Acknowledging that IBM is still around undermines your point about “competition”. The whole point of end-game capitalism is to escape competition, not overcome it.

Remember that time Amelia Bedelia…

Jews and Muslims don’t make idols because they obey the 2nd commandment. Christianity is a Greek religion steeped in Western iconography, divorced from it’s semetic roots, and so they ignore it. Hope this helps.

CSPAN is going to have to hire an interpreter so they can broadcast his speeches in English. Dude sounds like a drunk Foghorn Leghorn.

Symbols are for the symbol minded. I care about fascist policy, not iconography. He could stand in front of a bust of Hitler for all I care just so long as he stops murdering fisherman, Iranian kids, and heroic drug smugglers.

The only qualification a voter needs is to be subject to the authority of the State. Any other calls to “qualify” voters is voter suppression. It’s VoterID, Poll taxes, and Literacy tests.

If a voter decides on a candidate because Mars is in retrograde, that’s just as legitimate as the vote of the head of the political science department. low information voter = anti-democracy. If you can exclude them because their stupid, then you can exclude them for being black or a woman too. You can whittle it down until you get the utopia of the superior, or fascism as it’s commonly known.

If your system requires improved and enlightened humanity, then your system is tyrannical and sucks.

Students are citizens with rights. But rules about profanity are reasonable measures for good discipline.

If a student wore a You Can’t Lick Our Dick button to class, what teacher do?

rest more comfortably knowing that if there’s a hell

The problem with hell is it undermines all that Christian rot about forgiveness, pacifism, and kindness. Jesus isn’t just a God of redemption, he’s a God of infinite punishment and never-ending vengeance. And Hastert can absolutely accept Jesus and get a ticket to ride. The Holocaust Jews on the other hand, not so lucky. When I realized that all those Jews went straight from Hitler’s oven into Jesus’ oven, it permanently damaged my faith.

I convinced a girl to watch “Battle Of Briton (1969)” with me one time. I forgot to warn her about the dog. She was shocked to say the least.

Does the Nword have the same cultural significance in the UK?

That’s a weird way to say he caught it. The first sentence of the article says he picked it up. He doesn’t have to be a perfect victim to deserve sympathy or hold the pigs to account.

You’d think in a conflict where both sides are operating the same equipment, they’d invest in some robust IFF. Just one more example of Russia’s competence problem.

This mentality makes sense in 1952, but with benefit of hindsight and all the consequences, is pretty obtuse to say today.

Louisiana has the highest GDP per capita. This is usually a surprise because the State seems so poor. The reason is that the legislature can wave property tax for industry. What that means is that all that money flows into the pockets of big oil while their schools, roads, and hospitals suffer.

I’d also consider the wisdom of gouging your main industry at a time when tourism is already on the decline. Fuck Canada is a pretty weird hospitality messaging.

Be careful what you wish for Florida.

I’m not going to apologize for American imperialism, but will point out that its benevolent compared to Japanese empire.

In Korea, the Japanese imposed a factory-farm system for rape. Unit 731 did things in China that would make an IDF officer puke in his boots.

I’m sorry for whatever your English teacher did to you, but don’t make it my problem. You have to understand that well-adjusted adults don’t tremble in fear before the mighty red pen. English is a dirty slut and I can use her however I want, and there is nothing you can do about it you can’t do nothing about it.

fuck you

I don’t hoard video files, so 1TB still seems unimaginably vast. I was shocked when I learned my entire CD collection, ripped to FLAC, would fit on my phone. 100TB is like a billion dollars, my mind has difficulty understanding numbers that large.

This guy hates gay people so much he moved his family to Russia. But he doesn’t hate them enough to die in Ukraine.

It’s ironic that a Christian got in trouble because they couldn’t hate enough.

I’m a Luddite. 99% of my phone usage is listening to music or podcasts. I love the Signal app because I can type text messages on my desktop and not mess with that asshole keyboard and it’s tyrannical auto correct.

If Iran shot down any stealth fighter you wouldn’t have to look it up, it’d be huge news. The Yugoslavs got an F117 in 1999 and the tankies still won’t shut up about it.