To say nothing of the backlash from Kira being a self-described terrorist

The trick is to replace Luthor and try to mainstream a slightly cooler version of Protestantism. If you let that one monarch do divorce, then you can render the whole Anglican Church inert.

I mean yeah, she talks a good talk occasionally. But actions are what count.

since nobody knows for sure, I’m going to take this opportunity to say what I think it is but it’s probably wrong so ignore this

I think it’s called “dialectic” because it’s like a “dialog”. Events, history and problems and such, unfold logically until they reach an impasse, a contradiction. To resolve this, you have to take into account what has come before; your response can’t just be a non-sequitur. So, like, reactionaries look at a problem that exists and say, “We have to go back to before this problem existed and just do that” – but it never works because what came before eventually became what is. Or sometimes people try to brush away all the context, find a clean slate to start over. That really doesn’t work. Your still plugged into the same context, and in attempting to wipe away everything you’ve just made a whole bunch of new contradictions as well.

So to be dialectic, you gotta pay attention to what’s going on and what’s already happened. You gotta really study the context you are in, so that when you decide to respond you are prepared for how that in turn unfolds to the next contradiction.

…i think that’s what it means, anyway

He yoyos from saying things he thinks sound badass to crying because someone online was mean to him.

It’s not as though democrats were leaping at the chance to roll back the PATRIOT act or close Gitmo. When Trump was president, they moan about how “insane and backward” his tariffs were, only to double down once in office. It’s like how congress members behave one way when the cameras are in the room, and another when they’re off; the difference is slight and exaggerated for our viewing pleasure.

Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden

All of these administrations have more policies in common than in difference. We choose between differently wallpapered liberals.

they don’t argue with each other in public

lol

put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal

I wonder if he’s tapping into something kinda true here. Like, if the American conservative movement didn’t have a group of people to label “Woke” (21st century neologism, compare to 20th century neologism “hippie”), what would they be? What would they stand for? They don’t really have a common ideal beyond, “Bad people go away”. They’d fracture and start fighting amongst themselves. I mean, it’s a group that includes everyone from fundamentalist evangelicals to crypto-hyping libertarians. For as much as the left fights amongst itself, there’s still a broader understanding that a better world is possible, that the pile of things we agree on is larger than pile we disagree over.

The Afghan military is fucked up on opium

somehow posting takes from 2002

I think they’re self aware enough to see the irony, they just don’t care. Sort of like “the empire did nothing wrong” is a position of pure contrarianism - everything in Star Wars is a refutation of that statement and the people who say it know as much. Similarly, I gotta think people joining the US military at this point in the 21st century are aware of the reputation.

As a couple, they went on the Haunted Mansion ride nearly 1,000 times.

'cmon, by the 4th or 5th go round you’ve got to have memorized the whole thing - and the’ve been on hundreds of times?

Completely incapable of contradicting a narrative. It would be so easy to run a “Conservatives actually hate it when you have freedom” response to this, to laugh at the absurd claims and flat out deny them. But they won’t

yeah, not sure why it’s like that

then… it’s not really a good name for it. I just don’t really see how this isn’t still capitalism.

Feudalism is a rigid class structure determined by blood inheritance. That’s not really what we have. A noble who looses their money would still have the privileges and rights granted by their title - they would still be part of the ruling class. If a member of our ruling class were to loose their money, loose their source of passive income, they’d very quickly no longer be part of the ruling class.

At least the angry guy screaming about games finish their point in five minuets, and they only manage to repeat themselves about half as much as a 30 minuet video essay

pootis

For taking on this most serious responsibility, guardians will be compensated with a one-time $500 stipend. That is what state lawmakers allocated for this position.

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that goes remarkably hard given it’s in a For Dummies book