Scott Anderson

@twistercat.bsky.social

I don't do DMs because I don't want to do that age verification thing.

See, there is a thing which is not happening, but if it was to happen, I think would be an outrage, and I would hate the person who did it. Therefore, when I threaten to do this thing, I will have won the debate. (See also: “voter fraud.”)

I’d ask you to imagine flubbing a pandemic that killed a million Americans and then pretending it was somebody else that did it, but you don’t have to imagine it.

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

I can’t really think of what they’d write down for Cornyn that would legally bind them to “killing” their slush fund. But even if they did, the slush fund was just one way to make these payoffs. There are a million other ways.

Why NOT “distract” him from: painting the Reflecting Pool; demolishing the East Wing; building an arch to himself; constructing fight cages and F1 race courses; selecting curtain fabric swatches; duct-taping his name into buildings; choreographing birthday parades; bulldozing local golf courses…. ?

Swap this for “Allahu Akbar” and see how “little” there is that flight crews can do to shut it down. Or if you want your experiments more scientific, preach the Christian gospel, but in Arabic. Or any sufficiently “exotic” language. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Christian preachers are turning airplanes into unwanted worship services

Evangelists are exploiting captive audiences who can’t walk away—and broadcasting it online

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