Lenoxus

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He/him (exactly the 100 billionth such human to be born). Don't worry if you don't see me here for a while 🙂 Aiming for indefinite break

Quote: "Are you willing to fight for someone you don't know as hard as you are willing to fight for yourself?" — Bernie 2020
The Mitchell and Webb "Kill the Poor" sketch: two government consultants are asked to run a computer model of the effect of killing the poor on the economy
Just the words BETTER THINGS AREN'T POSSIBLE
meme: MAINE NOT MENTIONED
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"React with an emoji", under which are three emojis and number of reactions so far: angry face with 17, OK hand with 11, shock with 6, and a triangle to expand it to more
XKCD [Hairy throws his arms out as he talks to Cueball, who answers while lifting a hand, palm facing up.] Hairy: 9/11 was an inside job! Jet fuel can't burn hot enough to melt steel! Cueball: Well, remember — jet fuel wasn't the only thing on those planes. They would've also carried tanks full of the mind-control agents airliners use to make chemtrails. Cueball: Who knows what temperature that stuff burns at! Hairy: Whoa. Hairy: Good point! [Caption below the panel:] My Hobby: Playing conspiracy theories off against each other.
Liz Lemon in 30 Rock: "What a week, huh?"
Meme of Trump's reaction to death of RBG
The moment in The Good Place where Michael realizes that the idiotic Jason figured out what was going on
Futurama' Leela: "Why are you cheering, Fry? You're not rich!" Fry: "True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step."
Mamdani and Trump shake hands
"Science is whatever we want it to be". — Dr Spaceman
Meme without explicit caption: "That's the neat part: it doesn't"
A man-in-the-street Onion interview: "I'm with Bush. What have future generations ever done for me?" (Context is the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in March of 2001)
Calvin and Hobbes panel of the dad next to his bike; in the dialogue that's been cropped out, he expressed hope that gas goes to "eight bucks a gallon"
Simpsons meme with no caption: "So far"
The crow "CAW CAW!" "Get better material!" meme, with the Peter Parker gonna-cry meme as the dumb material
The "that's the neat part, you don't" meme, without captions
Calvin and Hobbes image in which the dad's dialogue (cropped out) is "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"
Tweet by "postoctobrist": the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile
Hobbes: "Why not? *We're* scared of *him*. Calvin: "Yeah, but *we're* just ordinary Earthlings, not weirdos from another planet like *he* is."
Homer Simpson laughingly telling Hank Scorpio "Yes, once"
The "Everyone knows __, but what this book presupposes is [the opposite]" meme from The Royal Tenenbaums
Qui-gon and Obi-wan in Phantom Menace, looking to resolve the Naboo trade dispute
SHOULD CHILDREN BE EXPOSED TO FACTS?
A repeat of the post being replied to, but with the first sentence highlighted
The newer version of the article with clarifying updates: The phrase first appeared in "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" (1849), in which Carlyle claimed that emancipation had wrecked the economy of the West Indies by putting blacks in a position to demand unaffordable wages, thus depriving plantation owners of their labour supply. He argued for a return to some kind of forced labour system, albeit one more just than slavery. Economists of the time, following the principle of supply and demand, claimed that the labour problem could be resolved by opening the West Indies to African immigration, but Carlyle viewed this proposal with scorn, believing that it would lead to the development of "black Irelands" (i.e. impoverished, overpopulated islands liable to suffer terrible famines whenever crops failed). His contempt both for economists and the "Exeter Hall philanthropists" who had spearheaded emancipation moved him to write: Truly, my philanthropic friends, Exeter Hall Philanthropy is wonderful; and the Social Science—not a "gay science", but a rueful—which finds the secret of this universe in "supply-and-demand", and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone, is also wonderful. Not a "gay science", I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.[2]
The Onion's "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile"
Simpsons Moleman's "I was saying boo-urns", but captionless
In DS9's "The Begotten", Constable Odo becomes guardian to a young shapeshifter of his own species, and teaches it to try different shapes for the first time
2017 French presidential election: Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen in second round 2022 French presidential election: President Macron defeats Marine Le Pen in the second round
Teen Girl Squad with heads replaced: Amidala says "say guh-by to hanging out next to this old person!", the old person is Chancellor Valorum, and a third character is an alien who apparently also ran to replace him (but lost)
Xzibit, inverted
DS9's Garak when he says "especially"
Noah's ark, captioned "This is what Christians actually believe"
The inheritance of acquired characteristics was proposed in ancient times and remained a current idea for many centuries. The historian of science Conway Zirkle wrote in 1935 that:[8] Lamarck was neither the first nor the most distinguished biologist to believe in the inheritance of acquired characters. He merely endorsed a belief which had been generally accepted for at least 2,200 years before his time and used it to explain how evolution could have taken place. The inheritance of acquired characters had been accepted previously by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Roger Bacon, Jerome Cardan, Levinus Lemnius, John Ray, Michael Adanson, Jo. Fried. Blumenbach and Erasmus Darwin among others.[8]
From Teen Girl Squad (in Homestar Runner): one character ("Cheerleader") says "nope. just regular type." to her three friends In the original context, it follows "That's wack." "Wiggedy-wack?"
from the blusky conversation "Do you think Obama or Biden's leading priority should have been placing a lot of republicans behind bars?" "Yes, absolutely. It's literally what we elected them both for.
2003: Haunted Mansion (as Ben Mattias) and The Book of Clarence (as Clarence / Thomas)
'How we have advanced, thanks to the Machine!' said Vashti. 'How we have advanced, thanks to the Machine!' echoed the passenger who had dropped his Book the night before, and who was standing in the passage.
just imagine if the USA had a single currency
In a three-panel comic, Sonic the Hedgehog simply says "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you or I'm sorry that happened" source: https://x.com/reactjpg/status/1560162263733977088
Barbossa in PotC saying "Best start believin in ghost stories.. you're in one"
Calvin and Hobbes comic: Calvin flushes himself into spinning in the toilet, as a "bath"
A Kate Beaton "Hark a Vagrant" comic whose punchline is the billboard reading FUCK THE JAZZ AGE
The moment in Firefly in which Wash voices a dinosaur as saying "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"
The "there must be a misunderstanding" meme with an armed soldier threatening the guy
Stylized reconstruction of Orson Welles doing the famed frozen peas narration
The "c'mon do something" meme, guy poking with stick, no caption
The meme where a presumed communist says "there must be a misunderstanding" and a soldier threatens him
JAFFA: It was a new experience for me. I wrote an interpretive essay to try to explain what the speech was about but I couldn’t find anybody who would publish it. I tried to point out that just the year before Goldwater’s speech, Martin Luther King in one of his greatest productions, his letter from Birmingham Jail, had a long section on extremism. He went from Moses and Jesus and Thomas Aquinas and Jefferson and Lincoln and at the end, each one was a different kind of extremist. And he said the important thing is not whether we should be extremist, but what kind of extremist we should be. I obviously picked up on that theme, but nobody wanted to hear it. So I learned that the press can be biased and could be uninterested in the truth.
Bsky post by Christina Holland One annoying thing is that every time you try to dig into why specifically a bad person did a bad thing tons of people are like "because they're EVIL" and "who cares" like if you go to an ER and say you got bit by a venomous animal and they ask "which animal" are you like "a BAD one who cares"
Elfangor from the Animorphs series saying the post (speech bubble meme)