If you've ever said you felt nostalgia for the Bush admin I have several suggestions, all of which include poetry.
06.03.2026 21:10
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If you've ever said you felt nostalgia for the Bush admin I have several suggestions, all of which include poetry.
I'm sorry, what do you think most argentines are?
Are they refusing illegal orders yet?
I'm not even going to bother trying to figure which way this was coming from
Love to be called racist for pointing out that the lingering Ottoman influence on Greece means modern greek culture is very middle eastern.
It's kinda funny that people still trying to argue Ciri being the protagonist or a witcher makes no sense try to use book canon but also usually argue for the empress ending, even though in book canon she never becomes empress and the only known portrait of her is actually of the False Cirilla.
He reminds me of the OG "I can fix him" romance that actually is a choice between a bland rich asshole and a different kind of bland rich asshole: Anomen Delryn.
Centrists are probably writing the checks for at least one of them.
Castro has been one of the most vindicated men in the 2020 primaries at this point.
IIRC he matched Trump's first term and very nearly both Obama's terms
ffs, I thought Gottesman was a man the whole time
He can veto supermajorities all he wants but there's a reason those are called veto proof, it's not his discretion to sign in that case.
The governor of California is not part of the legislature and only has the power to veto bills below a certain threshold.
THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA DOES NOT VOTE ON LEGISLATION
The governor of California is not part of the legislative branch
It's been fascinating watching the very serious civics knowers pretend that the governor of a state is the one passing legislation.
This is true of most countries prior to the first bathroom bans in the US
Notably people whined a lot less about New Vegas's ending, so it's rather dubious that the main issue was that it had an actual ending.
I just think old men who fantasize about the noble sacrifice of youth should be given a flak jacket, a helmet and a rifle (no need for spare mags) and told to charge a russian trench in Ukraine.
From reading the ending slides of 3 it still basically tried to guilt trip you into "noble" suicide after they fixed that with the expansions.
Heartwarming that both Todd and Pagliarulo learned the exact same wrong lesson from people hating the original ending of Fallout 3 which basically amounts to trying to guilt a 19yo into dying for an old man's dream when half the companions are immune to the main danger.
Look if I'm the person being targeted by the fire and I get told that I should not wish to burn the house, I'm going to light the match out of spite.
"It won't even cause a full blown ice age, so you should be fine with killing the planet in one fell swoop"
There's something actually terrifying that despite the idea of Nuclear Winter being largely scientifically sound, there's still a swathe of people who take the tack that Sagan going for the worst case scenario model means the whole concept is fake nonsense invented by effete hippies.
I still can't get over how much the "Nicole, corporate lawyer" is basically a Galatea figure for centrist men who will 100% be using the meme to votescold for Newsom of all people
Feds fucking love the self important.
Starmer won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in british history (only 5 short of Blair's first term) on a comically low share of the popular vote
tbh it's fascinating that they took consultants from Labour in 2024 as though they had any more interesting insights than "if the governing party splits we have a change"
Well, Schmitt wasn't executed after the war even though he's easily top 100 of the extended list who should have been, and he was still, afaik, lecturing in Francoist Spain in the 60s
If you want to signal your opposition to the fascists, what about not running the guy whose opinions behind closed doors align almost perfectly?