You’d be surprised. There are tankies on here that insist on such lunacy as “The Stalinist USSR was actually really democratic!”
They will always swallow the official line of denial, even long after the officials themselves have disavowed it.
It’d be much cooler to celebrate liberty in December instead of some kid being born too, tbqh.
Yep, capital I. “Yo” is how I usually hear it. I’ve seen it argued that “Ee-oh” is the appropriate pronunciation.
Later invention, I’m afraid! German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast is often credited with the modern design of Santa Claus during the US Civil War, of all times.
That being said, many of the traditions of Christmas are linked to Saturnalia.
Explanation: Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival of merrymaking, where the social order was turned ‘upside-down’ in celebration of the liberty granted by Saturn. People exchanged small gifts, dressed in outlandish outfits, played holiday games, and drank and feasted to excess.
Emperor Julian was the last pagan Emperor of Rome, who attempted to enforce tolerance for all faiths in the Empire - something which the Christians, who had enjoyed ~50 years as an empowered minority with Christian Emperors persecuting their enemies, the pagan majority of the Empire, regarded as a great offense.
EMPEROR JULIAN GAVE US BACK SATURNALIA
With thanks to @[email protected]
You know what that did for my standard of living? It gave me a lot of cheap, healthy and delicious places to eat.
Completely un-American, you can only have one of the three
Sorry we didn’t carry on the crusade against fascism at home after dismantling Nazi Germany.
I was there when they were invented, they were called mini-bowls. The marketing team didn’t like it, though, so we had to rewrite all the clay tablets with ‘spoons’. Which is a dumb name, for the record.
Mini-bowls, they were initially called
People remember names more than opinions. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was still a net gain for the company.
Loneliness and/or a need for validation drives people to crazy things. From joining cults and extremist groups without a pre-existing history of relevant prejudices or preconceptions, to enduring abusive social circles. To, now, falling in love with chatbots.
“Wow, I can’t believe we backed a fascist shitwit and now people hate us???”
Corporations never learn. Literally. They’re incapable of learning.
Just a reminder to everyone that the comm is making the move to [email protected] !
Just a reminder to everyone that the comm is making the move to [email protected] !
Just a reminder to everyone that the comm is making the move to [email protected] !
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt”
As recently as the 90s in my area, I should have said. I… don’t doubt that many areas are still fucking terrible on the matter, both by use of old textbooks and by whatever the fuck the GOP is pushing in red states.
If Germany had minded their own genocide of minorities and borders, the US (and many other countries) probably never would have intervened.
Horrific, isn’t it?
Fuck. I’m tech illiterate, what can I say?
Understandable, hence the ‘if you can do so’.