Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]

Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes “attractive and successful African-American”) and I’d be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.

The obvious joke here is “If that substance is being marketed as ‘beer’, and if we’ve all agreed to tolerate this, then we’re already on level 2.”

If the USSR wanted to keep workers in, that means it understood that it couldn’t function without them. Does your current country act like it understands this?

[Quietly whistles Electric Six guitar riff]

In standard written English I think “they were hurt” is the clear winner.

Closest point of comparison I can think of is “you were hurt”, which uses the same verb form regardless of whether “you” is singular or plural.

Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that’s the best you can hope for.

Sorry if I’m misreading your third paragraph but I’m not sure if balkanization along strictly racial lines is either practical or desirable, except possibly to Turner Diaries types.

Why should we destroy Canada? It can be reformed in ways the United States cannot be.

What are you basing that on? IMHO the first thing that’s going to happen if the US balkanizes is the Canadian government announces that Canada is willing to serve as a lifeboat for the American ruling elite.

[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]

[It begins leaking]

What in the goddamn

So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?

What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you’re renovating a basement?

And maybe a Roma state somewhere east-southeast of there.

imagine in like 2110 someone makes a rap musical about Alan Greenspan

Thanks to ChatGPT, we don’t have to wait until 2110. Hell, we don’t even have to wait until the end of the day.

Finland

Oh.