Maurice Cobbs
@mauricethebeast
A primitive chivalry, damsels in distress, virtue triumphant, and a wholesale slaughter of villains. "What gifts hath Fate for all his chivalry? Even such as hearts heroic oftenest win; Honour, a friend, anguish, untimely death."
Happy 65th birthday Mr. President. I'll be the first to admit that I didn't appreciate you enough when we had you.
TIL that James Sligo Jameson, grandson of the founder of Jameson Irish Whiskey, paid an African slave trader 10 silk handkerchiefs for a 10 year old girl and then handed her to cannibals so he could watch them kill and devour her. Jesus H Lapdancing Christ.
Despite the drubbing it's gotten online, I quite enjoyed Supergirl. It's a great story about a 20-something who feels isolated, angry, and full of rage trying to come to terms with the trauma of losing everything and having to adjust to a new, strange, and more terrifying universe.
"...except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted..."
"When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking."
"To let a Nazi remain alive in your land is to abet the murder of your own people. Only the dead Nazi can he trusted to leave the innocent unharmed." - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
And I've heard it said that the unexamined life Isn't much worth living, and I'm sure they're right, But it's hard to keep on fighting the good fight When no one else seems bothered, When no one's on your side.
Pam Echols defending herself from a cowardly attack by a fascist in 1968. Let's see if we can recapture this energy.
Consider, for a moment, that we live in a country where conservatives think that magical weather control machines are real but that climate change is a hoax.
As of June, 42% of Project 2025 has been achieved. www.project2025.observer
I love that Cyclops is the only guy who can do a morality flex on Captain America and be right.