Brunch WILL be served. Order will be restored once we peacefully return to the marginally slower rate of systematic killings of the centrists.

You literally came out swinging at someone who said what amounts to things you have conceded talking with me. You called the genocide milquetoast centrism. I don't know what else to call that.

I'm not attacking anyone. You're getting all angry at a person for pointing out that we already turned on the meat grinder centuries ago. I think it actually matters that people not treat Trump as an anomaly that can be neutralized by dealing with him as a single person. Going back to what preceded this guy will not be fixing the problem.

I think a decent country should label the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of people as alarming and a sign of an evil political system at work. A difference in scale would still be a tragedy but you couldn't really say that extermination is milquetoast centrism in reasonable company. If your country is throwing people in a meat grinder, to use your words, you're already in a point where it would be appropriate for someone to ask:

What rise? The country has been fascist since before anyone here was born. Those fascists have been enabled by people like you cheering on politicians while they put people in concentration camps at the border, strip away basic rights such as abortion while never even allowing others like healthcare, and outright commit genocide. Be honest with yourself: you don't hate Trump because he's a fascist, you hate him because he's not a "polite" fascist.

Ah so hundreds of thousands of systemic killings is milquetoast? You goofball.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were systematically killed under the watch of the most recent Democrat you silly goose.

My drop shipping business has been fatally compromised by the dang Cheeto. This cannot stand.

Rural side they sometimes use their own car. I've seen pro masters and dodge caravans in use as well, there have been a few a additions to the fleet over the years.

Part time rural is perhaps the worst job in the postal service, regulars have it pretty good but RCAs are pretty screwed over in really weird ways. It depends a lot on the office for everybody, but especially for rural.

Guess there's a handful of postal persons on here. Feel free to ask about work stuff if you need a second opinion, supervisors will absolutely try to abuse you if they think you don't know they aren't allowed to.

I prefered the LLV to the alternatives honestly. Got a great turning radius and high visibility.

I think it's also worth distinguishing disengaged/ignorant chuds from like, baying CHUDS who will triple down on everything because they just want to hurt people. I definitely know people I can't talk to about anything political because there's literally no point, they aren't attached to any political ideal or position beyond fucking with people they hate.

I think people liked it because the early books are kinda evocative of something really whimsical and Dahl-esque. The house system, the castle, the owls, etc. it has a very flushed out initial setting that you (especially as a little kid with limited capacity to critically analyze it) can imagine fitting into and that adds a lot of character to what's happening.

It struggles as it goes on because it becomes more and more clear that JK is not capable of critical analysis either and that all the evocative stuff is going to basically amount to nothing. She never really builds on top of any of the foundations she sets down, she would rather bring up a new evocative thing instead. Quidditch is a great example: it sucks, the rules are insane, you cannot understand the stakes and it's impossible to care about, but she never really does anything with the funny premise that the wizards are all bent out of shape over something so silly.

A huge issue with this is that Rowling is, at her core, an uncritical Br*tish person who is not capable of recognizing the problems with the tropes she trafficked in or the very obvious subtext to the world she created: the wizards ARE a supremacist closed society that subjugates every sapient magical being to wizards, that have no regard for the well-being of other humans, and are committed to defending a clearly dysfunctional status quo that Rowling cannot countenance any criticism of. So as the books go on they become less whimsical and more horrific without her noticing. The book series literally ends with the protagonist wondering whether the chattel slave he inherited will bring him food, and you are not supposed to think that says anything negative about Harry.

I think she also succumbed to movie brain, a lot of stuff aligns more with the movie depictions of things over time, and her writing also starts to seem like she's writing with an eye to how a movie would look. Given her weakness as a writer pivoting into a different craft she is even worse at was a bad idea.

Edit: the TL;DR is that the strength of the series' world building is almost entirely evocative imagery and tropes that are easy to imagine fitting in with. Which is to say you can imagine buying and filling your room with Harry Potter objects because you have a clear idea what that would mean.

See you in ninety days I guess comrade. Don't let them bully you out. Welcome aboard!

Idaho is a very beautiful place, it's a shame Chuds have completely dominated it.

-I dunno if it's everywhere or local to the midwestern city I live in but they've quietly gotten rid of all the school busses, so now every school zone in this relatively large city has enormous lines that choke every road in and out of every school in the city twice a day for two hours. It's a massive inconvenience to the entire city that's been justified as a 'cost savings' when in reality it's just throwing that cost onto everyone else in a less efficient way.

-Low hanging fruit but Harry Potter. There's a lot of anti-Rowling sentiment these days that tries to separate her from the world she created but it's very obvious that all the nasty shit about her made it into the series. Obviously around here people don't generally like the books but the general public has not seriously read them since they were children and thinks they're awesome.

The function of a ratchet is to make an object go in one direction more easily. Democrats fulfill a function in propeling the country rightward. This was arguably not true 80 years ago but post-Reagan they are part of a process of rightward movement. Voting for and legitimizing them is moving the country right and making things worse.

Right, isolating the US is good for everyone else, the more tied to us they are the more leverage we have over them and the worse we can hurt them if they don't do the evil things we expect of them. Weakening the US is critical to the freedom and dignity of humanity.

Well now I'm confused. I guess you meant it was an impressive clown show?

Yeah like, this is the best they've got? Pathetic.