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Captain Bailey 🐊

Captain Bailey 🐊

@captainbailey42

Lurker with occasional spats of snark

Crawfordville, FL Se unió Nisan 2022
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Free Talk Live
Free Talk Live@FreeTalkLive·
Taxation is slavery.
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Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman·
The per capita tax burden in the United States is ~$16,600 Eliminate all social welfare and it falls to ~$3,500 The primary purpose of the United States government is violent wealth redistribution
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Possum Reviews
Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·
Name a rip-off that managed to surpass it's inspiration in both quality and popularity.
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Playteaux
Playteaux@Playteaux1·
I’m only laughing because I watched it 3 times.
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
In 1336 the English Parliament passed an act regulating what foods the various social classes were permitted to consume on different days of the week. Read that sentence again, because it is doing a lot of work. The act was one of a long series of sumptuary laws issued across medieval and early modern Europe. It specified that no man whose income fell below a certain threshold was permitted to be served more than two courses at a meal. It specified what kinds of meat could be eaten by whom on which days. It specified that fish was the appropriate food for the lower orders during Lent, and on Fridays, and on a long list of other holy days that totalled something like a hundred and fifty days a year. The official justification was moral. The actual justification was that meat was scarce, valuable, and the people in charge wanted to control who got it. Sumptuary laws of this kind appear across European history with remarkable consistency. Edward III. Edward IV. Henry VIII. Elizabeth I. The French monarchy did the same. The German principalities did. The Italian city-states did. In every case the structure was identical: the upper classes ate freely, the middle classes ate within limits, and the peasants were given a list of days on which animal flesh was prohibited that occupied roughly half the calendar year. The Catholic Church provided the moral framework. Fasting on Fridays. Fasting through Lent. Fasting on the vigils of feast days. Fasting on the Ember Days. The cumulative effect was that an obedient peasant in the fifteenth century was prohibited from eating meat for somewhere between a third and a half of the year, every year, for his entire life. The nobility, conveniently, were granted dispensations. The wealthy paid for indulgences. The monasteries that enforced the fasting rules in theory were, in practice, often the largest meat consumers in their districts, on the basis that the monks needed it for their work. Now look at what happens when you remove dietary protein from a labouring population for half the year, every year, for centuries. You get the medieval European peasant. Five foot three on average. Bone deformities consistent with chronic malnutrition. Life expectancy of about thirty if you survived infancy, which most children did not. A population that was, by every skeletal measure, smaller and weaker than the hunter-gatherers who had occupied the same land six thousand years earlier. The thing the church was calling spiritual discipline was a permanent state of nutritional restriction enforced on the people who did the actual work of feeding everyone else. The people enforcing the restriction were not subject to it. The arrangement was held in place by an institution that owned about a third of the cultivable land in Europe and was, not coincidentally, the largest single beneficiary of the system. When you read the modern recommendation that meat consumption should be limited to a few times a week, that beans and grains should make up the bulk of the diet, that animal protein should be replaced where possible with plant alternatives, ask yourself who is making the recommendation, what they themselves eat, and whether the structure of the recommendation looks at all familiar. The peasants had Lent. We have Meatless Mondays. The institutions issuing the rules are different. The arrangement is the same.
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Long Monkeypox
Long Monkeypox@podiatristdon·
Let’s be honest. In the FL primary barring a miracle Donalds will be the nominee. I’m voting Renner because he’s the only conservative in the race. I am waiting to see is how many phonies will line up behind Donalds saying “we need to vote for him because communism!”
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Captain Bailey 🐊@captainbailey42·
@tinfoilbaddie I wondered how many times she practiced that in the mirror but then i considered she might not have a mirror. Shall we guess what all those letters stand for?
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Strat9
Strat9@xStrat9x·
@captainbailey42 @creepydotorg Feels like you are a simp only defending a murderer because she's a woman and what I said wasn't what you wanted to hear. I'm just describing the most likely scenario.
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Creepy.org
Creepy.org@creepydotorg·
In 2021, a Coast Guard veteran lured her accused rapist to an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park. Once they were deep in the woods, she pulled out a firearm and fatally shot him in the back of the head. Afterward, she drove to Michigan, got a new tattoo, and carried on as if nothing had happened.
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Strat9
Strat9@xStrat9x·
@creepydotorg "Her accused rapist" is actually her ex-boyfriend. She is likely just a psycho, abusive, and vindictive ex who blames him for some random slight to her ego.
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Axiomatic Enemy of the State
Axiomatic Enemy of the State@DeTocqueville14·
I keep seeing people claim that the US achieved its objectives in Iran. Does anyone know what these alleged objectives were??
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Uubzu v4
Uubzu v4@uubzu·
Gavin Newsom: I euthanized my mom and had an affair with my best friend’s wife. I despair of finding a woman who can match my history of familial homicide and extreme sexual impropriety Matchmaker: you’re not gonna believe this
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