My son also has no respect for me whatsoever. He doesn’t like me, care about me, and finds me annoying. He straight up said, ‘I couldn’t give a fuck less about you or your opinion. The fact that you think I should care proves how utterly stupid you are.’ He doesn’t consider his mother’s brother or cousin his ‘family’ either, and he truly doesn’t give one fuck about what I feel about this decision.

I think the best course of action is to put your foot down and tell him he’s stupid and crazy for wanting to name himself after a character he likes. Surely belittling him and trying to control his life will earn his respect.

Seriously, though, what the fuck are you thinking? Your kid is rebelling against you and your family. He wants an identity that he can be proud of, and for whatever reason he isn’t proud of your family name. You don’t tell us why, but your reaction to it is a strong indicator of how you treat your kid.

Have you tried being supportive? Have you tried loving your child regardless of whether he makes decisions you disagree with? Have you tried listening to his feelings and understanding his motivations without judgement? Have you live your life as an example for how to be a good person and make good decisions? In other words, be a parent. It’s never too late to change.

How else do you think they stay on?

Among Greeks, if you say Alexandros (or Philip for that matter) then people will know who you are talking about. But basically, those names are still in use. Caesar became the word for leaders rather than a name, and it’s relatively rare as a first name.

Charlemagne is actually Charles le magne which means Charles the Great. If you called him “King Charles” you’d need to be much more specific.

I can’t speak for Attila, because I don’t know if the name is popular in any particular cultures. Certainly in the USA, the Hun king is the most famous Attila.

Slim Shady is an interesting example, because its’s basically branding for Marshall Mathers aka Eminem. One of his first widespread hits was a song essentially saying that he’s the only real Slim Shady, and anyone else using that nickname is a copycat poser.

A government that will kidnap, mutilate, torture, and kill innocent civillians for any reason will kidnap, mutilate, torture, and kill innocent civillians for any reason.

As was intended. Fascists see the brain drain as a victory, because stupid masses are easier to control.

Not that I’m criticizing the educators who leave. They are being forced out, and it’s entirely reasonable to abandon Texas.

Yes, that’s why most people believe it vaporized completely.

Anything that wasn’t vaporized was likely launched out into space at speeds exceeding escape velocity for Earth’s gravitational field by aat least a factor of 6. So if there was anything left after the explosion and wind friction, it’s out in space, probably moving towards the sun.

The best part of that story is that the engineer on the project initially rejected the metal cap, because he knew it would not do anything to contain the blast. His supervisor overruled him, and insisted they install the cap. The engineer complied, but also ensured a high speed camera was trained on the cap to capture just how spectacularly stupid his manager was.

From Wikipedia,

The English word antifa is a loanword from the German Antifa, where it is a shortened form of the word antifaschistisch (“anti-fascist”) and a nickname of Antifaschistische Aktion (1932–1933), a short-lived group which inspired the wider antifa movement in Germany.[43][44][45] The German word Antifa first appeared in 1930. The long form antifaschistisch was borrowed from the original Italian anti-Fascisti (“anti-fascists”).[43

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In 2007, Rose City Antifa, likely the first group to utilize the name antifa, was formed in Portland, Oregon by former ARA members.[81][5][82] Other antifa groups in the United States have other genealogies. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a group called the Baldies was formed in 1987 with the intent to fight neo-Nazi groups directly.[61] In 2013, the “most radical” chapters of ARA formed the Torch Antifa Network,[83] which has chapters throughout the United States.[84] Other antifa groups are a part of different associations such as NYC Antifa or operate independently.[85]

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The American antifa movement grew after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016. Antifa activists’ actions have since received support and criticism from various organizations and pundits. Some on the political left and some civil rights organizations criticize antifa’s willingness to adopt violent tactics, which they describe as counterproductive and dangerous, arguing that these tactics embolden the political right and their allies.[13] Both Democratic and Republican politicians have condemned violence from antifa.[14][15][16][17] Many right-wing politicians and groups have characterized antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, or use antifa as a catch-all term,[18] which they adopt for any left-leaning or liberal protest actions.[19] According to some scholars, antifa is a legitimate response to the rise of the far right.[20][21] Scholars tend to reject an equivalence between antifa and right-wing extremism.[2][22][23] Some research suggests that most antifa action is nonviolent.[24][25][26]

Antifa was a brand created by anti-fascists but it was demonized by conservatives. It was never a singular organization, or even a particular agenda. It was intended as a blanket term for any and all organized anti-fascists, but conservatives sold the lie that it was a terrorist organization filled with Satan-worshiping communists.

So yeah, like “woke,” anyone using the term is probably a bigot using it in a derogatory context.

That’s fair, and I agree it’s better to see dems doing anything, if only for the novelty of it.

I mean, it’s moderately encouraging to see Dems doing something to fight Trump, but Congress doesn’t have the authority to utilize the mechanisms in the 25th amendment to remove Trump. They can issue articles of impeachment (again), but there are too many conservative senators and representatives protecting Trump for that to be viable, either.

This bill won’t go anywhere, and even if it did pass, it wouldn’t have any effect.

Yeah, I was gonna say the TERFS need to be kneeling on a bunch of women.

I am seeing a psychiatrist, but I don’t think I’m on the right meds. Wellbutrin for anxiety and melatonin to sleep. He also is a bit of a holistic naturalist and keeps recommending Enlyte medical food, which sounds like some bullshit but I dunno. I think I need a better doctor who will just give me the stimulants.

If ads weren’t obtrusive and deceptive, I wouldn’t feel the need to block them.

Ok, you’re ill-informed.

Surprising nobody.

Considering we only know it’s there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.

I’m glad they didn’t stick with the comics for Brave New World and have Red Hulk assassinate Abomination. I hope we get more rehabilitated Roth.

Like Nazis don’t have money to spend?

Wasn’t there a terror cell made up entirely of undercover agents from different agencies that weren’t communicating? I feel like I read an article about that in the early 2000’s.