“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by patriots asking tyrants really nicely to please stop brutally oppressing them.”

Patriots and tyrants, yep.

Whenever I see “Removed by mod” on a .world community, I know it probably said something I agree with. News communities shouldn’t be hosted there.

Journalists do Nazi what you’re talking about.

And also the Atlantic!

It would be shocking if we didn’t know full well that it’s a dictatorship.

“Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.”

- George Carlin

It mirrors humanity when we’re anonymous, which is why it’s so awful. There are people who are publicly shitheads without being anonymous, sure, but they’re far fewer in number.

Yeah, that’s what we all thought when Biden won.

Fascists don’t follow any rules except what their Fuehrer says.

Only because they don’t have the resources to go further. And considering they span like half the globe only attacking countries they border isn’t as small-scale as it sounds.

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

If “all of the sudden” becomes standard I will definitely do this.

People aren’t saying it because they’re language scholars, it’s because they misheard the proper modern usage. So it goes for many language shifts.

Thankfully, he does not write in all caps!

If only CSI enhancing worked in real life, we could out the asshole on the far left.

“All of the sudden” is only valid because it’s so commonly (incorrectly) used. Much as it annoys me, that’s just how language works.

Which ones? Varies?