That’s because it’s not actually for progressive politics in that com, but for making you feel like you don’t fit.

Do you not?

Frogs burrow and eat a lot of stuff that benefits plants, like pollinators or other pest control critters.

They will leave your garden barren of life and full of holes and when they pass it will be a vacuum for nature to fill with pests and whatnot.

Add on that frogs are delicious for bigger things that are even scarier for humans, snakes and crocodiles and things.

Also a plague of frogs is probably eating another plague of bugs or something which is also damaging the crops.

Frogs are more of a “pestilence bringer” than a plague unto themselves.

Ya know it turns out ol crazy Ramses from down apothecaries way was actually not so crazy

Except that dude is actually doing it for attention, like a novelty account.

For reference:

https://youtu.be/wLxq0JGmpjA

Why aren’t you?

The person you’re responding to, and these memes, aren’t interested in discussing anything.

Things don’t need to make sense. They just have to be provocative and engage people.

The intent is to normalize their message through the lens of things we can kinda agree on. Idk if they expected anyone to not want to dunk on NJ, because their prop sheet says we like to dunk on NJ.

If anyone thinks Lemmy is actually a bastion of “leftists” instead of a deliberate radicalization campaign attempting to disguise itself as “leftist progressivism” then I’d like to sell them this bridge I have in my back yard.

So uh … his therapist must suck for not treating that borderline Personality Disorder and uncovering his dissociative identity disorder

Hail Satan

I feel like in the rough and tumble world where anyone walking through the door could be a sorcerer …. Shopkeepers are probably strong as fuck.

Like … you swing on Charon and he’s gonna ferry you across while holding your head underwater.

The military is not going to do a violence to protect the country unless ordered to do so (by the executive branch) OR a violence is done to them first.

If they’re to be believed they’re honorable / noble enough to want to protect the nation from the president then they’re honorable / noble enough to not act first. So, double edged sword and all that

It seems revisionist to throw out the associations that history accepts because it feels like it places America at the center and we don’t like that. To refute the impact the American Revolution had on the French and then their Revolution is revisionist,

Those seated on the left, those who were pushing for overthrowing the monarchy were doing so with a decidedly American Liberalism view NOT the “leftist” views we have today. They were not actually for the commons anymore then the democrats of today are.

I’m responding on a chain of comments where American liberalism and the word liberal have been skewed to be a pejorative term over the years.

I’m talking about etymology because the thread is about it.

Christ.

The terms were coined during the French Revolution based on where folks sat.

The left was aligned with American liberalism values. American Liberalism emerging at the time through the American Revolution.

The current push to change its meaning not withstanding

American Liberalism is the origins of “the left”

NPR often times reports what is being reported, so if the rest of the media is saying it then NPR will say that’s what’s being said.

Sometimes it has the effect of adding their voice to the pile.

They cross their fingers while saying it and it’s legally non-binding

… but those tentacles