455, this Zercher Squat is dedicated to Eggihard, the Overseer of Charlemagne’s Table, Anselm, the Count of the Palace, and Roland, Prefect of the Breton March. Roncevaux Pass will never be forgotten!
@feelsdesperate The intern running Hunter Biden’s account isn’t playing the character very well. She needs to do some method acting and pick up a coke addiction.
@ChazakielDoremi War stories are simply the most compelling and intriguing aspects of history. Whether the story romanticizes or deromanticizes war doesn’t even matter, war is just more interesting than most other stories that can be retold.
I fit 8 eggs between two slices of rye toasted in butter. The left has no answer to this. I’m hearing radio chatter of mass polycule-wide suicides in Denver, Colorado. It’s over. We won.
People don’t realize how ubiquitous drinking used to be. Like most men used to drink every day. It was not uncommon for laborers to have a shot of whiskey to start the day. Taking a couple nips before a big meeting or speech was normal. Wine with dinner and an after dinner digestion drink was common.
There are certainly people who are just born addicts and would drink themselves to death under any circumstance, at any historical time, in any culture. But now that it’s been almost a decade since I last drank, and I’ve spent probably too much time studying both addiction and historical culture, I am fully convinced that our current culture is not only characterizing non-problematic drinking as “alcoholic,” but the culture itself is making people drink alcoholically.
Historically, outside of certain Protestant denominations that strongly discouraged, if not outright prohibited it, there wasn’t much fuss about drinking in general, but more obvious, frequent drunkenness.
Now, true drunkenness is permitted, but only in very specific contexts by specific age groups. The striking difference is that casual drinking (not to drunkenness) is also confined to very specific contexts. Lunch drinking, of even a beer or a glass of wine, is virtually non-existent in contemporary American culture. If your coworker at a major corporation ordered a beer at lunch, it would be shocking. The old shot of whiskey to start the day would immediately be interpreted as alcoholism.
There is something about the current culture around alcohol that I believe is literally driving people to a weird version of alcoholism. We are increasingly making it taboo and then compounding our interpretation of the behavior and I think people are subconsciously fulfilling the belief that’s been implanted. Even normal casual drinkers are seemingly constantly feeling the need to examine and prove that they are not alcoholics, where they never even would have considered it 60 years ago.
The new crew of health podcasters are making it even worse by making normal people feel like a single beer is going to “ruin their sleep” and destroy their health.
@saveusculture@Zaoist4 No idea why “Christian couple adopts non-White child” is getting talked about like it’s a trope, only ever seen (presumably non-Christian) Hollywood celebrities and one guy that got clowned on X do it. The only Christian couple I’ve met who adopted foreigners adopted two Russians
I see a lot of people clowning on this guy for being racist, but I think it misses the much larger and more important takeaway. Read his text very carefully - if you remove the rage, what he's really saying is "I can't help my family because I keep getting called out to life or death scenarios every single day. Its the same people, doing the same crimes, over and over and over, because their entire culture is broken. Now I can't see my son because I have to deal with the same BS every single day."
Imagine what it does to your psyche seeing that behavior, having to be placed in these incredibly stressful scenarios, every single day for years on end, with no end or solution in sight. The constant murders, thefts, rapes, etc. On top of it, you can't see your kid while you're solving it, and now your wife is leaving you and making your exasperation public.
These texts aren't as much racist as they are a cry for help. This officer is very obviously well beyond his breaking point and is taking it out through this type of language. Now his family is broken and he's been publicly shamed. Really sad to see all around.
Never understood this repeated statement of “The best part about being American is that you can freely disagree with your leadership.” That doesn’t even make the top ten list of best things about my country. The best part about my country is it’s MY country.
@MLFootball Loving your country does not mean you must always respect who is president
The best part of this country is that we can freely and openly tell the president to eat shit
@Fredward_Frex@FLOATINGSHITBA1@HamptonPrezcott I have no reason to lie, about 3 years working in NYC waste management. My fiancé follows my account, she it quite funny and charming. Not sure which replies you’re talking about, but they didn’t come from me lol