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Any give a qrd on what Trump getting elected in 2016 felt like? (I wasn't that interested in politics back then) I heard the main difference between then and now is that it legit felt out of the blue. Like, no one expected Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip.
I had gone to bed relatively early that night, pretty sure my posts from here are still around, it'll be under the XYZpdq name, but I woke up shocked that he won, caught up on the onlines, headed into work at a financial joint so they weren't as HOORAH TRUMP as some of my gigs have been, but they were still pretty happy with At Least It's Not Hillary. I wasn't on the Trump Train until partway through the primaries, not that I thought the RNC's offerings were any better. Although I will be fair that I actually sorta like Jeb. I recall was happy it wasn't Hillary, thrilled at the salt, not sure where things were heading next.
A mushroom cloud will form from any sufficiently powerful enough explosion I believe.
iirc it's concentration, power relative to the space it's blowing up
 
I really feel like Chesterton is very underrated, he reads like a prophet these days. And not just because I love the ideal of Distributionism. I also feel like making an "Either/Or" joke about Biden, but I'm drawing a blank on how to make it work. Which sounds like a very Biden thing.

Chesterton has some absolute bangers. Some of my favorite quotes of all time.

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything."

"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."

"Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

And one of the most applicable to our current libertine society:

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”​

 
Lol the church did nothing at all beside forcing everyone to follow a bastardized version of their ancestral faith where instead of worshipping their gods they worship Jews. Even medieval goatfuckers invented more for humanity than the church did because goatfuckers realized those ancient texts had something to it. Christianity is just another side of the same coin as Islam, and would be just as bad if the average Christian IQ were 75-80...oh wait, see the Christian parts of Africa or the ghetto.

Tell me you don't know history without telling me you don't know history.
 
I really feel like Chesterton is very underrated, he reads like a prophet these days. And not just because I love the ideal of Distributionism. I also feel like making an "Either/Or" joke about Biden, but I'm drawing a blank on how to make it work. Which sounds like a very Biden thing.
I think he's got a decent following in the catholic and political philosophy nerds. Distributism is very fascinating, probably an ideal economic system on a smallish scale. Localism, diversified ownership, great ideas in theory. I think maybe one of the potential flaws would be in terms of efficiency, especially in a global economy like ours.
 
Y'all making me feel foolish over worrying about my 2-3 cans of beer a day habit. Haven't had any since the first of the month, but I'm not planning on never drinking again, and damn do I miss the stress relief and taste, even if it makes me less productive overall.
I started out drinking 2-3 beers a day. It sneaks up on you. Life has shitty moments and you're better off dealing with them head-on than using something as a crutch. Why do you think liberals and groypers are so over-emotional and doom all the time? Most of them are addicts with zero psychological resilience and poor emotional regulation.
 
What the fuck is going on with air transport these days?
Either our DEI policies are catching up to us or we got troons doing an allaku ackbar to stick it to drumpf
You gotta admit that a plane falling out of the sky every other day is very poor optics. Let's hope the trend doesn't continue.
This isn't really anything out of the ordinary. There's a good number of accidents and crashes every month. We just don't hear about them all because they usually don't happen in the US.
 
Trade goods like cotton and tobacco, the former having the cotton gin which was already displacing the need for slaves.
And again, you keep ignoring the slave states in the Union. Not to mention West Virginia which was readmitted into the Union as a slave state in 1863.
The cotton gin made slavery worse. Like, significantly worse. Eli Whitney intended for what you said to happen, but it absolutely did not happen, and we went from having less than 800,000 slaves in the US to having over 4,000,000 because of it.

I also didn't ignore states like Kentucky or West Virginia, but let me repeat it for you more clearly: The North did not go to war over slavery, but, from their perspective, to put down a rebellion led by a pro-slavery coalition. Just because the South seceded over their pro-slavery views does not mean that the North fought for abolition, at least not initially.
 
I'm hearing about ""Trump removed plane safety"" around the Internet recently. I'm assuming it has to do with these sudden plane crashes. Am I to understand that he didn't do anything like that and instead, the usual suspects are blaming Trump for these crashes?
Because if pilots are deciding to kamikaze themselves into shit because they can't stand the orange man being president, then we really do need to reopen asylums and treat TDS as a dangerous mental illness.
 
That makes LBJ sound too nice. LBJ was the sort to kick the mistress out and demand his wife make him breakfast after he made her sleep in the visitor bedroom.

The fucker literally stole an election for his senator seat. He knew a military medal would help his career so in WW2 he got a ride on a bomber doing a routine run over a Japan that was already nearly defeated and managed to brownose his way into a medal.
Telling people to read even the Wikipedia article about LBJ is a riot. Dude was an ass HOLE
 
The cotton gin made slavery worse. Like, significantly worse. Eli Whitney intended for what you said to happen, but it absolutely did not happen, and we went from having less than 800,000 slaves in the US to having over 4,000,000 because of it.
When the production bottleneck of seed separation was solved with the cotton gin the next bottleneck to solve was getting more cotton to run through the cotton gins.
 
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