I always figured Odysseus telling Penelope how he'd been true to her was meant to be a laugh line. I mean, ancient audiences sat there for hours listening to how he'd gotten it on with Circe and Calypso.
@joshklein_13@JonahDispatch Communism is as evil as fascism (and not at all on opposite ends of the spectrum) and left-wing attempts to deny that is just as problematic.
@gabewildau@jessesingal Seventy years later we're still lamenting HUAC whose targets were sympathizers of a totalitarian regime (which was their God-given right of course). Why should we ever forget this episode?
People underrate the fact that Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud were all German or Austrian. If I made myself wait for the Walk sign to cross a street even with no cars around for miles I would probably end up debunking "morality" too
It can finally be revealed where he came from and where he went. Now get married already and stop blaming Cotton-Eyed Joe for your poor life decisions.
@bonchieredstate I'll split the baby. Primaries bad, direct election of senators good. Senate seats can't be gerrymandered and the Rod Blagojevich-type of shenanigans state pols would have to engage in to win seats would not be edifying.
@hoodsy I get that the pearl-clutching is annoying, but I do have ancestors on both sides of the conflict, and I'm decidedly more proud of those that fought for the Union than the Confederacy.
@bonchieredstate I want to believe that, but I know it's just engagement farming. The only thing I believe visiting Europeans are genuinely enthusiastic about is the ranch dressing.