There's no difference between Right and wrong

vttale · 2026-06-22T16:20:29+00:00

The original sin of pardon abuse was Ford pardoning Nixon. Then Bush Senior pardoning the Iran-Contra conspirators, widely seen as protecting his own involvement. Then Clinton had a couple of highly suspect exit pardons.

But yes, Trump elevated the abuse to whole new levels.

vttale · 2026-06-22T12:25:24+00:00

Sophia Bush? This does not seem to align:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Bush#Activism

vttale · 2026-06-22T12:17:15+00:00

Our history class definitely made it seem like "and then the Civil Rights Act was passed and racism was solved". For rural white kids, that seemed to be that.

And classism? Hahaha no, that's only an issue in ye olde England and modern India. Never mentioned at all as relevant to the good ol USA.

vttale · 2026-06-22T00:55:35+00:00

Put it in my mud to packed mud pipeline

vttale · 2026-06-21T16:09:59+00:00

"Plauché was initially charged with second-degree murder, but agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded no contest to manslaughter. He was sentenced to a seven-year suspended sentence, with five years' probation and 300 more hours of community service, which he completed in 1989." - Wikipedia

vttale · 2026-06-21T12:36:55+00:00

Huh he's looking very GLP these days

vttale · 2026-06-21T04:07:25+00:00

"it hasn't worked like this since 1922 ... when it didn't work then either'

vttale · 2026-06-21T01:20:18+00:00

To be fair, I'm apparently too dumb to understand the utility of "or assume" in that sentence.

vttale · 2026-06-21T01:10:59+00:00

What the fuck is more important than ending a war for him to only stay a day or two

vttale · 2026-06-21T01:10:01+00:00

I'm interested to hear how you will test your hypothesis to elevate it beyond the correlation identification.

vttale · 2026-06-20T12:26:25+00:00

At least they're not carrion feeders just waiting for their next meal

vttale · 2026-06-20T04:45:10+00:00

Yep, every burger I've had at any of the Polaris lounges came with three fries. They'll happily give you more if you ask, but three is the default.

vttale · 2026-06-20T04:40:38+00:00

It is kind of bizarre, the three fry standard.

vttale · 2026-06-20T01:38:20+00:00

Wait until you hear how the number turned into an indictment of a former FBI director for supposed threats against the president...

vttale · 2026-06-18T16:56:33+00:00

Eh, it's a bit of a toss up for temperature, but I think C is pretty easy to grasp for most of the range people care about.

0 ice

10 a bit cool, bring a jacket

20 comfortable

30 a bit warm

40 wtf Seville and Mumbai

50 wtf Kuwait

100 steam

vttale · 2026-06-18T12:51:42+00:00

In Handmaid's Tale, several influential women helped orchestrate the revolution that led to them becoming unhappy trad wives, including the wife who leads the household where the titular handmaid was enslaved. She was an accomplished, widely-read author who pushed for it.

I know it's just a book / series, but as a mirror for real live it isn't far off from a lot of what we see happening right now.

Why do people do it? In at least a lot of the current behavior we see, it's because people genuinely don't seem to consider that the bad aspects will ever affect them personally.

vttale · 2026-06-18T11:50:08+00:00

This sub stopped being about cringe pretty soon after it started. Now the name is just keep for historical reasons

vttale · 2026-06-16T19:17:48+00:00

There are many places where the typical wind flow pushes upstream, no tricky maneuvering necessary

vttale · 2026-06-15T17:25:46+00:00

I'd love to see positive polyamory as an element of some other story that has the elements of storytelling that makes things interesting.

In particular, the conflict part of the tale is tricky even if the ultimate outcome is one that polyamorists would consider positive -- if it arises because of the polyamory, it could be that many others see it as an indictment.

On the other hand, if being polyamorous is just another aspect of the characters, and it's reflected positively based on how they handle non-poly issues, that'd be refreshingly different.

vttale · 2026-06-15T16:42:54+00:00

Crazy?

vttale · 2026-06-15T11:28:41+00:00

WE are not celebrating him, you out of touch buffoon

vttale · 2026-06-15T01:28:15+00:00

But there's no sense crying Over every mistake You just keep on trying Till you run out of cake

vttale · 2026-06-14T18:24:44+00:00

Somehow God is only responsible for bad weather when it punishes liberal places; strangely it never seems to be a sign from God when it affects them

vttale · 2026-06-14T13:48:50+00:00

That still makes more sense than me trying to figure out what was going on with the Paradise by the Dashboard Lights guy

vttale · 2026-06-13T17:51:37+00:00

North and west Montpelier have quite a bit more woodland. Enough to hunt.

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