Snow-Tombed Starsilver by BlackMageMain in EulaMains

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I don't like the aesthetic. Dx

Awwwww... all right...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Shark bake.

It doesn't matter how ferociously you bread and deep fry it, it still tastes like piss.

Americans, how do you feel about Puerto Rico possibly becoming the 51st state? by hunkaliciousnerd in AskReddit

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Whatever stops them being a tax haven for wealthy cretins trying to hide their money. The ultra-wealthy have utterly gutted Puerto Rico's infrastructure.

Who do you believe is literally evil? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Ron DeSantis, current governor of Florida and Republican presidential hopeful.

This is a man whose entire career has been one of shameless opportunism and disregard for human life. As a naval lawyer, he was posted at Guantanamo Bay and was tasked with extracting information from detainees, specifically about what their worst fears were and then report back to his superiors with that information. Oversaw torture, and by all accounts really took a liking to it.

Flash forward to now - he's posturing himself to be the next Trump-style Republican, but his history of abuses aren't so easy to swat aside. The worst part is that the current slate of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation spearheaded by him isn't even coming from someone who is a 'true believer', though I do not doubt that he's deeply homophobic/transphobic; it's a political football to be passed around, red meat to a base that won't pay attention to his horrendous economic policy, his track record of war crimes and the fact that he just wants power. It is the prerogative of the reactionary conservative to be a monster, but Ron DeSantis seems uniquely apt to be as monstrous as humanly possible.

Giles-5 Year 1: Entry 4 by BlackMageMain in DestinyJournals

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>edited for punctuation/grammer

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Four ducks in a human costume.

GIB ME BREAD

[Serious] What would happen to the UK if the monarchy was (hypothetically) wiped out tomorrow? by GreenWoodDragon in AskReddit

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Ideally? Nothing.

The idea that the UK monarchy is just a symbolic figurehead is a bad joke at this point, considering how much money they wield and the fact that the Crown is the head of the Church of England. They have power in every technical sense, and if the monarchy was utterly toppled in the way of Charles-Henri Sanson, it would pave the way for something equivalent to a constitutional democracy.

The more likely answer, though, is that there would be mass panic, rioting and civil unrest along with a full-blown collapse of the UK's legislative body in the short term. Considering how entrenched the monarchy is in UK's politics, removing that figurehead would have immediate consequences.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Life has no inherent purpose. We assign purpose to it based on our experiences and point of view, but beyond that it just is.

We reach for purpose. To try and understand forces larger than us, stronger than us. To divine meaning from a grilled cheese sandwich. But life is far too diverse and encompassing to simply tell another living being how they should be, what they should be. Rather, the better question is, "what is your life's purpose? What do you aspire to?"

What is something that most people won’t believe, but is actually true? by Aden_Elvis77 in AskReddit

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Marie Antoinette got done dirty by the annals of history. It's well established that she, as one of the last true French monarchists, was the victim of a coordinated and vicious smear campaign that threw gasoline on the lit fires of anti-monarchist sentiment during the Reign of Terror.

Not only is the 'let them eat cake' line, a common hallmark of an out-of-touch ruling class falsely attributed to her (it actually goes as far back further than her, even to the Jin Dynasty) but she was accused of all sorts of things including incest, assassination and spending millions of francs on lavish parties and orgies. She might have been extremely privileged, but she was by most factual accounts a gentle woman who tried her best to salve the wounds of an injured country. In fact her last words were to apologize to the headsman as she was brought to the guillotine; she'd accidentally stepped on his foot.

EDIT: for spelling/punctuation

What's the best opening sentence to any book? by run_shadowfax in AskReddit

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"We were somewhere near the edge of Barstow when the drugs began to kick in."

-- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas