Au Contraire, my clothes chair is reserved for only the cleanest laundry.

Rush Limbaugh believed that, right up until his opiate addiction became public knowledge, then again after he got clean.

No, because drug dealing in this context is hurting someone to exploit them for profit while gun dealers are performing an important service to their communities. You wouldn’t consider a grocery store responsible for someone’s obesity because they sold flour.

or both

Lol

Since the Iraqi military was either defeated on the battlefield or surrendered and US troops pulled Saddam out of a spider hole to drag him off for trial and execution, I’d call that a bad analogy.

I admit I only know the highlights. It would make sense for Hegseth to focus on appearances over substance.

He’s exhausted, his job is basically begging foreigners for money and weapons, and his family has been in hiding the whole war.

Hard to say he’s running the war badly considering that Ukraine still exists 3 years later when most outside observers were wondering if Ukraine would last 3 days.

I mean, there was tons of “we’re invading American Cities and Fighting the Enemy within” bullshit too.

One means kings, one means no kings. We use the term Right to describe a set of political beliefs in which a societal elite rules and power & ideas flow from the top down. The further right you go, the smaller & more exclusive the elite gets, the steeper and stricter hierarchies get. The Left describes a set of political beliefs in which rule is shared or replaced with self rule, hierarchies are shallow or non-existent; power & ideas flow from the bottom up. The further left you go the less you’re willing to compromise on those points and the more you start to see economic power as equivalent to political power.

Context my dude. Hunger is a term we apply to people having insufficient food available while you’re applying it out of context to the bodily sensation of being motivated to eat.

This cuts at the heart of being a Leftist. Deep inside, we’re all secretly convinced that if we can just craft the perfect factually correct well researched well spoken argument, that people will flock to our cause. It just aint true. We can convince some people in that manor but not the majority.

There are in denial or ignorant people who don’t have fascists beliefs yet that are politically adjacent to the GOP who might waver, we just can’t put all our eggs in one basket.

If the state controls the means of production, then the workers don’t. Full stop, no matter how much Bolsheviks want to argue with you about it.

Some people treat Left and Right as more akin to conferences that your sports team joins than actual descriptive terms for political beliefs.

Bolshevism came damn close.

The closest to a universal on the Left is opposition to hunger/starvation for any reason.

I liked Inquisition alot though the behind the scenes scoop was that the development process was a dumpster fire that only came together into a good game cause they got lucky.

BioWare has lost alot of it’s talent in the last several years. There’s almost no one left that played any hand in the Success of Dragonage or Mass Effect 1-3

Honestly, most German generals didn’t get purged, they mostly went along with the regime and they were considered reasonably competent during the war. The Soviets on the other hand had a big purge of their senior officers just before WW2 and the war went much worse for them in the beginning than it would have otherwise.

Venezuela is a good modern example of loyalty over competence and it’s the analogy I’ve been warning people about since the last year of Trumps first term. Firing the disloyal and promoting the loyal fucked over their entire government and economy.