Lamebot posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst

hakimashou posted:

The US fought the bloodiest war in its history, the war in which more Americans died than in all the subsequent wars together, including the two big ones where we came to Europe's salvation, to end slavery.

Slavery was our original sin, but we expiated it with vast quantities of our own blood.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/david_leavitt/status/866790014717497345

C. Everett Koop posted:

https://twitter.com/TheHerd/status/869292525479014400

Loving Life Partner posted:

https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/875769376053628932

Modest Mao posted:

hunt 'em down and poke 'em with hep C I say

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Chapo’s many foes seized on the phrase “bend the knee.” Because the show has often been accused of sexism, the phrase “bend the knee” was interpreted by some listeners as a sexual remark aimed at humiliating Hillary Clinton supporters.

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This gendered analysis seems unwarranted because Menaker’s remarks weren’t aimed at women as a class, but at the centrist wing of the Democratic Party; Clinton wasn’t mentioned, and the phrase may even be an allusion to a common refrain in Game of Thrones. Yet if the remark wasn’t sexist in intent, it still suggests a troubling vision of politics as a contest in domination. As New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister remarked in an email, “‘bend the knee’ gets read as a sexual reference, not because people think it is literally about sex, but because it conveys a hunger for dominance and submission, which is very quickly heard as gendered and sexual, even when the reference is not explicit.” To put it another way, the comment was an act of dominance politics, which, accusations of sexism aside, is problematic in its own right.

twoday posted:

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[Morrissey has once again stirred up controversy by declaring his belief that the Ukip leadership election was rigged to ensure an anti-Islam activist did not win.

Rusty Dees posted:

The biggest problem for me and for many was that we didn’t hear anybody returning fire. I’m very concerned that we had no one outside to protect us. Unfortunately for me being unarmed and unable to do a whole lot decided it was time to get out of there.