PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

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

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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

Faus

The Foxblob emojis are fantastic

The decision was made after careful deliberation, a.k.a. a hearty swig from his hip flask. text from his paymasters in Moscow

ftfy

That's how the world should be treating us. Fuck us.

https://aeon.co/essays/germany-became-a-tolerant-nation-only-by-painful-small-steps

In the mid-1950s, nearly half of all Germans polled said ‘yes’ to the proposition that ‘were it not for the war, Hitler would have been one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.’ Until the late 1950s, nearly 90 per cent gave an answer other than ‘yes’ when asked if their country should recognise the Oder-Neisse line, the new border with Poland. Perhaps most revealing of all was their stance on Jews. On 12 June 1946, Hannah Arendt hazarded the opinion to Dolf Sternberger, one of occupied Germany’s most prominent publicists, that ‘Germany has never been more antisemitic than it is now.’ As late as 1959, 90 per cent of Germans polled thought of Jews as belonging to a different race – while only 10 per cent thought of the English in these terms.

People are less likely to change their views than they are to be shamed into silence, and then die off in quiet misery.

[checks my profile pic]

All bets are off, man. "It couldn't happen here" is an old and tired refrain, I'm afraid.

Government assistance. Luckily I live in a blue state, so getting several major bills subsidized for being a filthy poor helps me eat regularly and not worry too much about turning the heat above 50 in the winter.

Some lunacy about the LGBT menace throwing sex in their face or something like that, it was pretty incoherent in addition to being atrocious.

You can't romance the Sister of Battle, 0/10, literally unplayable

"It's a good thing that our current situation couldn't get any worse."

Situation: [gets worse]

Me, a Classics enjoyer, immediately suspecting someone of fascism when they have a Graeco-Roman bust pfp:

So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.