Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Republicans have ruled for half of the current century, but only legitimately won the election after 9/11. I don’t think it’s fair to describe US elections as functional, even arguably.
This is what fascist states look like at this stage of their life cycle. I think the most generous description of the US is an early fascist state. If we really want to argue about whether a spade is a shovel.
When I look at the quality of prominent Americans who went to ivy league schools, I don’t think cheating your way through college will make much difference.
Pete hegseth graduated from princeton without the use of AI and he is one dumb fucking cunt, for example
place idealism above hard work
To translate from rich asshole, this means act ethically instead of do what I say.
had 32 people on board … featuring a seating capacity of 12 … the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the cause of the incident
🤔
A purpose-built expressway is not the same thing as a slippery slope.
Ah! Yep, “brought under control” is something I’ve heard said about fires before. Interesting, thank you!
A second-alarm fire broke out as a result, but was knocked down.
Has anyone heard the verb “knocked down” used like that before? Is it a regional thing? I’m used to fires being “put out”.
With this picture, does that make you Cyrano de Purrgerac?
They are just gorgeous though. They look like incredibly well-knapped flint blades.
Yes, pretending you have questions when you just have insults is a great example of trolling.
“FreedomAdvocate” just immediately sounds like a troll account. Aaaannnnd the comment history is almost nothing but trolling. Surprise surprise.
Yep! Always has been.
Ashoka the great who’s credited with doing a lot to spread buddhism globally was a murderous warlord known for his personal torture prison called “Ashoka’s hell”. After he brutally killed uprisings against his rule he plowed state funds into a PR campaign to change his name from ashoka the cruel to ashoka of the dharma.
Bill gates is another good example, he’s a pedophile known for running one of the most toxic work cultures, but he can use some of the money he made illegally stifling competition to rehab his image.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “given complete operational freedom to the armed forces to decide on the mode, targets and timing of India’s response to the Pahalgam massacre.”
Modi seems to disagree.
I must say 4 incorrectly
I move my lips the same way you do. Another poster mentioned four, five as well.
It’s not incorrect though - there’s not really such a thing as pronouncing incorrectly. People just speak how they speak and it’s always changing.
over 30% of people somehow still voted conservative.
It’s similar numbers for determined trump supporters. 30-40% of people just seem to enjoy the idea of living under a punishing overload. Maybe it makes them feel safe, or they think of themselves as superior so presume they’ll end up on top. Probably a lot of other drivers as well - poverty and uncertainty seem to play a role.
I tend to think of this more as a flaw we possess as an organism, something we need social institutions to counteract, rather than as the personal failing of one in every two or three people.
People always think that the spark of invention is all that’s required, ignoring the social and material tinder and kindling that’s required for something to be useful and take off.
Nope, the latter was correct.
I feel that spreading lies, even to make fun of them, is ultimately counter-productive. I know others disagree though.
A global government would prevent this from ever happening.
A few elites have the power to inflict violence on everyone else and get away with it - aka the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This allows them to enforce injustice like unlivable wages but also to starve, jail and kill anyone who is serious about taking aware their power.
Setting up a global union would drastically curtail the power of elites, and they would prevent it. You would have to defeat the world’s elite, and in that case a universal wage is small potatoes.
“Proto” usually implies that it’s a stage that may develop into the thing, not yet the thing. Whereas “early” implies it’s recently become the thing. Or at least that’s how I usually hear them used, and what I meant.