joeve321.bsky.social
Just this guy, ya know?
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You know, I was just thinking about studying up on Japanese history…I’ll see what books are best to read…
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It’s only free speech if you agree with them
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It’s the same strategy televangelists have employed for decades, always come up with something new to sucker the rubes, so that the money train keeps rolling. It’s the only reason for it. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter.
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It’s just too much for me
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That looks like E.K. Weaver’s work 🙁
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Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism are just responses to the abuses of Capitalism. Capitalism makes those three necessary.
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That's how they view God, after all. An angry man who loves you but will punish you for all eternity if you diss him.
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Timisoara! Timisoara!
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Never mind taxing them, just take their money. All of it. Every last penny. Grab 'em by the ankles and shake 'em until all the change falls out of their pockets. Make 'em live under the bridge with the Duke brothers. Why? Because FK THEM, that's why!
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When people ask me why I tell them I've "given up", and really I have, at least in the sense that we can change much about what's going on, it's not because of Trump personally or the GOP in general, it's because so many horrible, ignorant, hateful people support all of it.
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It's because the bullies are following the foundational principle of all conservative ideology: that some people are simply better than others. They can bully people all they want, and no one is allowed to push back.
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Hey if I ever said what I want to say about what we should do about the GOP in general and Trump in particular, I’d be banned from the internet forever!
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25 years ago I wrote a piece called "Waiting For The River To Catch Fire", using the Cuyahoga River as an example of how we tend to wait until things really get horrible before we act. I thought the actions of the Bush administration would be that point, but I was wrong.
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Football season doesn't begin for me until the Cowboys are eliminated, just like baseball season doesn't begin until the Yankees are eliminated.
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We can, but if I suggested how I'd be banned from the internet forever.
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WHY DO THOSE DOCTORS HATE 'MURKA???
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"Interventions". Seriously NYTimes?
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"Interventions"?
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Tax 'em into the Stone Age... in fact, just take all their damn money. All of it. Every penny. Grab 'em by the ankles and shake until all the change falls out. Because FK THEM that's why. They can live under the bridge with the Duke brothers as far as I'm concerned!
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“In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.” -Charles Pierce, "Idiot America"
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If it weren't for Cousins the Falcons would have run away with the division, as lousy as it is. But credit to Tampa Bay for not giving up when they were essentially three games down...
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Fking horrible, stupid people. All they care about is "Own The Libs!"
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It's actually cheaper to give them housing and money, but homeless exists in part as a threat to working people: "Keep your mouth shut and do what you're told or this will be you."
And many Americans support this because they believe that if you don't work, you're just lazy.
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The hatred of liberalism and representative government is strong enough to warp many minds. We're pretty much all subjects now, just some subjects are more privileged than others. Some people never get that.
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I have friends that are totally pro-Israel and others who are totally pro-Palestine. I try not to get in between. My take on this is that this is not so much Israel vs. Palestine or even Jews against Muslims, but Likud vs. Hamas, two groups that will do anything they can to grab and keep power.
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I think we should take all the billionaires in the world, grab them by the ankles and keep shaking until all the money falls out. Let ‘em live under the bridge with the Duke brothers.
But that’s just me. Maybe.
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For personal reasons, Maison Ikkoku is always number one for me.
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I guess it would depend on how you define "manga". Is it an art style or does it have to refer to comics made specifically in Japan for a Japanese market? I'm not taking sides either way but that was the question that popped into my head...
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"Yes, I am a better person than Ed Meese and Pat Buchanan."
Agreed, though to be fair, that's a pretty damn low bar
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This is why I say our society is more like Huxley than Orwell. We have a clear overabundance of entertainment, which we are required to pay for, and et we're still inundated with advertisements, because this is America, and in America, if it ain't about money, it ain't about nothin'.
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On the other hand, I've seen enough translations by people not using machine translations who are so intent on literal translations that they put out unreadable gobbledygook. If you're translating into English for English-speaking readers, at least make it sound like actual English.
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Not sure why anyone expects it to get better
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I read somewhere once that it only takes a couple of generations for even the most civilized of nations to descend to barbarism. I think that's what we're watching now...
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Of course he walked, he's white and he killed a black man. I'm not sure why that just isn't enshrined in the Constitution...
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I never say "can't" when it comes to Trump and the GOP. I know what they *want* to do, my first question is how much they can get away with. My feeling is, quite a bit, but we'll see. My second question is, if he succeeds, what will we do about it? My feeling is, nothing at all.
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I never say "can't" when it comes to Trump and the GOP. I know what they *want* to do, my first question is how much they can get away with. My feeling is, quite a bit, but we'll see. My second question is, if he succeeds, what will we do about it? My feeling is, nothing at all.
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Grifters gotta grift, and rubes gotta rube
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I am not sure why anyone is surprised by any of this.
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This is not by pure chance, this is the result of fifty years work by a few rich people who saw they were losing the war against liberalism. Read historian Rick Perlstein's books on the rise of the modern conservative movement after the defeat of Goldwater.
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Jan was a regular on the Thursday night Discord chat for the Old School Animation club. She often called in from her hospital bed. Her passing was not unexpected but is still mourned. We will sit shiva for her on Thursday.
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And if he DOES invade Mexico, what will we do about it? I guess, nothing.