If you invented something unique your first problem is going to be describing it to yourself. You’ll need new nomenclature. The second problem is describing the unique thing to someone else.

One could argue that anything that can be nailed down by language cannot be unique because the metaphors and phrases to describe it preexisted.

The Haganah could disavow the Irgun (and the Stern Gang) with the same credibility that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp could disavow Hezbollah.

Menachem Begin, who led Irgun also founded Likud and as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel was in command of the IDF . So yes, many people (including the US) considered Irgun a terrorist organization, that didn’t put it and it’s leaders outside the mainstream of Israeli military, politics, or government. Besides, it’s crimes during the Mandate and Nakba always served the Zionist cause, and even if the Haganah or “Consultancy” didn’t approve or order their actions, they were happy to take the benefit, and occasionally the credit.

Um, it was the Interior Ministry that defeated Ashina. And the person most directly responsible for weakening Ashina is Owl. Almost everything Wolf does to damage Ashina was Owl’s manipulation.

Genichiro’s whole motivation relies on Ashina being doomed, and that was long before he knew who Wolf was. Ishin also explicitly knows that his shogunate is on the clock and makes little effort to save Ashina or himself.

Genichiro is the perfect skill check and greatest mid-game boss. (sorry ornstein-smough)

Every playthrough I look forward to him the way I look forward to Artorias.

Liberals are conservatives, they hate leftists.

Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.

Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252

Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it’s the State’s duty to care for people in it’s custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you’re arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.

https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

That’s hard to verify since nobody has ever read Lacan. Most of us don’t even read Zizek, we just heard about them both from Mark Fisher.

The bear may maul you, but it won’t corner you and explain statistically why it’s the better choice.

Libertarians: If you ignore how problems are systemic, then the individual can solve everything.

Honestly, I’m suspicious the writers at Reason use media to spread their message, why not just convince your friends one conversation at a time?

Headline: US officials admit that TickTock ban intended to censor Gaza news.

Article: Romney and Blinken blame Israel’s disastrous PR on social media and opine that this is a good reason to ban platforms like TickTock.

If you want an institution that keeps the peace, protects citizens, and is accountable for use of force, then you’ll have to create one whole-cloth. Because the police are not that institution and they never were intended to be.

I read the other day that Kim Gordon was 70 and my soul did that Private Ryan meme.

DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?

At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?

Zizek has said before that all his books are reworded versions of the same book.

James “JP” Staples has been expelled by Phi Delta Theta. When a Mississippi frat throws you under the bus for being too racist, you’re not going to have a good time.

Some people think God is an English teacher and his cock is a giant red pen.

Just going to point out the irony that modern Europeans are descended from migrants that infiltrated the Continent and interbred with the locals until their genes and culture were dominant.

Here is the install manual

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy.

It’s kinda hard to describe. I recon it’s a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.

It’s like a melodrama in that it’s light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.

This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.