No no, adding superfluous punctuation makes you look SMARTER.

I think he means that they would all be tried as adults here in Real America.

I’ve had this crisis since I realized the “But just means everything before it was a lie.” thing. I’ve resorted to starting the sentence with “although” before adding the nuance in the clause.

At least future Upton Sinclairs will have some good, mucky material to sink their teeth into.

Ha, I was reading the earlier posts thinking, “That’s all well and good, but I doubt my local store (Fred Meyer) here in Oregon would have it.”

“... is sniffing the taint of...”

S1 showed up in August last year, so probably a similar timeline this year?

“America First” or “America Only”? Just say what you fucking mean, asshole.

It’s my favorite part of the “tamed a continent” rhetoric. This was a populated country that had a massive die-off due to disease. The land the settlers “tamed” was like an overgrown national park, with roads, crops, paths, towns, etc. “Tamed”. The fuck out of here.

Maybe our hopeful immigrants should bring some special blankets as gifts?

No shit. Not a single one of them knows about the Robber Barons? Muckrakers? Hitler’s rise to power? The contents of this article? There’s a very good reason schools lose funding and have their reading lists pruned when a country gets all goose-steppy.

Fuuuck, that’s brutal. And these days, that’s really saying something.

It’s got a very “I am a human life form, like you. Not at all a robot.”

I don’t think I know any truly good people who go around describing themselves as good people.

Excellent, thank you! I’ll give them a shot.

No worries, great to see another WoT fan out in the wild.

Birgitte Silverbow from Wheel of Time? The archer with the long blonde braid?

I have found people who shoot tequila to mainly be dicks, yes. But the people I know who like to sip it neat are usually a lot more chill. The margarita/ mixed tequila drink crowd are usually dicks, too, but in a cheerful “Baby’s first Lost Weekend” kind of way.

Absolutely. If that’s how the steak shows up, that’s how it’s getting eaten. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy, though.