The guy collecting empties in the highway culvert is also generating revenue, but that doesn’t mean his enterprise is worth 5 billion dollars.

Edit: I meant “trillion” but I’m so unused to actually typing that number out because it’s so absurdly large

If KDE had a toggleable tiling feature like PopOS it would be the perfect DE.

I’m not American but I see this as the only tenable way out of this mess. The percentage of brain rot is simply too high for the country to function as a unified federal state, and needs to go back to what you’ve described (which was basically the idea of the US at the outset, or also a bit like Brazil or the EU of today)

The person you are replying to seems to want to abolish prisons, not imprison ICE.

staff discovered one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery.

Strange - these seem like ideal qualifications for ICE…

Zoomers are in their 30s now? [insert Matt Damon ageing GIF]

No wonder the country is so fucked if you’re at the “we can’t judge, because who among us hasn’t had a Nazi tattoo at one point?” stage.

The Totenkopf has always been associated with the Nazis.

To be pedantic, it actually predates Nazis by quite a bit, it was in use during the Empire - but by modern-day standards it’s absolutely associated with nazis.

purity tests

How common are SS tattoos in the USA that this is considered a purity test? I knew things are bad down there, but JFC

You’re telling me this Marine never watched a WW2 documentary?

He admitted it was a mistake and he took actions to rectify it. Everyone does dumb shit when they’re younger.

He had this tattoo for SEVENTEEN YEARS. How do you go that long without realizing it’s a totenkopf?

You probably don’t want to go to the countries that won’t let you in with a Canadian passport.

That’s the most American rebuttal to this - too bad the Supreme Court is in Trump’s pocket.

Broken clock, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

[Historians] have argued that colonial resentment of the proclamation contributed to the growing divide between the colonies and the mother country. Some historians say that even though the boundary was pushed west in subsequent treaties, the British government refused to permit new colonial settlements for fear of instigating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators.

I like the way you’ve framed it here… Consider me won over.

I’m fully on board with a publication about queer issues, I just don’t think this is a queer issue. It wouldn’t make sense for “Guns, Guns, Guns” magazine to have an article “Journalist (who happens to also be a gun owner in their private life) charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism”.

Fair enough, but then I’m wondering what’s the point of Advocate. I’d assume it’s “news that relates to being queer”, not “regular news that happens to involve queer people”. Something like “Random lesbian is victim of parking lot fender-bender” doesn’t make sense to me.

Literally never killed a king in their history. The closest they got was killing aboriginal chieftains. Muricans just got salty because the King of England refused to let them colonize the native tribes in the great lakes region (which the crown had declared a self-governing protectorate). Americans declared a revolution and cloaked it in jingoistic hoopla about liberty. They also tried (and failed) to enlist Quebec to join them.

Yes I get that, but their queerness is as immaterial to this issue as them being left-handed or the colour of their eyes.

What does queerness have to do with this?