HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Perhaps, but the Congo Wars were called the "African World Wars," no?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
To deepen the metaphor even further, while buying into the market of poorly-bred attack dogs does earn you social disapproval, that doesn't seem to amount to much in the end--people keep breeding and buying them, and dogs continue to end up unfit to live in normal human society (and thus, sometimes being put down).
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Thank you, this provides a ton of context.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
"Is there a gay Nazi brigade I don't know about!?" - Jon Pinette
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Man, I kinda want an alt-historical fiction movie made out of this, where Charlie Chaplin has to outrun a bunch of assassins.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
The late Billy Herrington (RIP) did manage to discover his bisexuality after having been in a straight relationship. His girlfriend was the one who got him into modeling in the first place.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Private sector orgs who did do that would find that everyone competent applied for a job at a competitor instead.
Isn't this the key, though? The public sector is the public sector, it doesn't experience competition in the same way. If you were going to lose your US Government job, where the fuck would you go? Who competes with the US Government from a talent-recruiting perspective? State governments? Other countries' governments? Neither of these are run like privately-owned corporations, and some of them have way more friction for joining.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Wait, Romanians?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I think of Pompeii, the city that got burned and buried under ash by Mount Vesuvius.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
but that didn't mean that when Obama entered office he issued a stop-work order to the military. He simply just withdrew from Iraq.
Yes, but you may recall that it took another two Presidents for the US to actually works towards meaningfully disengaging from the Middle East afterwards--and even now, we can't afford to ignore the region. I think a lot of the people who voted for Obama actually expected him to go more whole-hog than he did.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
No, no, the meme goes more like "In 924, Emperor Quan sat on the throne. 392 million would die."
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I almost would have assumed Lana Rain, she might be able to distract Elon by talking about psychedelics.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
At the same time, though, Hamas made their own Mickey Mouse ripoff.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I'd be surprised if 2rafa could find even one person that meets that description.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
It is about dignity and what our society is willing to do to its citizens in the light of day.
If character is what you are in the dark, is government what everyone is in the dark?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I'm a little under the impression that Twitter was effectively never profitable, and was only sustained financially by backers entranced by Dorsey's personal charisma.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Jesus, I wouldn't wish that even on my worst enemy.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Man, I want to be on your side (or at least against the ones against you), but this is such a lazy dodge.
I think your interlocutor is trying to get you to envision a world where the fires of the Atheism Wars are needed once more.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Dang.
Honestly, I've been under the impression that Catholic faith has been historically pretty strong in the Philippines, so to hear that it's experiencing a secular collapse on its own is a bit odd.
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4mo ago
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4mo ago
(the Philippines have not looked good inside the church in a while)
I'm somewhat interested and want to know more. Is this down to normal papal politics, or due to domestic Filipino politics?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
if they don't put them on leave but also don't assign them any work nor give them access to any government systems, how is that any different?
Sounds like the Japanese method of pressuring workers to quit: stick them in a room with nothing to do, wait for them to quit out of boredom.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Are you sure they didn't mean that they would have preferred that nobody tried to assassinate Trump? That would at least be consistent with the sentence and their pacifism.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
That is precisely what has been killing us--an unassailable belief that nothing could be changed or fixed.
I think this is underappreciated, and I think this might genuinely be the very thing that tends to cause horrors like revolutions and the like: if the popular sentiment is that nothing can be changed, then it tends not to lead to anywhere great.
I don't agree with your first sentence. As cliche as it might seem, I am coming around to thinking that it all kicked off with GamerGate, when lots of people started noticing that something was off.
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