Mitigated Disaster
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@mitigatedisastr
So long and thanks for all the fish.
"How do you split rent with your girlfriend?" Please come on my podcast, Money For Couples
Let’s check in on what Scientific American is up to..
🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸 Most of us in Japan never knew much about the Korean-American community. However, recently I learnt about the Rooftop Koreans defending their businesses in the 1992 LA Riots and I was very impressed. These are examples of the type of immigrants every country needs.
@harveyspistols I know what I got
‘Why do you even care? Why? Why?’ Just like you get up every morning and brush your teeth, Matt Yglesias gets up and submits himself to an ideological humiliation ritual as a matter of ‘intellectual hygiene.’
Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. Any job is a woman's job. 📢 We’ll keep repeating it — this International Workers’ Day and every day. #MayDay
Massive outbreak of violence in Alice Springs last night as a mob of 400 people tried to storm the hospital where accused child killer Jefferson Lewis was held by police
Ninety percent want the Navy to install figureheads on our ships. NINETY PERCENT. Are you listening @USNavyCNO? WE WANT A SYDNEY SWEENEY FIGUREHEAD
“Lately, I’ve been thinking about smoking. All the time,” writes author Xochitl Gonzalez. “With each passing day of this absolutely deranged year, my desire to contemplate how to make sense of it all while puffing on a cigarette grows.” Part of this smoking thing is a yearning for the past, admits Gonzalez. Not in an effort to recapture her youth, but to recapture an approach to time and life. “I can’t personally slow down technology or fix media or the demands of capitalism or any of the other existential things that have crept into our lives,” she writes. “But maybe what I can do is stop what I’m doing, ask somebody to come outside, and take five minutes to slow down with me while I engage in the very dangerous act of holding a flaming stick to my face. This could be my rebellion.” Read Gonzalez’s full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/55vbET
@avidseries White people just don’t have access to marathon running
Important news story everyone should watch
Wow Scott Jennings blows up at Adam Mockler: “Get your fucking hand out of my face” Mockler: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters Ira that we are currently failing that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt. I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior endless wars.
I know Scott Jennings tantrum got all the attention yesterday, but I want to talk a little bit about what I said that got him so mad. The bottom line is: Trump’s war with Iran has failed. This has made it mentally strenuous for MAGA operators to defend it on TV. For 8 weeks now, Scott has pointed to the U.S. destroying the 50 year old Navy and Air Force of Iran to try and prove we have won. This is dishonest for many reasons. The point of war is not to kill your enemies and blow up their navy. That’s an infantile view of war that MAGA is pushing to trick Americans. The point of war is to use force to extract political concessions from your enemy that benefit you on the world stage. Trump has been unable to translate his military success into a SINGLE political concession from Iran. Not one. This is a failed war. The Strait is closed. Iran won’t even negotiate. The enriched uranium is still in Iran with their blueprints stored in the Cloud. So enter Scott Jennings. He has claimed weekly that victory is right around the corner with this war… but we have blown past the 4-6 week deadline set by this administration and have failed to get a single concession. So I asked the simple question: “Can you name a single political concession we have gotten from Iran?” He couldn’t answer. Never forget the weakness he showed when he had no answer for Trump’s mistakes.
