Racisms per minute (RPM)?

The core principle of the Democratic Party is to support <thing> and pretend not to. The Republicans just drop the pretense.

With a little revision, it’s the United States political dynamic!

They’re really the worst mods, especially the fish one.

I know a few men that would get on board with knocking up America. They do love the crazy ladies.

They mean Aslan, aka big kitty Jesus, from the Narnia books.

I was surprised to see them called inedible. The young gourds are tender and taste like squash.

Wtf even is “American DNA”

A figurative, not literal, expression referring to an aspect of the cultural heritage of the United States. It’s not an uncommon expression, although it’s a bit dated. It’s also not an exclusive statement, so I’m not sure what you think you’re arguing.

Here’s the relevant wiki article:

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

We really need a spreadsheet to track all this shit.

Use linesman’s gloves and don’t unplug them first for extra effects!

100%!

Unfortunately, the “in matters is taste” line isn’t true and appears to have originated on the internet in about the last decade, being popularized on Reddit. The original phrase was “the customer is always right”, full stop.

The slogan has its origins in early 1900s retailers, as the previous predominant principle in commerce was essentially “buyer beware”, that the relationship between buyer and seller was inherently distrustful. In an attempt to gain shopper’s trust, retailers such as Sears and Marshall Field issued instructions to their employees to satisfy customers regardless of if they’re right or wrong. This led to a number of similar maxims, including the above.

Why so I care so damn much? Two reasons. First, I’m a stickler for facts and “in matters of taste” is entirely unsupported. Second, and greatest of all, is how it shifts the responsibility for encouraging bad customer behavior from the retailer to the customer, as if the customer is intentionally misinterpreting an element of the social contract for personal gain. The original intent, to require retail employees to satisfy customers regardless of their behavior, was driven by retailers for greater profits at the expense of their employees. It grooms customers toward bad behavior as they know acting out will get them a better deal or service. Sure, customers must choose to behave in such a manner, but it’s the retailers condoning and even encouraging such behavior that allows it to so easily continue.

Edit: I recommend the Wikipedia article for more info. While I don’t often suggest Wikipedia articles, I may or may not regularly curate that one.

I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that

It’s because it’s not true. It was always “the customer is always right”, full stop, originating in 1900s department stores as a slogan to encourage employees to be doormats for entitled customers. Gotta make the owners richer!

Then folks on the internet uncritically started repeating this “matters of taste” nonsense in the last decade or so, and here we are. It only bothers me because it’s demonstrably untrue and places the full responsibility for bad behavior on the customer, as if they’re intentionally misinterpreting a guideline, when it’s truly the retailer’s policies that encourage that behavior.

I suppose you and I have different notions of what defines smart. Being “brainwashed” into supporting something that someone of even middling intelligence can see is overwhelmingly stupid suggests a lack of the most basic critical thinking skills, which I would not say suggests any notable degree of intelligence.

It’s also harder to do on the left as I feel truth is valued much more on that end of the spectrum. While there are plenty of libs who seem content to float through life in a center-left/center-right haze, even they won’t buy the quantity of easily disproven bullshit spewed out by fascist propagandists. It’s hard to compete.

As someone who did both of those things, I caution you to be sure not to conflate educated with intelligent. I have met many very well educated, astoundingly stupid people in academia and industry. Some of the most educated people I’ve met were as dumb as a sack of hammers, they just had the right mix of personality traits and privilege to help them succeed in a system that above all else requires opportunity, dedication, and time.

Their family tree is a holiday wreath.

Oh great, another gross man child with no critical thinking skills. Figures he’s in charge of things.

Seriously, I regularly did 12 miles round-trip on my bike down roads with no sidewalk or bike lane at 12 to see my friend who lived in the bad part of town. I guess my parents would be felons by today’s standards.

Edit: hi again! I’m not stalking you, I promise!

The pigs would fire you then sell the video online.