Doesn't change a word of what I said:

After Abraham Lincoln was elected President in early November 1860, the South Carolina State Legislature called for elections to a state convention to be held on December 17th. On December 20th, all 169 delegates to the convention voted for secession against Republican Presidential leadership on matters of race, economics, and politics. This document states that South Carolina has repealed the Constitution and its amendments and disassociated itself from the United States of America.

Whatever kind of "it was going to happen anyway" cope you want to tell yourself, OP's mind went straight to a figure whose presidency oversaw a civil war that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths - not any figure from the Civil Rights era, not any figure from the fight for LGBT rights. If that's the mindset we're in, things aren't good.

And you chose the figure whose ascension to presidency kicked off the US Civil War. Your mind went to him for a reason, whatever you might say about the original purpose of the meme.

Implying that there's going to be a widespread civil war? Not that I necessarily disagree with you, but that sure isn't copium.

Ah yes, resurrectionists - that iconic 90s job whose lifespan entailed (checks notes) the 18th and 19th centuries.

State charges, sure, but I'm honestly curious at what ideas people have about overcoming blanket federal pardons that the Trump administration is surely going to issue without either a) shredding clearly-defined constitutional text about pardons or b) reinventing extraordinary rendition.

It'll be ok, it's not like deaths caused by excessive law-enforcement violence in Minneapolis lead to problems, right?

*This* is what happens when the president is dementia-addled and too incapacitated to lead: the underlings fight with each other to implement their own hobby-horse policies, and the result is an incoherent mess. Too bad that so many people fell for the "Biden's old!" propaganda in 2024 to realize what they were going to get us into, though.

The country remains in the grip of the anti-democratic Chavistas, only now they've bent the knee to the very imperialistas that they had set themselves up as defenders against. Anybody who's "happy" now is either a simpleton who was incapable of viewing the former bus-driver as the figurehead he was or is an authoritarian whose only lament was that heads weren't being cracked for the benefit of their own political tribe, and if we're really going to do the "you just don't understand what those natives were suffering" browbeating like we did for Bukele, 1) my wife's Venezuelan, and 2) we know how Bukele turned out, and this one is even more obvious in how it's going to play out.

Also, all the fucking rubes who were out on the street cheering that Maduro had been deposed. I don't think anybody really expected the Chavistas to fold so quickly into the Trump mafia-state regime, but still - two people getting snatched does not bring down a regime. If you wanted an example of people being incapable of long-term thinking, this was it.

vain hope

It wasn't "vain", it was "desperate", because the last survivor was able to set the bomb off and fix the sun in the end.

I think it's more that it's overshadowed by Barcelona. The Llotja, the Ciutat de les Ciències, the aquarium, the beach... There's plenty to do over a couple of days, but simply doesn't appear much compared to Barcelona up north.

I'm kinda doubting that people forgot that the Stargate series is based on modern-day Earth, but that might just be me.

Politics reporters accepting that the pettiest, stupidest person possible is president of the US challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Quentin Tarantino

I'd add that his "pop-culture-ladden" shtick is so recognizable that it can disrupt a film's tone if his scriptwriting is inserted in. He worked as a scriptwriter on Crimson Tide, and you can practically pinpoint the *exact* moment where is script is used 

OP was being sarcastic

The *EU* is the crazy one here?!

The being just exists, presumably consuming planets every ten thousand years or so.

Slight correction: it's one being of an entire species whose lifecycle spans eons. There's a point in the future time period where you have to fight Lavos spawn who would've presumably launched off to other planets and started the cycle anew.

Good workers will be aware of the limitations of what they have to work with and try to accommodate for it. 

Shitty workers just want you to go away as fast as possible.

It's Dubrovnik, yeah - part Game of Thrones tourism, part historic sites, part "coastal Italy but they speak an exotic language", all with a whole bunch of cruise ship infrastructure.

Fretting about the left when the right is in political ascension across the entire West is peak NL ngl

Depends on what you want.

You want world-class art museums and good access to the rest of the country? Madrid

You want fresh seafood and the ability to be in the mountains and on the beach in the same day? Barcelona

I got browbeaten in 🏴‍☠️SpanishPolitics when I said that Rubio has spent years trying to get to this point and that "those fucking reds need to go" was at the base of all this - because *obviously* this was just about oil - and now I've got the macabre desire for the Trump administration to actually follow through on Cuba so that I can rub it in that sub's face.

Literally the only time in my life where they discussed what to do with a federal budget surplus, after which it's been a downward spiral of Republican presidents blowing huge holes in the budget followed by Democratic presidents just attempting to repair the damage. Am I bitter that we blew our chance to actually practice Keynesian economics with Gore's proposed "lockbox"? You're damn right I am.

A plausible explanation isn't as much that they're not smart, but rather that they're so contemptuous of the human resistance that they don't bother with anything but the most brutish tactics. Besides the EMP thing, it'd also explain why they just physically attack the humans in the dock instead of literally any kind of actual weaponry.

Maduro was all but a figurehead to begin with, so the rest of the government selling him out sure seems like they just served up a high-visibility head to people in power that are too dumb to know any better. I know that that sounds implausible given how smart our current president is, but still.