We don’t talk about the furries.

Not because we don’t like them, but because that shit’s complicated

I love how the eyes also changed

… and the kind of men who understand that tend not to be conservative.

Precisely!

Of course, saying anything can be poetry is like saying anything can be music - while it is true, tastes vary and not everything will seem like “good poetry” to everyone. And that’s ok!

It is a poem because poems are structured in lines rather than sentences. For example, this paragraph is prose.

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This is a poem

Because poems are made of lines

Rather than sentences.

And I could not do math without the ability to create graphs in my head.

And yeah, reading would be a lot more boring without being able to picture what’s going on. I’ve definitely confused movies and books before because my memory of the book feels just as vivid as recalling a movie i’ve seen.

Um… I hate to break it to you but I kind of do have a tv in my head. So do lots of people.

I’m so shocked I turned invisible

MFW commenters don’t even read the article

It’s less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.

But it’s not “Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him.” Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.

The system really is working exactly as intended.

woke economist

Oof, what an oxymoron 🤣

That’s true of lots of things. Many of us will end up making history in weird ways.

I doubt they’ll fully turn on each other. we can hope though

I used to say “support all ICE victims” but now I guess I have to make an exception.

I’m not usually one to indulge in schadenfreude, but yeah when ICE comes for the cops I guess I’ll just grab my popcorn.

Perhaps she was banking on a Clinton win.

Precisely

Well that’s because Democrats (at the party level, anyways) would never want to create leftists.

Now how could any conversation about esoteric programming languages be complete without mentioning whitespace?

If it was truly a democratic proces then we wouldn’t even be able to have this conversation, because Adams would have been removed from office as soon as he was found to be corrupt. (Which is a prime example of how the “rules” only apply to the poor - why should we follow them blindly when those in power don’t!?) But the system isn’t working and hasn’t been for decades (If indeed it ever did) and to cling to it now as though the government will save us is foolish.

I care about the rules, this whole conversation started because I said I didn’t like the idea of blanket rescinding of executive orders. It sets a bad precedent. But we can’t cling to “the Rules” as though they are a self-enforcing mandate from some deity.

There are no gods here to save us. Politicians will not save us. The system will not save us.

WE will save us.

We will use the system and the rules when we can and abandon it where we must. But no matter what, we must not put blind faith in anyone or anything, because power corrupts and those in power cannot truly represent our interests because they are not one of us. And that distrust must always also extend to the rules they have written and force us to follow at gunpoint, because they add exceptions for themselves and catch-22s for us.

Of course I don’t want one mayor deciding things. But I also sure as entropy don’t want him sitting on his hands because of some stupid rule like the filibuster or whatever when he has a mandate from the people to represent their interests.

I’m sure he’ll turn out just as spineless as any other politician, but let’s not handcuff him just yet. He might just prove us wrong.

You assume those processes were ever democratic to begin with. The truth is that they’ve been rigged against the common people since they were first written.

I’m all for following the rules, but we can’t ever put the rules before people’s lives and wellbeing. If the law is unjust, you have a duty to disobey it. This includes legislative gridlock engineered to stifle progress and thwart the will of the people.