@grok, is this true?

British Airways used to sell these really nice double-sided leather bomber jackets at events that were imprinted with the British Airways logo on the black leather side and the Concorde sown into the quilted side. The reason I know this is because somebody found one in a thrift store and gave it to me as a gift, and I did a lot of digging to find out where it came from as they never sold them in stores or anything, only at events. The leather was worn thin and torn even when I got it like 20 years ago, but the Concorde looks just as good as it ever did:

Not the current governor, but I bet Mitt Romney could be a good contender considering he was the Republican governor of deep blue Massachusetts, who elected him twice for his policies that were so well received that Republicans blamed Obama for his healthcare system.

When Obamacare went into effect, it didn’t happen in Massachusetts because Mass already had a (better) version of it.

And 4chan was filled with bigots. It was a major part of the alt-right pipeline that put America where it is today. Just because it was used ironically doesn’t mean that it wasn’t also used seriously. There’s a whole essay on the furry hate that revolves more around the damage done by that one CSI episode (and I’m pretty sure another similar show a few years later) that characterized furries as sexual deviants than anything else, but the use of the 4chan furfag moniker was also a part of it, and that spread outside of 4chan.

4chan for its part, though, really proved the saying “say something ironically enough times and eventually you start saying it unironically.” Although that’s less related to the furry thing and more to the whole edgy teenagers posting racist jokes growing up to scream about Jewish space lasers creating climate change.

No, he’s an asshole. I’d punch him in the face and break contact for a while.

Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…

Holy shit, is Gen Z the new Millennials? Gen Z is commonly agreed to be the generation born between roughly 1995 and 2012, meaning that the oldest of them would be 30.

Existential crisis aside, my real point is that I’ve been around the internet a long time - long enough to have seen the start of hate against furries - and I’d like to take your second part and play with it in that context because I’ve heard it all before somewhere.

For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.

So let’s start with the good faith interpretation, as furry is a subculture/hobby, so we’ll replace it with something similar:

For the record, I don’t “hate” Marvel fans, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a Marvel fan, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.

Kind of a weird statement, as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else, but not the weirdest thing to say by any means. But, knowing the history of the internet in this regard, let’s take your statement and change it to represent what the anti-furry sentiment actually is:

For the record, I don’t “hate” gay people, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re gay, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.

That’s right, the furry hatred was thinly veiled bigotry all along. There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days. It’s been a longstanding thing for hating furries to be “cool” because it was an easy way for bigots to hate minorities openly. Furries have major minority populations in the fandom (I think like twice the size compared to the world? Probably even higher), and so hating on furries was an easy way to hate on minorities - especially LGBT people as the fandom is commonly connected to the LGBT community in the cultural zeitgeist. So when they said that the OP isn’t going to win, I believe it’s in relation to that history - especially the whole “it’s cool to hate furries” thing that still seems to pop up amongst young kids even today.

The King James version was also written to specifically reword the Bible to include as many references to a monarchy as possible in the hopes of propagandizing the population during a time when kings were losing their heads at an alarming rate in Europe.

“If God truly does exist, he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.”

Thomas Jefferson

50% of the Founding Fathers were agnostic or atheist. My question is: why does she hate America?

Fun fact, recognizing Israel as a country had wide support from antisemitic groups all across the US and Europe.

It was seen as a solution to get rid of the Jews once and for all. Just deport them all to the Middle East so that they’re someone else’s problem.

Using the same loose logic could easily be used to say that Zionism is antisemitic. It’s the kind of stupid logic that conservatives use all the time to make the facts fit their feelings.

I knew there was a reason I kept this photo around.

It hasn’t been since at least “too big to fail.”

I don’t disagree that this isn’t the right community for this, but it is at least more useful to know because this is the head of US immigration, and so people outside the US should be aware of the caliber of people that we’ve put in power over people visiting our country. Like the tourist who got deported upon entering the country on vacation because he had a meme image of a bald Vance.

It’s not like it becomes impossible to maintain or gain muscle on estrogen, you just need to put in more effort compared to people with higher testosterone levels.

The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump’s cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we’ve ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won’t release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.

The purpose of an armed resistance isn’t a direct confrontation with an armed force. It’s the death of a thousand logistical cuts. It’s bleeding the country’s economy dry by disrupting the commerce required to keep daily life running smoothly and crippling the regime’s forces by making people afraid to sign up - one way or another. Whether that’s neighborhoods chasing ICE out or people finding out where cops and soldiers live and “paying them a visit” in the dead of night. An armed resistance’s goal is to simply be too big of a thorn to ignore but too entrenched and evasive to be worth the amount of money and effort it would take to catch them. Even just their existence in the media is a form of warfare. By simply being in the news they show a population that the regime can be resisted, even by just a bunch of people with guns.

Look at Napoleon’s war in Russia in 1812 and his massive losses due to poor supply lines, disease, and the Russians scorched earth policy ahead of the fierce Russian winter. Or to the American Revolution, where a bunch of farmers with guns and the financial backing of France became such a thorn in the side of the British Empire that they became one of the most powerful and obnoxious countries of the past two centuries and are the subject that started this whole conversation.

You can turn your guns on the entire country’s population, but then what? You’re going to have a hard time keeping troops loyal when it’s their friends and family on the other side of the gun, and terrorizing the population like that will make it impossible to keep the propaganda machine going. You’d be forced to rule through direct oppression, which would breed more resentment and more people willing to pick up a gun and fight back. Your only hope is to convince the discontent population that opposition is pointless and the true believers that you are right.

In the end, possibly the one good thing to come out of Overwatch.

If I understand what they’re saying (I’m not quite sure either), Facebook basically does a Man in the Middle Attack when you click a link that allows them to see what you click on after leaving their page?

On the one hand, it sounds crazy, but on the other it doesn’t sound outside the realm of possibility based on other things they supposedly do like create shadow accounts of people you and other people know/talk about to build a data profile on them and people they may know so that if they create an account, Facebook already knows what people are in their area and likely in their social circles (and the stuff that they actually do right out in the open where it’s obvious).

Still irrelevant to the issue anyway, but weird to think about. More to the point at hand, I wonder if your issue is caused by Facebook opening the picture in some kind of container instead of the actual page/link itself, like how Reddit opens images on the Reddit page when you try to open them directly - it won’t let you view the image as a source file if you try to open it from a search engine.

As did you by sitting back and letting it happen.

Have the day you voted for.

How would it have been breaking the law? According to the Supreme Court long before the election, any act a President does while in office is legal.

Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right, and just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing to do. It’s illegal to donate or hand out food from your garden to the homeless - as pertains to the law stating that it’s illegal to provide a better service than the government.