cmbabul

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[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 hours ago

Add it to the list of shit we desperately need yesterday

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

To be clear I wasn’t trying to say “how bad it’s gotten” broadly, just that Kimmel specifically is surreal to me because of how I first became acquainted with him as a kid, but you are totally right overall

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

This is out of line, Carl is an awful and gross person but he’s not evil

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Which is why all the factions are trying to get their agenda advanced as quickly as possible before he croaks. The techno-feudalist side had the advantage with their boy JD poised to take over but removing him is much more politcally viable for the Christian nationalists in congress

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 13 points 12 hours ago
[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

That’s not how civil wars work anymore, it’ll be akin to a Balkanization where there are multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies. The second will be nothing like the first. The Syrian civil war is a decent smaller scale modern example

Edit: if you’d like a good idea of what it will look like I HIGHLY recommend the fist season of the excellent podcast It Could Happen Here by Robert Evans. It’s from 2019 but wildly prescient

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In my experience phones are exacerbating trauma more than soothing it, I type from my phone

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is very much a situation where they sure as shit ain’t our allies but if ICE wants to make an enemy of the police I’m not gonna stop that mistake

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago

Put a lid on her Turkish fore she gets bitten

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 97 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (18 children)

We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet

Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 19 points 15 hours ago

He’s had a long week alright, just wants to have a drink and unwind

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

They will go through bone like butter

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