Fetishizing ancient Greece and Rome as the birthplace of Western Civilization whose ideals our immoral society’s have degraded from.

me standing at attention and saluting

Reporting for Gay Duty!

Both can be true, you can be exploited and still be guilty of being a part of something bad.

Somebody blackmails you into hurting somebody else, you’re a victim of blackmail but you still hurt somebody else. Both things are true at the same time.

In the general sense, yea.

I was in a combat arms job, attached to an armored cavalry unit during the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 and also managed to get away with only firing like 3 or 4 rounds the entire time I was in Iraq (as a function check into some piles of sand). Didn’t shoot at anybody, didn’t run anybody over with a vehicle, didn’t call in fire on a house, wasn’t involved in any black bagging. (Probably some unexploded ordinance might have gotten thrown around when we were piling up stuff as fast as we could into pits to destroy it, so potential for human harm there.) The worst I, personally did, was some light theft and trespassing in abandoned houses. Not great, but not murder.

BUT, I was directly involved in an illegal war though. Even if I didn’t understand it at the time, even if I trusted (naively) that people in the political class actually DID know what they were doing, so I get to be war criminal for ever.

Not an accountant, just studied accounting at the university.

laughtrack plays

animated character breaks the 4th wall and looks directly to audience and says

“Please laugh”

I guess the point of the article is that neither candidate is exciting anybody to make participating in the civic religion all that appealing.

Shabnam, a 24-year-old PhD medical student, said she did not vote in the first round and does not plan to do so in the run-off because it is ineffective.

“I think the president in this country doesn’t have much autonomy, and the promises made during campaigns are empty, they lack substance and are just not genuine,” she told Al Jazeera.

“Moreover, the political narratives feel repetitive and unimpactful.”

Seeing the apathy and considering the fact that conditions are unlikely to considerably improve in the short term, the candidates and their supporters have been mostly manoeuvring on attacking each other, rather than presenting actionable plans.

…

Yasaman, a 29-year-old financial analyst based in Tehran, said she is voting on July 5 even though many of her friends are not.

…

“I have to admit that the differences between the candidates’ campaigns are not as significant as they should be, but if you look at inflation and unemployment rates, you can see a meaningful variation in different governments. So, it is undeniable that there will be a change.

“Your OS is not compatible with this application, update your phone’s OS”

clicks system update in Settings

“Your phone is no longer supported and cannot upgrade to the current version of this operating system.”

Freedo

Freedo Kat.

“I’m not gay! But there’s not anything wrong with it.”

~Jerry Seinfield

Natalie Wynn: “You have no power to do anything and its all your fault. Its not the responsibility of the Democratic party to stop anything bad from happening or to do anything good. Vote for Joe to make the world a better place!”

The company initially called it an “incident involving pyrotechnics" but later confirmed it was an explosion.

When two are dead and one potentially vaporized … sure… its just a pyrotechnic incident.

The meme with Death opening a row of doors with “Biden Democrats” on its nametag with the doors labeled things like “Abortion Services”, “Transgender Medical Care”, “Palestinians”.

Please, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, my people, we yearn for freedom!

Inner ear things. Some of it is age related.

Eyes having different “vision” with glasses that can’t completely correct the worst eye. Makes depth perception ever so slightly off, very noticeable for me when there’s low light, yellow tinged lighting or dark colored things on other dark colored things.

That’s just what a brain eating worm WOULD say…

Biden aids really worried about finding a new job so soon they’ve gotta keep abusing this elderly man by forcing him to stay at this job.

I haven’t seen this movie in so long that I need to watch it again.

The financial situation is so bad in the UK that some of these folks can sell their Hong Kong property and have enough to buy a home for themselves and a rental property in the UK.

Brexiter’s gonna have Asian landlords and are not going to be happy about it.