This is the mob who eventually evolved into the “blackshirts”, but the point is, the Nazis had massive, effective grassroots support from young fit people able to swing a club at the heads of anyone the Nazis decided needed a good clubbing.

Good point, in many ways police departments are virtually identical to organized crime. Loyalty to the group is more important than the law, hatred of “rats,” running protection rackets, often violent or even murderous. Lying to cover up crimes. 

2) a slew of local and national stories of low-level cops preventing a terrorist act or single-handedly saving something major on the 6:00 news and morning shows.

How do you know a drummer is knocking at the door?
The knocking keeps getting faster and faster.

Seriously. They can gladly have my money, but I don’t even want to have to read the titles of 700+ games, let alone figure out which ones I actually want to try. Can they add an option where I pay $10 and only get...say, 20 or 30 games, just the good stuff.

Are you using mild cheddar that barely has a flavor in the first place? Use some “Seriously Sharp” cheddar cheese (Cabot is my preferred brand). As my grandfather used to say, it will put hair on your chest.

Your butter is going bad in less than two weeks? Are you storing it on something hot? I just had butter out for two months that was still fine. Though the temperature was never above 63 degrees (F) or so in that time.

Interesting, I’d never really thought about what it must be like to have a genuinely evil parent. In the public space kids usually seem to on the same moral page as their famous parents (the Trumps are my go to example of this). I’m absurdly lucky in that my parents and even my grandparents are all really good people.
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Does she think it is essential to go to some shitty store with shitty customer service so she can overpay for games? The only way I would go into a Gamestop was if they were handing out the cure to Covid in there. And I’d have to hear that from someone other than a Gamestop exec/employee.

Holy shit, I didn’t think that could possibly be real, I had to click on the link you provided.

Jedi and Sith don’t poop, the shit simply joins the Force directly from their bowels, becoming more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

The new Gamestop motto: Taking the F out of FLGS!

So, a Democrat when Clinton was in office, and then a Republican as soon as Bush was in office. But he was too racist to switch all the way back to being a Democrat when Obama was in office.

“Endure. In enduring grow strong.”

Oswalt must have felt like John Stewart listening to J.J. Abrams talk about Star Trek.

Oil companies are making record profits too, but who thinks that they will even exist 30-50 years from now? Same for the pharmaceutical companies jacking up the price of Epipens by 1,000% with no regard whatsoever for the consequences (American voters eventually getting fed up with their bullshit and voting in some…

It’s kind of like the NRA of the left...if PETA had any clout, or were really just corporate shills for corn farmers, or had millions of one-issue voters who would vote for a rapist if the alternative was someone who ate meat, or was taking money from Russia, or prevented there from being any research at all related…

Given the popularity of stepsibling porn in the past decade, fair enough.

Wow! There is a name I haven’t even thought of in forever! I had no idea that they were making Dial H for Hero again. I read a bunch of the original comics that came out in the 60's but haven’t thought about them since I was a kid. I’m going to have to go check out this new run, it sounds super fun!