As a penguin, fuck this guy.

choked on a pretzel

I wonder how many people reading this remember that this actually happened to Bush the 2nd.

The alternative is catastrophic and widespread violence

Make no mistake, the response to general strikes will also be catastrophic and widespread violence once it starts actually impacting the bottom line. The distinction will be where it starts and who it’s directed against first. So you’d better be ready for that, too.

Reigned: 👑

Reined: 🐎

Here is Great A’Tuin, the world turtle. Its meteor-pocked shell dwarfing continents, flippers paddling the interstellar void with the slowness and inevitability a glacier. Swimming through space, its city sized eyes fixed on a distant point forever unknown.

Even now cities cover a tiny fraction of the surface, and they’re already full of squirrels, rats, and pigeons.

I don’t know how it works in the UK, but in some “enlightened” countries the police and courts can literally use your silence against you if you’re accused of a crime. You know, the old “only the guilty have anything to hide” canard. Only in the US is clamming up in all circumstances the best option.

I’m not this dude’s lawyer, either, but he is probably gearing up for some kind of cooperation-with-the-state thing in the hopes of weaseling out of as much of it as possible by blaming it on the Russians.

Speak for yourself. I have a full set of chainmail. Have at you, ruffian.

religious reasons

I’ve just remembered. We’re all Shakers.

The police love drug criminalization because it gives them widespread latitude to hassle pretty much anybody they feel like whenever they feel like, because “drugs could be involved.” Marijuana especially, since stoners are generally fairly nonthreatening folks but “I smelled marijuana” is a zero-effort way to instantly manufacture a fictitious probable cause for anything.

And not to be confused with Boku.

In this case the Falun Gong, the cult behind the Shen Yun performances, is not being persecuted by China because “China Evil.” In this singular and specific shining example, it’s because they are completely whackadoo.

How much for the DAGRON?

Sure, but they’ll have to fight me and I’m the one holding the sword.

Why is this on my feed AGAIN???

Welcome to the wide, wonderful, and potentially very fragmented world of the Fediverse.

I’m also going to drop this link here…

https://www.razorrazor.com/site/purchase/beltsword-weapon-system-light-weights/

…And then run away going “Woo-hoo, woo-hoo!” like Daffy Duck. You’re welcome.

Yes. I am proud (?) to say that in my US state I could legally carry a full size functional Master Sword, or any other sword, on my belt or strapped to my back provided I didn’t brandish it at anyone without due cause.

It would technically be illegal to conceal without a permit, though, which raises some interesting logistical questions.

Ah, I see. So it’s cool when we do it (fossil fuel and ag subsidies, the auto industry bailout in 2008, etc.) but not when they do it.

Got it.

undermining regional carmakers

I think the word they’re looking for is in fact “outcompeting.”

Yutaro-Katori-with-butterfly-meme: Is this capitalism?

We should try nuking them.