[–] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

The tricky part is that Germany was beaten in a war and had external forces standing over them forcing them to clean house. That's not going to happen to the US, so there's not going to be that sort of house-cleaning happening.

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm not struggling. It's not my responsibility to put any effort into this at all. I'll trust America when they've fixed the things that make them untrustworthy.

    Which unfortunately includes their electorate, so that's going to take a while.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    No, this has nothing to do with agnosticism. Unless you're using the word in the "I feel vaguely wishy washy about all this and don't want to commit to a position" sense. Not its original technical meaning but popular these days.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Make sure you use a smart search and replace tool, though. I still remember many years later reading a story with a protagonist named Virginia, and then hitting a scene with a bunch of commentary about a character's "vaVirginia". It was memorable both for the "suddenly pornography" element of it and also the "ah, in an earlier draft of this story the protagonist's name used to be shortened to Gina!" realization.

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