Yeah, to quote Lincoln:

“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities”

Not sure what your point is. The US is incredibly diverse, and that diversity has very modern roots (when compared to many other diverse countries). That’s not exceptionalism, that’s just demographics. It’s not a competition. Combined with large internal migrations over its history and its large size, many Americans live in cities and regions they have no historical family connection to. So when answering a question about why “Americans seem to be very obsessed with their nationality” it seemed relevant.

That’s what happens when almost everyone in the country had ancestors who only came here in the last 200 years. The “American identity” is founded in the idea that either we or our ancestors were born somewhere else and then came here. It’s much different than someplace like the UK where so many are probably within a days walk of where one of their 10th great grandparents lived.

Nailed it! <fist bump>

Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)

I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>

The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.

Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.

Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For those confused:

It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?

I mean at least Gabbard and Sinema ran for and won offices at a serious level (obviously still incredibly awful people). Stein literally only served 5 years in a “representative town meeting” (basically a municipal legislature) for a town of ~30k people.

Lauren Boebert looks like a goddamn elder statesman next to Jill Stein in terms of experience.

Having seen all the stuff he posts, I’m thinking it might actually be both? He’ll occasionally share stuff of general interest but then he does shit like this and you have to wonder how much more clever he thought he was being? But yeah it’s all troll memes and high concept gotchas backed up with big “I’m just asking questions!” energy.

This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

Update: just realized it’s not everything, just everything more than 5 years old

So you had a blow to the head then? Probably should get that looked at.

So… do you not know what a meme is?

It definitely needs to be decriminalized but that’ll actually take an act of Congress. Public pressure needs to be applied but let’s not pretend Biden can do this on his own