So what you're saying is the intention was, in fact, to defund the police and you ran away from it like idiots because you got scared a few "moderates" in deep blue states might be afraid of it
When I say transsexual I mean it as an umbrella term. If you think you can guess my chromosomes, you probably can't. Lit, music and rpgs. Also too much politics, way too much (actual anarcho-communist). You may as well salute a dirty rag.
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So what you're saying is the intention was, in fact, to defund the police and you ran away from it like idiots because you got scared a few "moderates" in deep blue states might be afraid of it
The funnier thing is that he created that Long Island republican tulpa while he was in the house, in a seat that's only "in Long Island" in the pedantic geographical sense that Brooklyn is
Please name one state where Jill Stein came within the margin of victory?
The governor of CA doesn't vote in the legislature.
This is not some kind of ideological flaw that can be moved on from, Newsom has very explicitly gone back on things he claimed to believe in and then adopted the framing of the far right in its entirety down to pretending 20-somethings are literal kids (as long as he's not having sex with them)
Obama notably moved like one step further on positions he actually held (support for civil unions) and did not ingratiate himself with fascists to walk back on a position he pretend to hold because it would have been career suicide as mayor of SF
Yeah but you're not naming a hypothetical leftist nominee while you're running cover for Gavin Newsom, the kind of guy American Psycho was literally written about
A whole bunch of lib guys on here get way too comfortable with the "actually liberals are female coded" nonsense to the point where they do it while aiming some actually rancid misogyny at leftist women (and it's almost always at leftist women)
And they did (I'm even surprised things went as swimmingly as they did)
The HSTS vs AGP is relatively new brainworms and the divide used to be virtually the same for trans women. This is almost exclusively the result of a small clique of dumbasses on /tttt/
The combination of Ivies and the mormon church it represents is basically the platonic ideal of an american aristocracy (derogatory)
In general their class design is imo peak but Mesmer, especially, is unequalled as a mmorpg class
I've had a sudden hankering to reinstall GW2 only to find out I played so long ago the account is in preventive security lockdown or something
I have no idea if it's just a wrong feeling but I feel like countertenor is more of a thing in professional baroque stuff than it was a decade or two ago.
"Knowing civics is manipulation" - duly noted
Do you understand that Gavin Newsom does not have a vote in the California legislature
Now read it.
Do you understand how the legislative branch works
Riddle me this, would a trans sports ban pass the cali legislature, and is a state governor entitled to "sign laws" that aren't passed by the legislative branch
State governors do not vote in the legislature
Remind me again how the legislative branch works
Hey Diana do you understand how the legislative branch works
I will never understand people who think American Psycho's evisceration of yuppies is not literally from the book
Do you understand how legislatures work, have you failed civics?
Newsom comma Gavin, human for president
One thing they don't tell boys is that men who age well are basically diamonds
The trads and the cathleft have virtually identical arguments too
It's sort of funny that both the anglo right and a weird subset of the left have landed on "protestants have no culture" and I blame franco-italian intellectual milieus for both
Almost every cuisine in the world is impossible without the columbian exchange and outside of a few countries the effect of that didn't get fully felt until the end of the 18th century (tomatoes, notably, only become widespread in easter hemisphere cooking around then)
I would simply use the owlbear statline, as is tradition.
Everytime I try to look for a paper or book on a specific historical concept the google AI makes me feel like the dumbest Victorian antiquarian imaginable is looking over my shoulder.
At the rate modern catholic apologetics whitewash shit I give it about a month after the last victims of the Magdalene Laundries and the Duplessis orphans die before someone starts claiming they were made up as anti-catholic propaganda
I would give a lot more of a fuck about Vance being an adult catholic convert if 2/3 of the SCOTUS (including most of the right) wasn't cradle catholics
In theory Truss could do a rerun of her month and a half and still beat Canning as the least lasting PM (it wouldn't be funny to live in it but I'm sure it would be funny to future bored people)
Trying to figure out some pre-modern currency conversions is hell and I get why a lot of RPGs just do the D&D thing of ignoring this
Noting that for the last 8 terms, Manitoba has had 6 of socialists and 2 of an unstable tory government in power
If I wanted to express that I actually oppose those things I would simply not nominate a candidate who supports those things
Temu Rococco (the ill-fitting ones on top would probably have been the cause of an interior decorator's suicide in the baroque period)
The concept of Mariavitism feels like horseshoe theory for christianity, so deep into the marian cult that you accidentally turn into an episcopalian church
Telling Eliade to read more books
Do not get on this internet on the 20th anniversary of Katrina and rehabilitate George Bush I swear to god.
I'm just baffled by the thing being qted
Gay marriage was made legal in Massachusetts before his second term
Bush ran on banning gay marriage in the constitution. The Patriot act! What is this even?
It's a difference in that Tolkien was uninterested in the details of running a farm or a grand estate because that's not what the epic style gives a damn about. Meanwhile Martin's stuff is entirely about grand estates by someone who absolutely does not give a shit about who ran them.
People nitpick on the various "of course this guy wouldn't vote republican" (a few of which would fwiw) but Bella Swan, the most mormon character in vampire fiction, absolutely votes straight ticket republican.
Also Hannibal Lecter is old Baltic German aristocracy there's 0 chance he actually votes at all.
I know people are still deluding themselves about the idea that elite schools uniformly produce democrats, but no, that's absolutely not disqualifying
By all means keep throwing your money at an org that basically only reaches about 2% of republicans, almost all of whom live in deep blue states
Carlton Banks reading as a black republican to half the responders is the funniest one tbh Also is Scarlet O'Hara a democrat because she's confused about CRA party realignment?
Semiramis of the North was meant as a praise but given she was a neo-assyrian ruler it's also fitting as an insult
"Total Autonomy" is an insane can of worms that will probably be the worst thing to come out of the Russia-Ukraine war in the long run
Shit, Edo era Japan is like the only society that even qualifies before the 20th century
It's basically Huntington's map with a dash of British post-imperial self delusion
"Greeks self identified as romans" doesn't mean what byzaboos think it does and only tells me you never heard of romance languages (prior to the 17th century "roman" is pretty much the most common term someone in the romania continua would call their dialect, hence french switzerland being romandie)
Cheshire wasn't represented in parliament at all until Henry VIII - it even had its own separate peerage internally which is wild because a lot of English historians would probably curse you for daring to imply there was any feudalism left in England past the like 15th century
Every language has at least one dish whose name means "whatever we had on hand" and I think it's beautiful
I assume OP knows, but The Count of Monte Cristo is very likely inspired by the way general Thomas-Alexandre Dumas died, abandoned for two years in a Sicilian jail where he was almost certainly poisoned (he survived but probably died of the complications, also Napoleon spent years undermining him)
Frederick II of Prussia is the twink king people think Ludwig II of Bavaria was down to only ever interacting with Sophie of Mecklenburg by being a huge bitch
Hot take: the star forts would not have caught on as fast as it did if it wasn't aesthetically pleasing as hell
Switzerland was succesfully invaded like 3 times just during the Napoleonic wars, the french beat swiss pikemen with cavalry in the war that pretty much secured them as a perpetual quasi-vassal
Also some sports like, notably, fencing are famously only gender segregated to spare feelings on the men's side.
Yeah what the debate doesn't get is it was basically a "solved issue" as far as the NCAA cared until people started going after Caster Semenya (who is *maybe* intersex, not trans at all)
Kid sports are only gender segregated to spare boys' (and their parents') egos
Balkan nationalism only gets its rep as especially delusional because of the 90s. Little will make you doubt reality more than learning Brazilian national mythology turned a succession war into a war of independence. Independence from who, the imperial capital was Rio since fucking 1807.
"What ancient language was proto-Albanian" is a fools' errand but the fact that it's obviously part of some quasi-romance sprachbund on the margins of the WRE makes the guess that it was originally mainly spoken north of the Jireček line (as Illyrian dialects would have been) as good a guess as any
Ibn Khaldun pretty much describes entire cities disappearing in the Maghreb but I still see some hot takes from people who think it was a European thing. The last documented outbreak was in Yunnan and Bengal.
Popular understanding of the Black Death both wildly overestimates how much of a social break it was in Northern Europe and underestimates how much it tore apart the whole Mediterranean
Tempted to do it, not really tying to likes
The fourth crusade is, if anything, the one thing they get heat for because the two actual rulers sponsoring the crusades (i.e. the popes and the eastern emperors) took the hit and hollered instead of the actual intended target
Most of the "this place is a benighted flea ridden shithole" contemporary opinions come from arab chroniclers who had the really annoying tendency to say this about literally fucking everywhere, including China and India, and often it's nitpicking over hygiene practices not being literally wudu
Realistically the cultural pressure of medieval France would probably have been almost as large. Medieval English clerics tended to see Paris as almost an extra Rome and there's some indications french loanwords were becoming a thing in english a solid century before the Norman Conquest
France and Italy are stuck at the hip on that front (especially their aristocracies, that were already deeply tied even before there was the sectarian divide between romance and (most of) germanic Europe)
I mean Odoacer pretty much got played by Zenos when both were basically upstarts (there are also so many later dates you can pick for the fall of the WRE it's almost as much an eye of the beholder thing as the ERE)
Also Haiti sort of ironically gets covered in a way that glosses over the part where the british plan was to help put the Grands Blancs back in power until the creole aristocracy got an ear in Paris in the form of Napoleon
Hotter take: Zeno was Odoacer with good historical publicity and both had about as much legitimacy (also the same basis for a collapse of the western empire argument could be justified to claim the east "collapsed" when the diocese of the East basically all but seceded)
tbf it's a succession of states that people just lump together because they were all muslim monarchies. The Ummayyads started to collapse when Abd ar Rahman III died, the next peak was an unrelated berber dynasty and the third was almost worse for minorities than the christians were at the time.
Medieval Rome pretty much didn't recover from Justinian's campaign until the 18th century, pretty sure none of the medieval and early modern sacks of the city came close to doing what he did to it
It doesn't help that it's the primary version of fascism most people think learn about when it's fundamentally useless as a point of comparison (and a lot of the nitpicking over falangism and others is based on things they shared with italian fascism but not nazism)
What if a kabuki stagehand gets ahold of a katzbalger, what then? (Also it could be a ninja-to but I think those are bullshit made up by japanese antiquarians in the 20th century)
The hagiography of Las Casas is always funny when used to peddle the extreme whitewashing people who whine about the Leyenda Negra do, because his position was "we shouldn't enslave natives, since they're mostly christianized, we should do like the Portuguese and enslave black people instead"
True generally although even that can vary (horrifically enough)
Nobles married incredibly young, based on what little we know peasants didn't start having kids until well into their 20s
The ages at which people married and had their first children vary a lot in time and space but if your point of reference is western Europe under feudalism or really any country with an extensive system of hereditary aristocracy, understand the class disparity there is also likely to be gigantic
She had like one song that made the charts and ever since every gay who is happy being an accessory gay best friend thinks she's some kind of genius because she calls people fags
tbh I don't think anyone would have thought Bowman was being particularly fake if he'd included gym stuff in his campaign (then again I don't recall him doing it)
The only great powers that supported Israel in 1948 were the USSR and France, I too can cherrypick
tbh a lot of it is also "the true, authentic essence of the city happens to coincide with when I was a kid" (funny in places that have been through several gentrification waves) or the always amazing "What if we considered New Yorkers an indigenous people?" from the crowd that pines for Hukou
The one attempt to turn sex wars nonsense into policy had the exact same result, fwiw
The whole thing with France is kinda funny though, France was pro-Israel when its only other great power ally was the USSR, remained pro-Israel through all of its realignments. For all that people talk about Germany being unconditionally pro-Israel, France has been more accurately so since 48.
I was thinking of Solanas but honestly this is like 99% of TIRFs
Heartwarming, this radical feminist thinks trans women are potentially useful faggots rather than some weird catholic metaphor
Vincent Adultman's older sister
Sewing should be considered about as essential as cooking in terms of skills people aren't being taught anymore that they really should be.
The Lannisters and Targaryens being weird incestuous freaks was from the novels, i.e. the part of ASOIAF people liked.
Collective Shout is typical of sex wars radfems, they have one conservative figure head member, who has praised and has been praised by well known radfems in the old WAP spaces. Reist's publisher is also the same publisher as Gail Dines, Sheila Jeffreys and a bunch of others.
It's typical of the lurid bullshit all the anti-porn crusaders have been peddling, they just know they can't just point at gay porn and let homophobia do the work for them anymore.
The article in question is conflating data on domestic violence and making a medical claim based on something that's barely a term paper. There is no epidemic of under 40 women stroking out in the UK.
The only real way to make nuclear safe from politics (and even that's a maybe) would basically require a method that's not weaponizable (like thorium reactors)
The Collective Shout crowd is basically just the old SWERF crowd from the Sex Wars trying to get another go at relevancy, and that reminds me of this letter to complain about the Canadian Tories trying to get queer porn banned with the help of MacKinnon and Dworkin