That’s fair. I will say, it’s a lot of states - nearly the entire South, most of the Midwest, and some Western states have some level of this stuff, and it’s been proposed and occasionally defeated in more places than that.

Brownshirts usually don’t realize they’re expendable until purge time, historically speaking.

A whole bunch of these guys are degens from the ‘burbs. They’re largely not the stereotypical dumb “trailer trash” that people still assume they are for some reason.

“A paradise land for our elect group of special white people, only” does come pretty much straight from their original playbook. I’m sure there are English translations from the original German (because you know most of these guys don’t believe in learning other languages).

Just to throw in, I’ve found that a lot of the tropes of anti-Semitism are weirdly baked into our language and culture Like, there’s the stereotypes and obvious racism, but there’s also weirdly specific conspiracy theories that originated in centuries past that still persist or have morphed into other things but still…

Sorry to say, there’s no “might” to it. They’ve literally used ballot tampering and tried a number of voter suppression tactics within the last year.

Honestly, we’re pretty surprised that he’s able to do this without any real political repercussions, too. But there are also a lot of people who are extremely ignorant and believe themselves extremely savvy and well-informed, and they’re weirdly coherent around this guy.

Being under 40, that definitely encapsulates my expectations pretty well. I’d just like it if my grandma were able to take up bad watercolors or something, instead of having to do this stuff.

We all know by now that he and his supporters are sure that “truth” is whatever they scream loudly enough that it is.

Yeah, I’m surprised there’s not any objection to having people’s grandmas work McJobs until they keel over. I’m gonna go out on a limb and be controversial here, but maybe we should let people have a few years to relax and pursue their hobbies after a certain age, without the concern that they’ll have to skip their…

You’re trying to watch him strike a child? Because I feel like he might be the kind of person who’d hit someone else’s kid.

The Unsullied are gonna use an FTL afterimage to fool the dead and blast them into oblivion?

I kind of wonder if it’s the same urge to be in on the ground floor of coverage of an outsider candidate that we’ve seen a couple times now. No journalism outfit worth a damn wants to be caught flat-footed if he starts taking off, and he looks kind of outsider-ish, in terms of having come from kind of nowhere and…

She got disenfranchised from being the child of a U.S. President about 11 years ago.

If he was really so tough, he’d have gone and found himself a nice copperhead or a cottonmouth. The fatality rate is near zero if you receive treatment.

Stony seems like he is not a guy who really thinks through symbols, metaphors, or optics. I bet he read (skimmed, really) The Lord of the Flies in high school and thought it was about a bunch of kids eating pork and fighting a 100% literal, real woods monster. Hence the segment where he lifts the (non-native) serpent…

I remember that it was said that his bones were sent home. The book explains that it’s literally only the bone, with all flesh apparently boiled/cut away. So, in theory, the bodies in the stone boxes (with the giant statues on them) probably can’t really move, since all the wights they’ve shown need soft tissue to…

I had the same thought - when you illegally detain someone with the threat of violence, that’s kidnapping. Walking up to someone, putting a gun in their face, misidentifying yourself as law enforcement, and restraining them is kidnapping. That ought to carry a sentence you can measure in decades, and be an easy…

That one excerpt seems to suggest that they thought there might be a pee tape. As in, there wasn’t, but Russians suggested there was and they had it. Then nobody was able to go “Oh, no need to worry about that, he’s never had Russian prostitutes urinate in front of him for sexual gratification.”