Notices by healyn (healyn@normal.style)

A lot of rational people in the US look at what's happening in Iran, and ask, "didn't we learn a lesson with the Iraq invasion?"

And the answer is not "no". We did learn a lesson. We learned that people who are ostensibly liberal and disastrously wrong (Jon Chait, Yglesias, etc, all of whom supported war in Iraq) can make a shit ton of money, despite being doofuses who were wrong

Judith Miller was the Bush admin's biggest propagandist at the NYT, and she got book deals out of it!

I've never watched Citizen Kane, but I've probably seen Mo' Money around a dozen times. So uhhhh yea, you might call me a "film buff"

Conflicted on Tom Cruise because I love so many of his movies, and so many of his actor friends are like, "he never forgets to send a coconut cake for Christmas"

But, man, scientology is so fucked up. I watched this show "Counterpart", and loved the performance from Nazanin Boniadi. She was pretty much groomed to be Cruise's wife after his divorce from Nicole Kidman, and eventually left the "church"

The #MeToo movement really picked up some steam for maybe a year, then left a bunch of victims holding the bag, huh?

(anyway, if you can watch Counterpart on some service, highly recommend it. Classic JK Simmons and Olivia Williams action, and Boniadi is fantastic in it)

There is an inherent contradiction amongst right-wingers in the US (more than one contradiction, I know) where they don't trust any vaccine because of profit-driven companies, but they're also psyched that the government is cutting all funding for scientific research

"Hell yea, privatization! Also, fuck these leeches. I'm not taking 'medicine'"

Being a child in the US in the 1980s, you were terrified of two major things: (1) drug dealers forcing you to accept a bunch of free drugs for some reason, and (2) drowning in quicksand

Three months in, possibly the most disastrous presidency in US history. It will not get better

I don't care whether impeachment is possible, every Democrat should be constantly talking about impeachment

People (myself included) were like, "yea Trump is awful, but he's no George W", and then Trump was like, check out how I eliminate PEPFAR

Like, RFK Jr is in charge of the HHS! This is such a fucking disaster!

Every day, there is a new disastrous story about how awful these people are

Apologies for not CWing any of this, but what in the world?! Feel like I'm losing my mind seeing this absolute collapse happen in real time

I really need to train to prepare for the fights I'm gonna get into on Long Island this July 4th

I try to spend more time offline, because any time I'm online, I'm constantly seeing comments, where my response (in my head) is, "you do not need to say this"

*Lady who has a house with a garage, next door neighbor has a boat in his driveway that dented the lady's garage*

Lady asks, "Do any lawyers know how I should handle this?"

*40 comments that start with, "I'm no lawyer, but I would think....*

Society really went off the rails once people stopped caring about dubstep

Might be a crank stance, but I kinda believe Tesla is doing Enron-level accounting stuff. Why else would you alienate your original customer base on this level?

I'm agnostic now, but these fucking pieces of shit are appropriating my culture

As someone raised Catholic, I constantly feel guilt, even when I do ok stuff (volunteer work, etc.)

Catholic converts, in my experience, go out of their way to be shitty? And then they cite some obscure thing like "Saint Petritus at the Stone of Wealth" to override stuff that Jesus literally said

Whenever I go to a diner and sit in a booth with a jukebox, I like to get my money's worth.

Always choose the longest song. Doesn't matter whether I like it. Do they have Don McLean's American Pie (extended version)? Boom, 10 minutes of shit. I am ON it

Nostalgic for the days of billionaires like Howard Hughes. A man who realized, "the ol' noggin ain't right", and receded into a penthouse life of decrepitude

@anime_reference good to hear that you would hypothetically never do that