Break it down!

“There is no place to spit in a rich man’s house but his face” is one of my personal favorites.

Explanation: Diogenes was an Ancient Greek philosopher who lived in an empty wine barrel on the streets and passed along unconventional wisdom to passers-by, often unasked for. Such brilliance as “If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly!” when accosted for masturbating in public, and “Behold, a man!” whilst holding a plucked chicken, when Plato’s Academy defined a man as a featherless biped.

Unironically, though, his iconoclasm, while eccentric, does show a well-considered and coherent value system, and for that reason, despite everything, was a major influence on later philosophers, especially the Cynic school. Alexander the Great famously said, “If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes.” to which according to some accounts Diogenes replied, “If I were not Diogenes, I too would want to be Diogenes.”

Hey now, some of us grew up on the History Channel.

Nothing like clickbait headlines using a right-wing podcaster to put words in Bernie’s mouth.

Oh, Return2Ozma? Who would’ve guessed.

Problem: ‘each other’ includes people who support the worst aspects of that corrupt system and, in fact, find it their highest political value to see it perpetuated.

The vast majority of Americans want a weapons embargo on Israel. Even the slim majority of Republicans at this point

Source?

Pants are a barbarian invention anyway!

Hence why the title is “Wherever you learned to love history”

Well I had one pint of beer, and one shot of scotch,

One bottle of wine, and a bourbon on the rocks

I had one lassie on me right, another on the left,

I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

A long time ago, in a pub far away,

I sat on a barstool, just drinking away,

I couldn’t hold it down, I guess I had too much

I felt a tremor in the Force and then I lost my lunch

I woke up in a desert land, feeling hot and sick,

I saw a bearded man, he looked like some kind of hick,

He slowly waved his hand, and my pain was gone

He said, “Let’s go see Yoda, and I’ll teach you this song.”

I had one pint of beer, and one shot of scotch,

One bottle of wine, and a bourbon on the rocks

I had one lassie on me right, another on the left,

I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

We got on a starship, and I flew off into space

He said his name was Obi-Wan, there was no time to waste,

"I have to get you trained before it’s too late,

So drink this bottle of whisky, and don’t give in to hate."

My training went on, and I’d drank most of the bar

We had to stop for supplies on the nearest Death Star

I learned to control my fear, and hold my alcohol

Soon I was able to stand when Obi-Wan would fall.

I had one pint of beer, and one shot of scotch,

One bottle of wine, and a bourbon on the rocks

I had one lassie on me right, another on the left,

I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

Sat down beside him and looked him in the eye

He looked right back at me, and said, “You judge me by my size”

Obi-Wan said, “Careful, for Yoda is the best”

I said, “Ok shorty, bring on this test!”

I could tell you how it ended, I could tell you some lies.

Let’s just say, that on this night the Force was on his side

I got all riled up, they threw me in the jail

I said, “I don’t believe it!” Yoda said that’s why I fail!

One pint of beer, and one shot of scotch,

One bottle of wine, and a bourbon on the rocks

I had one lassie on me right, another on the left,

I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

I had one pint of beer, and one shot of scotch,

One bottle of wine, and a bourbon on the rocks

I had one lassie on me right, another on the left,

I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

Yeah I looked that puppet in the eye and said give me the test

Well I looked that little runt right in the eyes…

A Primus Inter Pares we can believe in 🙏

For god knows what reason, I pronounced it as ‘phanalix’ for the longest time.

Unironically, the civilopedia entries from Civ 2 were one of my introductions to just how vast and different the past really was.

Edit: Colatura di alici was invented by medieval monks who found an ancient garum recipe and tried it.

Common Romaboo W?

This is why public educators are so important and precious.

My friend swears by Thai fish sauce, though he cautions that more than a touch of it will overwhelm the dish.

I’ve been content taking his word for it thus far.

Maybe you could have vote harder against slavery?

So glad you made sure that shitlib Lincoln wasn’t elected, it would have been truly terrible if someone who wasn’t an unconditional supporter of slavery was in charge of the country.

i have!

If your professor passed you, they should be ashamed of themselves, then.

The real experts, that sound the alarm and call us to action, are largely silenced or ignored. These people are not in leadership or positions that hold any meaningful power or influence. Our actual leadership is mostly unqualified and playing team politics and tug of war while nothing gets done and the plane crashes.

Yeah, but I’m not talking about people being dissatisfied with political leadership. I’m talking about the widespread rejection of experts themselves.

People voting against evidence-based policy and politicians are just a symptom of that more fundamental issue.

i swear! pick up the average econ 101 textbook and it’s just pro-capitalist propaganda. and not like veiled either—freshmen in college are getting told “here’s why minimum wages never work” while at the same time getting told “but corporate bailouts are just natural and nothing we can do to stop them”—and no real analysis, just propaganda.

Have you ever actually taken a 100-level econ course?