@Priestess Only in certain countries, such as Iran and Afghanistan.

@DavidSalo Exactly.
To hold certain beliefs is to belong to a certain tribe, and people are so tribal -- ultrasocial, zoologists call it -- they will literally willingly die (and kill) for their tribe's beliefs.

@DavidSalo Vivid videos of one apartment complex being "taken over" look like truth, lead to conclusion that it's happening in a lot of places, including yours--fear.
Hell's Angels, not the cops, liberals have tied their hands, we need people who don't follow the rules (to protect us from lawbreakers, go figure).
TFG is the strongman needed at this critical time to restore order by any means necessary.
Duterte's attack on a city in the southern Philippines was described to me in similar terms.

@sfleetucker So hard to decide between the second and third!

@mcfate "Everything Trump touches ...." is an old tag now. Maybe he just found out about it, and thinks he can turn it around.
I don't think he can make it fit, though. Kamala can't even approach his record of bankruptcies.

@DavidSalo I think "Sophomoric" is apt. He sounds like one of the guys debating the meaning of life in a college dorm around 1am.

@Jezibaba "Into each life some rain must fall" was one of my mom's favorite sayings. I must have heard it at least once a week, used ironically about some minor tragedy like burned toast. She never quoted the rest of the poem -- for all I know, she may not have known it.

@gshevlin Leaves out the Normans/French, but it's about right. Our grammar is simpler than German's because Scandinavian lords couldn't be arsed to learn the nuances of their servants' language.

@WhiteRose That flag behind him -- it just stands for tradition and pride in a common heritage, right?

@estherschindler <groan> A content warning would have been appropriate.

@YouInMyEye Yes.

@DavidSalo And once they've identified themselves as members of his troupe, it'll take a seismic shift to get them to change. We're ultrasocial animals -- we'd rather be led one way, then the other, then right off a cliff, than admit we signed up with the wrong guy.

@LiberalLibrarian What he's trying to say is "He's a credit to his race."

@NiveusLepus My experience is limited, but to me flying a plane is less continuously hectic than driving a car. You don't have to worry about staying on the road, you don't have to watch out for other vehicles (in most airspaces). You have heading and altitude to maintain, and weather to look out for, but most of that is easy. Taking off and landing, though, are a whole nother skill set. And then there's instrument flying....
But there are fewer idiots to worry about.

@Cosmichomicide Wait, where's Dan Quayle? Spiro Agnew? Richard Nixon? Dick Cheney? Not saying they surpass Vance -- though for sheer evil Nixon and Cheney probably do -- but at least one should be in the running.

@Kurtroedeger A filet from a Greenland shark that began life yesterday and died of old age.

#fridayfun
#lastmeal

@mcfate Well, when Harris changes her position, it's because she'll say anything for votes. When Donolf changes his position, it's because he uses smart political strategy to win. Makes perfect sense.