Beware the Ides of March -- U.S. Politics March 2021

You are right that context is important, in another context it’s a symbol of being unable to think beyond dank memes and using the history of other nations without seeing how freaking shortsighted and tragicaly ironic it might be.

unable to think beyond dank memes

No one built a guillotine to take along on the Bernie campaign bus.

personally I always saw the resurgence of guillotine imagery as a reflection of powerlessness and not a literal endorsement of mass decapitation

no, clearly everybody means the worst possible thing and there is no other interpretation allowed

personally I always saw the resurgence of guillotine imagery as a reflection of powerlessness and not a literal endorsement of mass decapitation

― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:56 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry to turn to what the only thing the machine has ever done and was meant for.

blame the Wizards of the Coast

Everyone making guillotine jokes should instead use the hammer and sickle, which I'm sure would not cause any fuss.

would that it were so simple

Many xposts

I was bitten by a neighbour’s German shepherd when I was 4 and that dog did me a favour in a roundabout way, because the medical exam I got at the hospital following the bite flagged up swelling that turned out to be cancer. No way on Earth I’d be alive today if Hans hadn’t bitten me.

Whoever got bit at the White House might want to have an MRI, just to be sure.

The big thing about the guillotine is it's so fucking dorky larping

yeah. like "hahaha just kidding! this thing doesn't actually work officer come on!!"

I would love to see a gaggle of chapo fans who can't change a tire try to assemble a working guillotine

lol

yea those IKEA instructions are often confusing

no, clearly everybody means the worst possible thing and there is no other interpretation allowed

New board description.

Good morning!

I will go on record as saying that I think every billionaire's (and billionaire+'s) head should be chopped off and their assets distributed to people in the global south.

I don't even think that's controversial, tbh.

I'd give them a chance (like 1 month...) to give up 99.999& of their wealth outright but after that *makes throat slashing gesture, is flagged*

Stacey Plaskett goes after Grothman for his weird comments about Black Lives Matter supporters not supporting traditional families pic.twitter.com/KlGsrbeJJL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 10, 2021

Do I think it would be good to peremptorily execute billionaires? Who knows. Let’s not rule it out.

I will go on record as saying that I think every billionaire's (and billionaire+'s) head should be chopped off and their assets distributed to people in the global south.

Er, you guys do know that it is possible to defang billionaires and take their wealth away without actually murdering them, don't you? Bcz, bloodthirst is not a defensible political position, if you think about it a bit. Too easy to misuse and never necessary to achieve your goal unless that goal is terror.

Terrorizing billionaires and wannabe billionaires is good policy. Keep them from getting ideas.

Th'd be terrified aplenty just at the threat of living in poverty. Death not required.

Mike Lee on HR1: "This is a bill as if written in hell by the devil himself." pic.twitter.com/NfNvv30NBA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 10, 2021

"The snake and the apple, Tucker, is actually a metaphor for mail-in voting."

Mike Lee discovers that democracy is hell, because it involves other people.

Republicans demand universal suffrage for cranky old white men

Th'd be terrified aplenty just at the threat of living in poverty. Death not required.

― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Wednesday, March 10, 2021 1:57 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It wouldn’t fit with the dehumanization of anything that opposes their ideology a life spent on the internet can provide.

The bill passed the house, 220-211.

O no the dehumanization of Zuck and Bezos

I made a massive mistake and filed my taxes this weekend and now I'm really really hoping this gets signed and paid out ASAP

xp While your arrogance proves you all-too-human.

First they came for the billionaires and I said nothing, because I wasn't a billionaire ...

"But when I was celebrating the dehumanization and murder of others I was only joking! Honest!"

man will everybody be shocked when Biden vetoes the bill, and rips off the mask, revealing himself to be....

Is this Match Game? I’m going with “Martin Shkreli”

Garland confirmed as AG

70-30 vote

first AG to have the head and upper body of a Rick and the tail of a fish

Apparently Susan Rice took over the office that Stephen Miller had been using. & now she's regularly burning sage in there to help rid the place of negative spirits. Probably cheaper than a full blown exorcism?

still not quite getting why a mermaid splits where it does even on sailor's tattoos. Thought there might be some bowlderism bunged in for children's illustrations but like is this voluntary celibacy or sumfin?

Are we talking Stephen Miller's tattoos or

Highly recommend The Lure — Polish mermaid horror musical — for a full exploration of the sexual proclivities and capabilities of mermaids.

Polish mermaid horror musical
I am the father, the father of nothing

it's no The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Er, you guys do know that it is possible to defang billionaires and take their wealth away without actually murdering them, don't you?

― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:53 AM (one hour ago)

no, this has never occurred to anyone else

choppy bois are for billionaires, mon ami

it's very easy not to qualify for one

― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:39 PM (yesterday)

I'd give them a chance (like 1 month...) to give up 99.999& of their wealth outright

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:35 AM (three hours ago)

The Lure is really damn excellent and everyone should see it

let's hope they realize this is a vote winner

NEW: American Airlines is telling 13,000 workers who received notices of April 1 furloughs "you can tear them up!" House passage of $1.9 trillion stimulus bill extends airline Payroll Support Program once again. pic.twitter.com/a23SkVfhwd

— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) March 10, 2021

wau

lol at "if you see your congressional representative on a flight, be sure to thank her or him"