No, my state oppression is the police sanctioning my family being killed for not being right wing enough you fucking gaslighty lunatic.
Especially right now, not everyone worried about this country becoming an authoritarian hellscape is worried about common sense gun reform or minimum standards of medical care, some of us are worried about the fact that the guy who set a lynch mob on the capital is a breath away from having the legal authority to do it next time, and being so damned flippant about Anti-Authoritarian messages really doesn't make me think you're taking that very real threat seriously enough.
Fuck all the way off and choke on it if you're gonna go out of the way this hard for the sake of defending a stupid turn of imagery that doesn't signal anything except that you feel smug about identifying yourself as a probable bootlicker to be clinging this much to "Imma step on the snek all I want!"
It's not clever. It's not cute. Especially in today's day and age, it's just fucking tone deaf.
Mother of god if someone actually tried to push that I would run for office for the explicit purpose of killing it dead and loudly vilifying the dumbfuck who thought of it into never making anything again.
I like alt-history where it looks like effort was put in to tell the story in a way that makes sense.
Not all historical events were "realistic", so expecting all alt-hist to be would be unfair, but the reason for the deviation from sense needs to be well justified in the text and world building for it to read like anything other than "X-aboo makes everything go right for X" power fantasy fiction.
Edgy leftists forget that the "treading" in question is state oppression and ergo "I'll tread where I please" is openly signaling your intention to be the boot in an authoritarian nightmare country part 83,737,478,392,929.
Look I find the gadsen spamming as annoying as anyone else but for the fucking love of god stop pretending like them being media illiterate is a valid excuse for y'all to act media stupid.
Where's the gator version that makes it into F.A.F.O? Why don't we get more turnabouts like that anymore‽ Just anything that implies the maker actually goddamn understands what they're working with and isn't just going for the perceived easiest "no u!" to an annoyingly overused piece of media?
My rule for my kids is that they can have anything else, but what they need to have at all times is a plan.
I don't care if their long term plan is to be a NASA scientist or a desk jockey or a farmer, they just gotta always have the next step for how they're making that happen at the very least conceptualized, and if they can't figure that out, they gotta look for something they can make a plan out of.
I want my kids to grow up happy, but they also gotta have a roof over their heads and I won't always be around for them to provide that.
There are now at least a dozen calendar reformists edging on posting a rant about this lol.
Worth noting though that this has mostly stuck around because any attempt to switch to a more divisible week structure is met with resistance from Christians and Jews since going off 7s messes with their calendars.
Of course you could use just two liminal days inserted outside of the standard month or week and basically have a calendar where holidays stop jumping dates.
Legit would cross to the opposite side of the hall if I saw one during school, nowadays I'm lucky to be in the more hippy loopy kinda small town, so the most right wing things get publicly is "I just like their tax policies ok‽"
Last one unironically considering how often they insist on robbing the cradle to satisfy their culturally ingrained breeding fetish as much as possible.
Ya ever wonder why evangelical women are so much meaner than their male counterparts sometimes? It's because they're venting over having to play perfect all the time or get ditched for the latest baby voiced breeding bitch.
Safe to drink, but if that drink is a pleasant memory or Grandma's shot challenge from hell depends on how well it was kept if opened.
Fun additional fact, the 1812 overture canons were actually an auditory metaphor for all the russian twink backsides he blew out.
....is that legal? That feels like paying people for votes, and I'm like...80% sure that's illegal?
Would you believe me if I told you that the dot letters were actually what made up the majority of what isn't in the keyboard normally?
I mean English is a germanic language, not too surprising how german phonemic spelling would look considering how much of our fucked up current system is owed to trying to make loan words consistent with their language of origin.
IPA is less readable, also this is an orthographic alphabet, the true letter count is much smaller, and it actually gets even smaller if you use the "sloppy" version, which is basically just grabbing an Alphabet language Gboard for þ ð ŋ and ſ, using ue oe and ae as needed, and using u o i e a as you would their dotted (or undotted in i's case) counterparts and just hoping context makes clear what the literal text doesn't necessarily.
I'm more partial to an entirely new alphabet,
F/f - For
U/u - Oopse
U̇/u̇ - Up
Uṙ/uṙ - Nurse
Uı/uı - I
UE/ᵫ - Book
Þ/þ - Thanks
Ð/ð - The
O/o - Oh
Ȯ/ȯ - On
Ou/ou - Out
Ouṙ/ouṙ - our
Oṙ/oṙ - Or
Oı/oı - Oil
Œ/œ - "Oh" isolate
Œṙ/œṙ - "oer the ramparts we watched"
Œı/œı - owing vs boing
Ṙ/ṙ - Earth
R/r - Read
K/k - Court
C/c - She
Q/q - Quick
G/g - Go
Gq/gq - Gwen
Gx/gx - Ghurfa
V/v - Of
W/w - With
H/h - He
X/x - loch
N/n - Negation
Ny/ny - ñapa
I/ı - Eat
Iṙ/ıṙ - Ear
Y/y - You
İ/i- In
P/p - Park
S/ſ - So
Z/z - Is
T/t - To
Tc/tc - Check
B/b - Be
E/e - Elder
Ė/ė - A
Eı/eı - Acre
Eıṙ/eıṙ - Air
M/m - Me
L/l - Like
Ŋ/ŋ - Ring
D/d - Do
Dj/dj - Jacket
A/a - All
Au/au - Awe
Aṙ/aṙ - Are
Aı/aı - Sky
Aıṙ/aıṙ - Ire
Æ/æ - And
J/j - Genre
Eklızıæstiku̇s, 34:18-21
Humevṙ givz æz tceıritı, gᵫdz ðeı hæv teıkin buı foṙs oṙ buı disȯnistı, ðeıṙ doneıcėnz aṙ ȯbsın; ðeıṙ gifts aṙ ė ceımfėl mȯkṙı v djenṙȯsitı.
Benevolens ditests tceıritı givin buı blu̇dı hændz; no ėmount n'oṙ vælyu given buı su̇tc sṙvz t ėpız ð huıest.
Humevṙ teıks wėt litėl filz ð stoṙz v ð disfoṙtcund, ðei d ð seım æz wu̇n hu mṙdṙz ð tcuıld bifoṙ ðeıṙ peırent's uız.
Đ fᵫd v ð disfoṙtcund z ðeıṙ luıfblu̇d, ænd humevṙ difrȯdz ðem v it, ðeıṙ hændz aŗ steınd red; al ð seim æz eni mṙdṙṙ oṙ brut v difrint mınz.
Levitiku̇ſ, 19:33-34
Wen ė forinṙ livz ėmėŋgſt Y, i yoṙ kėntcrı, dn miſtcrıt ðem. Ðiſ pṙsėn livıŋ ėmėŋgſt Y mu̇ſt b tcrıtėd æz yoṙ on. Lu̇v æ d u̇ntu yoṙ neıbṙ æz Y wᵫd yoṙſelf.
R fully becomes a semi vowel same as U to W or I to Y, several grammar words get Shavian style abbreviations for brevity, and where french has accents, spanish has the ñ, and german has umlauts, the expanded english vowels have single dots the way lower case i already does.
To review from my previous post,
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7 Stripes for 7 Articles instead of 13 for 13 colonies.
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27 Stars for 27 Amendments instead of 50 for 50 states.
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Colors borrowed from Plains Nations cardinal direction colors as a way to include land recognition in the design.
I originally tried using The Statue of Liberty's Torch as a visual divider between both sides, but some folks opined that it was a bit too hard to discern, so instead I leaned a bit more into the land recognition aspect and borrowed a Northeastern Nations bit of iconography, the broken arrow being a symbol of peace, and a two arrow exchange representing war.
Decided to pull a Venice and include a peacetime and wartime variant of the flag just to be quirky:P.
Instead of 13 stripes and 50 stars for colonies and states, this flag features 7 stripes and 27 stars for Articles of the Constitution and ensuing Amendments to it. I feel like mere territorial growth doesn't tell the story of America's development as a society and republic as well as tracking the changes to its constitution. Especially the voting rights amendments.
Colors borrow from the cardinal direction colors used by Indigenous American nations, (black and blue are interchangeable depending on which nation your speaking to). This was done to bake some land recognition into the flag.
Lastly the torch of Lady Liberty is included both to visually distinct the flag from the original stars and stripes, but also to signify America's status as a nation of immigrants. 99% of all Americans today either are an immigrant themselves or have an ancestor within living memory who was one, and Lady Liberty became a sort of patron saint of such folks by being the first sight a lot of people saw coming to America for the first time, not to mention how she's technically an immigrant herself having been gifted from france.
Felt like we could all use some throwback humor.
The man regularly outwits far more supposedly cognizant opponents including Batman and Lex Luthor, who are canonically recognized as two of thr smartest people on the entire planet.
Edit: I'm not saying insane people are stupid, I'm saying that Joker's mental illnesses are pretty obviously behavioral, they don't affect his perception of reality. He's perfectly capable of understanding what he's doing and how it's wrong, in fact his character almost doesn't work if he doesn't, he just thinks that it's all hilarious anyways. That's why I said he's not insane, he just pretends to be, because he'd be fit to stand criminal trial as fully competent and cognizant of his actions.