individualism is about being an individual, recognizing you are a singular human being, unique in the very essence of individuality.
it is not an act you can perform to be an individual, it is inherent to being.
@SaranMrh@Noahpinion eh, its also people in the mid 20th, that wanted the US to be an empire for the purpose of calling it imperial. in spite of the fact that we have no emperor, nobility, or aeristocracy.
then people in the 90s and 00s, calling the US an empire, cause it sounded cool.
@CalypsoCorvidae@LuminusRed pretty sure male perseverance won this one.
given the femboys got the answer they were after.
which was, Lumi probably not, lesbians in general, maybe?
@char15299@MattBruenig@Noahpinion for all the bluster people give Clinton for being an austerity neolib or whatever. the gov was still funding alot of stuff. n' honestly, in the areas where they did think the problem was (usually pre k and childcare), there was alot of good stuff.
@EiratheIntern alot of good jokes in here about white knuckling with Teddy or something so hard that both the Philippians, Cuba, and the Panama Canal would still be US territories.
@Manuel_do_rio@EiratheIntern actually, we are pretty much there technologically.
like, aside from women missing a Y chromosome, thus not being able to make males. anyone could, in essence, produce a child asexually.
the problem is mostly just logistical/procedural, essentially waiting for product to be made.
@janecoaston the reason people from the midwest can go out butt ass naked into a frozen lake, is because we never let ourselves get accustomed to the heat.
@Noahpinion pretty sure you have that third one backwards.
liberalism LOVES religion. like, there is a reason the US has like 900 different sects/denominations of Christianity.
just, not all religion loves it back.
@KarlSorrells@Aella_Girl TBF, IIRC, Barkley got in trouble because of other tangential reasons.
like, being a raging narcissist, and parasocial with Deanna Troi. LOL