"Language, too, forces the air from the lungs. Beyond the high walls and barbed wire and checkpoints that pen this place, there is the empire. And the empire as well is cocooned inside its own fortress of language. A language through the prism of which buildings are never destroyed but rather spontaneously combust in which blasts come and go like Chinooks over the mountain, and people are killed as though to be killed is the only natural and rightful ordering of their existence as though living was an aberration.

And this language might protect the empire’s most bloodthirsty fringe, but the fringe has no use for linguistic malpractice. It is instead the middle, the liberal, well-meaning, easily upset middle that desperately needs the protection this kind of language provides.

Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say, yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism, the alternative of the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home; without school, without hospital, and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and days old babies left to scream and starve is barbarism."

— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Some australian raptors will deliberately spread wildfires to hunt. So they probably cook some food, but it’s not intentionally for that reason.

Well foreign engineers could come here, I’m sure they would feel very safe and welcome…

Grandpa I Really Used to Rock Back in My Day

Burn here tomorrow has a much better ring than burn in hell forever.

Republicans have stolen every presidential election they’ve won since 2000. There haven’t been consequences yet, and the future won’t be any different unless we stand up.

I wish him dead. Not just because fuck him, there is that. But the world would just be a better place.

Almost like billionaire owned media won’t tell the truth about billionaires.

We know Bessant isn’t going to put up much of a fight.

Body cameras are going to help make us safer, they wouldn’t want their murders caught on camera. You can tell that by the way one of them took the trouble to use his cell phone to film him murdering a woman. Ohhhh…

1st and 2nd too. Can’t protest or carry.

Violent leftist tries to stab opinionated Zionist at town hall.

She had a pen in her hand and for a second I thought he was going to get an emergency tracheotomy.

I’m guessing one of the agents has kept it as a trophy.

Maybe we can start a crowdfund to bribe Homan to pull the troops out. 50k or so?

Yes, the Democrats plan to give ice the money also they just plan to act big mad about it.

This is because they and their donors are the super rich. Which is also who Trump, his circle and Republican donors are. So you see the problem.

Maced him, beat him on the head, held him down, shot him, then executed him. And people will still support them.

Of course Lauder is connected to Epstein too.