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If your cuticles do this on their own, or you notice pitting on or under your nails, it might be an early sign of psoriasis.

It is like a home movie in that it is an attempt to humanize the victim. There is no evidence in a home movie, no relevant facts, just an idea of the person that’s gone. You’re right that one is a memory of something that happened while the other is a fabrication of something that might have happened, but they are both equally (ir)relevant and emotionally manipulative. Many jurisdictions do prohibit victim statements beyond a written or verbal testimony. Some countries and states require you to use a form and won’t admit statements that do not adhere to the form.

Also remember that this is for the judge, not a jury.

Meanwhile, this motherfucker would let Putin shit in his mouth.

Victim statements to the court are always emotionally manipulative. It’s akin to playing a video of home movies of the deceased, and obviously the judge understands that it is a fictitious creation.

Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.

All of the adult swim shows like ATHF, Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Squidbillies, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, and probably a few others I can’t remember. Also, not animated but I would put Sifl & Olly in the mix because it fucking rocks.

Except that axe swings both ways. Calling out a false equivalence is often perceived as an attempt to justify the “lesser” offense.

Hamas has engaged in terrorism. Israel has engaged in genocide. The former does not in any way justify the latter, AND acknowledging that the latter is not justified is not an attempt to ignore the former.

Political pundits will try to say “Look, this one lie told by the western media means that everything you’ve heard about the situation is a lie.” This is its own sort of dishonesty that undercuts the legitimacy of the criticism.

Jollof rice is a West African dish, but I don’t know if the rest is West African.

That’s not a cat, that’s a flerken.

That just seems like the EU sold a bunch of data to China for $600 million.

That’s what we are led to believe as children, and it’s the principles we talk about when we want to foster civic pride.

But do we practice those values? Do we base all of our actions as a government, as a nation, as a community, on those principles? No, we don’t, but most of us Americans are just finding that out.

I don’t think people are seeing the true American heart. I think Americans are seeing the truth in their neighbors’ hearts, though. We’ve been in denial about who we are and our responsibility to the world, because we trusted that our core values (freedom, equality, justice) would endure through scandals and fraudsters and would-be tyrants. Americans were lulled to sleep by casual prosperity and nominal world-leadership. We believed that the critics of America “hate freedom” or were jealous of our well-deserved success. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of that laziness, the funhouse mirror reflection of our own indifference to the world.

I believe most people, anywhere, are good people and want to be good people. The differences arise from defining what is “good” but largely we all want freedom, justice, and equality for ourselves. Extending that to others is a question of empathy, and empathy is created by exposure. America’s heart is our diversity, our multiculturalism, and we let that heart become overrun with bigots and tyrants.

That’s what the world is seeing, and has seen for 100 years. Bigots and tyrants, claiming moral superiority. It is the Americans who are just now seeing it for the first time.

“bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe PeOpLe WhO kIlLeD nAzIs? ThEy WeRe JuSt As BaD!”

That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

I bet most any publication would have rejected it at the time.

Much more accurate than guessing is not a strong endorsement.

Watching the Brak Show feels like smoking weed to me, but I’m completely sober. Except for when I’m high.

It didn’t work for me. Why not?

I’ve never seen the word “grunklier” before and I immediately knew exactly what it meant.

What’s a baby cost? $5,000?

Would you eat them if they were called “Buffalo Nuggets”? Sounds like poop to me. “Buffalo Tenders” isn’t much better, because it sounds like the nether regions of the buffalo. Chicken nuggets or chicken tenders are breaded and fried, because they are white meat and don’t have the skin of a wing. Then they are coated in buffalo wing sauce. The benefit is you can eat them whole and there’s no plate of gnawed bones leftover. You could even use a fork and keep your fingers clean.

Nick Adams seems to think that capitalists should eat with their hands and chew meat directly from the bones of an animal.