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1. about 3 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Would that be the one used by The 14 Fists of McCluskey?

2. about 3 hours ago on Clay Jones

   “Feeling ultra-manly?”

   “Consider your Man Card reissued.” —Ad from Bushmaster, in Maxim magazine, featuring the firearm used in the Buffalo massacre.

3. about 4 hours ago on Phil Hands

   Proposition 1: “No human being can understand what [TFG] says most of the time.”

   Proposition 2: His MAGA supporters seem to get the message very well.

   Conclusion: . . .

4. about 4 hours ago on Doonesbury

   It is a pretty common expression, and it still rankles me. It usually refers to taking satisfaction in aspects of one’s identity that one actually had no part in creating.

   Wikipedia has a long and nuanced article on Pride, acknowledging its different meanings and connotations. (It also included a quote from Meher Baba, the not-all-that-well-known guru of a number of my friends.) Frankly, most of it is above my head (or, alternatively, poorly written). Most of us would react negatively when a racist, for instance, boasts of “white pride”; I see parallels in “pride” of all sorts.

   (This seems to be Pride Month, celebrating the LGBTQ2+. I acknowledge that these people have been unjustly shamed over the centuries, so of course they have a right not to be shamed, a right to be what and who they are. I just wish that the movement had chosen a term meaning “just as good as anyone else” instead of one that to me implies “better.”)

5. about 4 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   “the above”?? Sorry, I’m confused.

6. about 5 hours ago on Doonesbury

   “Any organization formed due to the writings of Marx is Marxist. "

   It’s all pretty ambiguous. Karl Marx famously said that, if some particular group claimed to be Marxists, then he himself wasn’t one. It’s really not a very useful or meaningful term.

7. about 5 hours ago on Doonesbury

   “I’m afraid that ruling will come back to haunt those six “Supremes” and the blood of the victims of Bump Stock Murders will be all over their hands.”

   What makes you think that those six will in any way be “haunted” or otherwise bothered by the blood of the victims?

8. about 5 hours ago on Doonesbury

   “Why not just elect Trump as King, give him immunity for anything, past or present?”

   “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,”

   — US District judge Tanya Chutkan, rejecting TFG’s request to block the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot from obtaining his White House records.

9. 1 day ago on Matt Wuerker

   I’m sure that he’ll be able to make a deal with the Aryan Nation chapter in the prison.

10. 1 day ago on Jeff Danziger

    “So, once again, if they [Iran] are antagonistic towards the West, it’s our own fault for making them so.”

    Iran’s antipathy to the US goes back farther than that, to the US-backed coup d’état, that ousted the democratic and Western-friendly government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the autocratic government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

    (It was all done because of Iran’s intention to nationalize British Oil interests. See the Wikipedia article “1953 Iran coup.”)