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Hey, Janet Mills is only 77! She's a spring chicken!

I wouldn't, but then again I'm not a drunk Marine.

Like the other user above, I've also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don't recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I'm not saying it isn't a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

Did you read the full comment? They said they reuse them for cat litter disposal and wastebasket liners. Y'know, the sort of things for which someone would normally purchase single-use plastics anyways.

I'm happy to reuse a bag after it's held canned goods and fresh produce. Cat poop and used tissues? Not so much. My old stock only lasted so long.

I don't see. Not trying to be obstinate, but I must be missing the nuance. What does it mean for a tax to have "association with representation?" Elected representatives passed the laws that implemented these taxes, right?

And they get Social Security and Medicare benefits.

I didn't think the issue of "taxation without representation" hinged on whether or not the citizens benefitted from how the taxes were spent.

It's not like the Stamp Act of 1765 was an income tax, either.

But they pay other federal taxes... Social Security, Medicare, and less common taxes like customs and commodity taxes... and D.C. residents do pay federal income tax.

I wonder how the permanent residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the District of Columbia feel about paying federal taxes without a having a voting representative in Congress.

Huh.

If Virginia hadn't attempted to secede from the Union, thereby forcing West Virginia to secede from Virginia, would we have 49 states today?

50 is such a round, satisfying number that I can't help but wonder if we would have made Puerto Rico or another territory into a state to make up the difference.

Washington was a vocal critic of factionalism and sectionalism, and expressed fear of the country being torn apart by partisan loyalties. I thought the quote sounded like something he might have plausibly said in his old age. But then I thought he wouldn't have used the term Empire to describe the U.S., which is what prompted me to look it up

LMAO that quote is from Warhammer 40K, not George Washington.

Yeah, ChatGPT or Google Gemini would definitely write a ten-paragraph explanation of the image without noting that Crisrok is an obvious Chris Rock reference.

It was seen as "merciful" because in The Old Days they would have outright killed their political enemies instead of letting them live, right?