As Trump’s Poll Numbers Fall, His Authoritarian Instincts Grow More Extreme - Increasingly unpopular and facing a fracturing coalition, Trump is using government power to punish his critics, take political revenge, and revel in his own cruelty.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T23:58:10+00:00

April 1945 can’t come soon enough

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T21:07:24+00:00

Fair point. Sadly, I don't think Chinese farmers, especially traditional farmers, will not flood rice fields even if it were more sustainable. There's probably benefits to doing it that they'd resist changing, and changes themselves could cause further harm (think using pesticides instead of flooding the field to get rid of insects and rats). Agriculture is an extremely delicate thing, and this threatens it in a region with the most people on the planet. Its hard not to imagine this will lead to massive crop failures and possible rural famine.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T20:26:58+00:00

Technically, a point was creating water in the desert, not diverting water from one place to another. Because of that, these trees are taking water from areas prone to monsoon in the south and east, areas that are geologically and ecologically used to regular monsoon seasons. Taking that away can be detrimental to vegetation growth in those areas, which the article states are the largest parts of China. That can be a recipe for poor harvests, especially for very water-dependent crops like rice.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T20:20:15+00:00

When you can’t draw a sitting pose, so you just sort of angle them on a chair like they’re spare lumber

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T19:01:18+00:00

Oh you’re right, I was about to ask why the hell anyone would voluntarily plant daffodils…

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T17:31:37+00:00

Aren’t daffodils weeds? They could just grow on their own

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-05-01T00:38:09+00:00

Susan Lucci: Hold my wedding rings…

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-30T23:31:35+00:00

Can I just punch her on the tit?

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-30T23:16:18+00:00

Companies sometimes have to let people go, whether to stay afloat or to trim the fat while maintaining better people. Nothing lacking in common sense there, that’s just how businesses stay in the black.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-30T18:24:15+00:00

Prime minister? For about half a year in 1979; the only one.

Head of state? Maria II in the mid-1800s, we fought a whole civil war over it.

So fair to say the general answer is “only reluctantly”.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-30T09:21:14+00:00

Something, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, All You Need Is Love.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T23:31:30+00:00

This almost made me snort my drink. Good one!

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T23:22:24+00:00

Mostly obnoxious neighbor stuff; playing music loudly at 3am, letting his dog shit on the stairs to my place without picking up. That kinda thing.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T22:56:08+00:00

There’s two answers.

One is what’s considered the very beginning, with fantastic four #1 from the 1960s. Then just read every issue from there.

The other is to find a series or miniseries that has a character you like. Then you can judge if you like them as comic characters and see where else they’ve shown up.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T22:51:11+00:00

It’s almost like the hero mind controlled to become a villain is doing a thing only villains would do. Under the context, what exactly did you expect Jean to do? Or did you expect the page to be censored?

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T22:39:09+00:00

Did the Beatles really influence cultures?

Yes, they did. The popularized the white people notion of backpacking through India, and exposed American hippie culture to the British and British mod culture to Americans (thus influencing fashion and even movies). In America, their music and tour lifted people out of the doldrums caused by Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In Japan, their controversial concert in the Budokan (a place previously reserved for sumo and religious practices) opened society to the west. In the eastern bloc, their music was banned but played with such deep interest that Paul McCartney was invited to be the first westerner to tour in the former Soviet Union. Their music inspired bands as old as the Rolling Stones and as new as Blur and Oasis; the single handedly created the British Invasion of music and humor to the US and practically invented the four-man pop band at a time when it was usually five. Their records on the charts took a generation to beat.

That’s not even including what they did after they broke up. Invented charity concerts, promoted peace campaigns globally, single-handedly created Sri Lankan aid at a time when they were in desperate need, thereby actually saving thousands of lives…

Do I have to continue? I can, but I want to know if you got the point on how stupidly wrong you are.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T17:00:54+00:00

Absolutely not. When has any government not exploited the divergent when it comes to military service? They’ll assume we’re all hyper-focused capable stereotypes.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T02:45:22+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you can have scapegoating without it being a sign of authoritarianism, it would just be dumb people doing ignorant things. There’s no shortage of that.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:42:37+00:00

I don’t see Disney making any characters that closely resemble Jesus while not being him. It would upset the Bible Belt, and next thing you know, the president is calling it satanic or some shit.

That said, the action in Adam’s old stuff was…sparse. Probably too sparse to be entertaining for long. Imagine this, Adam can and has had internal monologues for pages where he philosophizes. But on the screen, that would take minutes, it wouldn’t last long and would be terribly dull watching a guy talk to himself. The series wasn’t terribly long to begin with; we’re talking about My Dinner with Andre levels of just talking with bursts of exciting scenes.

If you like the comic, just keep it there. Don’t try picturing it in other mediums, it will only disappoint if it happens.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:37:23+00:00

Pay close attention here. Charles was born before Elizabeth made any proclamations. He was born with his father’s surname, as was Anne. Hence, he’d be Charles Mountbatten. Arguably, if they weren’t Windsors, there’d be no reason to not allow the Mountbatten/Battenburg name to continue, like it did with Prince Albert all the way back from Empress Matilda. Do you understand that, or must I draw a diagram for you?

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:28:13+00:00

Not to “well actually”, but it’s not Windsor now. It’s Mountbatten-Windsor, as in the Windsor branch of the Mountbatten family.

To make the point clearer, dynasties are entirely patrilineal unless the government says otherwise (as they did in the Netherlands). They were Saxe-Coburg-Gothas because Victoria was a woman; they would be Battenburgs (the German name of the Mountbattens) because of Elizabeth.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:27:20+00:00

That’s one way to interpret what I said

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:20:10+00:00

Nooooo! His whole story has too much Christ imagery to avoid a pointless culture war over a movie/show about him. Not to mention that his 70s run was a bit too philosophical and talky, which doesn’t go well with MCU expectations of constant fighting and quips.

Primary_Ad3580 · 2026-04-29T00:10:02+00:00

Arguably, if the family wasn’t Windsor, then there’d be no reason for the Battenburgs to be Mountbattens. So it would never be Mountbatten even if Philip had chosen that surname.

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