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Listen to me. Listen to me right now. Two years from now people are going to tell you to vote for Democrats in the midterms. And you're going to shut the fuck up and do it.
How in the holy hand grenade do you not realize that acting entitled to people's votes and trying to bully/shame them into voting the way you want is how you lost the election? Like, for real, how can anyone be that stupid and blind?
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Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:
- Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.
- The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it's pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it's post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.
- A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn't want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.
- A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.
- A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors tried to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.
- Someone on the Internet just made it up.
Don't forget #9:
Someone with zero percent of the facts who could not find Jerusalem on a map and has no idea that languages other than English exist decided to randomly look at stuff that seems similar if you really squint.
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nighttime is going to be fucked up under the trump administration, as he plans to get rid of the weird bug appointed by joe biden to be in charge of it. "the bug is too weird it freaks me out yucky", said the president-elect when asked about the nighttime department. insider sources say he plans to appoint an obscure youtuber known only as "gamer rickey" to the position.
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Check out this cutie who decided to hitch a ride.
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Been saying this for years
Both Republicans and Democrats are terrified of each other having power, so you'd think we could come to some agreements about reducing government power...
The thing is besides the divide and conquer aspect, people are too busy salivating at using the law against the other side.
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Funny how after people seen the landslide through which Trump won and how most of America supports him they don’t for a second maybe they were wrong about some things, they just double down on their hate filled rhetoric.
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Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:
- A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika
- Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard
- The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes
- We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded
- A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room
- A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men
- An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted
- Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article
- The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires
- Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines
- A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs
- A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help
- Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"
- Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules
- A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen
- A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds
- A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn
- Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.
- A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it
- Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.
- The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery
- Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.
- A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat
- Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion
- A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing
- Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it
- A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."
- A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies
- A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass
- Dracula makes a bed
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brokefashionista
Democratically-run states seem like the only safe places to live now. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are actively trying to dismantle the Department of Education.
If you want your children to actually learn how to read, count, and understand that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, vote blue.
It’s also worth noting that teen pregnancy rates are significantly higher in Republican states due to a lack of proper education.
Education and knowledge gives you power and they want to take that from you. Never forget.
Which counties in the US have the highest crime rates and how did they vote this election?
Before the Department of Education, Classical Greek and Latin were taught as a matter of course in high school. After the Department of Education, remedial math and English classes are now offered at American universities.
If you call that a success, I'd hate to see what you call a failure.
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Babe, is everything okay? You've barely touched your Castlevania: Symphony of the Night stove
I thought the writing quality in Dawntrail was bad, but thought it left a lot of room for future patches to flesh things out. I thought we were going to see a sharp spike in the quality of the writing and story come 7.1.
How did they manage to make it even worse?
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I've heard this called "Soft Modern", and danged if it doesn't fit to a "t".
God i hate the rebranding of orcs from cursed malformed animalistic elves who betrayed god to being another generic "misunderstood" race because some dipshit with green hair thought they were black people
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Zen cat
EAR-HAVING EAR-HAVER WITH EARS AND THEY HAVE EARS AND THEIR EARS ARE VERY SOFT AND THEY ARE SHAPED LIKE TRIANGLES
SO TRIANGULAR ARE THE EARS OF THAT CAT
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