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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s good old-fashioned xenophobia and is by no means unique to Americans or English-speakers even in the modern era. Anyone who has spent enough time in certain parts of France, Italy, or Belgium has probably encountered it at some point.

    It’s everywhere but it is probably most prevalent in countries with a strong nationalist core and, in my opinion, ironically occurs most often in countries that have really fucked around with having an empire in the last century or so.





  • This is the answer. Trace it back to the early 2000s when airlines started charging for checked bags. That created an immediate premium for overhead space and kicked off the Boarding Wars we now find ourselves in today, where airlines and passengers alike contort themselves literally and figuratively in an attempt to work around this one massive consequence of corporate greed.

    -20 airline professional


  • The values of a majority liberal constituency should still involve improving the safety and livability of the area.

    A functioning government can do more than one thing at a time. YTD homicides are down YoY, continuing a 3 year trend, which the migrant surge is smack dab in the middle of. We know you aren’t here and are devoid of firsthand knowledge, so how do you imagine this migrant crisis actually playing out on the ground here? Because you sound ridiculous.

    You’re allowed to talk out of your ass all you want, but I don’t need to stick around for the stench.












  • I enjoyed this for what it is: therapeutic fan fiction.

    Moving on, we should not underestimate:

    • How absolutely craven most republican lawmakers are

    • How well, for better or worse, Trump communicates to boomers who we already know are active at the ballot box

    • how deeply bought in the Christian right/Christian nationalists are

    Campaign math doesn’t work like it did. Just because Trump is dismantling seemingly durable elements of the GOP establishment, that doesn’t mean he’s dismantling his capability to win.

    Vote like it’s the last election ever. I’ll leave the rest unsaid.