Friday, October 28, 2022

The Day-late and Perhaps Penultimate Thursday Tweets



First, some fancy segues, starting with Ukraine



Musk has been weighing in on the war recently with suggestions that earned him the thanks of the Russian government and mockery from almost everyone else, particularly Garry Kasparov. Musk dealt with the criticism with the maturity we've come to expect.

As well as being an attack on Kasparov, this is also a dig at his rival Peter Thiel, who actually was something of a chess prodigy.

The far-right Thiel was also a proponent of injecting the blood of the young to slow aging.which has somehow been retconned into QAnon mythology.

A few more MAGA thoughts.



And plans.
MAGA theories provide us with a nice transition to the topic of British politics.

Which gives us an opening to another one of our favorites.





I considered segueing into the next topic, but this is subject I don't want to be flippant about.

Really effective ad. The humor only fuels the anger.
I believe Oz was trying to make the point that the decision shouldn't be up to senators (I'm not going to listen to the clip unless someone pays me). This is dishonest (if the GOP controls congress, we will have a national ban). It is also the worst possible way of saying it.


Moving onto the polling conversation.

This is a big deal assuming...

... We can trust the polls at all. (In case anyone's curious, I'm in the distrustful camp this cycle.)


A thread and assorted tweets on the rise of the fascists.





Though the longest of long shots, Chris Jones continues to do his best to make this a race.
Tucker was one of the victims of Whitewater (when the modern GOP was invented.)


Misc.

San Jose had a good one this week.

Back on the mad kings beat.

 

Presented without comment.

Context from Rainer Eisfeld:

While the 19th was turning into the 20th century, canals – like automobiles, dirigibles and airplanes – had come to symbolize progress, the triumph of technology over nature. In 1869, the Suez Canal had reduced the sea route to India by 10,000 kilometers, permitting Phileas Fogg and Passepartout to accomplish their imaginary journey around the world in 80 days. Work on the Panama Canal had begun in 1880, and even if the first French effort had foundered, a second American construction attempt was under way. Canals, whether on Earth or (supposedly) on another world, continued to make for headlines: On 27 August 1911, the New York Times captioned a one-page article. ‘Martians Build Two Immense Canals in Two Years’, its headline read. ‘Vast Engineering Works Accomplished in an Incredibly Short Time.’

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