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@jbayzzz @dieworkwear By the neck, until dead, dead, dead.

@dieworkwear How should I hang my Sansabelts?

if you buy high-end tailoring and store your jackets like this, you will eventually ruin them. these hangers are meant for dress shirts, not high-end tailored jackets.

@wil_da_beast630 The problem with all of this is that it's not his house.

Trump is rich, but not upper-class.

@mattyglesias It was ever thus.

I’ve been up and down and up and down on Bowser for years but have finally reached the conclusion that the core problem in DC government is that the Council is (to put it politely) totally insane.

@razibkhan @Indian_Bronson @AshantiVanBuren I believe Digby Baltzell coined the term in his book "The Protestant Establishment."

@Indian_Bronson @AshantiVanBuren origin was to describe the wealthy eastern establishment elite and their antecedents by andrew hacker. later people ignorant of the distinctions among american anglo-protestants just used it more broadly but then it becomes useless because there are within this distinct folkways

Nick Land wrote about this in Jacobite Mag in 2017. There is something funny about people whose ancestors came to the US after the Revolution LARPing as the WASP elite by…trying to be ethnically tribal! White America should tribe up; but don’t think that’s a WASP’s behavior 🤣

This is the correct and only accurate usage. The class may still exist in some diminished form, but the term is effectively an anachronism. A Connecticut swamp Yankee or an auto mechanic in rural Ohio who happens to be a Mayflower descendant is not a WASP. If everybody of early English ancestry is a WASP, the term has no meaning.

@AshantiVanBuren @razibkhan Sure but in the context of this discussion we’re using WASP to refer to the highest station, founding stock Anglo-Americans in reference to everyone else.

@MZHemingway I thought I was the only one!

My toxic trait is correcting everyone with “objects are hung, people are hanged,” when I should just let it slide.

@HernnCortes Exactamente. El rescate significa una condición del contrato entre el soldado y el país.

Rescatando a esos aviadores, EEUU se asegura otras dos generaciones de soldados

@Richerd1378272 @shipwreckedcrew Which is why I use three. 😜

@shipwreckedcrew I believe there is no controlling legal authority.

NOW you tell me.

@BudeJim @shipwreckedcrew You clearly didn't have Mr. McQueen for typing.

@shipwreckedcrew I took typing classes in the late 60s in high school. Don’t remember double spacing, never used it.

@BuzzPatterson The outfit didn't hurt.

Who else growing up thought Jeannie in “Dream of Jeannie”was super hot?

@stoolpresidente I think I'll start using three, just to show who's boss.

Somebody please tell this fool my mother was a high school typing teacher and it’s grammatically correct to use 2 spaces. Take a seat clown

@StatisticUrban Please go away.

It's insane to me that most Americans can't even comprehend metric units and Celsius without converting. I understand it's not the system used, but it IS the international system, used in all scientific fields and ~every other country. Useful to at least instill the basics.

@ekophem @GenericJes @TKratman "Managed" is exactly the right word. When you're managed properly, you don't even know it.

@GenericJes @TKratman You're going to argue about this? Do you think Europe has freedom of speech? Y'all get jailed for internet posts claiming opinions on things. You've been denied the basic freedom of defending yourself as you aren't allowed to possess weapons. Y'all are too managed to be free.

From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

@Borderlander_P @achillghost Es gibt hier eigene schreckliche Biere, aber auch viele ausgezeichnete. The OP was referring to styles, not breweries. And exaggerating.

@achillghost Dann hör halt auf, die Pisse von Anheuser-Busch zu saufen und kauf dir richtiges Bier, es gibt hier hunderte unabhängige Brauereien.

One conversation I am tired of having with Americans about Germany is the “the beer there must be great.” No it isn’t. There are three beers. They’re perfectly good beers, but at times the soul cries out for a fourth or even a fifth type of beer

@ScubertDubert70 @BustinTrudeau The apex predator for Eastern white-tailed deer has been human beings for about 400 years, if not 4000. The problem is that deer populations have expanded back into places that they had been hunted out of a century ago.

@BustinTrudeau Holy Christ are you retarded? Do you believe there was some substantial die off of apex predators between 1996 and 2014?

Aww did letting farmers eradicate the apex predators from an entire region have negative externalities? 🥺

This is insane. Where do you live? I have deer running through my yard in broad daylight. I see fresh tracks after very rain. I agree that we should do something - they are vermin. Aside from Lyme disease they strip the woods clear of all kinds of plants. But the last thing we need in the Northeast corridor is wolves. I already see foxes, in daylight, routinely. Not sure about coyotes/coydogs. The problem is sentimentalism about nature and Bambi. I can already see the fools on the neighborhood FB cooing about the "cute" wolf pups.

Reintroduce wolves and mountain lions across their former range and they will restore equilibrium. Exploding deer numbers means more ticks and more Lyme disease. It’s so obvious it’s painful pointing it out.

@LeftDefense @wil_da_beast630 I don't know the numbers myself, but "casualties" includes wounded.

@wil_da_beast630 Something’s wrong with the numbers. We have not had anywhere close to 56k deaths since 1980. GWOT was maybe 8k. The rest is probably less than 1k.

Looks like Black men are the highest percentage - 17% of deaths, 6% of citizens (283%). Then white men - 76%, from about 37% of citizens as a by-year average during this period (205%). Far lower rates from everyone else, although Natives look about proportional..

@Ross_Berry Good luck with that.

Remember- when you leave Massachusetts for New Hampshire, you are a refugee, not a missionary.

Precisely; because the noncitizen parents are still subject to a foreign power and the child is subject to the authority of his parents (who can take him back to Iran at any time), so is the child. We recognize this today by automatically granting citizenship to immigrant minor children upon naturalization of the parents . . . if the child is already a lawful permanent resident.

Alito: Not subject to any foreign power is pretty clear. Child of illegal Iranian immigrant would owe military service to Iran.

Roberts sounds unconvinced, unsurprisingly: "not sure how you get" from a few "quirky" exceptions to birthright citizenship (eg, children of ambassadors) to "big group" of U.S.-resident illegal aliens.

@GarettJones In no universe is this right-coded. The clue is "sweetie."

Saw this on a bumper while biking in DC today. Left-coded or right-coded?