I wish I could find the quote, but there was a woman who lived through Nazi Germany who wrote something to the effect of: Hitler and the brownshirts weren't marching in the streets to display their strength but to hide their weakness

The thing about "illegal orders": as a veteran myself, we were all pretty aware that our being told that we had a responsibility to reject illegal orders was less about them educating us and more about the brass having plausible deniability.

What was that thing someone said? "He's not a fascist, he's worse, he's an asshole"

Reversal of Fortune should have won all the special effects Oscars for how they convinced me that Alan Dershowitz was a good guy.

Severance is The Matrix written by Tom Waits

Drag

Isn't that what the federal Marshals are?

Watch how fast ICE categorizes crossing the aisle as illegal immigration

I've come to the conclusion that the reason Rivers Cuomo dislikes the #Pinkerton album is because it's all about being a horny self-involved emo dipshit and the reason I like it so much is because when it came out, I myself was a horny self-involved emo dipshit

"Yeah well you can't fire me I quit!"

"🎶 Happy Birthday to you 🎶"

Hearing "ninja swords" triggers me in a way that almost makes me sympathize with gun nuts when they hear the phrase "assault weapons"

I agree, but the deck is stacked against us. Until we can somehow force actual voting reform, we're going to be stuck trying to make the best of the lesser of two evils. Although once that change does happen, things will likely change very quickly

But that one scene on Landman said that green energy is bad actually

Here's my understanding of cryptocurrency: Imagine a massive Ponzi scheme based on the game musical chairs. Now imagine that while you're imagining that, a fourteen year old in Palo Alto steals your wallet.

Nope!

IDK he was shot to death by police after changing his ways.

"He's focusing on the greater good! Shoot to kill!"

I think it's beyond delusional. I think it veers into magical thinking.

As I understand it, West Germany worked very hard to educate their citizens as to why Nazism was bad, whereas in East Germany the Soviets just oppressed everyone. Seems unsurprising that the East still has a fascism problem

Do those states go broke and their citizens become desperate enough to accept any sort of work they can find under any conditions demanded? Is this perhaps what the Curtis Yarvin types want? Or is that giving them too much credit?

Here's a question I have: say for the sake of argument, contributing blue states figure out how to keep their money from going to needy red states. What then?

Yeah that's where I went immediately as well but we should remember what happened to HIM. Of course, doing the one character who advocates for human self-dermination dirty like that is probably Tolkien's British yearning for a benevolent tyrant poking through more than anything

He was clearly thrown at a wall

Is there documentation of this? Not saying I don't believe you, just want to see the receipts

I've heard this before. What was it borrowed for?

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

I expect people will point out that Hitler was able to do horrible things also with a very small percentage of support, but that's the point. He could have been stopped as well.

You should be ashamed of yourself for this unprovoked personal attack on me

I reported it it as incorrect content to Google. I Googled "Gulf of Mexico", it of course gave me the new name. I clicked the 3 dots and reported incorrect content. Petty is my middle name 🖕

I was just able to give it feedback and report it as incorrect

While dunking on them would be completely justified (and fun) how about if instead we reached out to them? Like "Those miserable bastards really screwed you, huh? How about you come help us screw them back?"