US Politics

Gravy seals lol.

Impressive! Professional at work!

#ETTD

I see no choice but to resign from this Death Star as it begins to explode

It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of responsibility that I must submit my resignation, effective immediately, from my post on this Death Star. However, I see no other choice.

Now is the time for all of us to stand up from our posts and do what is right.
It’s been an honor to work on this Death Star. I love the aesthetic. I love how I’ve been able to pursue my greatest passion: destroying planets and pressing buttons. I love my little hat that is a sunshade for no reason! I love the easy-to-access computer interfaces, the blast-door equipped hallways and that one area we can access only by pressing a button to extend a bridge. Our design always made a lot of sense to me! And I love our reliable trash disposal system and the little one-eyed tentacle fella that lives in it. In general, I’m proud of this station and of what we’ve achieved on it, together.

Sure, there have been moments with which I disagreed. Lord Vader and I don’t always see eye to eye; in fact, I have no idea where he is looking in that creepy helmet of his. I didn’t like when he tried to choke my colleague, or my other colleague, or that additional different colleague who later passed away. But I stayed at my post because I knew that my work mattered, and I was helping Grand Moff Tarkin keep the regional governors in line.

I understand that there might be some confusion about what exactly I’m doing, and why I’m doing this now, but I don’t think there should be. I am objecting, on principle, to staying on this Death Star for a single additional second. To those of you who would question my motives: I did know for a long time that the place I worked was a Death Star, but I have to say, until today, I didn’t understand that it was also very vulnerable to assault by a small one-man fighter because of a design flaw!

Destroying planets and using fear of this battle station to keep the local systems in line was my No. 1 passion until — about 30 seconds ago, weirdly! That was when I saw the X-wings that had evaded our turbo-lasers and were proceeding down a trench toward our vulnerable thermal exhaust port — and realized I had to speak up. I thought: What if remorselessly destroying planets isn’t my passion? What if my real passion is staying alive and avoiding the consequences of my actions?

The only thing I hate more than the population of the planet Alderaan, who totally deserved it, is consequences. Consequences and not having a job! I think any galaxy in which I had to face a consequence for my past work on this weapon would be a sad one. That would be divisive and the last thing we need. So I hope that when the history of this moment is written, I will be remembered as someone who stood on principle.

Technically, I am standing on an evacuation shuttle, if I can make it there in time. But mostly principle.

Y'all Qaeda

Best!

Oh they're all brilliant but Branch Covidians wins it for me.

Arnie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_P-0I6sAck

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Ah that was the Op-Ed in the Washington Post. I was looking for that text. Thank you.

Opening their links in incognito tab still works

Steel is real

about 8:30pm UK time. 330pm DC from this stream https://www.twitch.tv/videos/863617017?t=00h47m04s Not sure of the exact time in the stream though, I can't find it.

It’s actually a great watch. Can’t quite work out her sentiment, but the press response at the end is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwA78XvNyc

Haven't yet heard calls for moderate conservatives to apologise on behalf of these extremists and take steps to tackle the issues in their communities.

Well, there's this guy, calling on his fellow GOP congressfolk to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions and face the truth, but I doubt many of his colleagues are going to listen. As for the conservative media pundits, not a chance.

What a shit show

Another Capitol police death. People are quick to attribute to the riot but this is the only statement so far:

[USCP] is deeply saddened by the off-duty death of Officer Howard Liebengood, age 51. He was assigned to the Senate Division, and has been with the Department since April 2005. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, and colleagues”

CK?

Typo, fixed

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1348122699843981312?s=20

The doorway at the far end of this picture was an entrance to the Senate that was still about a minute from being sealed by police inside and was being covered by officer inside with automatic weapons. The cop that was being chased up the stairs prevented an absolute disaster

But what do you think they would have done if they’d got access to the senators? It all seemed strangely aimless once inside – stealing lecterns, etc. Do you think they had intent to do physical harm? I can’t read it very well. The Jamiroquai guy is confusing me.

The disaster would have been what the guys with the machine guns did to stop them entering.

That is a pretty incredible moment to learn about.

A man decided the best thing to do, is to put his own life potentially in danger so a mob that could potentially harm him doesn't get harmed themselves and that is putting it very simply as well as if you start to think about it more it's just shows that he is what every human being should e like.

every human being should e like.

And even if not every human being, at least every police officer should be like.

There are many ways that you could look at it and he aced them all. He deserves huge amounts of recognition. Reading the comments it does seem like that he is pretty well know around the senate.