William Shatter

Was this after they defeated the Vietcong and turned Vietnam into an American territory?

Therefore, anyone who stands up for themselves is automatically Antifa and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Therefore, everyone is being threatened into doing nothing for themselves … on anything, for any reason.

The feeling is mutual

This should be the national motto for the United States

Clever girl … gets pecked in the shin

Yo, tell me what you want, what you really, really want, I’ll tell you want I want, what I really, really want … I really, really want some ibuprofen

I having some now from my desk supply of ibuprofen, but I do also have some garage ibuprofen and some bedroom ibuprofen … the best part is that I am a big brown long haired Native guy that knows these damned lyrics … and I’m embarrassed to say I know who all the shoes belong to - clockwise from the Union Jack high heel - Ginger, Scary, Sporty, Posh, Baby.

Also generations.

Old folk like me have lived through several end of the world predictions … I really don’t care any more.

But new young generations haven’t so they are more likely to believe them … like I did the first few times it happened.

(and if you’re wondering when I first believed those predictions, they were mostly before my tenth birthday when several predictions said either Jesus was coming back or nuclear war was about to happen … all things I believed because adults said so)

… a funny thought experiment is to think that the world did end 20, 30 or 40 years ago and this is all the afterlife … we just don’t know it.

Money, no matter how much of it you have or believe you have is only as valuable as everyone believes it to be.

It’s a modern day religion.

As soon as enough people lose faith in it, money becomes absolutely worthless.

You could get to the point of saying you own all the money … but if no one believes the money had any value any more, all that money no longer matters.

Wealth exists because we all believe in this world wide system of money and finance. If enough people stop believing or investing in it, all that wealth instantly disappears.

Sounds about right … mystery meat that may or may not contain “chicken” … and cheese, so much cheese

That’s the best part of being drunk or high …

You THINK you are a better table tennis player … you think you are better at everything.

+1 for D

It’s literally where the world gets most of their spices … the English fought wars for those places and those spices

Not taxing the rich would be deadly to the rest of the humanity

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

Don’t worry we’ll have a special day of the year to celebrate trump in the future … the day of the year he freaking dies.

Why believe the federal government on their threats?

You’re damned if you do … and damned if you don’t

It’s the same thing that happens when the mafia start threatening everyone with breaking knees if you don’t just give up all your money all the time … eventually people figure out that it’s better to fight back because your going to lose your knees anyway.

There’s a reason why the mafia balance their threats … they want to keep people afraid enough to give up some of their money all the time … rather than be constantly and perpetually afraid to the point where people will just get suicidal and make you no money at all.

They killed kings and queens with unbelievable wealth in France centuries ago and the country is still here. It proved that a nation can survive without a handful of people with massive wealth.

Also Worf has a Russian background on earth, so I don’t think his family would have enjoyed celebrating Octoberfest.

It’s this guy running for political office? Is he going to start a religion?

I think a better way to decide on an instance is reliability.

What is the instance, where is it based, who runs it. I don’t mean to completely dox people but they should provide some meaningful background info to legitimate themselves.

Personally I wouldn’t trust instances run by individuals unless I knew the people personally and I could talk to them. Otherwise you will always run the risk of leaving your content in the hands of someone who may or may not want to continue running their instance.

Is it run by a single individual, a group or an organization? I’d rather trust a group or organization and the more info they gave about themselves and their team and messaging the better. A group or organization is less likely to fall apart if any one person decides to quit.

A well organized group who know how to raise and maintain funds will also be less likely to fail.

And the user themselves have to make themselves responsible as well. Once you find a reliable instance that you like … give them money, support them, donate to them. The whole system needs money to operate and the people who make it work should be paid for their time and effort. If we all paid a little for every little bit of the fediverse we use, the more reliable and stable it will all become. The little bit we pay to every little instance we use will mean that it will be less likely to devolve back into a monolithic centralized corporation that controls everything all over again.