On the topic of cordon sanitaire (the practice of never forming a coalition with far-right parties, no matter how well they perform in elections):
Me pre-2016: “Isn’t that kinda counter to democracy?”
Me in 2025: “Outlaw and deport the fuckers, please!”
160K isn’t gonna cut that though. He’ll need several hundred K more if he realistically wants to actually have any gains at all.
You know they’ll disqualify anyone who might even hint at knowledge of jury nullification from the jury pool. They’ll be selected on their ability to convict solely.
It would be a powerful message to other would-be whistleblowers. “It might take a decade but if you oppose us, you will eventually pay the ultimate price”.
I do. All my fluffballs are indoors-only.
Would it be in poor taste to suggest the bus driver who caused the crash was possibly paid or otherwise coerced to do so? Accidents happen, to anyone, but still…
Oh that I will. I absolutely consider them the prime source of all our current world woes. And to be honest, I don’t really wish ill on anyone (except them). I’m just burned out from the past decade lol.
Nah. I’ve seen how humans handle pandemics that threaten them and their loved ones directly, I was less than impressed. Us human beings are a disease, a pox inflicted upon this otherwise innocent world. Anything that wipes out humans is A-ok in my book. I’m not hypocritical about it either, I wouldn’t mind being patient 0.
This is unironically my greatest fear. I DGAF about a human pandemic, but I love animals and especially cats more than anything. Seeing a “cat cull” because of bird flu would devastate me beyond belief.
This is why “living in interesting times” is a curse. Give me the boring decades where nothing happens.
If this raises prices of Netflix, Gamepass, … I will immediately cancel them rather than pay the hike.