I think the mistake is assuming they actually hold all of those beliefs.

Have you even argued with someone whose standards constantly shift so they’re always in the right, even when they soon back a position they were criticizing you for earlier in that conversation? That’s because they’re frantically defending another belief, sometimes one they aren’t even aware of themselves, and are either oblivious or unscrupulous enough to not notice or care how they’re doing it.

Far-right movements like the US Republicans are made of the frauds, fascists, and con artists running the show, the low-level grifters and bigots who aspire to one day be them, and the idiots too stupid to see they’re being deceived and swindled.

In their defense, we all try hard to forget that iteration.

I suspect FitGirl is a morbidly obese 58 year old man with a twisted sense of humor.

I still can’t grasp that Microsoft, a $3.6 trillion company, developed a new settings interface but failed to migrate all settings to it, forcing users to use both. Even I know that’s day one UX shite and I’m quite stupid.

I’ve known a few, the type that traded up on their wives like cars as they got older. All of them were c suite execs.

Their latest comment only adds to the list of things they obviously don’t understand. I hope they have a library card.

Tell me you’re an American without telling me you’re an American.

Next up: The Nazis were socialist, it’s in the name!

I’ve been told my organ has helped hundreds of men and women reach a higher state of being.

My brain, when I was a professor.

/boomerhuumer

Big Balls is gonna get neutered.

I’m so grateful that big brain lent a fraction of their vast intelligence to think of us simple folk.

Squeal, Piggy, squeal!

I couldn’t bring myself to attach the related scene screenshot.

If you’re going to give it, you have to be able to take.

Word is President Piggy has no problem giving or taking.

LOL true! I figured the im was an intentional detail for additional insufferability.

American confirmed.

Cliché but: user name checks out.

The explanation is literally about a third of the linked article.

Gold leasing works much like a loan, except the asset is in ounces, not cash. Though the structures differ slightly, the underlying logic is the same: investors supply gold to a leasing platform or financier, who then lends that metal to a business. For a jeweler, refiner or fabricator who needs gold to make jewelry or components, they don’t have to borrow cash and risk price swings while holding it. They can then sell their finished products at the current gold price. The borrower then pays a lease rate — a form of interest in gold — and at the end of the term, either returns an equivalent quantity of metal or rolls the lease forward.

Sex pests of a feather molest chicks together.

The little boot nugget even still had chicken toe bones.