Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I was bluffing anyhow, I have zero clue how much Earth Monies are actually worth. How much is a lot? n.n;;;

@001zlnv Just keep in mind my continued willingness to bet large sums of money on the outcome of all this. XD XD XD

@001zlnv You're Not Wrong, but personally, watching the GOP collapse -- and even the freakin' National Association of Manufacturers roasting Trump and calling for 25A over this -- I would put a LOT of money on this movement not having any real success until 2024.

No bets on 2024 and DEFINITELY not on 2028. I know my history. :O :O :O

Still. I do have to disagree very strongly on "minimal losses/consequences." The consequence for the rioters seems to have been trivial. But as noted... the consequence for Trump has been UTTERLY RUINOUS. His OWN CABINET is discussing the 25A. People are trying to dive off his sinking ship in droves. If this could have gone worse for Trump without him literally sticking a fork in his own eye, I don't see how. :)

Heh. I was just informed that MIKHAIL GORBACHEV has labeled last night's Capitol violence as a coup. Nobody addressed translation issues, but for now I'm gonna take a dive and score a zero on this one.

Related thought: I don't think there's anything wrong with demanding proof out of people, not even a bit aggressively. The real test of character is whether you can ever actually ACKNOWLEGE IT, CONCEDE, AND CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS ACCORDINGLY.

Of course, this is exactly what I am trying to do right now, so this is an INCREDIBLY self-serving observation.

@001zlnv Dammit. Why do you gotta play on my weaknesses like that? :)

Because you do have a good point -- every linguistic on earth would support you, 'cause Usage Is God and there really is no other arbiter.

My motive really isn't linguistic purity or pedantry, though -- it's the urge to criticism what I see as the _motive_ for calling it a coup. It really feels like these folks are doubling down because they want to preserve their dramatic narrative that this was somehow a tragic and scary defeat for *us* -- not them, even though they blatantly failed and blatantly overreached.

Net time from Twitter logon to quitrage at a fellow leftist, for feverishly lecturing us on how this was a credible and cunningly planned actual credible real genuine actual actual very coup, and how dare we question him or be anything but terrified about our very fierce and disciplined enemies:

1.5 minutes.

See. To me, "coup" strongly implies an organized force with an organized goal and a chance in a million of success in taking and holding political power for any length of time. Not "running in and busting the place up and demanding to see America's manager." But you know, I like it when words mean things and stuff.

(I might be exaggerating my infuriator's point by... um... about a factor of 30-40. O:) But I'm in quite a mood this morning.)

Huh. I did not expect my morning activities to include "finally understanding the Riemann Hypothesis." Thanks, Quanta Magazine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlm1aajH6gY

@JulieSqveakaroo I'm getting flashback to my office job at a conservative construction company in Medford, MA and... ouch, it'd be a nightmare to be stuck with those people during this. (It was bad enough enduring all their Islamophobic e-mail spam during the Gulf War >___< ) I am so sorry you're stuck in the middle of it. *hug*

@Sig You're 100% right, I blame mental fatigue. :) Though we do have every ability to pack the court now, I honestly do not trust Biden one bit to have the guts. *sigh*

@Oneironott Cripes I miss being a fake plastic vixen sometimes. ^_____^

@Orb2069 I mean, the historical record 100% backs you on this one given some of the shit they were pulling in the 1960s, or the 1985 MOVE bombing...

@Orb2069 I'm probably badly biased, admittedly, by the fact my timeline tends to lean WAY more radical than stuffy old 20th-century neo-Marxist me...

@Orb2069 It would definitely fit in with the Trump cult's remarkable past accuracy at shooting themselves in the foot.

I have to admit that threatening to move to Canada AFTER YOUR ENEMIES JUST LOST CONTROL OF ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT -- because a bunch of those enemies actually went and *did* what we've been telling each other for years we should do to the White House -- is a very impressive new level in leftist cowardice.

Yup. Daines, Lankford, and Loeffler. It's all on CNN's breaking news page. (https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/h_866aa171267637af8034373744b72f36)

This is VERY tentative and unresearched, but news I'm getting from Peg seems to be indicating that today's Miller Lite Putsch actualy BACKFIRED COMPLETELY.

It may have just persuaded a bunch of GOP legislators to endorse the election after all, because apparently the dumb fuckers chose to barge in WHEN THEY WERE DEBATING IT? And they caused so much disruption and exhaustion that several GOP legislators who were on the fence just kinda shrugged and backed off at the last minute.

God, if that's true, honestly? I'm gonna be such a smug jerkass to the Doomies tomorrow. I'm not sorry. They exhausted me today and the best I can do is return the favor.

I'm not gonna blame you for being afraid, though, because an idiot with a gun is arguably even more dangerous than a competent person with a gun. But once in a while you get lucky and they shoot someone who kinda needed to be shot. ^____^

(Fair confession: this lecture is coming from a damn fool who has literally caught himself bitching out a conservative for threatening gun violence less than ten minutes after ranting here about how much I'd love to shoot a Proud Boy. The dissonance was so bad I didn't even notice on first pass. And shamefully, I did nothing to correct it once noticed.)

(And that's the point. I have sincerely fought this shit tooth and nail since the day I renounced Christianity 27 years ago. AND I STILL SUCK AT IT. WE ALL REALLY REALLY SUCK AT IT AND WE'RE FUCKED UNLESS WE GET STRAIGHT TO WORK ON IT.)

@monsterblue They're just so NICE about their whole Body-Snatcher/Pod-Person conspiracy. Ask any of the people they've helped! ^________^

(I do also really want to emphasize that "superior cause" thing. I think, yeah, it's 100% fair to entertain the argument that "we get to use force to maintain power because WE DON'T PUT KIDS IN CAGES OR WAVE THE FLAG OF A SLAVER NATION, ASSHOLES." It's the reflexive mutual unawareness that it's ALL totally contingent not on absolute morality but on who's doing it and which side they're on...)

TL;DR: Please acquire a copy of Faces Of The Enemy and staple it to your face on my behalf. ;p