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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • This was back in the early 90s. I’m assuming now that Republicans like Pedonald and Nick Fuentes are now going mask-off with their fascism, and creating a permission structure for assholes, wingers are probably upping the ante to show how “edgy” they are. Back then flying a Confederate flag north of the Mason-Dixon line was just a way of signaling what a dickhead you are w/o just putting up a swastika outright, because it had deniability, at least to other assholes and the rather clueless (“heritage”, lol).

    But now, I would not be surprised if a few dickheads are putting up a few swastikas now because the flag of Southern losers is probably quite basic bitch stuff.

    In the Netherlands, I’m assuming flying that flag was much the same kind of reverse-virtue signaling. I know parts of Europe also (used to?) ban Nazi things, so I’m assuming this was a way of not violating the law, while still showing what a tool you are.



  • Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

    Fuuuuuck, that’s next-level stupid. I remember some stupid redneck I had the displeasure of knowing had one hanging up in his room in Pennsylvania. I asked him if he knew he was born and also now living ABOVE the Mason-Dixon line and WTF is that flag even hanging up there for?

    Dude stared at me like a dog trying to comprehend calculus. Mumbled something about “heritage”. I asked what that could even mean since he was born in York, PA.

    But FFS, flying that traitorous flag of losers up in Canada? What. The. Actual. Fuck.




  • I don’t know how often working people might start with a million dollar mortgage, but it’d be fairly easy to find yourself in a million-dollar house. You could have bought something in the ~500K range back when things softened up during the end of the W term when the real estate market crashed. And now find that it’s worth over a million…I could also see two fairly highly-paid professionals that still have to continue working to make ends meet qualifying for a 30 year fixed loan on a million dollar+ house.

    A million dollars definitely is not what it used to be…at least when it comes to the housing market in the Boulder/Denver area.