That sounds like putting the cart before the horse. I would say that Frankenstein Abhors his creation, and does not name it because of it. I don’t think if he’d named it Greg or something, that he’d actually treat his monster any better.

Immediate murder suspect for any gruesome killings in the vicinity. Straight up looks like he misted someone with his feet.

I’d forgive if it were returned. It’s one of those ‘you’re my enemy until that plate gets put back in my microwave’ type-shit for me.

Return-the-slab-type shit.

minimum

I did but that was mostly my own doing.

Can’t a man take his raccoon on a night time ride without being accosted by the state? Absolute tyranny.

Yeah, pretty much any positive time in the US, we gotta remember that Black folks were excluded from the positive aspects of those times. Intentionally.

To be more detailed, The firearms serve another purpose than just returning fire in a gunfight. The coast gaurd often disable the engines of boats they’re pursuing by shooting the engine.

Course, these are more just guidelines. How the coast gaurd actually conducts itself is likely adapted to the situation.

That looks yummy

I think I see the problem. Tortoise should be where turtle is, turtle should be in that corner.

You cannot function or work towards a meaningful future if you are constantly drained from a lack of happiness. It’s those moments of hope and bliss which drive us forward. To deny yourself those moments is to remove your drive for better times.

It is not a matter of whether it’s morally acceptable - you must be happy at times in order to renew your fighting spirit. To question whether happiness is OK is like questioning whether eating or breathing are OK.

McCarthyism is probably the most succinct answer. The Cold War directly aligned us against the Soviet Union, and a key means of villainizing the USSR and its citizenry was to paint their core governing beliefs as heretical to the American way.

There is also no doubt in my mind that Socialism’s strong connection to Union activity in the US also incentivized Corporate Barons to lobby against Social Politics hard. I have not seen any specifics about that myself, though. Modern lobbying efforts are well-known, though.

Webseums (online museums) are great resources, but can be hard to find sometimes

Cheap ethernet cord sometimes has thin insulation on the inside, and because of that you’re able to see the wire twist through it.

It’s still magic. Even the folks studying the cutting edge eventually have to admit ‘I don’t know post this point.’ We just happen to have an explanation up to that point.

Socialism in political theory is the idea that, at minimum, some systems should be owned by the collective - that’s it. The Road system in the US is largely a socialist project, for reference. USPS was also a socialist project before it was privatized. So is our now mostly defunded education system. Our fucking amazing national park system was also a socialist project to create jobs during the great recession. And the only reason that these things are going downhill is because we’ve defunded them.

Other things socialists want would be federally funded healthcare, a federally maintained train system, college being funded by US taxes, etc.

Yes, stalinism, communism, and Maoism are socialist ideologies. So is social democracy, the Nordic model, and various others.

You’re brainwashed based on your reaction to that word.

No, these points strongly line up with liberalism, and that final point actually diverges from US leftist rhetoric ATM.

Anarchists are pretty often saying ‘learn to use a firearm for your own safety’ right now. As in ‘arm the LGBT’ line of convo.

Marxists are often saying ‘learn to use a firearm, we need them for the revolution’.

Hell, even US people who are strongly aligned with maintaining democracy are now saying ‘get a gun so we can throw this shithead out of office’. I don’t doubt this rhetoric is similar in other countries dealing with soon-to-be dictators.

In the US at least, Gun control is currently much more aligned with liberalism than leftism. It’s gotten that bad.

Yep. When humanity’s dead or dying out, based on the backdrop they chose here. I don’t exactly disagree, but I’d really like for us to figure our shit out before then rather than succumb to defeatism.

Help your neighbor. The worse off they are the more likely they are to surrender without a fight.

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.