“We need you to help us!”

“By raising awareness, raising the profile of protests by joining and expressing solidarity with them, engaging in legal efforts to block the administration, and introducing legislation to restrict the administration’s formal power; the things that politicians and especially legislators have especial power to actually do?”

“No, we want you to take up arms and take to the streets in a way that we aren’t willing to do ourselves!”

The DNC rigged the primary for Hilary and pushed Bernie out.

The “rigging” amounted to “Played favorites in signal-boosting Hillary”. Which, while unfair and shitty, really does nothing to contradict the fact that Bernie lost by far more than the DNC doing signal-boosting for the right-wing cretin.

I voted and marched for Bernie in 2016. I donated at a time when I didn’t really have money to donate. I still love Bernie. But we, the primary voters, failed the US; we primary voters were not prevented from casting the votes they wanted to or playing a rigged game. We, as a very distinct majority, voted for Clinton instead of Bernie. And then for Biden instead of Bernie.

At some point, one must acknowledge the voters are the core of the problem, even if the DNC deserves to be driven to live off locusts in the desert and never show their faces in civilized society again.

It also demonstrates how impotent the DNC is. They only have to wake up tomorrow, pluck the lowest hanging fruit and never shut up about it for 10 years and the GOP would crumble.

The DNC is impotent and incompetent, but they also appeal to very different demographics than the GOP. For example, only a slim majority of our party ate lead paint chips as children.

The user is a fascist apologist. I wouldn’t expect too much out of them.

After having my body break, I learned both that I was more attached to my former body than I thought, and became acutely aware of how tied up my identity was with my new, broken body.

… it’s a strange way to acquire an emotional understanding of identity and one’s own body. Would not recommend. Take a philosophy class like a normal person, you’ll be happier for it, I promise.

EGGS

Rare Iran W.

Latin words have so many declensions, it’s nightmarish.

That sounds like Gr*ek talk!

Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the “Just as the Founding Fathers intended” copypasta.

“Mehercules” is “By Hercules!”, a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. “Ubi mel, ibi apes” means “Where there’s honey, there’s bees!” A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.

“Conscript Fathers” is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. “No, no, I couldn’t POSSIBLY accept a position of authority… unless… you were to insist… 👉👈🥺”

We got Death Star!

We got Death Star!

[Wilhelm Scream]

Good! May it not only continue, but increase!

If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn’t real.

If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

Brian doesn’t have a leg to stand on for either side.

Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.

You’re not making a case here for the Zionists.

I’m not trying to make a case for the Zionists, I’m pointing out that your idea that “NATO” or “The Allies” ‘gave land’ to Israel because they ‘felt bad’ about the Holocaust is absolute nonsense.

The only thing that can stop a bad Jedi with a laser sword is a good Jedi with a laser sword

Faus

The Foxblob emojis are fantastic

The decision was made after careful deliberation, a.k.a. a hearty swig from his hip flask. text from his paymasters in Moscow

ftfy