“The belief that America stands for an idea beyond blood and soil makes its identity fragile, because an idea lives in people’s minds, where it is subject to lies, hatred, ignorance, despair, even extinction. But for this very reason, as long as enough Americans continue to believe in the idea with enough conviction to stick it out here and fight, the country that you and I once lived in will still exist for the generation after us.”

The belief that a country should exist purely for nostalgic purposes is the kind of bullshit that got us here in the first place. Countries started existing so that a monach could control resources and worker productivity. Now they are used as a default identity for people to try and connect on some level. If you don’t treat the identity as fragile, sure it can never ‘die’, but it can’t improve or change either.

Not sure if you’re getting sexually assaulted by a Swan or Zeus was a bigger problem than it should have been

It’s surprising how few supporters you get when they aren’t allowed to criticise you in any way

Of all the reasons to visit Iceland, it’s gonna sound crazy, but the hot dog is amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bæjarins_Beztu_Pylsur?wprov=sfla1

The MAGA movement have no care about what the administration does, especially when it comes to non-americans in a country literally none of them coudl identify on a map. But if you show them “look how poorly this bombing was planned and carried out” then maybe they will listen.

The Russian war minister as world war one was breaking out thought it was going to be fought with sabers and wondered why other armies were teaching their men to fight with guns when they were so ungentlemanly

advanced tech minimum wage workers in India watching Americans shop

White House Press pack now have the opportunity to just grill who ever is at the podium next on questions comparing the Model X and then deaths related to Self Driving Incidents

I think the more concerning thing is this question appears to be asked in a way that’s insulting to the pilot. What was the guy concerned about? Flight time? Fuel use? He could have made a polite question asking pilots on Twitter about what influences flight paths.

The pilot flying the plane obviously chose this path on purpose and this guy takes the very American position that admission of ignorance is a weakness.

My apologies, The Debutante Trash all blend together in my head 😔

The woman who failed to give a hand job in a musical is going to be so proud when she can no longer vote for some reason.

SHOW THE UNEDITED BLUEY EPISODES

Then they came from the students, and I watched my parents still beg for more fascism because they thought they were going to be billionaires any day now

Yes, of course! I wasn’t even sure if this fit meanwhile on grad but I knew it had to go somewhere so thanks for letting me know where to also put stuff like this in future 😊

I’ve often wondered what libertarian parents talk to their children about between the regular abuse and the sexual abuse

The best bit will be when these loyalists will be sent to the work camps anyway because the great leader’s Cialis didn’t work that morning.