I mean, they launched a lot of ships themselves too, so it might be a wash. I’m also not sure how to count U-boats.
I mean, they launched a lot of ships themselves too, so it might be a wash. I’m also not sure how to count U-boats.
Helen of Troy was so beautiful she launched a thousand ships, so you can measure beauty in miliHelens based on how many ships are launched and ugliness in negative (how many ships are launched in the opposite direction).
Pondering the fiery orb in the sky, I see…
And that is the kilian experience.
Non-American here. I also didn’t get this, thinking it’s just puritanical bullshit. Some Americans seem obsessed with auto-censorship.
Anyway, I finally understood while watching Django Unchained. It’s an extremely dehumanising word, meant to separate people (who have rights) from things which do not. It’s a tool to be able to do this distinction and then do unspeakable evil to specific people because they don’t count as people and so it’s alright.
Now remember that slavery was ended* only relatively recently, segregation was a thing during the lifetimes of many people and this mindset of black people not being even human is still prevalent…
The word is meant to be always used in hostility and it’s still being used like that today. That’s why you want to steer clear of it.
It’s super obviously a joke, probably with a large dose of mareting stunt.
That happened on reddit all the time, minus the instance part. Remember /r/freefolk?