And to think, the Boston Tea Party was over the modern equivalent of a $1.40 per pound tax on tea.

My love for unions eclipses my hatred for the TSA on this one.

The Thumper from Tribes. Most people went with the Spinfusor because of the linear projectile, but once you learn to account for the arcing shots the Thumper was better.

Yup. In multiplayer, I used to blow a crater in the floor with explosives and then sit in the hole with the rail gun, shooting people through the floor.

The tea party was almost entirely an engineered movement from the Koch brothers.

The message was clear. It’s purely corporate propaganda that it wasn’t.

The lack of leadership was intentional because left leaders tend to go the way of Fred Hampton.

Stick it between the prong of an electric plug, then plug into an outlet. Instafried

Ultimately the police and military lean heavily Republican, especially at the leadership level. That means they can push things farther than the Dems.

This might be one of the few cases where the Supreme Court might rule against Trump because it means they keep their power.

Not necessarily. Just have to be far enough away from everything that people don’t care.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

JIMMY CARTER: “Well, as you may know, I had a policy when I was president of not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region of the world, and some of our allies were very irate about this policy. And I have to say that I was not, you know, as thoroughly briefed about what was going on in East Timor as I should have been. I was more concerned about other parts of the world then.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/10/jimmy_carter_indonesia_east_timor_genocide

That sounds like a completely believable explanation to me. I can completely believe that that the military advisors didn’t give him the full picture of what was happening there.

Remember, if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

The same but pained black and it vibrates.