"I believe this will capture my personality perfectly ..."

I'm assuming that this is an *old* quote??

And both a kleptocracy/oligarchy, and fascism are inevitable outcomes of run-away capitalism - particularly when it's over the course of generations.

You know what to do.

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

Or the Australian equivalent: "They've got a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock."

And the classic (From the TV show, Firefly) ...

bsky.app/profile/jone...

Pretty accurate.

Possibly the best solution (mostly to shut up rw a-holes) would be to go to the funeral of the youngest victim.
Let's see if they can *still* complain about going to a child's funeral.

Here, in Australia, there is a specific section on the Medicare forms/site to choose whether to donate or not. So the government has everyone's official choice on record, so *that* legally binding here.

Yeah, I'm in the same very unfit boat, but I still ticked the "donate organs" section.
I'm on the *older* side, have had various medical problems, and have a pretty bad diet, but if someone can make use of *something* out of the corpse I leave behind, good luck to 'em!

Translation: "How *dare* the previous president stop our inhumane and sociopathic exploitation of a foreign country!"

Does anybody else get the sneaking suspicion that about a year ago MTG was visited by Three Ghosts???

Also true. I use them either for direct quotes (hence their other name - quotation marks), or to draw attention to something that may or may not be "correct" and is dependent on interpretation/context.

(I should really have used asterisks for the emphasis (i.e. *weak*) ... but ... it *was* 4am :)

I put it specifically in inverted commas to emphasise the word.
I meant it not as in "relative", but rather to mean 'absolute', since I didn't want it compared to the batshit-insane US model, but rather one of objectivity.
People don't NEED 10+ guns! (or in a few cases, 100+)

True ... but ... it took a tragedy to make him finally do something about our particularly "weak" gun laws.