False. The one with the elephant in the middle accomplishes things. Terrible things. I’ll take do-nothing over do-wrong

The Mars Volta in general. Tons of friends have recommended them to me after hearing some of what I listen to, and it’s just not my jam. On paper I should, but alas.

I proposed to my wife at Christmas by putting the ring in a bigger box so she was surprised. It was a box for skincare product, and she was actually excited for it before she even opened it to see the ring. Obviously she was happy for the proposal, but she also seemed a little disappointed she didn’t get skincare stuff.

The following Christmas, I got her a tiny container of a skincare product she liked and put it in a ring box.

At least Hitler was arrested for treason after his Jan 6

I didn’t wear a trenchcoat. If I told you what I did instead, I’d probably doxx myself. It was cringe.

Not OP, but also an annoying adolescent atheist. After actually giving it some thought, I realized I was contextualizing the concept all wrong. Just because most people seem to contextualize God as a Santa Claus figure (bearded man who lives above us and judges our conduct, with fitting consequences) didn’t mean I had to accept that context.

There have been many very intelligent people across history who had many interesting things to say about deity. Few of them were using the Santa Claus model.

And you decided lesser evil wasn’t lesser enough? Now we get greater evil.

And we’ll get to see what the alternative provides. Yay, you won.

Gosh, I wanna say I saw it at least as far back as 2010, possibly older.

I would imagine the FSM to be composed of the platonic ideal of gluten rather than physical gluten, though I’m not sure if that would be more irritating or less. I’d consult a GI and maybe a metaphysician.

I could go for a chili dog now that I think of it

The candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long

See if you qualify for any down payment assistance programs. Combined with an FHA loan, you could possibly get into a house with under $5k.

You can do worse for hobbies than fighting fascist-enabling rhetoric.

“Over time” being the crucial detail. I’ll take every opportunity I can to buy time to slow the trend toward greater evil. Gives us time to get actual leftists into positions that will actually make them viable presidential candidates.

The fact that you think your fascist enabling methodology does anything but jeopardize what democracy we enjoy is mostly just sad.

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When it comes to battling fascist-enabling rhetoric, I prefer as comprehensive an approach as possible. In truth, the circle jerk tankies and bad faith actors won’t be swayed by any amount of intellectual engagement. The goal isn’t to convince them, it’s to publicly counter their garbage takes in as simple and straightforward a way as possible, in order to avoid letting sincere but impressionable leftists fall for superficially reasonable looking moral imperatives.

When you are filtering out the young, the dumb, and those arguing in bad faith, overly simplistic is an excellent first filter. If they can pass that base level filter of rudimentary critical thinking skills, then you can feel free to enter into more nuance and subtlety.

No point in engaging with those who can’t even grasp the simplest concepts.