I swear, this whole protein craze is the dairy industry trying to make whey more profitable.

When they’re all equally bad, they’re all my best work

throwing red meat to the base.

In more ways than one (CW: drawings of animal food products)

God, we get it Naomi, men in uniform give you a snail trail, you don’t have to justify it by projecting it onto politics.

RFK jr has fully entered his phase

Oh what a surprise, the lib doesn’t even know what the tank in tankie is referring to

When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process.

What due process did Renee Good get?

An agency with “homeland security” in the title turns out to be fascist?

Aaaaand it was removed by r slash law moderators. strikes again.

That’s part of it, sure. But I also think the Western liberal sees the core of countries like Iran, China, Cuba, etc., as being so rotten that there’s no way to extract the will of democracy out of them and thus revolution is the only path. They’re broken beyond reform.

Whereas in the West, they can get apoplectic about figures like Trump bringing a creeping fascism, but they’ve got too much ideology to ever accept that the core of a Western state is rotten beyond repair. Thus measures like , reformations, legal challenges are always viable options because they see those as activating the good, democratic core.

If the Iranian government is being too despotic, then Iranians just need to vote in candidates that will reform the government! I mean, if that’s what they think will work in the West, then it should be good enough for Iran.

Yeah that ties into the lack of agency. That generation didn’t need to think about things, no choices made that they can be held responsible for, an existence entirely in the passive voice.

It aged so poorly: “boomer goes through life with no agency and amazing things happen to him and around him and he ends up rich without really trying” is every spoiled boomer trope in film form.

Unlimited jihad against ICE.

Bachelor Chow! Now with flavor.

The Romans also pretty much immediately considered the people they conquered to be part of their empire, albeit at a lower level than ethnic romans.

If the ICE fuckers roll up plainclothes, I could see some chud going panic mode. That would be deliciously ironic, some xenophobic reactionary accidentally putting a new hole in an ICE agent’s head because they thought it was the FEMA secret police or something.

I just realized there’s an extra layer of irony to it as the person who made the film, Don Bluth, also made An American Tail. In that film, a pogrom by the tsar-led Cossacks is a major plot point as it’s what drives the protagonist’s family out of Russia and to the US. So the man couldn’t even keep it straight if the Romanovs were blood thirsty antisemites or lovable fairy tale nobles.

Spineless sacks of shit. I’d call them worms but at least annelids do something useful in turning plant matter into nutrient-rich soil.

Just gonna point out that the Anastasia animated movie depicts Rasputin as starting the Russian Revolution despite him getting offed a year before the revolution started.