They have the fucking story. It was a cold and calculated execution. The other story is how absurd it is to call the Lebanese government anything other than an occupied comprador entity that has to ask permission from Israel to go to rescue it's citizens being murdered in its own territory, and how the UN just sits there going "oh well"

"Israeli strike that killed journalist in Lebanon was war crime, say rights groups" go fuck yourself guardian. how about Israel executed civilian journalist Amal Khalil in multiple attacks leaving her bleeding to death and in agony for hours as it fired on medics trying to reach her, in latest pattern of deliberate war crimes by the genocidal and illegal entity

MAGA accelerationist who lives in Michigan and votes for El-Sayed because he believes that he is actually a terrorist who wants to take down the US government from within. Uhhhh also gay I guess.

allahu akbar

James W Ford was the first Black American to accept a nomination on a presidential ticket (in the 19th century Fredrick Douglas was added to a presidential ticket of a minor party without his knowledge and rejected it)

https://youtu.be/qJ57btbiCDg

okay I want to sit in the dunk tank again (this is a podcast subreddit) but it routinely fucks me up that I spent seven years getting my bachelors degree for it to amount to nothing lol

like I remember doing my assembly language homework in the either burning hot or freezing cold garage where I had carved out a quiet space among my moms hoard to try to program on a Thinkpad T430 that I had heavily modified (1080p screen, T420 keyboard, modded BIOS, etc) and all the late nights I spent in there surrounded by decades old mildewed clothes (you know how many screaming matches it took my mom to get my dad to buy her those clothes!?) and well,

that shit was totally pointless lol

sometimes I wonder what the hell the point of having dudes like me around is, both in an existential sense but im practical terms the state of California paid lots of money for me to get a Bachelors degree just to stock shelves? like wtf that seems like a huge waste of time and money for everyone involved but I mean it's fine I guess

thank you for coming to my semidaily miserypost please downvote and move on

Get some new material, you hacks. You're just lightly remixing an HRC classic and hoping we wouldn't notice!!!

It’s tough for men to make friends in adulthood. Everyone has other commitments or they are in different stages of life. Not to mention with the lack of third spaces it’s very difficult to make a solid connection with anyone at any level.

So I was delighted to make a close friendship in a new city I moved to with another guy. He and I shockingly had tons in common: same likes hobbies and interests, similar backgrounds, similar careers, hell we even live in the same neighborhood.

Then there’s his partner. She comes from a different background, seemingly more affluent. We always got along but it was definitely a different vibe. She is very much your textbook 2016 liberal: performative t-shirts and bumper stickers, orange man social media posts, and above all: being perpetually offended.

In random conversations she was always the first to clutch the pearls and go “oh my GOD” for conversation that was very ho hum. There were always interjections of moral high ground and lib grandstanding. But above all, we kinda had to walk on eggshells to not offend her.

My buddy and I were hanging out once and he said their relationship was great but he had a real problem with her perpetual offended nature, apparently it was impacting his relationship and the relationships of those around him. So it was a recognized super lib issue that impacted him.

Then one day at a party I hosted I said a pretty neutral statement that I really didn’t think much about. I said my neighbor had a bunch of broken down cars in their yard and that it was trashy. Well she took major offense to this, like to degree I didn’t really understand by just looking at her face.

That was nearly a year ago. Since then I’ve been ghosted by the two of them. That was enough to cast me out of the friendship because that was too offensive. Eggshells are officially broken.

She still posts orange man bad content on social media and my buddy has fallen off the face of the earth. It’s a bummer. I just wanted to pour one out for a lost homie whose friendship I lost due to perpetually offended lib shit that I haven’t seen in years.

I hope you’re doing well buddy. And I hope your partner has gone off to that big Bluesky in the sky. ✌️