As written this guy only has one monkey.

892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.

Like you already got unbelievably lucky.

I think the real answer is that the only people who actually know are the select few astronauts, and their governments are too prudish to ever be open about it, so the astronauts don’t want to admit to such “unprofessional” behaviour. I think until space tourism becomes common enough, we’ll never know.

I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.

“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”

Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.

I should probably read that book, thanks for that.

This definitely plays into something I’ve been thinking about lately - in a conservative worldview, all sex is rape, of a woman by a man. Whether it’s acceptable to them is all about ownership. Does that man have the right kind of ownership over that that woman? If so, they’re fine with it. If not, it’s bad.

This is also related to the idea that no woman ever actually wants sex, and no man ever doesn’t want it. It’s all about when it’s allowable for him to overpower her.

Yes, agreed, but “thousand year prohibition” is so specific. Like that must refer to something, and I’m really curious about what.

I assume they have a reference yeah, which is why it’s so wild that they just throw it out as if it’s common knowledge.

Can anyone explain the phrase “hence thousand year prohibition against it”?

Like, I see the Musk-y tweet style, where apparently articles like “a” and “the” aren’t worth your big boy genius brained time, but what is the prohibition? Dude just drops that like everybody knows what he’s talking about, but what the actual fuck is he talking about?

God, it’s such an arrogant, lazy way of talking, I fucking hate these incel shitheels. They’re actually confused why women won’t touch them? Jesus.

Turns out that allowing people to choose from a very limited pool of potential rulers every couple of years doesn’t actually give them any real power over their society, and maybe it’s just a way to delay revolution while the true ruling class gets all the benefits of the old monarchs with almost none of the blowback, because we’re all too divided over which potential ruler is less blatantly evil to address the real problems.

It’s a very effective method of social control, but it would be a really bad idea for one of the de facto ruling class to try to step into the de jure ruler’s office and try to run it for himself like a dictator. That would probably blow up in his face.

They should call it by its proper English name: “corn chip sandwich.”

Also, I just want to add: they picked an easily manipulated, disposable kid, and told him to shoot near but not hit Trump? Is that the story you’re going with?

Or what, there was no bullet, the injured people in the crowd were actors, they killed that guy later, the photo of the bullet was manipulated, and they just made sure they got to the shooter first to replace the blanks with real rounds?

Your theory either relies on the hypercompetence of a disposable kid to not actually kill Trump, or you’re enlisting a lot of extra people who all have to be kept quiet now, forever, all for the sake of a single moment of manufactured drama.

Which one is it? Or is there a secret third option?

It bled, there are photos of it bleeding. We have all seen it.

A wound like that doesn’t need to leave a big scar. Sure, some doctor might have been lying about the “2cm wide wound” but that’s not surprising at all. We know they’re liars and there will be misinformation around the event, but that doesn’t mean the wound didn’t exist. Head wounds bleed a lot even if they’re very small.

You don’t have anything except a tendency to confirm your pre-existing beliefs.

I would explain the lack of ear injury by saying that there was an ear injury.

Cool story but nobody has to listen to you if you can’t be bothered to substantiate anything.

Conspiratorial thinking is evidence of and leads to very disordered thinking. You can carry on with it if you want, I’m not your cult leader and I don’t have any say in how deranged you get.

A centrist is just a conservative who knows that “conservative” is a bad word.

With evidence, please. “I reckon” is not good enough. There is no evidence that anyone coordinated this at all.

Like fuck Trump, but if they staged it why would the shooter be a disaffected conservative and not some antifa supersoldier or whatever? Like they’re playing out their fantasies and apparently they can construct whatever reality they feel like, why muddy the waters in any way?

I’m sorry, the reality in which the dude just sucked, the secret service kind of suck at their job, and the bullet grazed Trump’s ear rather than going into his brain from sheer dumb luck is a messy, shitty, scary place where nobody really calls the shots, but it turns out that’s probably the one we live in.

I think it can fall under the same umbrella if their health is failing - it certainly follows the same logic of getting rid of the useless eaters.

But strictly speaking it doesn’t affect the gene pool, so you’re right about that.

Nah, that’s some eugenics bullshit. People don’t lose value just because their health is failing. They’re still people.

What her health does change is the threat that she posed.

Explain why you as a trained officer need a taser to subdue a 95 year old frail woman who needs a walker.

Just literally take a step back, or grab her wrist. It’s not hard.

Iggity-iggit-ig-ig-ig-uhhh, don’t mind the flag.

That’s actually a real strategy that stutterers use to get around hard phrases, they just rephrase what they mean.