. . . you mean duly elected officials who happen to be Muslim? Rightfully hired citizens?

Meanwhile, he’s sucking off Saudi princes. What a fucking muppet.

Fuck that, and fuck her.

This shit has no place in schools.

I agree with some of your points. I also lived through the 80’s and 90’s and can pick them out more acutely.

But they’re also long ago enough for the survivorship bias to kick in. There are highly specific aesthetics of the 80’s that are regurgitated back to us through media that says “THIS IS THE 80’S”. Think Stranger Things, where they just condensed an entire decade into head nods. Whether or not we personally experienced some of these things, we collectively accept them as “the 80’s”.

Meanwhile, no one is putting Bow Biters forward as iconic of the era, despite the fact that I remember seeing them everywhere when I was a kid. They are not a culturally recognized touch point the way that acid washed jeans and curly mullets are.

I think the average person has a very strong link to the aesthetics of their childhood, too. Someone born in 1995 is going to have a much sharper sense of what the “2000’s” looked and felt like than you or I.

Tons of reasons.

1. You lived through them. There is a continuity in your mind, rather than a dissociated aesthetic.
2. Survivorship bias takes time. We think of bell bottoms for the 60’s, even though there were many other pant styles. Over time, specific things become iconic of an era.
3. The internet and mass media flattened and accelerated trends.

That is already how public defenders work.

> [missed] a court hearing

Aha! Another criminal caught! /s

“Nationalizing” elections also gives the president control over whether or not elections happen at all. As it stands, Trump can try to announce that there will be no elections and states can tell him to pound sand.

jfc

Yes. And sometimes poop.

It’s a lot more difficult for AFAB people to do one and not the other if the urge is present for both.

This is how I use them already. People plotting their government resistance through text terrify me.

Is there one that would work with my car’s system?

Right, but it’s not going to contain anything that can be used against me by fascists.

Jesus fucking christ.

I don’t use my phone for anything other than directions, phone calls, and texting my wife. Partially because I’m not going to carry around something with tons of shit that can be used against me.

This is fucking insane.

I worked for a newspaper a couple decades ago. AP Photographers were getting fired for cropping suggestively or removing power lines for composition.

This is an insane time to be alive.

Willing to bet it was piss.

To be fair, you don’t have to be. France has bailed us out before . . .

Hell yeah. Finally a half time show I’d watch.

Been playing on hard-core, PVP, one life mode this whole damned time.

100% chance they were attacking someone and the victim bit down out of reflexive self defense.

That’s if this actually happened as claimed at all.

What do you mean “refused”? Any time they have a warrant for a civilian, you don’t get to fucking refuse.