“You don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”

I’d argue that the last two months have been the culmination of the last ~50 years of US fascism.

Maybe not an average conservative in France, but pretty spot-on for a conservative in the U.S.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.

I guess I’d recommend watching Banshee.

In the years before the US existed, when the land was colonized by European powers, Europe had a lot of really annoying, prudish types who were a major downer.

Someone had the bright idea to encourage them to move to the colonies where they could live their prudish existence free from the naked bodies of Europe.

We ended up with all of Europe’s biggest prudes. Europe’s prudes have been trying to reestablish themselves, but they are at a serious disadvantage. Meanwhile, we in America have to deal with an overwhelming population of prudes that we’ve struggled for centuries to extinguish​.

While we’re on the subject, Europe also found it convenient to dump their criminals here. So we end up with a culture in which full frontal nudity is unacceptable, but gun violence is just fun entertainment.

I say that as someone who loves some good violence. Nothing quite so enjoyable as living vicariously through some bad ass beating the snot out of the bad guys in a movie.

I never would have thought of myself as a prude, but recently stopped watching the series Banshee because the amount of gratuitous sex in the show was exceeding the amount of gratuitous violence to such a degree that I began to feel uncomfortable.

I just want to say that while scrolling by the thumbnail for this post, my brain guessed that the article was about chickens playing checkers using their eggs as game pieces.

That’s why I stopped to check on what it was about.

Brains are odd.

I think we’d want Elon to go with him for technical support.

It seems like a shame to me that Stuttering John isn’t doing that shtick anymore now that our politicians communicate on that level.

MTG would make more sense if she just stood there shouting “bababooey” over and over.

I work at a hospital.

In IT.

For Radiology.

You don’t have to convince me to hate Siemens.

Oh, yeah, you’re right!

Alternative to learning to growl:

Aztec Death Whistle

I went to a Catholic University.

I was never Catholic, and I was agnostic by the time I received my degree. However, there was a religion requirement, and one of the religion classes I took was taught by a Catholic priest.

He mentioned he loved when JWs knocked on his door. He’d invite them in, sit them down, and just debate them until they couldn’t stand it anymore and practically begged to leave.

It sounded like he treated it like an opportunity to convert them to catholicism, not because he expected them to convert as much as he just thought it was funny.

Like watching two high school bullies fight each other.

It surprises me that not everyone seems to realize this.

I have no experience with Hakarl or Lutefisk, but from what I’ve heard about Lutefisk, they wouldn’t have to eat it. Just opening the can in their presence would send a message.

As an American, if they showed up at my front door the most polite thing I’d say to them would be the “fuck off and die” they’d hear right before I slammed the door.

Anyone uninvited gets the door slammed in their face, but I am rarely inspired to make a verbal statement as well.

There used to be an exception to the door slam for people selling girl scout cookies, but they don’t go door to door anymore.

My door mat says “GO AWAY!”, so I feel getting a door slammed in your face if you ring the doorbell is justified.

People seem to keep missing that. The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in war is falling apart. You aren’t safe if you’re in another country. You aren’t safe if you’re on this planet.

Since it’s Fox, they’re polling likely fascist voters, so his “approval rating” is even worse if you poll non-braindead voters.