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Under normal circumstances, you ask the questions to get a record of the answers, so that you can prove the answers are lies. The more information the accused has when they provide answers, the more thoroughly they can lie.

With Mango Mussolini, there’s never any consistency to his blatant lies, and he never pays any price for changing his story. Everyone knows he’s a liar, so he can be as brazen as he wants to be because he knows he can lie without losing supporters.

So I’m with you. Democrats will circle up like a lacrosse team at a prep school mixer. Oh shit, Campbell is gonna go ask Lauren Z to dance. Let’s go back him up. Here he goes-OH she said no… no wait he said “PSYCH!” He wasn’t really asking, I bet she feels so dumb. Sick burn, Campbell. Let’s go throw empty yoohoo bottles onto the roof of the auxiliary building and talk about what boobs probably look like.

That’s what I picture every time I read about the Congressional Democrats. Campbell, Monty, Gunner, Brook, Tripp, Blake, and Gian, all hanging around in blazers and sweatervests talking about how cool it’s going to be when they finally do something someday.

The death penalty is not justice, it is vengeance.

The entire ballot measure is riddled with lies and doublespeak. This is just one example, and that’s what makes it hard to describe the problem in clear and succinct language. Vinny Gambini’s opening statement comes to mind.

Three things you can do without spending any money:

Vote in every election.

Talk to your family and friends and coworkers about politics. Make it OK to share your thoughts on current events, and challenge the people around you when their ideas are problematic. Most of all, encourage everyone to vote.

Volunteer. Support a campaign by phone banking or writing postcards or working at the polls or driving voters who wouldn’t otherwise have access to the polls.

The scary-cool name is there to help defenders take it seriously. If you give them a stupid name, elected leaders, business executives, and military leaders won’t take them seriously. It also becomes easier to tell them apart, and create identities. Who do they like to attack, how do they operate, what level of threat do they pose, etc. And then of course it sounds more impressive when you defeat them. Batman doesn’t get any respect for beating Condiment Man, but if he takes down Darkseid, people take notice.

And Maddry is still in charge.

Trump does not understand cryptocurrency.

They do have sensible gun control laws. Can’t bring a rifle onto a golf course. Can’t carry a firearm to political rallies or in government buildings. Funding for secret service and additional security is never lacking.

They have sensible gun control laws to protect themselves. The rest of us can get fucked.

It’s OK, I have all my backups on floppy disks. I keep them on the fridge with a magnet so I’ll always know where it is.

Have people been killed?

25% over four years is garbage.

Agreed. The situation is fraught with peril. Being famous, being an athlete, getting sponsorships, Clark and Swift are not at all in the same position in terms of fame and financial security. I like to see people with principles stand up for what they believe regardless of the consequences, but I understand why most don’t. I’ve had second thoughts about putting up lawn signs for fear of becoming a target of political violence, and I’m nobody.

Businesses that make these offers usually buy an insurance policy against someone winning. If it’s a $10,000 prize, but extremely difficult (like a hole in one challenge), the insurance might be like $1,000. The business pays win or lose, so they’re hoping someone wins because it’s great publicity. It’s much more fun when the person awarding the prize is happy and celebrating with the winner, so in that sense it’s a good idea.

The insurance company, however, will have very specific language and will try to avoid paying even if it makes the business look bad.

I don’t know the specifics in this case, but I worked for a generator company that sponsored a long-putt challenge at a golf fundraiser. Someone won a free generator, and the insurance company tried everything to weasel out of paying. We ended up giving them the generator anyway, because the publicity would have been horrid, and it took like 18 months to get the insurance company to pay up.

Either way, it was stupid of the dealership to try to weasel out of the prize. A lease is like $350 a month times 24 months is $8,400. The kick happened at a football field named after the owner of the dealership after he donated $15 million to the university.

And the way he said it, all whiny, like it isn’t his fault if the racist lie he repeated isn’t true because his source of information is both unimpeachable and not his responsibility.

Even more unpopular opinion, bigots deserve to be harassed for their bigotry.

That’s disappointing.

They even have a cartoonishly ironic name.

MAGA is the island of lost souls. The point of the debate is not to change their minds. It is to make the stark difference between the candidates laughably obvious, so that even the moderate conservatives feel ashamed and stupid that he represents their interests, and the moderate Democrats feel comfortable mocking them for their weirdness.

Nobody felt that way about Clinton. She tried to be the better person without alienating the Trump supporters. She used words like “deplorables” when she should have said “shitbags.”

Trump supporters deserve to be alienated, just as all bigots and nazis and narcissists should be. They will not change because of a rational argument. You need to smoke them out of the crowd, and then point and laugh until they shrivel up and every child sees their humiliation, so that no one grows up thinking it’s OK to be a bigot, or that there are good people on both sides.

Fascism is a threat of violence, and the best way to defeat it is to render it impotent. You can’t kill an idea, but you can make people embarrassed to admit it out loud.

I’ve just been doing it manually every time I see it. It’s probably getting old, but then that’s the point, innit?

You seem really upset about something that shouldn’t affect you in any way.

The answer is that you’re thinking about this too much. It’s pop music, designed to be fun and catchy, with a hook and a fun dance routine. It’s performed by pretty people who can sing and dance in a manner that is aesthetically and musically entertaining.

Why do they all look and sound the same? Why does every fast food restaurant have a similar burger and french fry combo? It’s because that’s what sells, and this isn’t art. It’s a product designed to be sold.

I dunno man, if you are a girl wouldn’t you a dude that, yeah, he’s attractive but also that looks manly? That can physically protect you? And that does not has a doll face?..

This just comes off as thinly veiled insecurity. There are a lot of people in the world, and attraction is a spectrum. People like what they like, and there’s probably someone out there who likes you for you. You don’t need a doll face, nor do you need to look manly or be physically imposing. Most people don’t need protection in their day to day lives. People want support, companionship, partnership, compatibility, and entertainment. Be fun and loving, and be yourself, and just leave the outdated gender stereotypes behind. You’re not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, nor do you need to be (unless you’re trying to land a job in a KPop band).

Strong agree on the dark side of the industry. That’s the danger with turning performers themselves into a commodity. It’s bad enough manufacturing commercial music as a product, but turning the talent into a product is dehumanizing in a way that leads to terrifying exploitation.

But as consumers, we’re all really good at compartmentalizing the exploitation from the enjoyment we receive from it. If you think the pop music industry is bad, wait until you learn about fast fashion, or cheap technology, or luxury travel, or abundant meat, or out-of-season produce, or inexpensive energy, or pretty much anything you pay to enjoy. There’s a lot of money involved in hiding the suffering.