cranking my hogg

That’s a rumor that’s going around. The flight path makes no sense for a VIP (for example, flying over the city center of occupied Homs), and while it was pretty clearly a crash of a military plane, that doesn’t at all imply it was al-Assad’s. We don’t know the destination, just that he boarded a plane, but I’m guessing we’ll see him turn up soon enough.

Not sure if I would have preferred al-Assad having to live out the rest of his life in exile and constantly look over his own shoulder… Or seeing him imprisoned in Syria and/or publicly hanged for his crimes against humanity. But I guess with him having fled via plane, we’ll all have to accept the former.

Not supporting ISIS

Ah yes, I forgot that Syria outside of the SDF’s control is just Assad and ISIS and nobody else. Totally slipped my mind that it’s not pockets of ISIS control in the southeast opening up in the power vacuum created by Assad tripping over his own dick to rush troops back to Damascus; it’s that actually, all the miscellaneous rebel groups that are routing the wildly incompetent SAA are just ISIS acting as American proxies. That sure clears things up. Damn, I understand why tankies are coping so hard now; too bad Mr. Sarin Gas himself is going to be executed or (unlikely best case for him) in exile within a couple weeks then. :(

Is a tankie upset that Assad’s either going to be strung up or smuggled into exile by year’s end? The right panel being wrong doesn’t mean that Assad’s dictatorship doesn’t deserve to collapse.

This isn’t true. Harboring someone from the police after they commit a crime makes you an accessory, not a primary.

Edit: to be more concrete and actually cite what I’m saying (my bad), we’ll use federal law since they clearly crossed state lines multiple times in the stages of committing this act of heroism crime:

An accessory after-the-fact is someone who, knowing a crime was committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the offender or in any manner aids them to escape arrest or punishment. See: U.S. v. Triplett, 92 F.2d 1174 (5th Cir. 1991). The aid provided by the defendant to the principal must be given after the principal completes the crime.

The basic elements the government must demonstrate to prove that a defendant was an accessory after-the-fact are: (1) the commission of an underlying crime against the United States; (2) the defendant’s knowledge of that offense; and (3) assistance by the defendant in order to prevent the apprehension, trial, or punishment of the offender. See: U.S. v. White, 135 S. Ct. 1573, 191 L. Ed. 2d 656 (2015); Ellis v. U.S., 806 F. Supp. 2d 538 (E.D. N.Y. 2011).

“Finally, God, take me.”

I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they’ll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

I just like to watch you guys (react to the posts).

I think you’re misreading this sentence: I think it’s clearly implying public outrage surrounding US health insurance, not about the killing itself. “The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media” pretty clearly implies to me that they mean the public outrage associated with the dark humor.

archive.today too; name and shame.

Voyager isn’t uploading anything for me, saying it failed external validation. I wonder if that’s just some sort of bug, since surely an image of Superman isn’t illegal. Meanwhile, on the site front-end, trying to upload an image is extremely slow and just cuts it off halfway.

Edit: it’s working now. Strange.

Preventative services?

Thoughts and prayers that some of the lesser residents of hell may catch a break while the demons focus their attention on Brian Thompson.

Oh, don’t worry, there’s a topical one already teed up for tomorrow.

It should go without saying

Shoooould it thoooough?

Thompson, who was named CEO in April 2021, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai West.

Good thing he had health insurance for his stay at Mount Sinai; some aren’t so lucky thanks to worthless puddles of filth like this.

Edit: Zero sympathy. Negative sympathy, even.

Gaming journalists don’t know about it

I made up a class name and assigned it to an expensive-sounding ship because I’ve never played Star Citizen and have never even been on the website; in trying to make up some dumb bullshit, I accidentally came up with something that approximates the Anvil Liberator.

And, you know, gestures wildly at the $48,000 ship pack; the fact this in-game asset I basically just made up by accident is real and sold officially for $575; the lack of any release timeline and the way it’s been in early access for over a decade despite raising over $1 billion, amounting to a never-ending whalefishing expedition…

Edit: Oh my god, it’s actually a real thing, and it costs $575. I promise I don’t play Star Citizen and have never seen this before. I genuinely just wanted to make up some stupid bullshit (I literally just ripped the class name off of one of the ranks from the game Ratchet: Deadlocked and gave a type of ship that sounded expensive), but Chris beat me to the punch. Bravo.