I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.

I did this as a teen with my learner’s permit and my dad. It was him playing the Eaglea and Bob Dylan while I learned to figure out driving on the highway in NJ through the indiana turnpike until the glorious open road out west where i was stuck behind semis and 1 lane road work across the midwest until montana.

I have remained driving on the west coast only since.

Well the argument being made here is that the campaign’s strategy actively depressed turnout.

So not doing normalizing the opposition and implementing the policies your voting base tends to oppose.

I am not sure you remember but the media reaction to Bernie doing well initially was major outlets like CNN reacting with fear, loathing, and uncertainty. And it impacted rhe course of an election. You had anchors yelling about how Sanders will result in public executions in central park during the primary.

Yeah it is definitely a fascist problem.

I mean I would love to believe there are trns of millions of silent far left protest abstentions, but the fact of the matter is seventy million plus motherfuckers actively went for the overt fascists. Tens of millions more didn’t care enough to at least go third party. This was a turnout problem, not a protest vote problem.

Policy-wise it is the same Grand Old Party. The vibe and rhetoric is different, but the policy is mostly all there.

We do get a lot of greentexts. I mean, greentexts, NCD, and this place are the core communities filling my Local feed. Whitepeopletwitter has been pretty frequent but pretty low engagement recently though.

I typically opt for All to read .world and .ml debatelording.

I guess we have reached a social austerity phase of oligarchy.

No one is really checking where and how people are operating from for those nuances to come out.

Judging from the points being made here in this thread, clearly there was little reading of the article to begin with.

Even article headline uses ‘Arab-American’ and ‘Pro-palestinian’ interchangeably. The perfect level of wrong that creates a bunch of uncertainty and confusion.

Ted Cruz For Human President was a different time.

another country

Interesting terminology.

I’m still waiting for evidence of this supposed “apartheid” that people keep going on about.

It has been evidenced and been in discourse widely and long enough to have its own wikipedia entry. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International have definitely made the case. What evidence are you waiting for?

Also, the reference to Israel being an “apartheid state” is the most ludicrous statement and anyone who expressed it can be safely ignored.

Well I’d love to hear the argument that tries to back this statement up.

I have maintained such a PC and kept the old parts long enough that I rebuilt the original PC after fully upgrading and replacing it.

So I dunno what you call it.

I’d hit up a Golden Corral before an Applebees.

But seriously I infinitely prefer the non-brand local diner, usually named after the street it is on, over just about any sit-down chain.

This… premeditated sin.

He really should’ve brought a cowbell to signal the audience.

Kinda sucks that it depends on converting the homeless to ‘defendants’ first, though.

PAK CHOOIE UNF.