idea for an anime; it’s all the same van, and it’s a slice of life about the guy getting paid by various otherworldly deities to run over various “chosen ones” like an isekai doordasher.

LOVE the liver spot edit, but yeah that would be a terrifying shock.

oh for god’s sake, he had kids and was devoted to his wife Mary. why would anyone think he was gay?

anyone care to fill me in? i have no idea who this is.

i love life’s little coincidences like this.

i mean…kinda? The issue was never really the tax, although the tax definitely contributed, it’s that we weren’t asked before we were being taxed. None of the money went to us, we were never consulted, they just said “too bad fuckers, you’re getting bent over the barrel”. now, when we’re bent over the barrel, at least we’ve voted for the people who are doing the bending.

it’s one of my favorite versions of the classic alien invasion story, not because of the “ooorah, go humans!” way of thinking but because of the self-analytical aspect of it; what if WE’RE the threat? where “they” came expecting a clean sweep like always before and were wholly unprepared to get their shit absolutely rocked by a species who has continually perfected killing its other members since the first two figured out how to pick up a fucking rock.
but also, ooorah, go humans lol.

whom?

the Wermacht troops took a shiiiiiiiiit ton of meth during the blitzkrieg. it was a definite performance enhancer, but the poor fuckers were tweaking so bad after a while they were all but useless.

what the fuck!! hell of an advertising campaign!

be happy. be proud. for its many faults this great nation has accomplished a great many things. grow from failure and celebrate triumph. that’s nationalism done right, as i understand it.

i would believe it. Edison was the closest thing to an actual intellectual pirate for his time.

there’s actually a reason for this; just after normandy. there was a british tank battalion that had parked for literally smokes and tea while the officers conferred with command to figure out their next move. a patrol of several german panzers came upon the formation and fired upon the parked and dismounted tanks and crews before the crews could jump back in and engage. dozens of men died in just a few minutes and it prompted a very british change.

nothing wrong with being proud of parts of history, but don’t ignore the parts of history that you don’t like. i’m a proud American and Catholic but BOY is there a lot there to unpack, and i’m cognizant of all of it because it’s only right to know the whole story.

people who make one facet of their identity the entirety of who they are in my experience extremely annoying because it leaves little room for anything like critical thought or personality.
edit; wanna clarify, be proud of yourself, of your achievements, of who you identify with and what you have passion in. be proud to be gay, or a soldier, or a firefighter, or jewish, irish, whatever. just don’t let it be ALL that you are.

that’s more or less how i got my cat. it was 30 degrees outside and this little dumbass was just sitting in my yard in the dark, and i went outside and tried to shoo her away and she cuddled up to me and i was like “whelp”.

what’s the issue? tmi but if anything it’s gotten better.

*at the delivery room*
“are these towels kept at womb temperature?”
used that in the delivery of all my kids, got exactly one chuckle.

i’m pretty sure that was always implied? but i get it.

old villains were the best, they did NOT fuck around.
and Alba can’t even be seen as a proper antagonist because she was a sympathetic, redeemable character defined by her understandable trauma. it’s like this all over Pixar and much of Disney these days; they can’t commit to a fucking villain. Turning Red, Encanto, Strange World, Toy Story 4; none of these had real villains and they all arguably suffered for it. hell, the last real villain in recent memory in Pixar or Disney, besides the generally unremarkable villains in Marvel, was Evelyn Deavor in Incredibles 2, and she fucking rocked.