William Burns
@williameburns.bsky.social
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A Knight of Fortune's Wheel. He/him.
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The great consolation of being a failure is that you have a much more accurate idea of who your friends are.
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Looks like Garveyism is a lot more viable in this timeline.
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Seeing a lot of Dem optimism about taking the House which isn't taking into account the possibility of the Supremes tossing out what remains of the Voting Rights Act in time for more Republican redistricting.
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Kevin Sharpe did some work along those lines.
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Do we have any evidence as to Icarus's gender identity?
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The Road to Wigan Pier praises the working-class family as firmly based on male authority as opposed to the feminized middle-class family.
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OTOH, ghost costumes are cheap.
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Trump don't back losers.
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This is why I've always been suspicious of the "Conservatives went crazy because Obama was a Black president" narrative. Conservatives were plenty crazy in the 90s.
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Or perhaps Smurfs are descended from Phrygians?
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I can't accept improbable elements in my game about a galaxy spanning space Empire facing magic demons.
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Tariff revenue! Is there anything it can't pay for?
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New Learning Management System
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I imagine quite a few planets use the guard quota to get rid of disfavored minorities or political dissidents.
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Probably the only thing the Imperium would check on is if the quota were able-bodied enough to carry a lasgun.
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Well, you are going to have a problem with reproduction, but that's something the Imperium has never been known to worry about.
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Oh definitely, but how many modern Catholics actually do?
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They didn't rescind Aung San Suu Kyi's for participating in a genocide.
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A little warning? Cause that's a hell of a thing to run across in your feed first thing in the morning.
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This is a man who really believes in transubstantiation.
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"it covers my entire body"