Isn’t the choice between removing england or getting the soda? You can have your England and drink it too.

That H-O-T-T-O-G-O verse is such an earworm.

Haha, I’m glad you liked it. I was a little bit drunk and worried it might not be as funny to everyone else as it seemed in my head at the time.

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How many people have you bitten? Blood stains your lips, especially if you let it dry, it’s not as easy as wiping it off. You need hot water and soap, which might not have been in the car during the trip to the hospital.

Is it really hurting the low speed networks? I would imagine there are many stations that high speed rail doesn’t go to. Let goods travel long distance low speed, let people go fast.

But what’s your straight line distance to the Parthenon?

At least not without a beekeeper condom.

Spending on missile defense is one of the only parts of the military budget I’m alright with. Heck, why not expand it, intercept every missile targeting civilians regardless of who fired it.

Isn’t that the Qatar money the above comment was talking about?

I was making a joke about directions; under, over, transverse; entirely unserious.

Maybe you’re under reacting.

I’m transverse reacting by mirroring your reaction.

It does matter, even if you don’t view it as significant in the broader context. Even from the perspective of starting a communist revolution, the more fascist and conservative the government, the more brutal the suppression.

My personal position is not for one system of government over the other as much as it is for better outcomes for society. I have enough trans friends and relatives that I want as few conservative reactionaries in power as possible.

Since it seems unlikely for capitalism to be toppled before the republican party crumbles, I still think it’s worth working towards, especially when it just takes a single piece of paperwork every couple years to help.

It seems to me like the two versions aren’t mutually exclusive. A better voting system that allows for more parties would undoubtedly lead to more parties winning votes, but such a reform would also run against the interests of the ruling class.

I mean, there’s many nations with more than two parties, including progressive parties, but I don’t see a reason why that’s more in line with the ruling class there than here.

It’s not so much about blame to my mind than it is about the way systems feed into each other.

However you slice it, whatever prior conditions you see as most important, replacing the republican party with one left of democrats would be a huge improvement.

Frankly I’m not sure what the leadership would look like. It would start as the progressive caucus, but it would naturally evolve from there based on the voters.

I think the reason many current ‘progressive’ leaders abandon progressive policies has more to do with our current political paradigm than personal flaws of the leaders.

If there were a progressive party with a progressive base it would make progressive policies key to getting votes.

It really depends on what it was used for. I almost always turn bacon grease into gravy or mayo, for oil/butter from cooking meat dishes I make pan sauces, but for frying oil I recycle.

Why waste the oil? Turn it into gravy, or mayonnaise, or store it to sell to a recycling center that will turn it into biofuel.

Republican Voters Against Trump have been running veteran billboards for a while. The DNC has been running billboards calling him and anti-union scab.

I think the chicken angle hits a bit different though, a lot of people write off everything trump says as just talk, and many attacks seem to get ignored as slander, but the fact he’s unwilling to debate is a plain and uncontested fact, one that makes him look weak.

Eh, back in 2e Polymorph worked a lot like True Polymorph does in 5e, in 3e it was called Polymorph Any Object. I think a lot of players just call it Polymorph, even though there’s a level four spell with the same name, especially if the context of the situation makes it clear which spell is being used. At least that’s how it goes at my table, but every group is different.

Democrats should be the right wing party, and the other party should be Progressives. Republicans have proven themselves incapable of governing.