Alphaville was @rock-stupid@.

Needs more CAPS.

L.A. would, today, be on the extreme left wing of the MAGA Party. He might even be able to see the “middle,” on a clear-minded day, from there.

I believe there’s a definition of “a modern nation” being a mostly defined area where the “permitted” use of violence has been monopolized by one group.

There certainly are worse movies. And far, far, far, far worse rom-coms.

She probably “thinks” it’s some nickname for West Virginia or something, like Missouri (CJ would probably recognize that - as the motto of Indiana and a word, which she would spell as ‘sho-mi’ from the “indians” - is the “Show-Me” state, not really knowing what “sanctuary” means.

They’re celebrity Republicans, so they are capable or any crime or evil, so log as they believe they will face no penalties.

They want a “manly” choice, a “soldier’s death”, like the Nazi top brass preferred - for themselves, despite the fact that they’ll crawl and shit themselves in weeping terror if even given a short and deserved prison sentence in an ordinary prison.

Because they really want to be no more than subjects, not citizens. They want the freedom to obey a bully who will grant them license to harm those they hate, because they fear and envy them.

Older white guy here: Bill, fuck off.

Was Franco better than Hitler?

You seem to mean well, but how more wrongheaded could you be?

They - Republicans and worse - have nothing but a fast-decaying, viciously-obtained and also almost entirely useless “privilege” that not even they believe in any longer, but is all - literally all - they have to define themselves any longer (Jesus clearly ain’t doing shit for them), so they cry and lie, with only…

“What should I do?”

It certainly is, since it evokes someone who was a minor 70s male porn star moniker, exactly.

[shrugs]

Not that only Turkey does this, much less was the first, but I call this sort of legislation the “Turkish curriculum” - based on Turkey’s long, brutal, and useless attempts to legislate away the Armenian Genocide.

Because “punishment” - much less revenge - is never my fucking goal.

I don’t agree.

Matt is, fortunately, clueless and without a spark of creativity so DO’T GVE HIM IDEAS, even as a joke!