school teacher would think about a kid that says their hero is Leonid Brezhnev.

third edit: called him Lenoid again in the second edit