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“Oh, yes, we accept all of our endorsements at the Hague. Why do you ask?”

It’s a reference to false claims that thousands of people voted for Harambe in 2016, presumably ‘costing’ Hillary the victory we owed her.

The first paragraph of The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution: II. Full of bangers like

If the present war rouses among the reactionary Christian socialists, among the whimpering petty bourgeoisie, only horror and fright, only aversion to all use of arms, to bloodshed, death, etc., then we must say: Capitalist society is and has always been horror without end.

Pizza colada.

Are the Russians in the room with us right now?

What’s a bandana but a deconstructed hat? I think this still counts.

I’m in Rimworld. I don’t think this going to be very much fun.

Insects make up the greatest biomass on the planet and I bet not one of them votes.

It’s only Responsible Foresight if it takes place in the Anglo region of Terra. Otherwise, it’s just oriental inscrutability.

The cycles are getting quicker.

Walking out of the theater like “… I think the trick would be to counter-rotate the augurs”

Same.

Loukanikos was surely the best of us.

And not a single catgirl. I don’t think this guy’s even been to communist bookclub.

That’s a good point. I suppose this could be important for folks paid on commission and things like that.

It’s a rule the DoL issued in 2019 to “clarify” the prior FLSA regulations. I’ve also never heard of getting OT on benefits and I doubt there was any real confusion. Whether its good policy, I dunno. It’s plausible to me that including non-cash compensation in overtime would disincentive benefits in a way that left the worker worse off, but, ya know, maybe healthcare and retirement shouldn’t be contingent on one’s employer.

Anyway, this is the Heritage Foundation trying to convert that rule to a law.

I think it already does. Does this link work for you?

Most pro-labor president

“What if I’m just singing along with my favorite song; surely then I can say it?”

The worst part of being Elon Musk is even if you somehow cure the white supremacy, you’re still a massive fucking dweeb.

I was in high school when it came out and loaned it to my English teacher. His assessment was pretty similar and I wasn’t happy at the time, but in retrospect, Mr. Hughes had it right.