You’re hired

This is how the world can finally come together. We can create a New Old Australia, using the island-building techniques the Chinese government have been trying to develop but instead using it for the benefit of all. Literally no one wants these assholes. Let’s make them their own giant sand island and send them there. No Aborigines or any other nativelanders need be displaced like in the past. We just… Eject them to Billionaire Island and tell them they’ve entered the final level of capitalism, they are allowed no outside resources and must establish for themselves (brilliant and enterprising and egotistical as we reassure them they are) how to become the Ultimate Capitalist. Tell them it’s even televised. Then if they ever get too noisy we obviously need a way to forcibly erode the island etc. Engineers can figure out the details.

And convicted felon

…in prison

How do they work?

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I’m a native English speaker and this is ridiculous pedantry. Especially given the context. Word salad is a string of words, all delivered in sequence - all lined up, as it were, or even… dare I say… queued up. Why would anyone pick such a weird thing to argue about though?

This is what we call an “n+1” problem, as far as I can tell

I truly wasn’t trying to disparage the source, it was just phrasing that jumped out at me as being a little off

At least one woman and several people…

I clicked the article to double check and sure enough, it’s still there. I’m sure it’s meant to enhance the perceived seriousness of the attack (“won’t someone think of the women and children? Look! They hurt one!”), but it reads more like “one non-person, not understood to be pregnant at this time, and several actual human beings…”

This is his Sarah Palin lol

I thought her speech did a good job outlining some important parts of her vision for the future and her policy initiatives. She spoke about making strides to protect women’s rights (and keeping government out of doctors’ offices), she spoke in favor of supporting union efforts, all while still making a point to point out Trump’s deficiencies as a candidate without focusing on him longer than needed. There was a lot of inclusive language, just look at how much she used words like “we” and “us”.

I’m working off an admittedly not-amazing memory here but I recall a very inclusive, welcoming speech that mentioned Trump mostly by contrast and to state the obvious in regards to him being the opponent and and bad option. She called for universal health care, for crying out loud. In explicit words, she said we all deserve it. She didn’t focus on policy or the future? What?

Obama had a huge advantage on McCain because McCain seemed comparatively old, feeble, and not nearly as well-spoken. Then McCain picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and America heard her try to form sentences in real time.

GW was on his way out. The choice was McCain’s version of conservatism plus whatever the crazy cat lady was going to say along the way, or Obama’s promise of hope and change, with a very well-understood Biden at his side.

I don’t remember that one, but he did call him “J.P.”, then tried course correcting only to careen off road in the other direction with “J.D. Mandel” at a rally once

Fuck cancer all the way. Every step further in stopping it is a win. And this seems like it might be a particularly great step.

Fuck Marduk. All my homes hate Marduk. Apsu was right about those rowdy kids all along!

Let it be known in the Book of Ages that boydster stands with you in solidarity. Donald Trump is, in fact, a piece of shit.

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About the “we didn’t know” part, it’s worth noting that we’ve heard it before… Recall “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”

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