I get you’re trying to do, but it’s almost disrespectful to say royalty is made up. Whether their grounds for ruling is still or not. Monarchies have had very, very lasting impacts on the world around us, almost never for the better. Going “Oh hahaha, look at them and their silliness” when many monarchs actively ruined countries, feels a little dismissive.

I usually just blame how autistic Lemmy is. Unironically, the amount of neurodivergent people here is huge and a common trait is focusing on the wrong fuckin details, especially with hypotheticals

There are electors for every senate seat. This gives disproportionate power to the small pop. states (which go R most of the time) so Dems are basically always working with a ~30 vote deficit in the electoral college.

The senate is an undemocratic institution meant to protect the wealth. Abolish the senate.

Leaves from the Vine is the most “try not to cry, cry a lot” moment in any show for me.

The old addage is “nobody wins a knife fight”. Only solution is to disarm them and you are 99% going to get cut. Just gotta believe you won’t get cut bad enough to stop you from stopping them

Nah, Iran just had an easier time stealing from Trump’s camp. If Biden accepted the info, it definitely would’ve become public knowledge and Trump would’ve been non-stop talking about it.

It’s all bait trying to get the Dems to fuck themselves

From the sounds of witness reports, it was either 1 message setting off a 5-10 second timer, or it was 2 messages in a similar spacing. It was designed to get someone to look at the pager before it blew up in their face. Apparently doctors have been dealing with it blinding shit tons of people.

Probably azurite paint aging. Turns green (Edit: forgot to mention because it turns into malachite) over time and was super common Europe.

It’s why a ton of Renaissance art has greens where you’d expect blues

The player said the same thing

Not really. He didn’t shoot Reagan for politics. He wanted to impress Jodie Foster

Look at all the comments from people who didn’t read the article and automatically assume this headline accurately describes the situation!

He got himself lost despite his coworkers telling him he was going the wrong way.

In School Suspension

Ahhh ISS. The truest of punishments. We had to help the janitors as part of ISS. Good luck catching up on missed schoolwork at home despite being in school all day, all while watching your friends have fun while you empty the next trash can.

Catholic schools still hit kids, iirc. Fairly certain it’s legal in private schools. (In AZ)

Need to remember that with grandparents in particular, he has a skewed view. He was raised by the parents of his drug addict mom, he doesn’t have the “normal” frame of reference and may not realize that ALL grandparents are generally expected to (and most want to, in my experience) help with their grandchildren if they can.

It’s not that it makes you fall, it’s just a non-lever. If you sit on your ass plant your feet flat, then try and pull on your ankles to help yourself up, you’ll get the same effect where it’s actively a hindrance to getting up.

I think it’s those 34 felonies that don’t matter tho. We allow felons to run for a very good reason and it’s pretty big insurance that a wannabe dictator can’t just achieve full takeover by having all his opponents convicted of crimes.

Age on the other hand… Even the healthiest 80yo can go on a sudden decline.

Guess we need to put up “Don’t feed the trolls” signs.

He’s a fucking Catholic. Guarantee he doesn’t even believe in human caused climate change (at least as far as the character JD Vance is concerned, who knows what the person playing Peter Thiel’s sock puppet actually thinks)

Well yea, because warfare has been a “man’s game” for well over 2000 years. I heard an interview with an undecided (woman) voter who was concerned that, even if western societies are more equal to women, the leaders from countries that don’t give women rights won’t respect her and the US by extension. When the interviewer asked her about powerful women in other countries like Germany, she said it’s different because “those countries” are smaller than the US.