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Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

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i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

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The San Francisco Examiner, March 27, 1942

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Die temu ad die

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*Takes you by the shoulders* I ADORE character profiles and character trivia and likes and dislikes sections. I love knowing this ruthless, heartless, cruel man of a character has a childish dislike for mandarin oranges. I believe in the inherent beauty of all characters, no matter the background or moral stance, being made fundamentally human by assigning them insignificant culinary preferences. I stand by the supremacy of humanizing villains by giving them relatable tastes and trivial interests and ordinary hobbies. I treasure the hidden reminders that everyone is inherently human even when everything else we know about a character might suggest the contrary.

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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

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I think what I love most about mythology is that the “Trickster God/Spirit” is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It’s like “Oh, here’s our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose”

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It sort of slipped by among all the other outrages. But I want to point that not only did the Vice President of the US say that his boss should intentionally violate court orders, he did it by quoting Andrew Jackson.

The context of that quote? The thing the Supreme Court told Jackson was unconstitutional, but he did it anyway? It was a Georgia state law granting the state legal control over Cherokee lands. The Supreme Court ruled that the United States only has exclusive negotiating rights with Indian nations, not political dominion over them.

Both Georgia and Jackson disregarded this ruling and continued the illegal takeover of Cherokee lands. Eventually culminating in the Cherokee removal, part of the infamous Trail of Tears.

So take it very seriously when Vance quotes this (most likely fictitious) saying. Or when Trump says Jackson is his favorite president. Especially when they're talking about mass deportation, ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and the annexation of other countries.

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I just came across another “haha Europeans think 1 hour by car is a long drive” “haha Americans think a 30 minutes walk is too long” debates and people in the comments were trying to defend either side by explaining roads and city layouts and whatnot but it seems obvious to me that it all comes down to what you’re used to, yes?

Because it obviously has to do with distances. Things are further apart in the US than they are in Europe so you drive more, which has made car diving a bigger part of every day life.

It did make me wonder what a day in the life of an American looks like though. Forget about the distance, how do you have the time? How doesn’t an hour or two one way by car eat a huge chunk of your day? I never see any Europeans talk about this when they say “an hour is too far away” because I promise you what they really mean is “an hour is too much time spent on nothing”. I know Americans work longers hours than Europeans too so it seems to me like you’d have very little time left for family, friends and hobbies or am I missing something?

But yeah, I think it’s really important to understand that when Europeans complain about a long drive it’s not the distance but the time that’s bothering us.

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Mamster

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when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people”