America be like:

“I don’t understand. We keep supporting rabid anti-communists and they keep trying to do fascism.”

I mean, yeah? They don’t deny claims because it loses them money.

The problem is that on rare occasion a couple of the conservatives remember they’re supposed to pretend to care about the Constitution.

Just often enough to make it a question for these obvious violations

Including the Rings of Power

DDG winning again

Oh no my country’s getting couped but I’m so sleepy I can’t vote against it~~

Fuck off lol

You can just say “I’m sorry, I fell for a fake article and my premise was flawed”

Nothing?

That’s some pretty damning context. A coup avoided “unanimously” because 110 of the most powerful people in the country were bootlicking cowards at best.

I feel like almost literally every tech change I’ve seen in the past ten years is negative so maybe that’s just the problem at hand? Or at least the ones people don’t like, by the nature of public criticism. No one talks about bug fixes and useful updates, but they will talk about increasing costs and decreased privacy.

You will see someone calling an added and optional feature annoying sometimes but my personal experience is that it’s rarely linked to enshittification, but we probably just have different experiences on the matter.

I’m curious about what, exactly, America will do with a strategic reserve of Bitcoins besides paying ransoms for cyber attacks and terrorists. Operating in USD for all of its needs is kind of the point of having your own currency.

But, hey, Trump’s dumbass crashing the economy and getting the world to abandon the USD as a reserve currency is good for Bitcoin…

What I learned is that Kaiser actually has the lowest denial rate? Maybe the King did come for him…

If you don’t call your sibling a slut at some point they’re barely real family.

Imagine being their significant others watching that ad.

Fun Fact: Coffee brother got a part on Castle Rock where he bangs his adopted sister.

Using the correct word for a situation is not the same as calling the existence of black and gay people woke.

Fair enough, but that existence is allowed because the Rangers of the North, last reserve of the blood of Numenor and the Kingdom of Arnor, shelter it.

It also gets absorbed as a territory of Gondor/Arnor when man briefly reaches the heights it used to have before declining again.

I think you might argue that this is Tolkien expressing his concept of whatever the hell “anarcho-monarchism” is supposed to be, which is apparently the chosen militants of God sheltering pastoral British villages from reality without even taxing them for the privilege.

I’d also like to introduce you to the innately British concept of the “monarchical republic”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowned_republic

You’ll note that Elizabeth I is listed as a potential example of this idea, though I tend to agree the concept doesn’t match the historical reality and it would take becoming a constitutional monarchy to resolve the inherently oxymoronic nature of the systems.

disqualified from service for gooning about the service

1: If you force someone into labor with the threat of violence or punishment, it’s slavery, and you’re at best arguing about semantics and adding extra steps.

2: There are plenty of slavery systems that pay slaves nominal wages, especially slave soldiers. The most famous historical example is probably the janissaries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

3: There’s probably an argument to be made about how it’s just a social need when you’re at war or have an aggressive neighbor but the problem is ultimately that the society hasn’t created a system where the citizens actually like the state enough to volunteer.

Yes. And then because Macron is exactly the kind of shithead that thinks he can just tell fascists what to do while offering nothing in return, or not being willing to give them what they asked because they’re fascists, they turned on him.

Gen Z boys are screwed in the head.