Bullshit it does! First, no one is traveling without their basic needs being already met. Second, America lags almost every developed nation in terms of essential services. Unless you’re hitting up the Passport Bro countries, traveling will only make you more frustrated with the oligarchy.

Reminds me of the r/AudioGoneWild drama where the mods floated the idea of banning certain kinks.

I don’t think he drinks.

We can get him a left arm, right?

DC finally reckoning with that time Clark was gay?

You’re right, but also, merch isn’t capitalism. There’s nothing wrong with t-shirts. The wrong is when those t-shirts are made for poverty wages. It’s when the factory lacks safety measures. It’s when the hours resemble slavery.

You say that, but the Marshall plan wasn’t Plan A. It wasn’t until Soviet hostility became open that rebuilding German industry was seen as a good thing.

The lesson they learned from the Weimar era was not to leave. You have to keep the boot on the neck.

and the Soviets were a real threat that needed to be addressed.

Yes, the CIA went to some insane lengths to fight communism (see: Laos) but claiming that they impaired denazification because they worked with former Wehrmacht personnel and targeted Soviet sympathizers is short-sighted.

West Germany would never have turned on Heisinger and Speidel etc.

Gladio did almost nothing in Germany, though. They dismantled the network there in 1953 because the former Nazis were becoming a liability.

The reality is the allies couldn’t execute every member of the Wehrmacht. It had as many as 18.2 million members; almost a quarter of the population.

Those chunky angles remind me of Chris Bachalo.

Nah, leaving Werner Von Braun in Germany would not have sped up the process.

East Germany absolutely still had Nazis. The difference was that the Soviet Union only really took issue with German Nationalism. The rest of Nazi ideology was fairly tolerable to them.

“Stewardess, I speak jive.”

Oh, boy. I’m not disagreeing, but Germany’s denazification was a decades-long, uphill battle that happened while the country was occupied by the Allies.

Again, while occupied by foreign armies, it took decades to denazify Germany.

Social media is full of idiots. Let’s create gates that keep the idiots out. Who are the idiots?

Everyone who didn’t graduate from the Ivy League. Boom: oligarchy.

Everyone who didn’t graduate from BYU. Boom: theocracy.

Everyone who isn’t us. Boom: fascism.

…with ‘Neon Jezebel’ and a chapter called ‘Three Christmases’. It’s a literary chapter in a pulpy mystery novel. Two editors told me they had no idea why it was there.

I was like…Vivienne and Cranston have a slightly antagonistic relationship but she helps him. Why? Read ‘Three Christmases’.

There is this weird attitude in genre fiction that you need a tight, sharp narrative that moves at a consistent, probably fast, pace. Meanwhile, literary fiction is just a string of character moments.

So many editors want you to do one or the other. I had this struggle…

It’s insane because keeping healthcare private has been a leading Republican policy for decades! This hasn’t been a quiet, BTS thing. They advertised it in election campaigns.

The meters are clearly a game mechanic, so whatever they’re playing isn’t straight D&D.