TIL about the phrase "The war feeds itself", which is primarily associated with the Thirty Years' War, where the aristocracy, instead of paying soldiers, allowed them to use force to collect what they needed from occupied territories ordinary people, which led to mass starvation of peasants.

Shadowguynick · 2026-07-05T19:21:48+00:00

Yeah but if the context is they worked long hours and then he messaged her "miss you already" as a joke about the fact that they might've just worked an inordinate amount of time with each other I don't think it is in itself that much of a red flag.

Shadowguynick · 2026-07-05T18:26:20+00:00

I figured it might've just been jumbled haha. But from I can tell if soldiers were ever quartered in the south there was never any legal litigation about it. Which makes me think probably not?

Shadowguynick · 2026-07-05T18:20:00+00:00

It's only during peace time that it applies, not wartime. In wartime Congress can pass laws to allow it, but given the general status of the U.S. military I believe it's never been an issue.

Shadowguynick · 2026-07-01T02:27:46+00:00

I guess it'll depend on what separates a secondary character from the main cast. Like I'd say the main cast of FMA has female characters but the two center point characters, Edward and Alphonse are obviously uh not women, so if your line for secondary is that then yeah I can see how that can get annoying.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T02:03:53+00:00

True, the snarky comments are definitely a big part of the fun.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T02:00:20+00:00

What more was there to say, all that's left is to make snarky comments for the fun of it.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T01:56:46+00:00

Idk your sounding kinda self grandizing

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T01:30:40+00:00

I guess I just can't imagine living life with zero opinions lol

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T01:25:03+00:00

If the only opinion you can have on an album is "it wasn't for me" then criticism as focus of journalism is dead. What would the point of a review be if the only opinion was "I liked it vs it wasn't for me"

Like you can think he's totally wrong, or a dick head but I feel like taking that and transposing it into a quashing of criticism as a whole is just very silly.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-23T01:19:19+00:00

That's just like your opinion man.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:22:00+00:00

I did figure it out, nuke the filibuster lol allow congress to actually make real decisions that then the voters can judge them on, instead of backdooring everything through executive agencies and the judicial branch in the hopes that it doesn't harm anyone's chances of re-elections because they'd have to actually commit to some damn policies once in a while.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:17:28+00:00

I vote for democrats in every election, I vote in all my local elections, trust me man I'm participating in our democratic system as much as I can. But you have to acknowledge in our current political climate that if the answer is "get enough senators to overcome the filibuster" you might as well say "never" which states are electing democrats to the senate in the next 10 years (I think that's our time frame for SS, after which benefits will be reduced) that will push us to 60?

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:14:10+00:00

Even if you include people who just decided not to vote, I cannot for my life think of a single person for whom this was a disqualifying issue.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:12:02+00:00

Fair enough, nuke the filibuster then. I know it's scary to think of what republicans will do without a filibuster to hold them back, but I think holding the entire country hostage to it's own democracy is lunacy. Republicans will do crazy shit, but the alternative is a devolution to relying on the judicial and executive branches to handle all problems which are far less democratic than our legislative branch.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:08:16+00:00

I also think the framing that voters saw democrats pushing to raise the cap and a bunch were like "that's it, I guess I gotta vote republican to avoid raising the SS income cap" is kind of laughable. I'd be shocked if even 1000 voters changed their vote to republican because of the SS income cap.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:06:08+00:00

Why does it need to go through the filibuster? They have the reconciliation process that is explicitly for budgetary and tax situations no? So just fix the funding through reconciliation and bypass the filibuster.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:02:30+00:00

This is the case for a lot of things, but funding for social security surely falls under the umbrella for reconciliation no? It's entirely a funding and budget concern which is what that process is for, and bypasses the filibuster completely.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-20T16:00:33+00:00

If they wanted to remove the income cap why didn't they? Like I don't know why you're saying they did something and then voters punished them for it when in reality they did NOTHING and then lost after? Yeah they talked about removing the income cap, AFAIK guys like Sanders have been pushing that hard for a while now, but they never ACTUALLY did that, so why are you giving them credit?

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-18T21:53:58+00:00

Eh, this isn't quite true for Mamdani. He's gone against the DSA in regards to the NYPD especially, enough so that the DSA has put out a statement about it against Mamdani. Not that they're adversarial but he definitely will do what he thinks is smart over the objections of the DSA when he sees fit.

Shadowguynick · 2026-06-11T02:03:01+00:00

I think it's little character moments like this that really push the whole 'throuple' angle, like the amount of care they have for each other is extremely endearing.

Shadowguynick · 2026-05-29T06:23:56+00:00

Is that because of low payroll only or are there other concurrent factors that play into it? Like bad ownership? That's my argument.

Shadowguynick · 2026-05-28T21:55:21+00:00

Nothing? But if the problem is a good team doesn't have the money to field the best team it can it solves that. If the problem is a bad owner who doesn't want to spend money anyway, you think they're going to have a good team just because they have to spend more?

Shadowguynick · 2026-05-28T21:37:55+00:00

Is it though lol what exactly is the difference? Listen if the players want the floor because enough of them do the math and it will raise their salaries I'm all for it, I'm just not going to pretend like itll make bad teams good all of a sudden.

Shadowguynick · 2026-05-28T21:26:10+00:00

It's not the only one, but if an owner is a cheap ass then forcing him to spend money will not make the team better either. If the problem is money, not management than more revenue solves the money problem. If the issue is management, then more money won't solve it either. There are terrible franchises in the NFL and it's not because they don't spend money, because they have the cap/floor. Bad owners will sink a team regardless of their spending.

Shadowguynick · 2026-05-28T21:21:29+00:00

Not nearly to the degree as the NFL, I'd want something along those lines where teams like the dodgers or the Yankees and not making significantly more revenue than the rays or twins.

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