Wow. This forum.

“Ukraine has corruption so…” (Implied: the US should let Russia invade and annex them)

“Russia and the US have some details in common if you blur your eyes so they are morally and politically identical”

“Zelensky sucks”

“How can anyone know what truth is in this topsy-turvy world?”

OK, it’s been about a week with no replies. I am starting to suspect that perhaps there is no plan.

Ie this take sometimes but I don’t know what the alternatives are. When you win your revolution, what system will you put in place?

ITT I’ve seen “random elections”, and plenty of people saying “socialism”, plus someone (I hope) is thinking “anarchism”, but how is it managed? What takes the place of elections for public office?

So… Why Photoshop the Ukrainian flag onto this meme?

Now cross-reference this list with known members of Proud Boys, Patriot Front, and other domestic terror orgs.

Mostly afraid of people realizing I’m an academic. Em-dashes are a dead giveaway.

This is a guy from the 18th century speaking his thoughts about his time, which was quite violent. There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create, or even that he was some kind of ultra-insightful historian who understood all the cycles of the world better than all the historians before or since his time.

He was just a guy in a time. A smart one, but just a guy.

My FB account, for the last year or two, is nothing but hundreds of memes and comments yelling at conservatives for being hypocrites and fascists.

My partner tells me these things and I love her for it. It’s both information (I usually care about what happened with the cats) and like a dolphin pinging other dolphins to let them know where and how they are.

Language is an important part of how most humans bond. The amount and content of the language varies from person to person, as do their preferences for various aspects of communication. There are very few humans who can feel close to another person with no communication (and language is our most easily-identifiable and possibly our most important method of communication. Notably, even groups of humans previously thought to communicate very little–like nonverbal autistic people, for instance–communicate a significant amount, even when it is nonverbal. But most humans communicate verbally in addition to other ways.

I’m saying it’s normal and a happy thing that people tell each other about their day.

Non-joke answer: I’ve always heard it as a hard G, like in Gesture,

I’m sure this might be interesting, but the video is letterboxed so aggressively that even on fullscreen my laptop screen is 80% black with a postage-stamp of video in the middle that lasts about 3 seconds.

Yes, critical thinking is hard.

This echoes my concerns every time someone (especially under the age of about 40, especially American) praises “communism” (as if it were one thing) with some kind of absolute adoration.

In this case, OP: how did that justice work for the political dissidents sent to gulags?

“I have no response to that.”

Wait, in the first one it looks like the S has a cape.

As a man, I’ve found this applies to almost any traditionally* feminine activity.

• “Traditional” is a red herring, quagmire, and propagandum with gender roles. What is “traditional” for men vs women shifts around over time and place, and within cultures and subcultures. I actually mean something like “hegemonic” or “stereotypical within your specific cultural milieu.”

According to almost every photo I take, about 3 degrees off.

Pretty sure this is a psychophysics question, though I don’t know that field well enough to know what’s there.

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If I believed in a god I’d ask them to save me from the baby communists who see a sickle and hammer on a flag and insist they must have represented utopia.