Doubledee [comrade/them] @ Doubledee @hexbear.net

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3 yr. ago

There's a much better candidate for the comparison: Saruman, the guy whose whole deal was resisting Sauron by adopting all of his means.

Look, everyone is saying Saruman is just as bad as Sauron, but here's the thing:

Yes he is moving towards Sauron strategically on specific issues, but these issues are important to his base and he has to throw them a bone.

Yes he is illegally killing Rohan civilians, but nobody claimed the defense of the regions west of his Stone Circle system would be painless.

Yes his armies look and foreign policy look eerily similar to Sauron's, but he promises he's trying to stop him actually.

You purists in the Shire keep saying it's not necessary to destroy the whole forest of Fangorn but he got the endorsement of Lurtz, so he clearly knows more about politics than you do.

Anyone serious understands that resisting Sauron means voting for Saruman.

I mean if living there requires expensive rebuilding every year against encroaching floodwater that will only get worse getting poor people out of the way early is probably the best outcome you can get in this satanic country. It will be very bad, but that goes without saying in Amerikkka.

Damn thanks, I think I saw that and just didn't know.

To be fair this is heavily biased by my toddler liking it a lot and wanting it in things. Absent their insistence it would probably be number 3 or 4.

1. Cinnamon
2. Dill
3. Paprika
4. Ginger
5. Ground Mustard

I think that's their prominence in terms of actual use in my family at least.

I've been trying to find MSG, can't find it at any of the grocery stores near me. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, it should be with spices and salt right?

Lol, imagine going to this length to figure out a way to vote how you want without changing the preordained outcome by just making your decision. No, in real democracies you have to engage in the political equivalent of a suicide pact in order to not feel guilty about voting for what you like.

I doubt it, if Iran had nukes I think they would be very clear about that because the point would be deterrence, which requires people know about the deterrent.

My partner and I are hoping against hope that we can stop renting in a couple years if we save and please the algorithm so we get a good social credit score. So we are paying ours, we had gotten it down to the amount they were supposed to forgive but see no point ruining our odds of getting out from under the landleech over an expense we can technically afford. Maybe that's cowardly of us.

I swear the process is designed to discipline labor. It's a weird hazing ritual we've normalized as part of making a living so you feel indebted to whoever hires you for ending the madness.

It's not about good or bad, it's about efficiency. I get being skeptical about Americans currently being able to come up with a reliable system of sharing, but we desperately need to curtail consumption and durable shared goods is one way to get there. If I had the extra time afforded by reasonable production levels to go to collective repositories for a vacuum I wouldn't mind that. It's a drag right now because I alternate shifts with my partner to afford to live, but in a more reasonable society a little exercise and planning wouldn't hurt me.

Westerners live an unsustainable lifestyle. Things will have to change to coexist with everyone on a planet we can sustain.

Nah, whatever fella. We saw how you felt about it. Why are you returning to the trough now, weeks later?

Are we

To the curious: it was worse, it was not as good as Heinz or Hunt's, and it didn't fill the void of Dad being deployed to the illegal war (that he apparently really wanted to go to). Would not recommend.

Happy to be of service.

I remember my parents using special George W Bush ketchup when he ran against Kerry, I guess Kerry was married into the Heinz family or something.

Maybe we should start a maga spice company to get in on the grift.