It wouldn't do that though, the dems are the "not us" group so the evangelicals have already decided that everything they do is evil.

Morality by association rather than by actions is a hell of a drug.

I still think it was way too on the nose that Homelander got it on with the character that's his biological father in the comics

Quiet Part out loud, if there's one thing they hate more than the threat that women can say no to staying in abusive relationships, it's that they can run away to escape abuse if they can't take their safety at home.

I've got two.

• The US has arrived at the stage where an entirely new constitution/model of government, probably down to the very borders of the states themselves in the 48, needs to be implemented, just to let off the pressure of just how large a scale the US operates on in every dimension compared to what the original 13 were looking at.

• The two state solution has been rendered untenable by Israel's settler shit, the best way to protect the interests of Palestinians is to break down the border entirely and make them voting citizens with a say in the Knesset, and at this point I am convinced the only way that can be established is with an occupation force from outside both nations ready and willing to haul off anyone doing anything to threaten the coexistence and execute them. They won't coexist in peace, so let them coexist under the sword of Damocles. If I had my way honestly, Jerusalem would have a nuke installed under the temple mount, with a switch set to destroy the city entirely if they're going to insist on continuing to try and total victory wipe eachother out.

If they can't have the land together, they'll have the ashes together.

Good thing I tried pegging for the first time tonight then! Ticked that one off the bucket list just in time!

Tried a new divider Saw this broken arrow symbol on Extra History's Hiawatha episodes and apparently it's an old peace symbol for the indigenous nations in the region.

Could also do a venice and have a war variant with the opposite symbol, two arrows pointing in opposite directions

Edit: I did a Venice

Seeing Lara Logan in these sitches always kinda makes me sad, because it always comes off to me like traumatic response after what happened to her in Egypt.

Ok but how funny would that subplot have been if she was pushing a fucking hotdog stand around king's landing and exactly nobody was addressing it as if it wasn't the most normal thing in the world?

So apparently that piss smell wasn't actually from the open sewage.

It was because before cars took over horses were the primary mode of transport for people who could afford it, and horse piss is absolutely rancid smelling if it lands on something that doesn't just absorb it like dirt or soil.

You joke with the sea bug jokes but apparently dishes that use bug meat actually are compared to crab and lobster in taste.

You may think you're disgusting, but you ain't "getting so into scat fetish that god themself makes an entire religious dictat about avoiding your nasty ass" disgusting

It's funny because they compared themself to a picture of one of the worst people imagined to argue they're a good person

You'd think so but the foot fetishists are in the same kind of space as furry porn commissioners.

Bidet gang

See the thing about the supposed cycle of violence is that it implies equal fault and innocence of both sides. It relies on toleration theory.

Toleration is a treaty, when you break it you are no longer protected by it. It is an entirely justifiable and moral act to instigate violence against fascists, because their very ideology is a violation of the treaty of toleration, and their organization is one which cannot sustain itself in the face of repeated attacks.

You often hear complaints about how enforcing internet rules against the fascists just leads to whackamole bans, but the thing is that every successive ban leaves the fascists less coordinated, less emboldened, and more isolated. There is a critical point of punitive and preventative acts where a fascist org is effectively atomized and anyone worth pulling out has been rock bottomed into a holding space where they can be rehabbed.

Peaceful methods are what can be achieved after you've destroyed them, either through hounding operations making it less and less possible for them to group up and act together, or by normalizing violence and intolerance against them to the extent that they are at least afraid enough to stop trying to not be sniveling cowards such as the fascist naturally is.

The true fascist is only kept quiet in an environment of fear, where they know that trying to stick their heads up will get it lopped off in short order. An environment where even peacible means of antifascism still include complete social ostracism and career destruction, and where persistent fascism is met with swift and appropriate violent rejection.

Don't just punch the Nazis, dox them to their families and employers and communities, encourage others to be armed and ready to attack preemptively in their presence, organize around making that Nazi specifically know their rightful place is silent and afraid until they've cut the shit and stopped being a nazi, before someone ends up killing them in self defense.

Collapse theory is fundamentally a privileged take. It is a position that is impossible to accept without either the assumption that you'd survive, or the assumption that the disproportionate harm to the disadvantaged is worth it for your end goals even if you die too.

Either way, you're declaring that your paradise can and should be built over the bodies of the disemprivileged, and are automatically wrong and a horrible person for even being able to think that way.

You are the exact kind of monster that built the colonialist model of Israel, just insisting that your nation built on the bodies of the innocent will be a more moral one somehow.

You can tell they're white because they think demanding to see genocide's manager is more effective than voting against even more genocide happening.

Probably more that she's angling for her slice of the inheritance.

Man literally is a suspected child rapist, yet the supposed anti-groomers would personally offer him their infant children to rape before they ever even dreamed of applying any standards to him.

It's the logical conclusion of their association based morality. Don could actually murder someone on 5th avenue and the right would never give an inch on it because he's their bastard and they'll take their bastards over an outsider's angels every day of the week.

They don't believe it's evil for satanists to run a soup kitchen because they suspect an ulterior motive, they believe it's evil because the satanists are evil so everything they do is evil because nothing an evil person does is ever a good thing. Same time, one of their own could be caught hacking school children to death with a machete and they'll go to the extent of bashing their head into a wall until they forget their own now murdered children because he's one of their own and "we don't need outsiders to tell us how to handle our issues."

The thing about decentralization is that all it changes is who exactly gets to fuck with you by being corrupt.

How centralized or decentralized a system is doesn't matter as much as how accountable people on either end of that spectrum are able to be held.

Because Voter Suppression usually comes in the form of laws and judgements, and legislators can't be arrested for passing unjust laws, and judges can't be arrested for passing unjust rulings, partly because...well who the fuck could even prosecute such a case without risking biased prosecution?

The supreme court is ordinarily supposed to be the check for when the law itself is unjust, but that ship has sailed and it ain't coming back until, IMO, we institute a sortitionate bench, IE the judges for any given case before the supreme court are selected at random from the pool of all federal judges who don't have a conflict of interest, or at least the appearance of one, on the case.

When I saw her say that I already knew he was gonna take the bait but Jesus Christ was I not ready for how hard.

That little removed jumped at that bait like a dog chasing a dropped bagel!

I'd want to take the fedora back from the incels and neckbeards. Other currently out of fashion hats and caps too, but the fedora has been too monopolized by inceldom when it's a perfectly serviceable hat for folks who wanna dress up from ball caps.

Yeah because all those people that had zero turnout energy during the primary were actually paid off by the rich. That's why they didn't vote in the primary!

Fuck right off with this DNC conspiracy bullshit. Progressives owe their cause turning out, you don't get to blame everyone else for not doing the revolution for you while you're sitting on the couch instead of doing the literal barest minimum to actually materially support what you claim you believe in.

Fuck your words. Give the cause your actions, or can your empty platitudes about how it's everyone else's fault your side refused to vote.

And also a minimum of 6 weeks paid vacation, and also they get recorded as clocked in on those days so employers can't easily discriminate against employees that actually use that time.

Worst part is knowing these traitors would have been cheering if the hijackers had sworn to Jesus instead of Mohammed.

30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is chilly, and 0 is ice

Picked it up from a guy who teaches Latin on YouTube of all places

Portland

Well there's your problem, the west coast has been doing strange things to their Pizza ever since that one cannuck thought using pineapples would excuse calling something a Hawaiian pizza without any spam

If the left were even a fraction as organized as claimed, Bernie would have blown the primary out in 2016 and ridden into the whitehouse with solid majorities in both houses.

It honestly roils me how impotent the left is, because an active organized left could grab this country by the balls and drag it into a whole new era, but all we have is a million headed hydra with each neck pulling in a different direction because nobody can get over themselves for long enough to fall in line behind a common objective.

FatPeopleHate, not because they did it, but because they promoted a woman to be in charge of it exclusively so they could throw her under the bus for it, and the sweats of reddit bought the whole thing hook line and sinker

How in sam hill are their vowel Vs and consonant Us in this‽

IIRC their word was something like "Kolba"

That presumes that all of that 3% of Indigenous folks are of pure indigenous american decent, which for a variety of reasons, doesn't really jive with the reality of things.

Fact of the matter is that what people primarily identify as rarely reflects the whole story of their heritage, and even people who's families are seemingly untouched by outside influence in centuries turn out to have a great grandparent who only signed documents the way they did because they were told to at Ellis Island when the clerk Americanized their name.

Probably from social isolation by everyone who did do that.

Like if the rich asshole kids wanna mark themselves out by skipping out on a national service that's their prerogative, just the same it's everyone else's to make judgements about them based on that.

That "some of y'all never worked a service job and it shows" tweet hits a lot harder when there's a federal budget for the messaging about the good of lending a working hand to your fellow countryfolks.

I mean now that I'm thinking of it, that'd be absolutely right, only way to make it more Hawaiian would be to find a way to get some tarro on it too.

My guess is the only reason ham was used is because it was made up before spam caught on.

Also the guy who did it was Canadian, so non zero chance he was just pulling the recipe out of his own ass.

STUPID SEXY STRIPES!

Probably, but I had to hand trace it because I didn't know how to get a more stylized one onto the page lol

Required I think doesn't cut mustard, like I said, it should be required only when all other possibilities to address a labor shortage crisis have been exhausted.

Required service is something you do when you're in a weakened or threatened position with what you're invoking it for, so doing it unnecessarily just doesn't help quite as much as one might think.

There's better ways to address a perceived national attitude problem than forced labor.

Probably Hawaiian/Filipino diaspora. Those guys love spam, to the extent of innovating fusion dishes centered around it.

I mean a national labor corps with incentivized participation isn't the worst idea. Gives people the opportunity to get work experience without necessarily having to understand their career direction in life.

Shouldn't be a draft in any circumstances but absolute crisis situation, like essential infrastructure is on the brink of total collapse and regular pay incentives aren't getting bodies on it fast enough.

Who knows, might get some people into work they didn't realize they'd gel with, plenty of inspector positions are behind work load and I've got s feeling a part of that is just people not knowing the work is out there.