Hitler did have real political talent but he gets a lot of underserved credit for inheriting the Reichwehr officer corps and the Weimar bureaucracy. If you swapped him and Mussolini (who was also a clown, but probably smarter than him) he’d be a punchline

TERFism is a prion disease

90s homophobia was shockingly casual and mainstream by today’s standards but you didn’t usually see this kind of virulence out of anyone besides, like, the Westboro Baptist freaks. If a normie lib started obsessing over gay people like TERFs do with trans women you’d assume they had a brain tumor

Hey I wonder if there are any current expansionist hegemons that could pose a common threat to Eastern Europe

People are going to point out the Habsburg Empire eventually disintegrated along nationalist lines, but it didn’t start happening until the existential threat of a powerful, expanding Ottoman Empire had faded (and took being on the wrong side of WWI to finish the job)

I am going to rent an excavator and dig up every road leading to and from Joe Pittman’s house

Remind me when picking a demonym became a group project

Some are, some aren’t. I’m lucky enough now to be at a place where this kind of shit doesn’t happen but at my last job I had a boss who loved calling me at 4:55 PM and dropping something “urgent” on me that had been moldering in his inbox for days

People always blame the guy in charge for a bad economy, all the way back to the beginning of having economies and guys in charge. Global economic crisis? President’s fault. Bad harvest? The king must have made God mad at us

They’ve definitely invented a way to make public bathrooms worse. I hate the noise they make

That’s why God invented chickens