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US: “Yo, bro, you down for some revanchist ethnic cleansing?”

TheRevanchistEthicCleansingEnjoyer: “Hmmm. Okay, yes.”

U.S. Sen. John Randolph (1773-1833), of Roanoke, Virginia, was known for voting NO on virtually every bill presented to him. This, apparently, accurately reflected his acerbic personality. Randolph was, however, fairly rich. So, along with statesman Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, he was approached by Methodists with a proposal to donate money for the formation of a new college, and was somehow convinced to do so. (The college became Randolph-Macon College, now located in Ashland, VA.) Seeing the Methodists start up a school, the Baptists decided they wanted one too. So, as the story goes, a couple of Baptist preachers approached Sen. Randolph with their proposal. Randolph heard them out, with their justification apparently going something like "Hey, you donated money to the Methodists to let them educate their young men; why can't you do the same for us so we can educate ours as well?" Randolph's reply went: "But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists."

Pretty soon they’ll be BlackPebble

All contributors to this publication should be named either Pine or Rose.

It’s been done.

Love the evangelical oscillation between:
1. “We’re in power so the only way we can secure our rights is to dominate & impose our views on everyone”
2. “We’re out of power so all we’re just asking you not to impose your secular tyranny on us, just let us do our thing (oppressing those in our reach)”

Yes

Homer Simpson looking skeptically at a comically oversized can of Fosters beer, saying: “NO. IT'S PRETTY BIG, I GUESS.”

“We assure the world that we’re monitoring this situation as hard as we can.”

Anti-1.FC Köln patch. In German: “My most beautiful sport: goat murder” Not a precise translation, but evocative nonetheless.

tbqf

You can take the boy out of Montgomery County, MD, but you can’t take the MoCo (won’t someone think of the $200k earners!) out of the boy.

Proscriptions for multiple reasons.

They ought to be on every intersection west of the lakes, soak the southwest so they can pay for all the police overtime they want!

There cannot be a long-term turn from Trumpism without a sufficiently traumatic & persistent crisis.

Childhood is when you idolize The Dude, adult is when you realize Walter makes more sense.

The Constant Gardener
The Good Shepherd
The Insider

Tehran truly is the New York of Iran

Alien: Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, Directed by Ridley Scott

2026 is the year of the Norse

Addicted to Stoppage Time

Homer Simpson wearing the Mr. Plow jacket with no pants on

Going around town with just the St. Paul jacket on like

Should have worn the Donovan Amazon Tux to court.

I mean who remembers Minneapolis?

Ask them when they’re gonna bring back the golf cart?

Classic crushingbort tweet: “hmm well I'd say I'm fiscally conservative but socially very liberal. the problems are bad but their causes... their causes are very good”

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In societal collapse there are two kinds of problems: small ones and large ones. The small ones will go away by themselves and the large ones you will not be able to do anything about.

You’re catholic in 1960, right?