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dagthegnome 22 points ago +23 / -1

Enjoy being disqualified from that jury before the trial starts.

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dagthegnome 25 points ago +25 / -0

I applaud your faith in the justice system, but I no longer share it.

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dagthegnome 37 points ago +37 / -0

But don't you understand? You and everyone else who's not an elitist bureaucrat with twenty letters after their name are just children who need to be taken care of. So you just let them lock you in you room to keep you safe and take your medicine when they tell you. You get a sucker afterwards!

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dagthegnome 3 points ago +3 / -0

The only thing funnier than Dankula is Dankula on the New Dad sleep schedule.

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dagthegnome 35 points ago +35 / -0

I agree. Pointing out their obvious hypocrisy is soooooo 2017. Let's just stop calling attention to it because it's so obvious and just not trendy or fashionable anymore. That will make it go away.

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dagthegnome 17 points ago +17 / -0

Don't worry. The truth is waiting for him. He'll get there eventually. He's just slow. He's as slow as . . . . Is there some kind of animal metaphor for how slow Mitch McConnell is?

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dagthegnome 10 points ago +10 / -0

Actually that's very interesting because the hydra is a mythological archetype of the problems that arise from an undisciplined approach to life. If you cut off one head of the hydra, two more heads grow back in its place and this is a very clear metaphor for a lazy approach to problem management. Each head is merely one manifestation of a larger problem, and if you simply keep cutting off heads and creating even more of them, then you're just helpless, and that's not virtue. But if you stop fighting the hydra, and instead embrace the hydra, the monster inside you, then that is virtuous. The hydra represents order, and if you read its comic Bibles, then it's very interesting because it keeps telling you that it represents order and yet the imbeciles in the audience keep rooting for the chaos, and they're missing the point. The really virtuous thing to do is to Hail Hydra.

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dagthegnome 3 points ago +4 / -1

Didn't the coup in Venezuela literally happen because Communism kills?

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dagthegnome 17 points ago +18 / -1

Unfortunately for a lot of people it's still necessary. I've never used Twitter myself, but for anyone whose job might make them even the slightest bit famous, whether it's an author, an actor, a musician, a professional athlete etc, their agents, managers, sponsors or publishers will always expect them to have a Twitter profile and to participate in their own self-promotion. And even for freelancers, if they don't make their own Twitter account after they get noticed even a little, there will be a dozen fakes out there pretending to be them, each with a few thousand followers too stupid to realize it isn't the real person, who will amplify any quotes from the impersonators that could harm the real individual's professional reputation. Twitter's verification system was originally supposed to help with that, but as we all know, it's politicized to the point of uselessness.

As long as literally everyone in a position of power or influence believes that Twitter is the primary forum for online discourse, then anyone who ever wants to make any real money will be expected to be on it, and will jeopardize their career if they aren't.

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dagthegnome 13 points ago +13 / -0

So many people, my family included, have invested so much emotional capital in the vaccine, putting all of their hopes in a return to normalcy once they're vaccinated, that I'm hoping it will be a real wake-up call for them once they have got the vaccine and they're still told they can't go out with all of their friends, they can't travel to see their grandkids or their siblings and they still have to wear the masks everywhere. Maybe it will actually be enough to break the conditioning.

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dagthegnome 16 points ago +16 / -0

If Biden were to invade Vietnam tomorrow, the Times would be writing up fluff pieces about Weapons of Mass Starvation, or whatever.

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dagthegnome 39 points ago +39 / -0

It's actually really indicative of what they really want. Total conformity in the rejection of all traditional cultural and biological norms. Breaking the mold is only good as long as we all do it together in exactly the same way.

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dagthegnome 2 points ago +2 / -0

Mine were not reset again. Maybe it really was just a random accident resulting from server maintenance.

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dagthegnome 15 points ago +15 / -0

I just wanted to share in case anyone else had involuntary changes made to their privacy settings that they wanted to fix.

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