In leftist spaces, the word liberal often has a different connotation more focused on economic liberalism.
They don't usually feel the need to clarify, and everyone gets mad. It must be incredibly fun to be an asshole these days.
Granted, this feeling's unappealing.
I think he mentioned knowing he's a dumbass, so
Working on it
Ah, my narcissist/human translation dictionary. Here we go:
Yelling at someone
The word problematic is kind of weasely used this way. The pen name had an in-universe rationale that made sense and was funny because of the incongruity. Merely alluding to the existence of ethnicity isn't "problematic" in itself.
Yeah. My whole life it's felt like I showed up at the end of the party. The older I get, the more I realise what a mess was made.
Is this even brioche at this point? Who cares.
The sugar is to make it more attractive to my kid, I'd rather top it with everything bagel mix.
Bad oven spring this time, I screwed up the proofing and didn't have foil around to tent for the second half. Result? Cooler oven, darker crust.
Laudable. Would be interested to know what country you're in/from - if only for the context of what cultural lens you're seeing this in.
It's a mistake to think they're all comedically stupid. They're definitely stupid enough that we wouldn't enjoy their company, but they're smart enough to know that if they can hang around until DT dies, whoever's left will become something even more dangerous - and far more malleable.
Shame is not the opposite of pride - but its source.
Well, to come clean, you're talking to an American who saw all this coming (in the broad strokes) five years ago and decamped to the UK for the long haul.
My view since then has been that after justice Ginsberg died in office, enough dominoes fell to make the fall of empire - one way or another, peacefully or otherwise - all but inevitable. Not that I put all of that on her, but it was a little selfish not to step down while a friendly administration could find a good replacement...
You're right that this administration sees protests the way a dictator does - if small, a pleasant invitation to violent reprisals, and if very large, inherently threatening. You're right in some things, but it's impossible to be narrowly coherent in a topic of this size so with apologies, you're getting a few paragraphs.
My broader view is that although the prior norms of the US government allowed for relative comfort domestically, they were built on the back of an economic and military empire abroad that was (still is) deeply disgraceful, and a return to form (even by peaceful protest) isn't very desirable given what it would require to accomplish.
In order to merely return to a horrible but comforting status quo, Americans would have to somehow defeat a would-be king, peacefully, while he controls a global empire whose violence would command the respect of any Mongol khan, who also has the blessing of a class of moneyed elites whose economic inequality puts the ancien régime into the shade. And you're thinking Americans will accomplish this? You flatterer.
If I had my druthers, we'd have a peaceful* revolution that dismantled the old system entirely, and quickly (quickly as hell given the geopolitical spinning plates we're holding) reform into something more akin to an EU with way less centralised power, hopefully a smaller military budget overall, and a shitload fewer billionaires.
*Without much if any factionalized armed conflict, per se. A nonviolent revolution does require that violence be available upon request.
The reason I left is that I don't see this level of general solidarity or awareness among my people. I think a different flavour of empire collapse is far likelier, and I've got people to protect now, or I'd probably still be there taking a flying fuck at the Nazis. I left my guns with sensible folk and left, instead.
So there's my whole deal. We're not likely to get it, but at least it's something worth wanting in the first place. I have to hope that merely imagining a future worth having is in some way contributing to the common endeavour. And I hope that by being more expansive we can understand one another better, or leastways bicker more productively.
Nobody should expect Iran to show any kind of restraint,”
Who will?
Woke up at four to get this going, and breakfast still wasn't served until half ten. Somehow I wasn't cured of my interest in brioche.
Recipe adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhrgf7X2ihs, but instead of his filing I just did apple pie mix. A few had Nutella.
You know how Nidhogg is just one thing, and it's super simple and slightly just...nothing, but you can spend ages with it and it's got an incredibly high skill ceiling, and there's no flaws at all and they've just sort of achieved everything they set out to do without making a big deal out of it? It's that kind of game.
Kill The Crows is such a pure, condensed game. So rare to find a gameplay loop so utterly on the mark. Every moment is a small crisis where you're either lost in a flow state, or you're dead - and then right back into the action a couple seconds later.
Can't believe how few people talk about this cult classic-in-waiting. It's really charming.
This week I'm doing three different individual pizzas every night for four nights. Because the world is burning, but my oven is pretty hot too.
The crumb. I never appreciated how important it is to buy the nice flour.
Crumb shot to follow in a couple hours
Stuff does occasionally change
In like... Science