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  • My dad loved to set off fireworks, especially mortar shells, and we would always try to set them off in quick succession. He had the brilliant idea to use PVC pipe driven into the ground instead of the little tubes they came with so we could light more at one time. None of us knew enough about the physics to question him, until 8 shells went off in rapid succession and barely made it higher than the roof of the house. I miss that man.







  • You’re right, it was 2015, but as a simple layman I was aware of Russian meddling by the time this dinner happened. So if Jill and the Green party weren’t aware of how bad this would look, and how worthless an olive branch to Putin would be, then at the very least they’re too incompetent to be worth a vote. Unfortunately I did not know about this gaffe by the time of the election and even voted for Stein in that election, which I still regret.



  • This points out one of the evilest parts of the Republican party and that is the fact that their political opinions have nothing to do with their actual beliefs and are only a way for them to hurt other people. At the end of the day they don’t care if someone changes their name or what bathroom they use, but talking about these things in relation to transgender issues is a way for them to cause pain to others which is the only point to anything for Republicans.

    People that say things like “I’m not a conservative but I’m voting for Trump/Bush/Romney” are really saying they’re only voting for the fascist parts and don’t really care about the fiscal policy as long as they get to cause undeserved pain to someone. And remember, if it’s not undeserved pain then they’re not into it. It’s must be undeserved or at the very last disproportionately cruel.





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    I didn’t even learn about the Haymarket bombing until I was thirty. It’s like Armistice day became memorial day and no one is ever told that it was originally a day to reflect on the horrors of war and now it’s all just olive drab hero worship. We are intentionally under educated in the US



  • Because the idea that there are vegans and vegetarians is an implied accusation of guilt to people that eat meat and animal products that are the direct result of animal suffering. Some people that don’t eat animal products might be militant or preachy, but I’ve never met one. In fact I have only ever met the inverse, people that constantly berate people for being vegan or vegetarian. Having been one myself, I can say that for me and people I know it is the same reason religious people hate atheists; their existence implies that people that eat meat are wrong and therefore bad people. Studies have confirmed this. Here is an article from the BBC that goes over some of the studies.