It’s really close to the petrified forest and painted desert which are some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen. And it’s an easy stop on a trip from Albuquerque to the grand canyon

Idk I say we should’ve just given them a taste of their own medicine, but only like a week’s taste, then strip their wealth.

And you can always light the house on fire if you can’t wait for the heat pump or furnace to warm it up enough.

Comply or be executed. This is freedom

Or when they’re in low speed population dense areas where bicyclists are part of traffic.

It’s deeper. It relies on them claiming that they’re the voices of the masses and that their brutality is cool and emotionally justifiable. Calling them evil is attacking and they want to fight, and it makes them feel powerful and cool. Weird attacks their ability to frame themselves as cool dangerous underdog heroes

My senior year high school English teacher was allowed to explain the dirty jokes and we loved it. I think it’s a disservice not to do just that. Yes, it can be boring as hell at times, especially when read, but he’s the most foundational author in the English language, and understanding that and why should be part of a high school education. It’s just that you actually have to do it right.

My teacher began the year telling us that we were 17 or 18 years old and he was going to speak to us like adults and expected us to behave as adults in turn. From there when literature touched on adult subjects like sex and drugs we actually addressed it, including the poem Kublai Kahn which was one of the first poems I actually really liked as a young person. These topics are major parts of literature and culture and I’m frustrated that people seem to think 17 year olds should be shielded from them even if that means that people who only engage in free education don’t get that literature education.

It’s also written for a different time. Shakespeare is the classic example for this problem, where his plots are timeless and his plays are so Elizabethan that they famously bore teenagers forced to read them, yet simultaneously will be adapted into very popular media somewhat regularly.

Honestly, probably not. Sure stuff like alcohol restrictions, but do you really think kegsbreath is letting the military tell its troops they may very well be interested in buttplugs, but Bahrain prohibits them so they need to leave them with the booze back home.

Because I flirt with women at a bar awkwardly but effectively. These guys offer help but then see i don’t need it

Vandetta is rough, but it’s a remarkably prescient look at fascists. It shows them as the dangerous, evil, and pathetic losers they are and the mass of suffering they leave in their wake. It’s also incredibly sexual, but in a “fascists deeply tie sex and abuse together in both directions” way

Ah the favorite author of like half the casually left wing men I’ve met. They ain’t even wrong for it, V for Vandetta was incredible and I do mean to get around to Watchmen.

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Yeah even when I awoke to a home invader, what was I going to do, groggily shoot someone I didn’t recognize that had started running?

I don’t have that problem because I’m old, I have that problem because I have work too early in the morning

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Damn, look at that couch fucker

Very sexy couches, is what JD Vance is looking for

Aaaah why is JD Vance fucking my couch

No, JD Vance won’t choose to fuck his wife instead of a couch

Crap, JD Vance is fucking another couch

Egads, JD Vance really puts the love in loveseat

Ah the feminizing the name of your political opponents thing. Of course

Absolutely amazing game

For some reason a Lucy Parsons quote came to me while reading this:

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

Now, I don’t agree with her there per se, but if these people want the poor and infirm dead well then maybe the Haymarket widow has a point