That is the price of living in a democracy.

You raise a good point.

Hmmm… perhaps a pigeon took this photo?

The plot thickens.

Well, he DOES look pretty talented.

Wow. Imagine that, eh?

While I’m not really sure about the etymology of the word, in modern German, “Dödel” means “dong”, although it certainly can also be used in the sense of “idiot”.

Also, when used as a verb, it basically means to dawdle. Yes, the likelihood of both words being related is very high.

IDK what’s up with the downvotes, I think that’s a good question.

Most people her age probably can’t afford to dedicate even just the time required to pull off something like this. And yeah, it doesn’t look like she’s exactly living in luxury out there but you still gotta eat from time to time.

My best guess is personal donations from people invested in the cause. Apart from the boat, it probably doesn’t even take a huge amount of cash to survive out there. About a grand a month seems fairly realistic.

They voted for this.

Okay Satan

Not just Koreans. Chinese and Japanese are quite fond of red bean desserts too.

Growing up is getting used to being disappointed again and again.

IDK man, do you think the story would have gone any differently if the kid HAD actually seen the wolf each time, but he always disappeared by the time the townsfolk arrived?

And it’s not like people DIDN’T help IRL – after Trump’s first term, enough of his voters were dissatisfied enough with his performance that they voted for Biden instead. And everyone else in a position of power, from his own vice president, who refused to go through with Trump’s plan not to certify the vote, to all the judges presiding over the various voter fraud cases, all did their parts to ensure that he wouldn’t get a second term.

But then Democrats kept up their witch hunt long after he had already stood down and given up all the election lawsuits, and even went so far as to mobilize the FBI and the DOJ in order to nail him on some legal technicalities, simply to ensure that he would never be president again. THAT’s when people started getting tired of the constant cries about Trump being a fascist, because weaponizing the state against your political enemies is pretty fascist in its own right, and if you can excuse that as long as your side is doing it, then fascism has already won.

What they SHOULD have done is try to win people over with better policies and a return to sanity, but they utterly failed at that. Biden was extremely unpopular, and so was Kamala, and it’s really not that surprising people ended up voting for the wolf instead, because the alternative seemed just as bad (or perhaps even worse). After all, what is the point of defeating fascism if in the process, you become a fascist yourself?

Hindsight is 20/20. The boy in the story was ultimately correct too, wasn’t he? The problem was that the townspeople didn’t believe the earlier warnings because they seemed exaggerated and blown out of proportion.

The New Testament was originally written in Greek.

Well, I’m pretty sure the Bible says that in order to be a Christian, you SHOULD go out and proclaim the word to all people, instead of just sitting at home and reading it in private.

That said, there are a few more things that are required as well, so don’t make this the only criteria for judging their faith.

I think you might be confusing two different stories here. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables. Peter and the Wolf is a musical by Sergei Prokofiev. They both have a similar setup (in the sense that both involve a boy and a wolf) but they play out quite differently.

Did he end up handing the presidency over or did he not?

This sort of argument is exactly what I’m talking about – you guys wanted so badly to keep calling him a fascist even when he did things that no fascist in history has ever done.

Claiming that the election was rigged isn’t particularly new. Hillary did the same after losing in 2016, and Al Gore did as well after he lost to Bush, so it’s not like Democrats would never do such a thing.

Okay boomer, why don’t you go to a museum or something like that?

You ever heard the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

I kinda think that’s what’s happening here. Leftists and Liberals have been calling Republicans (and especially Trump) fascist since AT LEAST the 2016 election campaign, and they’ve been doing it consistently ever since. People just got tired of hearing it, I guess. Especially since he really didn’t do that much fascist stuff during his first term, and even ended up handing over the office (mostly) peacefully, which isn’t exactly something that actual fascists are known for.

I’m sorry to say this, but the term simply has been overused to the point of meaningless in the past decade. Perhaps it’s time to face reality and come up with a new plan, because this clearly isn’t working.

Yeah, and he’s gonna call Trump a fascist and possibly even a Nazi for the umpteenth time. That’ll show him!