It’s a well known leftist term and is almost 100 years old now. I have a hard time believing you didn’t already know this.

There’s an ongoing campaign by the usual suspects to pretend the word doesn’t have a definition beyond “epithet for The Real Left used by ignorant libtards.” Usually followed by a wall of text containing circular references as citations.

You can’t shit-talk one authoritarian state and cheer on another.

Tire-d of the same old dinner?

Can’t speak for y’all, but I’m firmly in “will never be able to retire” territory.

Shout out to the $8 quart of ice water with half a lemon in it sold as “lemonade” at last year’s ren faire. Though I did get lemon-flavored melted ice for the next few hours out of the deal.

Wonder if it’s like when they land on a can of beer.

Spontaneous reply. Just happened automatically, without any thought.

…no, wait

“You know how a popular time travel question is, if you could go back and kill Hitler, would you? People are going to be asking the same about Trump and Musk (and Vance and Thiel and a whole mess of others) if the dust ever settles.”

I expect a report when you return, along with an essay about what you did during the summer.

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It’s been a long time, but I remember most of those Goldberg “classics” being pretty short, one-note affairs.

And then Schiavone exclaimed, “There it is, the spear! This one’s over folks, one, two, three!”

“If that gentleman needs a chiropractor, my brother in law just set up shop downtown,” said The Brain.

Or at least believes themselves to be.

Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?"

- more Krishnamurti

I just realize that the examples in the meme leave out an important part of the ensemble: calf-high white tube socks with multicolor bands at the top.

If you’re gonna rock it, rock it all the way.

Rebuild me shiny and chrome

Steel and circuits will make you whole.

Aside from my slab o’flab making people wish my top had not been cropped, those daddy dukes look like junk-crunchers.

Bad things happen in WCW.

The original Orange Man, if you will.

I’m a part of some really small communities (like single digit posts per month). Some of those posts are even mine. I wouldn’t say that’s MVP level, but…