PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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ChatGPT ass reply bro touch grass

Lord.

Well ACKSHULLY wanting common sense solutions is right wing coded!

Have you ever had a discussion with conservatives about what they think is 'common sense'?

Have you ever paid attention to how often conservatives discuss 'common sense' solutions that appeal to people who want to think that their deeply politicized views aren't political at all?

Do you know what 'common sense' is to fucking begin with?

Fuck's sake. It's like talking to someone who's voted GOP for the past 50 years of their fucking life but insists that they're a 'moderate'.

Suppose you're not going to answer about how Dems being 'ideologues' right now who won't compromise, and how 'meeting in the middle' with fascist voters will totally be a less right-wing solution.

Or about the data explicitly proving you wrong. But I guess I must be high.

“Want to go rightwards” - are you fucking high?

No, I just have the misfortune of preferring unpleasant data over feel-good circlejerks about how we're TOTALLY the silent majority, despite all evidence to the contrary.

People want common sense approaches to social problems.

You do realize this is the exact line that right-wingers say amongst themselves about why people REALLY want a far-right corporatocrat theocracy, right?

More people I know who voted for Trump like and respect Sanders more than any other Dem candidate in the last decade because he’s authentic and true to himself and his beliefs.

Unfortunately, that transfers approximately not-at-fucking-all to electoral success in swaying them to vote for anyone but the fascist ghouls, in the same way that Nazi voters always knew one "good Jew" or modern American right-wing voters always know one person who "deserves" public services or is a "good" member of the LGBT community who deserves their identity.

They'll vote for the Holocaust all the same, but at least you'll get an asspat out of it, right?

They don’t think his proposed solutions are going to work, but they’re willing to have a conversation and meet in the middle. The all or nothing ideologues running the Dem right now have no fucking idea what they’re doing, they’re trashing the joint - whether by malice or idiocy is moot at this point. Get these people OUT

"The REAL problem is that the current Dems aren't willing to compromise and meet in the middle with the fascists!"

Lord.

And you say this is a LESS far-right solution?

Jesus Christ.

The Democrats know perfectly well what they would have to do to defeat Trump. It’s blindingly obvious, after all.

Is it? From a party whose voters want to go rightwards, now, wherein independents are already more right-leaning than that, and the only other major political coalition being even further right than that?

"Just go left, we'll totally win 😊" is the same line that got people fired up for Corbyn, who proceeded to make no headway in a country already much less right-wing than the US.

Going left being better for the country does not equate to it being the path to electoral victory.

He massively carried water for the whole “if I made it, anyone can” and “black people suffer from a culture of poverty” type of nonsense,

Fuck's sake, I see we don't remember any of Obama's actual presidency in exchange for some weird online circlejerk version.

If there's one thing that businessmen and investors demonstrate an appalling lack of understanding of, it's economics.

Me, staring down an oncoming semi as I cross the street to establish dominance

They had Gelatinous Cube for dessert that night, the remains are hard to get off the plates with anything less.

After having my body break, I learned both that I was more attached to my former body than I thought, and became acutely aware of how tied up my identity was with my new, broken body.

... it's a strange way to acquire an emotional understanding of identity and one's own body. Would not recommend. Take a philosophy class like a normal person, you'll be happier for it, I promise.

EGGS

Rare Iran W.

Latin words have so many declensions, it's nightmarish.

That sounds like Gr*ek talk!

Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the "Just as the Founding Fathers intended" copypasta.

"Mehercules" is "By Hercules!", a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. "Ubi mel, ibi apes" means "Where there's honey, there's bees!" A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.

"Conscript Fathers" is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. "No, no, I couldn't POSSIBLY accept a position of authority... unless... you were to insist... 👉👈🥺"

We got Death Star!

We got Death Star!

[Wilhelm Scream]

Good! May it not only continue, but increase!

If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn't real.

If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

Brian doesn't have a leg to stand on for either side.

Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.

The only thing that can stop a bad Jedi with a laser sword is a good Jedi with a laser sword