themeatbridge

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

It's tempting to imagine that, but I doubt he actually cares at all (or is even fully conscious of the discord). This is all distraction, and he's playing the agitator role to muddy the waters around his real scandals. Newspapers are a relic of a bygone time, but it's still true that journalists only have so many column inches. The human capacity to care about many things at once is limited, and Trump is really good at creating reasons to be pissed off.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going around in circles with you. There are 435 congressional reps in the house, plus 33 senate races. Examples are provided in the article.

You're not interested in a good faith discussion, so I'm going to ignore you from here on. Maybe someone else can help you.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How many examples would you like? Do you have a specific interest in your local politics? We can find your district and evaluate the local candidates in your upcoming elections, if you like.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The UN doesn't control the teleprompter. Trump's team controlled the teleprompter. If someone else had access to it, they could fuck with the speeches and change words and shit. Under normal circumstances, the speech given by the president to the UN would need to be very carefully worded to avoid international incidents. Trump is a walking international catastrophe, so that's a silly accusation regardless.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't have a comprehensive list, but several are mentioned in the article.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It really depends on what sort of knight we're talking about. Despite how they are portrayed in movies, swords were more for ceremony than for fighting, and could have been anything from a dagger to a saber to a broadsword. Full plate armor is designed for mounted combat, and most duels were won by whoever knocked the other guy down first.

One good swing could kill a lion, I'm sure, but if you miss, or it doesn't kill the lion, then the lion will pounce and knock down the knight. Even lightweight armor would be 30-60 lbs, and once you're down, the lion has won.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

So here's the thing, I have never hunted a lion, so I really am just speculating. I know that individual humans have hunted and killed lions, and theoretically a single human could do it. I don't think that, even with 10 hunters, the humans are guaranteed to come out unscathed. Modern hunters with rifles and jeeps and tranquilized lions still get mauled to death on occasion, so like I said, any given sunday.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Communist? Trump is many things. Many horrible, disgusting things. His political ideology is selfishness. His platform is greed.

Calling him Communist makes me think you don't know what Communist means, and have only ever heard it used as an insult. Like how "nimrod" has come to mean "stupid" because nobody got the reference when Bugs Bunny said it.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Humans have successfully hunted and killed lions, and lions can definitely kill a human.

I think it depends on the arena. Believe it or not, I think the human has better chances in the wild. Human endurance is our superpower, and you could keep scaring the lion with loud armor noises until it collapsed from exhaustion.

In a cage match, I think the lion wins. A knight's sword in any era is not designed for hunting. If the knight was using a lance or a pike, that would be a better choice, but I think maneuverability is the biggest liability for the knight. Mail armor would deflect scratches, and full plate armor might prevent bites to the covered areas, but once the lion has the knight on the ground, it wouldn't matter how much protection he has. Proximity benefits the lion, and there's no question who is faster and stronger.

Still, humans have killed lions without any armor, so it's any given sunday and all that.

Edit to add a dramatic reenactment of such a battle.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Might as well see what the kid can do. You know what Wilson has left in the tank.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Alternative headline, existing dnc leadership is really bad, and progressive voters are running their own candidates.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Used to be treason was a capital offense. Now, you just need to gargle the shriveled testicles of a psychotic octogenarian.

 
 

Haven't seen any posts all year.

 

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

 

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

 

Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

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