It just means "I tacitly support the current system because it meets my material needs and I don't personally feel threatened."

Power is indolent. Those who achieve it will do pretty much anything to keep it, but more notably won't lift a finger to correct or prevent anything they don't absolutely have to. What, after all, is the point of winning tenure in the big comfy chair if you have to keep getting up?

Amazing

A good chunk of that 28% doesn't actually "believe" it, though, or anything else for that matter, just lives each moment trying to "own the libs." Picture a bored toddler standing in the middle of a living room during a wake, furiously trying to shit their pants for attention, and you have them.

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto

"You're such a hair Hitler—always trying to dictate how to coif my wig!"

The fact that "I don't agree with the victim(s) ideologically, but..." is the standard preface for every condemnation of brutality is itself the problem writ large.

Philly police about to re-MOVE ICE

They won't take them, they will simply coopt the public stance of the gun control lobby—there are too many guns in the hands of the wrong people—and start arresting or shooting anyone who attempts to defend themselves in any sort of 2A context.

Molly, I have been following you since you were live tweeting public meetings in pre-Nuremberg Charlottesville, when I was working for a shriveling newspaper in small town Appalachia. I cheered for you then and now consider you an unrenowned national hero.

The normative are everywhere arbitrary and cocksure. They have been given the scrolls.

Walnuts will do—but either way, there need to be so many in the brownies, they barely hold together.

Gotta have pecans in the brownie though...