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Justice is the foundation of peace? Which hippie socialist said that?

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Oh. Jesus. Hm...

Nazis did not have an ideology. They were a grievance movement that utilized a common folk scapegoat (Jewish and Roma migrants) to unify the fractured German political landscape in the Weimar Republic era.

It was a populist demogogue movement that cynically and callously used terminology that was common and popular among poor working class people in order to trick them into believing that their movement was about anything other than hatred, extermination, and pilfering public coffers. The 'Socialist' part of their name was a cynical play to attract those who were active in Communist organizing in the early 1900s.

There was no collective ownership in Nazi Germany. The government owned much of everything, and the only parties that benefited from that ownership were the individual cronies that Hitler personally feted. Nazi Germany was socialist in the way that Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation is a Communist state — IN NAME ONLY.

Not all religions and cultures believe in Hell as a discrete place; it's actually a pretty uniquely Christian (okay and Zoroastrian, leave me alone) eschatological phenomenon. Most world religions really understand the afterlife as a constant for everyone, in the way that if you get on a train and leave one station, you have little choice but to go to the next station.

In the Bahá'í tradition, 'Heaven' and 'Hell' are considered poetic (or, if you're into the Monist / Dualist discourse, 'fictional elements') descriptions of the state of any one person's spirit upon arriving at the afterlife. 'Hell' is a state in the way having chronic pain is 'being in hell.'

This right here is the power of political cartoons in one example - like no other medium, it can just go right on up to it. God DAMN. Your magnum opus Lalo.

Frankly I don't understand why they didn't expect anything less by creating random traffic choke points. Mark my words, attitudes on ICE are going to start shifting radically once they start causing more and more collateral damage in pursuit of these capricious arrests.

It's gonna be something big, like, an ICE agent smearing one of Jeff Bezos' kids with an SUV while they're chasing a 75 year old abuelita through a palisade in downtown San Francisco. It's gonna be random, and whichever unlucky ICE agent ends up doing it is going to get crucified — literally. This kind of high recklessness isn't even seen in states with sophisticated surveillance or fascism. We are absolutely on some Great Leap Forward bullshit right now.

Let's see, and who was Hyundai's main competitor at assembling EV batteries in the US? 🤔

there was. but also, I mean Kirk getting shot was a school shooting in itself. he was shot on a college campus while students were there.

Boomers and older Gen-Xers seem to truly have no concept of how many school shootings that Millennials and Zoomers have lived through.

The response to those was the same every time, and the words they used were similar to those Kirk himself used — "a little random violence is the price we pay for the freedom to own guns."

Since Uvalde, I have just been straight with it and just refer to it as the Second Amendment God. The Second Amendment God occasionally gets hungry, and must be fed with blood. That's what we as Americans want. This has happened a thousand times over in 25 years, and each time, we all cast a silent vote that this is what we want.

The Second Amendment God exists because we want Him to exist.

Really cool action movie that just never stops. Highly recommended.

Bad Bunny is outside of my orbit, and I hadn't heard of him until he was first on SNL, but you can tell that he did SNL once and decided this is what he was all about now. He is very cute that way.

Just check your local Etsy or equivalent for "cat peeking sticker". Here's an example: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1770291243/black-cat-sticker-peeker-sticker-cat

I actually have that same design as a vinyl sticker for the back window of my car. Every time I'm at a light, I see someone in the rear-view doubling over laughing and taking photos.

10/10, would recommend for bringing light into peoples' lives.