There’s an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

“it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can’t actually deliver is highly transferable.”

what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.

I stole one of those huge rolls from college once. It dispenses just fine on the floor.

There are so many Java libraries that I would probably set on fire if they were physically tangible in any way.

More than just one, but yeah, the “overall flow” is set in law by acts of Congress, and only an act of Congress can stop that flow, not the executive branch.

Like a bowl of menudo gone rancid.

There have been U S. officials that confirmed this has happened though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/politics/blinken-confirms-pause-heavy-bombs-israel/index.html

I’m not even arguing that it’s effective, just that it happened.

This is a sync bug. If you open the post and then click the link, it should open in full res instead of expanding the thumbnail (I’m using sync)

But Biden has slowed weapon shipments to Israel, it’s the only thing he can (legally, not politically) do since the aid is mandated by law and his executive power doesn’t extend to negating laws.

First guy looks like hes from Silent Hil 2

ha! it’s even better the second time.

Awww I was going to make a “That’s just what Yar looks like now” joke but you fixed it

That’s true in general for everything he touches, but rockets are designed to overcome a lot of drag :)

Also, the first one is reusable.

I’m glad you confirmed that, but I’d be utterly surprised if it was any other reason.

“Finnish Him!”

I’m in the U.S. The problem is that violence is almost literally the cornerstone of our culture. The entire prehistory and history of the U.S. starts with violence. Displacing a people, warring with them for centuries to carve out a place in a land that keeps killing settlers. More violence and death as cities are established and more natives are killed. Every other super power at the time killing each other over this land, finally the descendents of the settlers revolting against foreign rule, more war, and a country established on stolen, blood soaked land. Built, fed, and clothed by slaves.

All the whole fighting neighboring descendents of settlers in bloody wars, over stolen land, driven unceasingly by “Manifest Destiny”.

More war as the descendents of settlers, now natives to their barely 100 year old country, proceed to kill each other over the right to enslave others, creating a cultural schism that still exists over 150 years later.

Fast forward through two global wars barely 50 years later, and hardly a generation apart, we have global Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine casting a shadow over every single human life for every day since 1962.

An oft forgotten underground sea of violence lies between the fragile crust of civility that supports U.S. society. Even the government itself is adversarial, pitting branch against branch, state against federal, local against state to maintain a balance checked by the threat of violence and anarchy.

Oh, and through it all, an ever present an undercurrent of racism, a miasma permeating the fabric of everything this country was built on and with.

Historically, when it wasn’t guns, it was mobs, lynching, firebombing entire towns and neighborhoods, knives, fists, terrorism, crosses set on fire, sundown towns, racist rallies, segregation, cultural warfare, propaganda, economic terrorism and oppression through targeted laws, the prison system, low wages, and the violence inherent in capitalism in general.

Violence has driven, and continues to drive, the vast majority of decisions made in this country.

tl;dr analogy: The guns are the polar bear sitting on the melting iceberg. The violence inherent in U.S. culture is the ever rising global average temperature, and we’re not even pretending to address the violence.

For a hot second my brain interpreted his face as the back of his head and it really got to me.

I would not have posted this. The long dick of the law makes an echidna’s look normal.

Trill, Unjoined worm