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Watch out guys, if we keep letting our presidents openly commit crimes without consequence and send legal citizens to death camps on a whim, we might someday eventually end up becoming authoritarian!

As an adult, I now celebrate the day after Halloween, when I can get to the grocery store right as it opens and grab several giant bags of candy on clearance.

They don't just want to choose not to think, because then they might have pangs of regret from making that choice. They want others to tell them that women aren't allowed to think, so that it's no longer their decision, and so it can't be their fault if it's a bad one.

Oh boy! Soon there'll be a new court ruling for Trump to ignore without consequence!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: they don't support Trump because they agree with him, they agree with him because he's Trump. It doesn't matter if he flip flops on topics every couple of weeks, it doesn't matter if he directly screws over his own followers, it doesn't matter if he spits in the face of all things America has ever claimed to stand for; if Trump says or does something, his followers will support it. Every time.

While we generally use the word "massacre" to describe the killing of a large group of people, the technical definition from Merriam-Webster doesn't specify that it needs to be a large number, instead focusing on the cruelty of the killing, and the innocence of the victim:

the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty

At least during surgery you know that the work they're doing, while painful, is necessary for healing; this is more like staying conscious during a bear attack.

The same people who were convinced Mexico would pay for the wall. At least until it became undeniable that we were paying for it, at which point they instead claimed that they always believed we'd be the ones to pay, and that it was a necessary sacrifice. The same thing they're starting to do for this.

That's the thing - his supporters have no idea what's going on, but they don't want to lose face by admitting it, so they're constantly just pretending that whatever is happening is part of the plan, and make up whatever reasoning they have to in order to justify it. We're a country of naked emperors pretending we're wearing clothes.

And I'm sure at Easter dinner my whole family will still be saying "Thank god Trump's second term will be over in 4 years and things will go back to normal!" as if anyone in the government will actually be willing and able to prevent him from simply continuing on with his dictatorship. This cinches it for me - I'm convinced that we're not getting out of this without American Revolution 2.0.

First we got Link's Awakening, a Zelda game with some Mario stuff thrown in, and then we were supposed to get this, a Mario game with Zelda aspects. I wonder if they were trying to combine the two somehow.

Exactly. We can't treat this like a schoolyard bully who just wants to make himself feel big, no matter how much the big man acts like it - the government has real power over us, and is already putting legal citizens in foreign prisons to die. This isn't pulling our beards and flicking our faces, this is putting a gun to all of our heads, and pulling the trigger for some.

Hey, that's where I went for grad school! Fun fact - it used to be called Beaver College, but had to change names in 2000 since porn kept showing up when people googled it.