arctanthrope

secret service wasn’t responsible for protecting the president until 1901, in response to McKinley’s assassination. when Roosevelt was shot he was a non-incumbent candidate, so not under secret service protection; former presidents were not given secret service protection until 1965. Reagan survived because of secret service.

if being proved wrong meant anything to maga the movement would have died a decade ago

or, apparently equivalently, Robert Borden, Elizabeth II, and a common loon (Gavia immer)

Yes, I am only fluent in The USA English

no, you’re not

I’m sick of hearing this. white supremacy and fascism is the real goal of the administration. the Epstein stuff is a speedbump they had to deal with along the way. if no Epstein information had ever come out they would still be doing white supremacy fascist shit

here’s a German joke I came up with (translated for convenience):

what’s the funniest fish? salmon.

remember when AOC was going to make hamburgers illegal?

when I see people bragging about their high IQ it reminds me of those people who buy sports cars and then take them around to shows on a trailer with 5 miles on the odometer to talk about how it has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 300mph

one of the most retroactively embarrassing moments in my life is in like 2015 or '16 I was doing some dumb team-building thing for some school-adjacent activity, and the task was to create a “new Mount Rushmore,” basically as a group nominate four people who are doing good and important work in the world. I suggested musk. at the time most people there hadn’t heard of him, so I gave a little spiel about how he was the “founder” (which I thought was true at the time) of PayPal, Tesla (which people were just becoming aware of), and SpaceX. every time I remember it I cringe and hope nobody else does. although most other people in the group suggested Beyonce as someone doing “important work for humanity” so idk if they have much of a leg to stand on to criticize my choice

“we” huh? as in he identifies himself as part of their group? while acknowledging that they’re Nazis? interesting.

Boromir would know how to spell Faramir

I guess when the consumers you’re targeting are apparently the type to need a demonstration of how a card fits in a wallet, you shouldn’t expect them to understand that that card is in fact solely for the purpose of that demonstration

also the Richter scale is logarithmic; each point is ten times as much as the previous. so a 3 is not 30% as much as a 10, it’s one ten-millionth as much

there’s the ortolan bunting, a small bird similar to a finch or sparrow, which in France is caught wild, fattened, drowned and marinated in brandy, plucked, roasted, and eaten whole, liver (and bones, and everything except the beak) included

yeah I had something similar with the Beatles, where literally my first memory of music is Abbey Road, so my whole life I was like, I don’t get the hype, that’s just what music sounds like. it was only recently I went and listened to the album again with context of what other music from the 60s was like, and I finally realized that they were truly doing some wild shit with songwriting and production

“you can’t just say bankruptcy”

“I didn’t say it, I asserted it”

what do you call it when you put the seed in the pot if not “planting”?

I don’t understand why they removed Denethor’s Palantir from the movies, it’s like the whole point of his character, without it nothing he does makes sense

I got everything except the guilt, because I realized “living up to your potential” is 1) often not even in your control, 2) not something you are actually under any obligation to do, and 3) not as important as being happy

beer mixed with lemonade is called a Radler, which is German for bicyclist, so that’s also cycling beer (it’s also sometimes called shandy, idk what the difference is exactly, or if there even is one)