In a neighborhood, everyone knows your name. If Joe the Plumber and Fred the Butcher make a bet, everyone has heard it, and the loser has to pay up, or be scorned.

In a bar, the bartender or server holds the bets and pays off the winner, and expects a cut of the pie as a sevice fee/tip.

90 year old woman goes to the local brothel. She tells the madam that she wants to try something new, so she wants to try being a hooker for a night. Madam makes some phone calls, finds some customers who 'd be into it, and tells the woman to come back the next night.

The next day the lady arrives, and soon the first john shows up. They walk upstairs, spend an hour, and come back. The second customer is waiting, and so he and she go upstairs. After she comes back down, the third guy arrives, so it’s back upstairs.

At the end of the night the madam asks if she wants to come back?

“Oh, no dear. the sex was fine but those damn stairs will kill me.”

With climate change and coastal flooding, it’s coming, just not in the form you’re thinking of.

Asteroid mining. We’ve had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.

Or he could smile and wave and then shoot him in the back…

Brief moment in history…

I remember reading this tip in a magazine. Instead of having a professional photographer at a wedding, put a disposable camera at every table.

A lot of difference between shooting protestors and a nuclear war.

Look at Trump’s big military parade. The Army has crack drill teams, expert parachute units, ace helicopter pilots, and dozens of other impressive troops to put on display. No way is the military going to go to war because Donnie is having a tantrum.

Almost as if the other guy didn’t have access to many, many more weapons and the legal right to shoot you.

The only reason the Americans won is that they had the French Navy on their side.

The French went broke supporting the Americans.

Also, the Brits were willing to cede to the Americans. The Brits kept getting US cotton and they were going to get it cheaper because once the British empire withdrew the Americans could expand into the Native nations the British had treaties with.

It’s not comparable in any way.

What part of ‘armored vehicle’ confused you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenco_BearCat

If you think your AR-15 is a match for a full on SWAT team, or an armored vehicle, think again.

This isn’t a video game, and there aren’t any respawns in real life.

Ask the folks at MOVE how well fighting back worked for them.

The inflation in luxury goods is staggering. High school kids used to be able to afford concert tickets, football games, and Broadway plays. That Phantom was a year’s salary for a school teacher; now the most expensive cars are twenty year’s salary. It’s not that the products are so much better; there’s a larger pool of very wealthy people. In 1960, if a man’s wife had a job they were considered ‘poor.’ Today, even professionals need two salaries to keep up with the Joneses

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I’m not much of a fan of ‘inflation calculators.’

According to most of them, $1 million in 1960 is $10 million today. But if you look at the actual prices, it makes no sense. $1 million in 1960 would buy two mansions, a fleet of cars, a nice boat, and you’d have enough left over to invest and have an income for several lifetimes.

Dad had a stroke?

Fred Hampton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

tl, dr

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https://youtu.be/KDIGAReaHLg

We Bombed In New Haven was an experimental play written by Catch -22 author Joseph Heller.

It’s a comedy where a lot of the cast dies.

By exactly using the MAGA the technique of, after ranting about blaming everybody else but yourself about all maner of problems, “asking” for others to provide solutions only to criticize them when given them, you’ve just proved what I suspected, so thanks for that.

You realize you’re literally describing exactly what you did. You demanded details then couldn’t come up with anything but a pipe dream.

And if I’m doing what MAGA did, what is the problem? Patton was the general the Germans feared the most, because he fought exactly the way they did.

And I love the last line. If I am the problem, what is the solution? Again, give me a lot of details.

Things like who is going to organize this general strike?

Fire fights is what the Right wants and is hoping for.