absentbird

He's the oldest living Republican former president.

Solidarity with a movement or organization is different than solidarity with a person.

Like everyone in your office might wear a company logo sometimes to show your affiliation, but if they all put on a bandaid everytime the boss got a paper cut it would seem a bit cultish.

I think it's possible that nation states are inherently unstable. An improvement on monarchy, but still vulnerable to oligarchy.

I'm not sure what the future holds, or what comes next, but I suspect that federation will play an important role.

New words were found for the original meaning that were less pejorative, causing the slang to take over?

When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it's hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.

I think it's a bit different when the word has been totally abandoned for the previous use. I don't know anyone who uses 'lame' or 'dumb' to refer to people with those disabilities. It's practically an archaic meaning at this point. Gay is still most popular as a reference to sexuality.

I thought they meant the slur that's also slang for a car's transmission.

There's hunter-gatherer tribes that have been more or less stable for over a thousand years. It's said that the Nez Perce have lived on the Columbia River for 11,500 years.

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At first glance I was like 'why is there a deep red state in the Midwest?' then I remembered Indiana. I passed through Bloomington a while ago and it was sad, old punk graffiti covered up with big trump signs.