Classic. “We should improve the system somewhat.” - “OMG YOU HATE DEMOCRACY!!!”

Frankly, even the Buckley version is worse than the original. The song has a bad case of the “Born in the USA” syndrome.

No, no, you assume how they voted - or didn’t!

Oh, there’s logic: If you care, and I don’t, and you’re right to care, then I’m an asshole. Ergo, my self-worth demands I constantly reinforce you’re in the wrong.

Yup. Unfortunately, they couldn’t exactly have Nicholson end the speech with “I am a huge piece of shit and everything I just said is naked cope”, so we’re stuck with huge pieces of shit sharing that speech as naked cope.

I imagine that’s handed out by state security.

“US braces for Iranian attack”? Really? We’re doing the red-light-orange-light terror alert again?

It’s really special to not have ternary, but have Elvis.

On the contrary, the best part about it is that it’s not a compilation of references the audience is supposed to already know about. It’s just a fun adventure movie. The reason the RPG crowd sing it praises is that in addition, if you know how to read it, the actual plot is “girlfriend is curious about what we’re all doing every Tuesday evening”

Well, now that you bring it up…

If you want that, just light up the first and last LED always.

I mean, technically, illegal occupation is in and of itself a warcrime, so there’s that?

Abolitionist, more like.

Something something “decays into fascism”…

It’s like they all have to try it, personally, to figure out it doesn’t work.

Don’t worry, in a few years all of those people will have opposed it from the start.

I wouldn’t even be sure he’s right on this per se, rather than just a rat jumping a sinking ship.

…That reminds me, whatever happened to those chucklefucks that ttied to coup the government down there?

Yeah, that part I knew, but it turns out, in addition to having an accessory fruit, they also have a shell!

TIL, cashews do, actually, have a shell!