As is tradition. A lot of the more “moderates” in Germany thought they could easily control Hitler. Idiots failing to grasp weaponized stupidity in the hands of other idiots.

Well, I, for one, appreciate that he’s wearing clothes every time I’ve seen his picture.

I am, just saying a Luger is a better outcome than slowing dying after your teeth have been shattered and your skull cracked

Counterpoint: if you are staring down the barrel of a Luger, I would suggest NOT doing what they tell you to do.

The Nazis had a habit of forcing someone at gunpoint to do something worse than getting shot. Like telling you to bite the curb, or kill your friend, then they shoot you.

I mean, to be fair, the Nazis killed a lot of Nazis. They really just like killing people. Kind of what they were known for, and probably what they will keep doing.

It’s a rather unhealthy mindset these creatures have.

I don’t have the sources, but if I remember right, almost all recent presidents have had assassination attempts.

This is the only one that’s gotten as close as Reagan’s

Merci !

Bonjour ! Je suis actuellement en train d’apprendre le Français. Suis-je invité ?

And that’s a real freaking stretch for what I know. And apparently I can’t pronounce most of it correctly

Man. Don’t, just don’t. Don’t cheat, and don’t get cheat on. Not worth that pain. Get into a couples therapist, and let them guide you in the process of discovering if you can make it work or not. Spoiler: doesn’t often work.

If you have kids, don’t stay just for the kids. Believe it or not, both of you deserve happiness, and your kids won’t ever really be happy until you have what you need to do that.

And there can’t be. It’s damn near a requirement for totalitarian power.

Yes it did, you just don’t like how I avoided the answer you wanted to see.

No one can replace him in the cult of personality. That’s kind of how it works. Now he’s a living martyr. The worst kind.

This is the one possible scenario that could make things even worse. They can’t replace the head of the snake, but they can sure as fuck pump that the head was shot and injured. They did the same with Hitler.

History is repeating itself far to close for this to be comfortable.

This is the worst possible scenario.

So. The good news, is that my next work machine is skipping 13 and 14.

The bad news is my next work machine is an Ultra Core processor, we get to be first adopters too! How glorious (/s)!

I don’t think there’s a hard requirement of having a running mate. In fact, it would probably be much more appropriate. In totalitarian environments, as soon as you cut the head off the snake, and the power vacuum is created, it won’t really matter who the VP is as it will be an internal war anyway.

Poverty is always a liability. In the healthcare system, poverty raises the costs for everyone else when they don’t get things treated or prevented.

What bothers me is that there is a whole bunch of financial types who seem to blissfully ignore liabilities. “Those are unrealized costs,” when it should be “those are ticking time bombs.” If you don’t mitigate liabilities like through well regulated utilities those ticking time bombs will always have bigger consequences when they ARE realized.

Suddenly, my giant ass raise earlier this year makes a lot more sense

I didn’t here him say it, I heard these guys: https://youtu.be/6jJkdRaa04g?si=lf2zBlFBEMuUrb4Y

Ah so it’s not my problem it’s the city tax payers problem. Oh wait