Doctors, nurses, et cetera are just flesh mechanics. Are they knowledgeable in their fields? Sure. But I’ve met enough anti-vaxxer nurses to know damned well quite a few of them are dumber than shit. Meanwhile some of the most well read and thoughtful people I’ve known have been truckers and the like folks with relatively low level jobs that allows hours of listening. Seriously I once met a trucker whos go to audio noise was university lectures uploaded on YouTube.
Or a Neo-pagan. There’s nothing quite like the look a Bible thumper makes when you tell them you wish to sacrifice them to your god.
Would you count balkanization or more general societal failure under folks in the US doing something or no? Cause I could definitely see folks chucking politicians and whatnot at the hague to earn good international favor, assuming they don’t just get killed outright.
Huh almost sounds like a Jeep. Maybe I’d like to drive an Aztek.
I feel like to count it for a flop you have to account for total produced units as well as the sales. For example if a company produces 100,000 units and sells 99,000 of them those are solid numbers, but if a company produces 400,000 units and only sold 200,000 of those units that honestly a pretty shit sell rate even if they technically sold more.
Are we talking about the lose metal ones you see at like national parks that sound like youre pissing into a metal drum? If so I agree.
Nor am I claiming they are. I’m saying it’d make it more interesting.
So does my cousin Jebediah, doesn’t mean I’d trust him with a Crayola dry erase marker let alone a government agency.
Historical anachronism it would’ve been a 1911, Webley revolver, Soviet Nagant, or whatever the fuck the French had look I don’t know French guns.
I was kinda figuring that it’s after the episode where they get over whatever gripes they have with Costco. Dale most certainly not have a membership card but Hank takes him anyways. Also I don’t think Hank would think it’s communism since Costco is actually a pretty damned good example of Capitalism done right with it undermining competition via lower prices using clever tricks rather than market dominance, he would probably have a different gripes like how far away it is versus how much they save or thinking they’re fucking over customers in some unseen way like selling old food or something.
I imagine it’d probably be something along the lines of Peggy dragging Hank to Costco and Dale tagging along for one reason or another. I could also see it becoming a mild gag in later episodes where Dale and Hank come back from Costco with mostly normal things but Dale buying the occasional weird shit in bulk.
English mostly dropped diacritics since it made things weirdly complicated inter-regionally in England since some regions used them and others didn’t. Frankly if you’re going to try to reform English through non organic it’d probably be better to just toss the latin alphabet outright and make something new. Personally I’d go with using a derivative of Anglo-Frisian runes personally mostly cause it’d be funny.
I feel like it’d be a lot more interesting if they used more random non standard characts like ß, æ, œ for example.
Why are Hank and Dale coming back from a Costco trip? Like don’t get me wrong I could totally see both of them going to Costco and Dale getting into some hijinx with their rotisserie chicken or something, but like why?
Scotland was able to maintain independence from England for another couple hundred years after the wars of independence using the fact that the Suarts were dumbfucks who married into the English doesn’t stop Scotland from succeeding at the time.
My ancestors were generally native aligned to the point where at least 2 branches of my ancestors with English last names were part of two entirely different first nations. We were mostly just killing Mormons and dickheads who thought they were hot shit, like all those southerners who thought they could be racists to our kith. Spoiler nobody found the bodies and nobody knew it was my kin.
It’s impossible to compromise with everyone, sometimes you have people who for one reason or another be it ideological, moral, financial, interpersonal, or political will never compromise on certain things now mind you 9/10 that doesn’t matter since it’s probably stupid shit like sausage vs ham on pizza. But sometimes ya get folks who do spout shit that is actively harmful like how you probably view mine self or say a sub-human who is now dead Charlie Kirk. Ya know what in such cases the only way to get folks to shut up is to kill them, the death of Kirk unequivocally fucked up the right wing propaganda network here in the US and hell who knows it may have broken some folks out of the right due to no longer listening to him and not finding a replacement, something similar happened to me when mine died of cancer(good riddance).
Also as for Iran, the US, and Israel. The Iranians are owed quite a few pounds of flesh by the US and Israel since the US and Israel started this war, and that’s not even getting into the US coup against the democratically elected leader of Iran decades ago. As for how to handle it, Total embargo and severing of relations for both the US and Israel if folks start starving and dieing of plague tough shit. Note I am Californian I am well within the blast radius, I just hate the feds enough to override such concerns. Also before ya accuse me of being a tankie I propose more or less the same for Russia due to their war with Ukraine and the same for China due to the Uighers and Tibet.
Also I am nothing like Trump, he is fueled by avarice and self interest. I am fueled by righteous fury and passive suicidality while thinking suicide is for bitches, I’m just trudging along until my hopeful death where I choke on my own blood with several bullet holes through my chest. As for killing Trump or Netanyahu it would improve the world, but it wouldn’t be the end by a fucken longshot until the state or political apparatuses behind them break.
It resulted in my ancestors being better off, what with the fact that quite a few of them being random murderous bandits shedding saxon blood in retribution before the war for Scottish independence kicked off properly. Or how about my murderous kin here in the US that solved their problems by making their problems corpses and then dumping them in the Mojave, which we were doing up until the 50s, or maybe should bring up the good Friday agreement. Killing for the sake of it isnt the point, the point is to collapse moral, organizational integrity, or just kill enough people that retaliation is impossible.
Regardless I am entirely retributionary in my want for violence, I don’t start proposing to kill preachers until they propose killing queers, I don’t propose killing businessmen until they start to deny pay, I don’t start to propose killing politicians until they start to take the food from the mouths of children, et cetera et cetera. Even fucking then I would still rather deal with it through political and l legalistic means, but when civility fails savagery must be embraced.
Also don’t bring up moral relativism, I don’t particularly care.
Why eat the profligates when you can lash them to a cross?
Oh definitely. Personally I think the current economic and oil crisies is what’s going to collapse the federal government. What happens afterwards is entirely guesswork though.
Just noting that Carthage and Venice were destroyed by outside forces. Sure Carthage would most likely have collapsed or otherwise become a dictatorship a la Rome but who knows maybe they wouldve reformed. As for Venice that’s basically impossible to know, they reformed their government so many times in their history so as to keep power hungry assholes from getting power that who knows what wouldve happened had they survived into the 19th or even 20th century.
Though regardless I suspect the US may not have even 10 years left in it, hell it may not even have a year left in it if shit hits the fan badly enough.
Unless it’s Venice. But those fuckers were weird and survived for a thousand years, also Carthage was destroyed by Rome so add them to the list.
I worship Odin, kinda part of the game. Difference is unless the one eyed god feels like being a dickhead it’s usually other people he wants sacrificed or the willing.