I genuinely apologize for my ignorance. Germany looks like a damned paradise of free healthcare and other social welfare programs from the States. What issues are you facing over there?

Save Germany from what? Being a successful, modern country that takes care of its people?

No worries. Now I know it exists…maybe I can find a translation or translate it myself with Google if I can get a copy at all 🤣

I can’t find an English edition, unfortunately for me.

Yeah, I found the same books, and they don’t seem like the right one.

So is it Brock Allan Turner, convicted rapist, or Brock Allen Turner, convicted rapist? I want to be clear regarding who we’re discussing.

Hey, are we talking about convicted rapist Brock Allen Turner?

A host of r/relationships posts absolutely support that assertion!

Umm…I think my wife’s going to be upset when she learns I’m getting a girlfriend…

I am Groot.

Look what they made Bluesky do.

Matthew 7:21-23

[21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

These so-called Christians are like the Pharisees that Jesus opposed.

To be fair, in South Carolina, Jesus could run as a Democrat and somehow lose to Lindsey Graham with likely voters.

I would think Walz.

Now all we need is a DHD, a MALP, and a power source, and we’re in business.

I unfold paperclips and use the smaller end. One caveat that make me realize it’s not the best idea: the point I unfolded can break. I’ve never lost one in my ear, but I could imagine it happening.

Funny, I use shampoo over my whole body because the equivalent soap doesn’t have the menthol in it that I use to wake me the heck up every morning. That tingly feeling of freshness I get is phenomenal.

I think they might need to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Being gay doesn’t mean someone is somehow less masculine, which is the heart of what the “homo water” idiot is implying.

Was the British Empire, upon which the sun never set, somehow not masculine enough? One could argue it ran on tea. Morally questionable, absolutely, but not manly enough?

Were the samurai somehow compromised in their masculinity because they drank tea, sometimes in elaborate ceremonies?

And, apart from tea, were the Sacred Band, the elite warriors who died to a man fighting Alexander the Great’s dad, somehow less manly because they were all gay?

I bet this colleague of yours also thinks straws are gay in this parlance, as if it’s somehow more manly to put one’s lips on the same glass rims touched by hundreds of others. I guess hygiene is not masculine or heterosexual.

And the thing is, even my rant here is problematic because it spawns from a lifetime of people equating gay with not being enough of a man, an attitude that infects my own thinking.

Shit, the most feminine of men is more of a man than these idiots if he stands up for his identity unapologetically.