mar 23 in idea barrages

If you tell someone something, they probably won’t believe it if it doesn’t match their preconceptions or, at best, they’ll only understand it on a surface level. If you hide it in a riddle they have to decode, they’ll understand it deeper and treat it as their own.

Telling off Olivia Newton-John by yelling “I don’t give a fig, Newton-John!”

When the “establishment” left & “radical” left genuinely compromise on a candidate, the Republican doesn’t stand a chance. When one or the other peaces out like a baby, a monster’s installed. American conservatism would be dead if we didn’t keep tying our own shoelaces together.

I’m trying to get through this life with a decent INT score, an okay CHA score and middling to trash stats otherwise. I fancy myself a high level Satire Bard, I’m probably more like a barely adequate Lore Wizard.

The nuclear option no one would ever allow but would fix things quick would be to say that the wealthy already reaped the benefits of a stable democracy and therefore need be politically disenfranchised, disallowed public office or paid political speech/influence, left only with a single vote & direct personal speech. It’d never happen but it’d cut this Gordian Knot like hot butter.

A Police parody about toxic fandom “Don’t Stan So Close To Me”?

A car where the excess electricity powers the bass subwoofer called a Toyota Primus.

Less academics, more acamedics?