HauntedBySpectacle

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

At a party in a cabin in the woods

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the source

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'm not trying to be accusatory

What evidence do we have of this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Every continental boundary is more of a desired boundary than anything real. There are no "real" continents.

I can't disagree with wanting to delegimitize it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There's way more tectonic plates than continents and a lot of landmasses we think of as contiguous are on different plates. Itd be very impractical to try to make them the same. Iceland would be a transcontinental country, California would be its own continent, Asia would be several continents, there would be continents that are just patches of the Pacific Ocean or the Caribbean, and so on

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't think Europe or the West as a geopolitical force is the same as the continent. There are other areas that are unambiguously in Europe that aren't part of "Europe" similarly to how Russia isn't. Are Belarus, Bosnia, Serbia, or Moldova really part of the club the way France and Germany are? Of course not. Greece or Hungary arguably aren't either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

the names and boundaries of continents are arbitrary and don't matter. that said, the most common definition, really more of a vibe, of a continent is size. Europe is 3 times larger than India. It's twice as large as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan combined.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently this lady is from Texas, so it's not an affectation

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Since when is y'all and nothing else AAVE? How do you think they addressed the crowd at Klan rallies?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gretchen Whitmer is probably the most likeable, somewhat recognizable person they could run. She's still a centrist, but had some halfway decent policies as governor. I imagine the DNC would see her see as a compromise with the "progressive" wing, bullshit as that may be. That could be exactly what stops them from picking her, though. Also she's a woman. On the other hand, there was the whole kidnapping plot which if they were smart, they could really milk as proof of Trump being a threat to democracy, their favorite talking point. I think she's the high profile dem who would be perceived most favorably next to Trump. Shes also from the Midwest, which has all the key swing states they need to win, including her own. Gavin Newsom, the runner up, has name recognition, but he also has sleazy used car salesman vibes. Kamala would eat shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That line is like the only great part of St. Anger

The corniness rocks actually

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

True crime as a genre is enough to explain this one

 

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