The worst thing about Satanism is that you have to do a lot of research to know whether that new group are nice goths for social justice or some kind of neo-Nazi paedophile ring or something. It’s like extreme metal bands.

File under “world’s stupidest motherfuckers”

Next round of elections, Le Pen wins France, Vox takes Spain, AfD establish the new German Reich, FPÖ win Austria and immediately vote for Anschluß 2.0, and the new Swedish PM is Jimmie Åkesson. Hungary remains unchanged. (Not sure if they’d bother with the Polish election, given that Russia, Germany and Hungary are just going to partition it, for old time’s sake.)

If that’s the terrain you have to fight on, there’s not much you can do about it.

Why would a PM who saved his party from a popular leftist movement have sympathy for Pinochet? It makes no sense.

Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective

If you get high enough, the idea of heavier-than-air objects not inevitably succumbing to gravity may fill you with wonder as well.

You may also want to add Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” to this list. Zweig was a Viennese Jew who escaped* the Nazis, and wrote poignantly about the world he has loved that was lost to Hitler. Today’s Zweigs would write about the mundane, taken-for-granted world before 2017.

* he and his wife managed to make it to Argentina, but then, a year or so before the end of the war, committed suicide. Being safe from physical harm doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve escaped.

What’s stopping Trump from sending the armed forces (or just the FBI in), arresting the Californian government and appointing an administrator?

And second question: who decides whether this is, in fact, unconstitutional?

No, they’ll just blame it on minorities

But he won’t, because that’s Not Who We Are, and When They Go Low, We Go High.

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

Britain will have a hard time topping this. Maybe if Farage takes over the Tories and they win the next election, they’ll come up with a fitting riposte.

In the long run, we will all be dead, and none of this will matter.

There’s a theory that that’s essentially what mermaids would be: an appendage on an aquatic predator shaped by evolution to attract its prey (in this case, horny sailors)

Jill Stein’s rubbing her hands in anticipation

The Australian woman who married into the Danish royal family had to renounce her Australian citizenship, so that would be fair enough.

That sound you hear is red-meat-eating gamer dudes with stoic beards going off to cancel out the Swifties

The landlord has offered to cover it with cheap white paint, but that’s the best he can do

This is the “Africa” of first-world white-people rhetoric and AI-generated Facebook inspirational slop, a hypothetical war-torn, disease-ravaged wasteland, not the actual continent that exists.