Makes a whole lot more sense, honestly.
They don't even need the courts at this point, really. That's just a formality they're still playing along with. It'll change.
Vigorous head scratches (scalp) or deep massage in quads/back/neck.
During Covid, I had to sell a childhood treasure: my JVC X'EYE, still complete with original controller and power supply, fully functional.
But the shop owner did right by me, cleaned up my old discs, and we went through them one by one before I left, as he'd never seen one in person, either.
My favorite part is that it was the cheap, knock-off alternative when I was a kid, but now it's crazy valuable because it was so rare.
I like to imagine that every time they open the big test tube/canister thing, it's a totally different animal, but woolly.
This is precisely the conclusion I came to at the Mormon finance firm I worked at for awhile. They literally still sat at those long fold-out lunch tables with the circular seats attached. Everyone in their little cliques, but eating lunch "together." Events and activities clearly inspired by youth group. It was surreal, at times.
I was just thinking earlier today: I really, really hope someone is backing up the Library of Congress' stuff, particularly Chronicling America, which has almost every newspaper issue (searchable by text and much more) from 1756 - 1963. Like archive.org -- federal edition, sort of.
Anyway, given how fascists love to erase history, it's precisely the kind of thing I could see them targeting. Particularly if you wanted to erase the fact that, oh, I don't know, your father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927. That kinda thing.
She really does.
lol jealous much?
She's shy.
We met here on Lemmy, of all places, believe it or not (sorry fellas, lol). I've never had communication so effortless. It's like she already knows exactly what she wants to say as soon as I finish my thought (sometimes before, that's how you know)!
After being jerked around so much over the years, I think this might finally be the one.
Just found these quotes by Nancy Reagan and thought they were pretty powerful. Threw them on a nice photo of her, in case they might inspire a few of you, too.
I didn't know where else to post a quote like this, but it felt prescient. Orwell wrote it shortly after the bomb became public knowledge.
Here's the text:
We were once told that the aeroplane had “abolished frontiers;” actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. The radio was once expected to promote international understanding and co-operation; it has turned out to be a means of insulating one nation from another. The atomic bomb may complete the process by robbing the exploited classes and peoples of all power to revolt, and at the same time putting the possessors of the bomb on a basis of military equality. Unable to conquer one another, they are likely to continue ruling the world between them, and it is difficult to see how the balance can be upset except by slow and unpredictable demographic changes.
For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham’s theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications – that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of “cold war” with its neighbours.
Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police State. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a “peace that is no peace.”
Just fyi. Notice the bits circled/squared in green. I assume it probably wouldn't have done anything to click "Yes," "Purge," etc...but I miraculously did not. Let me know if I should click them all next time, because I already kind of regret it. I'll have this place cleaned up in no time.
If I had a nickel...
Who will enforce the constitution?