We’re not going to get United Ireland in 2024. Star Trek is a lie.

Someone get George Bush Sr on the phone and cancel the Nixon era free trade deal.

Oh wait, nevermind. Gotta have our treats.

Americans will bitch and cry about Chinese propaganda, then eat Pentagon press briefs up with a spoon and call you racist for questioning a headline.

You will never see China Coast Guard vessel helps rescue a Philippine fishing boat in distress near Huangyan Dao ora far more generic Two foreign-flagged ships collide off Corregidor Island, 2 dead. You’ll never have folks ask why these Philippine vessels are running aground and crashing into one another so often. Because that might suggest a problem with the enormously overstressed fisheries and ship channels all through the Pacific.

That might raise more general concerns about the unregulated nature of naval policy in a region dominated by private shipping companies.

So much easier to just run a parade of articles saying “Gulf of Tonkin! USS Maine!” on a loop.

Yes.

I have never seen nor heard of anyone in NYC getting a ticket for jaywalking

I had a friend who got grabbed by a police officer and thrown against a wall by a NYPD officer, then arrested on the spot, for crossing outside of a designated crosswalk.

But that was during OWS, so maybe a few other political winds were involved.

Bystander injuries are on the aggressor’s hands.

Excited to see the NYPD press b charges on the turnstile jumper for the cop who shot the other cop.

I kinda don’t think it was ever going to happen for ¡Jeb!

But I’d have enjoyed watching Bush v Clinton from some alternate timeline, just for the laughs.

With the way klansmen in Ohio fell on the local Haitian automotive workforce like ravenous hyenas, I don’t think you need more than that to turn certain people in the US absolutely feral.

Just whisper “Kamala Harris ate my dog” into the Internet and you’ll have a military parade of psycho rednecks calling for her head.

I also think they’ll fall well short of achieving time travel.

It’s crazy when something as simple as rejecting the Cass Report and ending the instructional abuse of Trans People is equated with SciFi tiers of impossibility.

Counterpoint: they didn’t need to clear all the trees

You’re not laying plumbing and electric through an old growth forest. The roots of those trees won’t allow it. You’ve got to clear the whole lot and then replant.

they could have replaced them with more native trees

That would require a local nursery specializing in the cultivation of native plants at the scale the developer requires. At the industrial level, its easier to just ship in some stock variants, whether they work locally or not.

From an ecological level, it is easier to simply not break things than it is to fix them afterwards. Stripping the soil and resodding it, tearing up all the old plants and replanting, and kicking out the native wildlife for years at a time isn’t in any way conducive to ecological preservation.

We can’t live in an apartment because it will always have bad insulation. We should all live in single unit housing with… checks the quality of insulation in your average 1970s ranch house oh shit, oh fuck.

Also, gotta say, love to live in a street level neighborhood Cul-de-sac with that one guy revving his motorbike at 3am. Single pane glass, noisy neighbors, and god help you during July 4th or Jan 1st when someone gets ahold of fireworks.

But for some reason, we completely forget about this shit when we talk about apartments. Like the suburbs - particularly the corners near intersections or school yards or big churches or highway on-ramps - aren’t routinely noisy af.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening

Very common in and around the old Soviet style Eastern European blocs. The style of construction was known as “Towers in the Park” and was often paired with rail stops and local commercial centers for the convenience of pedestrians.

Curious to hear the richest fucks in the richest countries complain about Global Overpopulation In The Third World, while exporting all their sweatshops and mining rigs and trash barges to these same nations.

Almost as though the problem isn’t the number of people but the temerity of certain local communities in believing they deserve a post-industrial quality of life.

The DOJ/FBI won’t probe police killings in the US. What makes Sanders think they’ll fuck with Israel?

Believe it or not, jail.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has fallen silent on abortion

Has he actually fallen silent on abortion? Or is he simply screaming himself horse on immigration?

Damn. Maybe time to revisit whether Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided.

I mean look at nick fuentes

God damn. He is like some kind of racist caricature of a white person. How many Hapsburgs are up that family tree?

The woman gets a new facelift ever six months. She is exactly the kind of person Trump fucks with.

The labour party is certainly flawed but you have to remember all they’ve given the people of the UK

You’re going to have to fill me in, because it seems Keir took office and immediately declared that there is no money left in the banana stand.

They couldn’t even restore funding to the H2 connection from Manchester to London, and that’s shit that was already paid for.