came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]

the line Luthen said to young Kleya about how all she knew was hate and that wasn’t enough. She needed to know where to put it and feed it until she knew where and when and how to use it.

I can’t remember the exact line, but that was some heavy shit.

there’s something real there about the instant, righteous hatred of youth for injustice… and the patient, nuclear hatred of long experience. all those tactical losses stacking, building and feeding the resolve and fire of the long strategy.

Meero deeply underestimated Luthen’s hatred when she chose to confront him the way she did… assuming he wanted to live another second longer than he needed to for the job. I like that he got to call her out on her pride too. she didn’t really process it then, but I think it sunk in by the time she was in her cell.

Photos released by the sheriff’s office show the inside of a cell where the escape is believed to have happened. A large hole was cut behind a toilet with phrases such as “We Innocent” and “Too Easy LoL” written above it.

haha.

anyway, of course the framing is “they are endangering everyone around them, including their families” because the cops want everybody to know that they will open fire in any situation and blow away passersby, because collective punishment is policy.

secondly, the bozos in charge of the facility are claiming their jail is underfunded. good god, i would love to see NOLA’s funding and the amount of funding their police force/punishment apparatus gets (both as a portion of funding and from local funds, state funds and federal grants). it’s gotta be wild, as a percentage, compared to almost any city of the same size in the developed world… even probably compared to a lot of the US.

just a couple of working class fellas about to head to their shifts at the steel mill.

Leo is certainly not to be judged by his brother’s rants. To each his own is the American Way.

except like 2 paragraphs up she describes the brother as “very American” while quoting his desire for everyone who isn’t like him to be locked up.

maybe the author should clarify which is more accurately described as “the American way”:

• tolerance for everyone
• wanting to incarcerate everyone who isn’t a reactionary asshole

or, maybe it’s the lib compromise:

• tolerance, but only for the reactionary assholes who want to lock everyone else up

he probably wrote an instruction set in an email and sent it to someone to insert.

the white genocide rants are probably one of the many exciting blooms we will see from a seed of Elon.

there already was a stavbot app like 7 years ago that could, when integrated with the soundboard, spontaneously replicate like 80% of the content. the other, missing, 20% being the Home Improvement theme song.

typical AI hype claiming to invent something that already existed.

lmao it couldn’t have been a half assed move to promote a book for lanyardians.

it’s obviously a call to insurrectionary violence from noted and infamous illegalist, Jimothy Comey Jr. aka “Carlo Pisacane”

hell yeah, tire tracks riding right across Ol’ Glory.

congrats to these great minds cracking that coded message.

I’m also a big Comey social media follower and my own deciphering attempts had been thwarted by the unshakeable belief that Comey was misremembering the lyrics to Tommy Tutone’s hit “867-5309 (Jenny)”

you might be overestimating how much of military shit is voluntary.

what if, instead we create a reality TV show where the contestants are all people who come up with ideas like this.

and the game is to spin a wheel, where if you get the good outcome, you get to keep all of your kidneys.

the bad outcome means one of them goes to whoever is at the top of the donor list.

the game is called Patriotic Sacrifice. and 50 years from now, it’s revealed that the wheel was rigged and that’s why they all lost their kidneys.

this knowledge is met with a collective wry chuckle.

I watched rogue one as soon as I finished the finale lol.

it really was all pretty precarious with the rebel alliance leadership having some real cowardly clowns in the committee, but overall it shows the empire as a supremely powerful and terrorizing organization that is cannibalizing itself in a Hail Mary attempt to elevate their capacity for galactic terror beyond some perceived threshold of any further resistance.

it’s amazing that Gilroy took some narrow timeframe that Disney IP management didn’t mind letting someone else develop into whatever so long as it didn’t fuck with big IP… and managed to enrich the hell out of everything it is even peripherally connected to. they make the big budget, marquee efforts for the canon embarrassing.

I dunno if you’ve ever seen Gilroy’s standalone Jason Bourne spin off flick (with Jeremy Renner) titled “The Bourne Legacy” but it’s absolutely incredible. I liked the Bourne movies, especially the earlier ones, but Legacy is fucking magic. it expands on everything, but maintains a really crisp pace while revealing a frightening depth and range of the clandestine program.

Ed Norton plays the primary antagonist, this extremely competent evil asshole who is tying off loose ends. his work meetings are similarly mesmerizing lol.

if you like corporate/military conspiracy thrillers, I recommend it over any of the other Bourne flicks. also, Jeremy Renner really brings it. it’s against the formula of the others because he’s an “altered” super soldier who goes rogue but does not have amnesia, so he’s not struggling to know who he is. he knows precisely what sort of people are after him and there is no mystery to any of it.

honestly, I recommend all of Tiny Gilroy’s flicks. “Michael Clayton” is amazing. more of a legal conspiracy thriller, but again, expertly executed. and has similarly terrifying antagonists that feel real.

ppl always tryin’ 2 get jacked. but me and the boyz just wanna be stacked.

can you imagine being in the military and having to dress up as some revolutionary officer fancy lad. I mean any costume in general besides their current official really betrays how much theatrical BS dominates the military.

it’s like some sergeant bozo comes in wearing all his dress shit for like parade shit, but it has all his specific ribbons and awards, and he is proud of it because all his boys wear the same shit yadda yadda, and it’s only tweaked every few years so there’s some continuity to it being The Uniform.

and then somebody way higher up is like, “here’s fluffy pirate shirt, white tights, pantaloons, big buckled shoes with high heel and here’s a feather for your cap.”

it’s all heavy wool,.layers of BS, and now he’s gotta march parade in fucking a DC summer. lmao, eat shit, welcome to the Disney parade, “hero”.

the last arc was so beautifully crafted, especially with Meero. her intelligence and doggedness filled me with anxiety.

you saw the complaint: implying that israelis may be able to avoid doing war crimes is discriminatory. war criminality is essential to israelis.

haha, the logic is sound.

God how I would love it if they spun off all that reality TV slop/unscripted/true crime. or, just let me hide entire genres.

I know a lot of people love that shit, but they do not love it more than I hate being reminded it exists.

some of them live a long ass time, especially the big ones. so giant turtle means basically immortal.

they are also pretty slow, which is the speed setting of 👑 Kings👑

imagine running when you can walk.

first of all, no one did more to push out Joe Biden than Joe Biden during the debate, when he literally died on stage several times in front of God and everybody.

the left had been insisting he was in cognitive decline for years by this point, and consistently dismissed for it. but then his cooked brain was on everybody’s TV and suddenly some establishment democrats realized this could not be waved away or dismissed.

so the gears turned and we got his unpopular, Xanax popping, choke artist VP.

too bad they don’t go into much detail about Li Hongzhi’s claims of supernatural abilities, knowledge, or any of the thousand details that would make the Chinese government’s position “yeah it’s a cult” pretty tame and obvious.

the US loves to sponsor, support, finance, and shelter violent, reactionary religious fanatics from countries that resist our hegemony. weird how their interests align so easily.

really excited for all these little proto-terror cells to rupture inside the imperial core so I can get stabbed to death by some Hand of God paramilitary group for vocally supporting women’s literacy or whatever happens to be revealed as extraterrestrially satanic that month by the Grand Prophet of Uranus.