Nils Lusch

Anyone who thinks platner got the tattoo because he was an ideological Nazi—as opposed to a doofus who thought the skull and crossbones looked cool and didn’t know the historical meaning—is an idiot or bad faith.

First offices of 6 companies worth a combined $21 trillion.

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1. Because he said he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo and then he got it removed right after being told 2. Tattoo scandal aside, there's no corroborating evidence that he's a Nazi 3. He's gonna be the Democratic nominee whether you like it or not 4. Any Democratic nominee is better than Susan Collins or any Republican 5. This seat is necessary for Dems to retake the majority 6. If Dems don't retake the majority, Trump will get more Supreme Court nominees and it may be game over for Dems for a generation

Ella is directionally correct that RW women have a taste problem- consistently frumpy/dowdy. But her analysis stops at “they’re bad people therefore they have bad taste” which betrays a fundamental incuriosity on her part- no interest in why these women dress this way.

pete hegeseth's wife wore a dress from temu to the white house correspondents dinner (i'm not joking)

I am once again calling for the complete and total shutdown of big light

Germany Is Going Away I've been going back to Germany often over the last three years. One thing stands out every time: nobody speaks fluent German anymore. I kept count on a trip earlier this year. I interacted with ~20 people -- baristas, taxi drivers, store clerks, etc. and I'd involve them in conversation long enough to get a feel for their fluency. ~15 of them just wouldn't pass what I'd consider a reasonable language test. Broken grammar, poor diction. All my interactions were friendly and polite, but these people just don't speak the language. In the most egregious cases, they default to English instead. I found it just baffling to talk to people in positions of relative importance -- airport staff, for example -- and hear them fuck up Der/Die/Das. Let me explain. I lived in Germany from 1997 through 2002, Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Nearly all my childhood memories involve only natively fluent speakers. Some of them had immigration backgrounds, but the level of integration, i.e. language fluency was very high. It would've been unthinkable to run into people several times a day who just struggle to communicate. This is the type of thing that's probably hard to notice if you live there: the proverbial frog in boiling water. But I notice it very clearly because I go back so rarely, sometimes years apart. Every time it hits like a ton of bricks: "that's not how I remember it!" And the changes over the ~2 decades that I've been gone are very, very clear. A generation of workers has aged out, i.e. been replaced by a new generation, and so the demographics have shifted. Nowhere is it clearer than in the ability of people in public life to communicate in the German language. What I cannot stress enough is how weird this feels. For the vast majority of my readers: you have never experienced anything like this. You probably never will. It is an exceedingly strange and alienating feeling to return to a familiar place -- home at one point in your life -- and to find that people there can't speak the language anymore. They literally can't. The culture you grew up with is no more, and you may look around for someone else who understands, but you are all alone.

Someone should make a list of right wing and left wing dog breeds