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Victoria Nuland was literally talking about which successors they would choose.

And who cares about the aesthetics of "interference"? What matters is what is actually sought, with what power, in what interest, and to what effect.

The Banderite murderers were elevated by the coup, not brought to any kind of justice. They are the people in photo ops against "Russia's war of aggression" with black sun tattoos and via Azov they have produced the internal propaganda that has filtered down into your comments here.

Obama, Trump, and Biden have made it useless by blocking judge appointments so that it now cannot make rulings on disputes.

This is the "international rules based order" btw.

Basically all "AI" automation companies do this. They show off a prototype backed by global south labor to get investors and then scramble to build what they promised. Usually they don't build what they promised but they all got psid for 2+ years based on that bluff.

It is telling that you took, "stop blaming women for everything" personally to the point that you decided to insult them.

Do some self-criticism.

Some people have bad moms.

They made the managers too likeable. You've gotta make at least one of them an actual sociopath that smiles with joy because they caused one of their employees to cry.

Through academification, Jazz is treated like a 2000-year old rigid mathematical framework that you need to practice correctly for 15 years before you're allowed to speak on it. The priests training to do this need $5000-$20,000 for their instrument(s), a private tutor for a decade, band camp every summer for 4-6 years, experience in 3-5 ensembles, and then a bachelor's degree in music at minimum, so about $30k or so just for the music classes part. Then and only then can you truly appreciate the theory of "Charlie Parker improvised using registers" and, "Jazz is about knowing when to play the wrong note, honky".

It's all coming together.

I'd add that the honor system thing is expensive kabuki. It has some real impacts because regular people can sometimes sue and win or slow down corporate interests, but it never really stops or punishes the big players for harming public interest. But this civic religion is valuable PR for maintaining the status quo, as its believers wrongly think the legal system is their safety net and protector and therefore are prevented from pursuing alternatives.

This "doesn't give a shit" guy isn't a normal player in the political class, he doesn't follow or perpetuate that religion because it is not in his interests nor has he internalized it. He sees little value in playing that game and it turns out that there is a big group of hogs and hog groomers that just like that he says and does things that vibe with them - usually racist things. The hogs still believe in that civil religion they just think it shouldn't apply to their targets of hate and the groomers are post-neoliberal fascist climbers that, generally speaking, are just absolute losers who craft an ideology around furthering marginalization (but who mostly care about the grift). The popularity of this group represents a departure from the liberal consensus, the propaganda of that civic religion that has dominated since the 40s (earlier, probably), and the lack of real pushback indicates that the ruling class, overall, no longer sees value in it. So we get Schumer out here pining for a return of the "good Republicans" for over a decade so they can resume the facade on which he constructed his entire career and identity.

Yeah exactly! I always have those around when exercising or in the car for emergencies. Water + sugar + electrolytes fixes dehydration and hypoglycemia, both easy to get when exercising or forgetful about or too busy for food.

Flavored drinks are way overpriced, no doubt. You're just paying for someone to ship water to you, water you can get from a tap for 40X cheaper. Like, "no sir I don't want normal local water, I need someone to drive it a thousand miles to me". Sometimes I get the fancy electrolyte packs that are $1 each but even that is 4-5X cheaper than a gatorade.

My latest favorite are the sugar free ones. Just for a tasty drink with a meal since sugar is actually useful for hydration or low blood sugar from exercise.

Smartest liberal strategy: just lie a bunch.