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Nations Are People. Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?

Hamilton Nolan:

If you live in America, your government is run by Donald Trump. Ugh. You might despise that guy. You might have worked hard against him during campaign season. When you visit another country, and tell them that you are American, you might add, “But don’t judge me!” You would not want to be branded with the weight of the various stupid and despicable actions of your own government. You understand, first, that you do not agree with those things, and second, that you as a regular person have little power to affect those things. You are just living your life. You want to be respected as a human being.

“Unfortunately, this simple and intuitive understanding of the difference between the government and the people of your own country often evaporates–or gets erased–when the discussion turns to foreign countries. When someone says “Russia,” you probably think of Putin, not of the teenage girl dreaming of what she will do after graduation. When someone says “Iran,” you probably think of something that is often referred to as “the regime,” rather than of the laughing family gathering for a holiday meal. This mental mistake, this unwitting juxtaposition of one thing for a different thing, is like a steamroller that paves the way for you to accept unacceptable things. You would never nod sagely and agree that a bomb should be dropped on a child. But air strikes to “cripple” the “command and control” of a “hostile regime?” Well, of course, serious people understand that this may be necessary in the grand chessboard that is geopolitics.

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Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed and your child hit by shrapnel and your elderly parents lose access to medicine because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair for you, it is unfair for anyone, anywhere. From this perspective, it is easy to see that the hurdle that a war must clear to be truly moral is so high that it stretches up into the clouds. Grounding ourselves in this perspective–always holding people, and their right to live, in the forefront of our minds–is the only way to make clear judgments about what our own government does with its killing machines.

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How animals attack

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it's almost summer do you guys want my stupid hyperoptimized lemonade recipe that takes half a day to make and whips absolute ass

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

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“Data that makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states.

The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue.

Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.

If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:

“These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”

They were concentrated.

Targeted.

Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.

And the supposed explanation? “Her policies were unpopular.”

Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?

Not in early voting.

Not by mail.

With exception to Nevada, only on Election Day.

And only after a certain threshold of ballots had been cast—where VP Harris’s numbers begin to diverge from her own party, and Trump’s suddenly begin to surge. As President Biden would say, “C’mon, man.”

In the world of election data analysis, there’s a term for that: vote-flipping algorithm.”

*If you recall ES&S voting machines gave Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham. All the swing states and Texas appear to have had their vote tallies tampered with.

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DiMora JX Coupe, 2007. A one-off based on a based on a 1999 Chrysler Concorde designed and built by DiMora Motorcar.

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Aerships by Chris Kintner

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Staff of the Fossil Maker
Staff, very rare (requires attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard) ___ This cobbled-together staff of fossilized dinosaur bones carries with it a portion of the apocalyptic force that created them, as well as the power to survive them. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail. The staff has 10 charges for the following effects. If a creature is slain by a spell or effect created by the staff, its remains become petrified after 10 days have passed. 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 5 of its charges to cast either the “firestorm” or “flesh to stone” spell from it, using your spell save DC. Alternatively, you can use a bonus action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the “false life” spell from it as a 2nd-level spell. 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙮𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 4 of its charges to summon a skeletal tyrannosaurus rex in an unoccupied space that you can see within 60 feet of you. The summoned creature takes its turns immediately after you and follows your mental commands. It uses the statistics of a tyrannosaurus rex, has vulnerability to bludgeoning damage and immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition, has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, and is an undead instead of a beast. Whenever the tyrannosaurus rex takes 25 or more damage from a single source, it crumbles into an inanimate pile of bones. You can reform the pile of bones into the skeletal dinosaur by expending 2 of the staff’s charges as a bonus action. The creature and its pile of bones share the same amount of hit points: if either the creature or the bones fall to 0 hit points… …Continued in the IG comments! Be sure to sort by recency! ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon’s Saddlebag on Patreon for as little as $3 a month!

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please tell me other people will get this

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Found this interesting. Among the things Luigi Mangione says he’s thankful for: both liberals and conservatives, “Latinas for Mangione,” BBQ chicken, and The American Prospect (the outlet I write for sometimes!)

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Horus Lycan

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My jaw dropped

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Wolves trekking through mud