I’m aware - but there aren’t any illustrations of uniforms in the novel, so they certainly riffed off the movie.

It’s darkly hilarious that nobody involved in that decision appears to have realized that Starship Troopers is, in fact, satire.

Billionaires aren’t people either

More seriously: this line of reasoning has always struck me as incredibly contrived and facile:

• Speech is not subject to the rule of scarcity, and is “free” (as in beer); as such, given a supply of food, water, and breathable air, a person could theoretically speak indefinitely. One’s wealth does not nominally affect how much speech they can output.
• Money is subject to the rule of scarcity, and is not “free” (as in beer); as such, a person has access to substantially different amounts of money based on their personal circumstances, family, upbringing, birth country, etc.; one’s wealth has direct bearing on how much money they can output (and “speak” with).

Yeah, this is a MASSIVE own-goal for Sheeran. What a way to categorically fail at reading the room. Or, I guess, make it clear that your morals are for sale, for the right price.

If this actually tanks his career, I’m not gonna have any sympathy, because he just showed the world the caliber of his character, and it’s not great.

Sheeran’s reaction was evidently very strongly pressured by Robert Kraft (billionaire, conservative, general shitheel, Patriots owner, orangeboi + regime supporter). Which, you know, simply tells us that Ed’s morals have a quantifiable dollar-value price, and that his price is lower than almost people would have guessed.

Lmfao he doesn’t even realize he’s digging his hole deeper at breakneck pace

The electoral college is shitty by design.

The electoral systems we have are reasonably decent - with the glaring caveat that we desperately fucking need RCV or some variant thereof to break the back of the two-party system.

Yeah… I remember the regime ordered NASA to deorbit a brand new weather satellite right after they got in to power because a lot of its data was useful and being used for climate analysis.

Don’t look up, I guess 😐

I’m honestly unsure if there will even be elections in 2028. And even if there is, we all fucking saw what they tried to do on J6, and I clock it at a roughly 100% chance they’ll try the same shit again.

At any rate, the manner in which the midterms pan out (and I mean “whether the fascists find some idiotic legal fig leaf to use as a basis for excluding anyone but their own party from the national legislature” and “whether the electoral numbers going to be systematically fucked with”, in addition to “what the voting outcome is”) is going to be extremely telling.

do I look like I know what a jay-peg is?

Honestly, considering their track record over the course of the time I’ve been politically-aware, this is more of a prediction than a warning.

I’ll believe they’ll stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when I see it. They are absolutely legendary at dropping the ball at the 1-yard line.

At this point, considering what they’ve enabled, my reaction is “there must be a gotcha in there somewhere”. That, or it’s as simple as them realizing they were moving the needle too far and too fast, and are pumping the brakes a bit, if only for appearances.

I’m kind of irretrievably jaded on the integrity of pretty much any branch of our government at this point.

It’s one of our society’s many nonsensical incongruities

GN responded to their denial.

TL;DW: LG is using very weasely wording to misrepresent what they’re doing, and GN calls their bluff (with data and receipts)

I think Obama needs to instead urge Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ to reliably win elections instead of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory all the fucking time, because ML/LLM governance and regulation isn’t going to yield a single fucking thing beyond massive grift if the regime is still around and the fascists and orangeists are still allowed to be a part of the process.

It would be very funny if Zelenskyy (or really, any other NATO or allied head of state) called on orangeboi to halt strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage

GN responded to their denial.

TL;DW: LG is using very weasely wording to misrepresent what they’re doing, and GN calls their bluff (with data and receipts)

Stunning and brave 🫡

Honestly though it’s way less damaging to my calm since I’ve just started leaning into the absurdism of it all