As far back as high school I assumed this was possible. All it took was learning about amendments 18 (Prohibition of alcohol) and 21 (scratch that).
Those touting their pocket edition US Constitutions (I think we saw Ted Cruz do this?) do the same with bibles. All I see is John Brittle from Django Unchained.
My dad said the same bullshit about being a former liberal. The turning point for him, according to him, was when Clinton lied about the BJ.
I know he's full of shit all around because he has vocalized:
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Nostalgia for slavery
"Countries used to do this all the time to the conquered! Why'd we stop?"
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Advocating, repeatedly, the nuking of middle east countries. Because anything less is token restraint.
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That Republicans freed the (US) slaves, then he's conveniently disinterested in continuing that line of conversation after the first counter.
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Malicious deadnaming a trans suicide victim who was in the news, eyeing others in the room to see if it had the intended effect.
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During the George Floyd protests he claimed his black coworker "supports none of those insincere protests and is humbly and gratefully employed." This one was cathartic for me because I laughed my ass off to his face for several minutes, taunting his refusal to call up or name that coworker.
Those are just the top 5 for this particular lie. We no longer have contact. He doesn't see his kids or grandkids.
By the way, people like this deserve the experience of some rando dropping an anonymous fake detailed tip to USdotSSdotgov along the lines of "I keep seeing brown people in his backyard pool but they never come outside otherwise. Like he's hiding illegals." Maybe people like that would get their own gravySEAL treatment firsthand. But of course if I were on the jury prosecuting the fake tip dropper I'd have to vote to convict because of law & order (c). (wink wink jury selectors)
Am I correct in seeing a similarity between this and the Xitter drama from 2024? Something about X not having a physical presence in Brazil to sue for damages, and Brazil was going to block it as a result.
Oh man, listen to Weird Al's song Mission Statement. I love that it exists.
Midwives bringing monsters into the world sounds like a game I'd try.
I've used an app called Precise Volume to achieve the effect of lower-than-default volume. But I'm not thrilled it takes an app to do that, so your method could be nice.
Baba Yetu, the Swahili opening to the game Civilization 4. Wikipedia says it's the first song made for a video game to win a Grammy.
First thing I thought of, thank you
In support of the statement that Dubya was worshipped, one can see LITERAL WORSHIP in the documentary Jesus Camp. Children at evangelical camp being led in prayer to a cardboard cutout of him.
This is my daily struggle. I mean... the ties are cut. The struggle is essentially grieving the loss of a parent as if they were dead.
I feel a little better when I hear that others have, to some degree, done the same.
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No one would start intentionally shopping for a phone priced that high just by looking at this ad. It has to be a more literal clickbait.
UPDATE: I did not consider the currency. The number of responses mentioning currency tells me that's what I overlooked. I am no longer even mildly infuriated and am therfore a liar 😅
"Secret" is tongue in cheek.
We know people flash the white power hand sign when having their picture taken, as if it isn't a racist dog whistle.
The Bloods have a hand sign. I'm impressed that one can spell the entire word with one's hands.
Jeep drivers have a cutesy hand wave that signals a common identity with other Jeep drivers.
AFAIK there's no hand sign that espouses the Eat The Rich sentiment. There's an opportunity to create something new where one doesn't yet exist.
If "Eat the Rich" produced a secret hand gesture, what would/should it look like?
I understand the argument of "This doesn't help; instead write to your congressman or volunteer to burp newborns." I get that, but this is independent of that.
This truly belongs in AskLemmy but their (justified) temporary ban on US politics seems to discourage this question.
Today at work my team rolled our eyes at the latest uttering of "This is a living, breathing document." I then joked that maybe we could give the spreadsheet some warts and some hair. That got me thinking - are there skins/mods for Excel that are cartoony and ridiculous? A cursory web search only turns up things that look "professional".
Have y'all seen that nasty skin banana? Doesn't this world have that, but in Excel? I'd like to see each cell have not-so-straight lines, some cells with little bumps/warts here and there, and little gross hairs in the corners. Bonus points if they pulsate. A pivot table could maybe have an appearance like it's protruding out of the sheet, like a cartoon character who swallowed a safe and you can see the big square on their belly. Filtered rows could look like old skin wrinkles. "Excel illustrated by the one(s) responsible for Ren and Stimpy," I guess.
And that's just one gross hypothetical version. How about themes like Lisa Frank, or the menu from a Final Fantasy game. Think about the worlds in Super Mario Bros 3. Couldn't we have spreadsheets that are themed like a desert, an ice world, or a jungle.
I'm running out of ideas but hopefully you get the picture.
DO THESE EXIST?