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If the demonrats lose this county and, as evidence suggests, lose this election, it'll be cuz of the annoying old lib couple that of course have a toy dog in a baby carrier.
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I feel yr pain, I made a post exactly like your comment a few months ago
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update pls
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Isn't that just how the language works though? Like, it sounds unnatural to say certain nouns without adding "the" to the front
Well the "naturalness" argument feels a bit iffy to me, but in the context of a specific language community, over time, things stick I guess. Like why do germans (I rly should say germanophones since austrians and the swiss do exist) say "der Iran", or "der Jemen"? Who came up with that? Now it probably feels natural to them, but it was never preordained.
Spanish does that too, it's why Das Kapital is called El Capital in Spanish but just Capital in English.
Im sure someone more linguistically minded can give the real explanation but in regards to your Capital example, its a peculiar feature of English in relation to the other western european languages where certain abstract nouns are not used with their articles. Like for example in English you can say "Love wins", but in German you cant say "Liebe gewinnt", you say "Die Liebe gewinnt".
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also its funny cuz nobody gets mad at the germans for saying "die Ukraine". In fact theres a bunch of country names in german that get used with a definite article, like die Slowakei, die Turkei, die Schweiz.
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shouldn't this be reversed?
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I feel bad for using so much water but I need my weekly bath for my mental health
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Like there rly is no other point in posting this other than to stoke russophobia. "OH those barbaric russians" thinks the reader while ignoring the history of their own country's linguicide, whether the uk, the us or any other western chauvinist shithole
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While Tatyana endorsed the merger as a way to grow the Wildberries business, Vladislav came out publicly against the deal. Enlisting the help of Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and Putin’s self-described “foot soldier,” Vladislav and Kadyrov released a video in which they accused Russ Outdoor of seizing Wildberries. In the same video, Kadyrov vowed to “return Tatyana to the family and protect a legitimate business.”
lol Russia is not a serious country
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from all the things passed down
from all the apples coming before
damn you now the song is stuck in my head again
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the leftovers. rly good shit.
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yeah the movie didn't rly meet my expectations but it did raise some interesting thematic/lore questions
before my political awakening I just took them at face value. But now they're like time capsules of the fairly shallow and hardly biting political commentary of the era. Specifically im talking about sitcoms that premiered in the late 90s (or early 2000s) and continued thru the 00s. Take Scrubs for example. There's a few episodes where the hospital workers break into camps discussing the Iraq war. Elliott, played by Sarah Chalke, is revealed as a republican. I suppose this mirrors how actual conversations at the time played out but its somewhat endearing how it all seems so quaint looking back. I know watching at the time I was like wow it's refreshing how they're being so political lmao. I think the cringiest when it comes to this is will and grace. There's a few episodes with bush-targeted jokes delivered primarily by debra messing (yuck). And they all have to do with his intelligence. I think the only exceptions are either the shows that did it smartly (for libs anyways) like the first three seasons of Arrested Development or ones that just focused on the domestic/life problems of the characters, like Malcolm in the middle (which is probably the last great working class sitcom) or everybody loves raymond.
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would you rather have stretched jeans and a wife with a dump truck ass or unstretched jeans and a wife with Hank Hill ass? I know which one I'd pick
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keep Blinken sounds like keep blinking. its a pun
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I was hoping you could expand, what factions are they up against? The Clintonites? I don't think there are any who don't follow Obama as well, he did serve two whole terms, and Hilary's credibility was, even if they say otherwise, damaged badly by her loss. I don't think there are any PUMAs left. The so-called "progressives" or the squad? Pfft, hardly able to stop anything, let alone kickbacks.
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wait rly? How tho
man transphobia do be potent tho
I'm a little perturbed by the meme phrasing in the title and how quickly I recognized it. But I guess they saw the opportunity and took it, even at the risk of looking unserious, in my view.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/magas-violent-threats-are-warping-life-in-america.html Yes I am subscribed but its on that a dollar a month deal for the next six months. Plus I like their crossword and cooking section
> As most people know by now, Robert Hur, a special counsel appointed to look into allegations of wrongdoing on Biden’s part, concluded that the president shouldn’t be charged. But his report included an uncalled-for and completely unprofessional swipe at Biden’s mental acuity, apparently based on the president’s difficulty in remembering specific dates — difficulty that, as I wrote on Friday, everyone confronts at whatever age. Hur’s gratuitous treatment of Biden echoed James Comey’s gratuitous treatment of Clinton — Hur and Comey both seemed to want to take political stands when that was not their duty. he had to justify his decision to not press charges somehow Paul > It’s also true that many voters think the president’s age is an issue. But there’s perception and there’s reality: As anyone who has recently spent time with Biden (and I have) can tell you, he is in full possession of his faculties — completely lucid and with excellent grasp of detail. Of course, most voters don’t get to see him up close, and it’s on Biden’s team to address that. And yes, he speaks quietly and a bit slowly, although this is in part because of his lifetime struggle with stuttering. He also, by the way, has a sense of humor, which I think is important. "Trust me bro he's fine" lmao be fr rn
from here: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/08/schumer-republicans-senate-ukraine-border-vote Seriously this is the stuff nightmares are made of
One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach life’s big milestones at the same time and intermingle in the same spaces. So how should we make sense of reports that Gen Z is hyper-progressive on certain issues, but surprisingly conservative on others? The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence, with young women in the former camp and young men the latter. Gen Z is two generations, not one. In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women. Tens of millions of people who occupy the same cities, workplaces, classrooms and even homes no longer see eye-to-eye. In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. That gap took just six years to open up
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break a leg!
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I mean def the most forgotten-to-the-sands-of-time game i've played is Wet. I rly enjoyed it at the time as a suburban teenager with nothing better to do, but I can't recommend because in hindsight it was pretty mid and it didnt come out on pc, so you'd have to put in the extra work to emulate and its not worth it lol
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dudes rock
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> The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, *who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection* Death to America, and death to the South in particular. Scorch that motherfucking earth.
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a pastelwashed caste system? in my ostensibly-for-little-girls animated series? It's likelier than you think
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have you watched prey? Thought it was pretty neat. But I love all the movies, good and not-so-good. I recognize the high level of Alien and Aliens, but I still appreciate the schlocky fun of AvP and the later-era Predator movies.
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The last Alien movies I saw were the Promethius films, which made all the supposed scientists act irritatingly dim-witted and not like scientists at all
yeah esp that whole sequence in covenant that ended in the lander exploding...no comment lol.
There was some conservative religious subtext about abortion and gender
couldnt you read prometheus as pro-abortion? Like they try to restrain her and force her to carry the "baby" but she fights back and extracts the thing out? Idk thats my reading of it thinking back on it.
or is there just a sense of please let it die lmao. Fede alvarez seems like a passable director, I'm hoping he pushes out something decent. I'm a bit warmer on the upcoming fx series. I like noah hawley well enough, I think he's up to the job. Hopefully we get a story that really expands on the anticapitalist themes.
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not that there was any point before, but there rly isnt any smidgen of a point to voting left at this stage
They can hardly industrialize on a sustainable scale right? Tourism is their only possible lifeblood, along with extractive stuff like mining and fishing and being a tax haven. What viable path is there for them under a communist system?
www.opendemocracy.net
> A leaked document written by Gila Gamaliel, the Israeli intelligence minister, came to light in late October amid the devastating war in Gaza. > It set out a proposal to relocate the residents of Gaza to Sinai (Egypt) as a solution “which will produce positive long-term strategic results”. But how could Egypt accept such a solution when most of its population appears to be pro-Palestinian? > The answer can be found in the world of macroeconomics: debt. > After being revealed by the Israeli newspaper Calcalist and WikiLeaks, the proposal is getting attention in the Israeli and Egyptian critical press. Tel Aviv appears to be in talks with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about Egypt taking in Gazans and settling them in Sinai, in exchange for the cancellation of all its debts to the World Bank. > This could mean the Israeli government would take on the debts Egypt owes to multilateral creditors (such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund etc.) or that (with the support of the United States) it would convince allied Western countries to write off Egyptian debts to national institutions Hope Egypt doesnt fall for this
Whats a gaming failure or undeveloped project you wish had a more successful release/was fully realized? For me its tomb raider angel of darkness. There were a lot of problems with the production, ranging from lack of leadership to scrapped concepts to the unpreparedness of the team for the complexity of programming for the PS2. Core design didnt have enough time to iron out the kinks even with all the crunch time, and eidos didnt give them more time because they wanted to release in june. The game was an unfinished mess, full of bugs and haphazard level design. But its gained something of a cult status within the raider community, with memes centering on its iconic side characters like janice the parisian sex worker as well as lara's feisty one-liners. Its still being kept alive by a dedicated community of speedrunners and unofficial remasters. I often think what could have been if it had more time to at least be passable at launch. Core planned two sequels that would have continued the story. Obviously they were scrapped, core design went defunct, and tomb raider was handed over to crystal dynamics.