zifnab25
joined 5 years ago
Felix is maulding that he didn't come up with this first.
Bullying Works
Taking Ukraine from a corrupt back-bencher to a world leader in corruption by volume.
These are the kinds of comments that turned Ron Paul into an anti-war celebrity back under the Bush Administration.
I hear he has information that will lead to the arrest of Hilary Clinton
2.8 billion is a lot
He's not out of touch. He's simply doing his job.
The progressive is just a green ball showing an umbrella with a weed leaf. I have no idea what any of that shit is.
If you're tall and in shape and you spend half your life training to do the sport, you'll have the opportunity to engage in cut-throat competition with equally talented peers for a tiny handful of positions available in the pro-league. In the same way, being white or male is a leg up. But only in a very marginal sense.
If I have to choose between being tall in a world where my favorite sport is hyper-professionalized and exploitative or being short in which the same sport is recreational and accommodating to all, I'm going with the second one, because it gives me the best opportunity to do what I enjoy rather than a slim chance at being an elite.
There was a "What If" Marvel comic from way back in the early '00s in which The Red Skull gets his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet. One of the first things he does is teleport himself to the center of Berlin, snap away all the food except for a single apple, and then instill everyone in the city with ravenous hunger. His theory is that the subsequent fierce fight for the food will reveal the most fit and able humans, while eliminating everyone else.
Idk why that image leaps into my brain when I read this. Just something I'm forced to think about.