Every time I hear about Eid I vividly remember being in 3rd grade and having the teacher ask if anyone celebrated any holidays other than Christmas with their family, and when a girl said her family celebrated Eid the teacher told her not to make things up

Maybe Im just not understanding the point of the centaur analogy, but it seems more convoluting than it does useful. At least in comparison to just making the same points without the analogy.

The point of a good analogy is to make your broader points immediately register with the reader, not create an entirely new concept to explain

If you want to make any difference on that issue at all, the first step would be to clarify who youre talking about

Most people hate “the rich” as in rich people, as in people that can afford a limo and a five star hotel and some lavish lifestyle. They say tax the rich as in people significantly wealthier than them. But even that 5% or 1% or even 0.1% really are not the ones with the money. They just side with the people who have the serious money because they feel targeted by the general rhetoric of “tax the rich”

The reality is that the dysfunction in society and poverty stems from not taxing the 0.0000001%, the like 10-20 people in the entire world who control a majority of the money that exists. Musk, Bezos, people of that level of wealth. For most of the people in the world, anyone making over $50k a year is just as vast of a difference as the one that exists between someone making $50k and someone worth $5M. Which realistically is far less vast than the difference between someone worth $5M versus $500B. Making anything over $50k a year puts someone in the top 10% of wealth holders in the entire world. In America that is hardly a living wage, but globally speaking it is certainly being among the rich.

For any progress to occur its absolutely necessary that moderately wealthy people (who still have a lot of power in society and monetarily) to side with the bottom 99% to tax the 0.0000001% of people whos money never moves. The people who couldnt spend it all if they tried, in a world where money is useless to the majority if it doesnt change hands.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

but why??

Conservatives went feral after a black dude became president. Its not rocket science…

Considering that most of the people supporting ICE view everything through the most basic “us vs them” tribalism lens, Im curious to see how this shakes out.

Assuming a lot of pro-ICE people probably originally imagined the shooters as typical white good ol boy agents making a career of terrorizing brown people, what happens now? How does the white christofascist hierarchy assign placement to a hispanic ICE agent, which in their mind is surely virtually an oxymoron?

With Good’s killing, obviously they still support the ICE agent who killed a liberal, because liberal is obviously an outgroup of lesser people to them

With Pretti, a fairly traditional white good ol boy figure who cares for veterans and carries a firearm but also is protesting against ICE operations is killed by two brown ICE agents. The veneer of him being some kind of liberal domestic terrorist quickly falls apart, and now they have to rectify supporting ICE ops with the fact that now someone closer to their imagined in-group was killed by two officers they would otherise. They have to swallow the fact that they too could be shot dead if they were carrying in the street while protesting government actions. And these are people that hardly ever stop thinking of potentially rallying against the government if it doesnt do exactly what they want

I imagine in confronting that, some people on the right will start to be against ICE ops, and somehow the rest will perform mental gymnastics so impressive that they could earn olympic gold

I, for one, hope Trump goes out of his way to disrespect Kendrick Lamar. How can we have a famous diss track about Drake being a pedophile, but not one about the president? Missed opportunity…

Its a violation of international law to denaturalize a citizen and leave them stateless. Although Im not sure international law or human rights mean anything to this administration

Assumedly if that actually happened, hopefully people from the US would be eligible for asylum in a lot of countries just like when other countries commit human rights violations against their citizens

“This isn’t the department of baking cookies,” one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country. And we’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces”

And giving them firearms…

In other news, water is still wet

Is it weirder that these religious people posted stuff about it being jesus’s birthday on the christian holiday celebrating jesus’s birthday, or weirder that the majority of people celebrate a religious holiday as a secular holiday and then get confused when religious people celebrate the religious part?

Like I dont want to live in a christian theocracy, but also this seems very par for the course of christmas

Slop is terrible obviously, but at least in exchange for the slop we get… higher energy costs and acceleration of climate change

Show me a third person omniscient shooter

There are literally all of about 10 schools from which an MBA is worth anything. Often people with MBAs from non T10 schools are recommended to take their MBA off of their resume when they inevitably struggle to find a job. A sub T10 MBA on a resume just says “I will ask for more money courtesy of my useless credential”

Bosher salt, everyone’s favorite kosher salt and borax mixed seasoning. Why stop at sodium chloride when you can enjoy the power of sodium borate?

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It physically nauseates me remembering Laura Loomer exists, but you dont see me bragging about it

With fish it is the opposite. Fish that dont eat fish arent usually very good eating. And most fish that eat fish are even cannibalistic of their own species

Bold move to order an entire team of way manlier dudes to tail your girlfriend that is half your age

Missouri isnt really a good example considering MO tends to pay the federal government more than it receives. At worst they occasionally break about even. But the majority of the time they pay their fair share, unlike many other states

The difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.

I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough