Other way around! That’s why there are dragons in the Völsunga Saga and Beowulf. This is historical fact I’m pretty sure.

Might just not have any serious competition.

It’s the correct spelling in draconic

Hospitals won’t accept paid blood transfusions, but there are two paid markets for what they CALL donations but are sales.

If this person was talking about paid transfusions there’s a subset of parasite that literally just pays young people for elective red cell transfusions. This was actually a plot point in Silicon Valley and it wasn’t a bad depiction of the relationship. Basically, it makes the recipient feel a little more energetic because that’s literally how blood transfusions work, but these old leeches think there’s something special about it

The other is just paid plasma. It’s got a lot of use in industry but regular apheresis is both time consuming and much more risky than they pretend, so they have to offer financial incentives. This blood (plasma) is NOT transfused directly, it is used in various industries for anything from hemophilia treatments to makeup.

Direct transfusions have a higher risk to the recipient so accepting paid transfusions is just not worth it if you have any choice at all, and the nature of paid plasma products demonstrates quite readily why it’s an unacceptable risk, even with improved testing. Hemophiliacs were actually the highest risk group during the AIDs crisis by 3x the rate of gay men. You simply cannot trust people to be safe with other people’s health when money is involved.

Don’t think too much about the implications for for-profit healthcare as a whole.

Yes, yes, we all know what happens when you scratch a liberal but it’s better than not having to scratch to find it. Even if all that’s holding the powers that be back is a skin-deep veneer of civility and deniability a vote to strip that veneer away makes you a fool, not a revolutionary.

Bro’s protest voting when the Weimar American Republic has Nazis on the ballot and thinks building “grassroots support” for the twentieth year in a row justifies it when the world is about to run out of time anyways

You want Green candidates? Tell them to run as Democrats or make a fucking militia.

Step 1: Flee the country

Step 2: Laugh at all the idiots getting what they deserve

Step 3: Get nuked anyways

Yeah some treason is cool

Like, yes, Trump is a traitor, but the real problem is he did it for the wrong treasons, making him trash.

No, you fools, the divine spirits of the stars are different than ghosts!

While we’re on the topic, I demand they begin to support universal leprechaun farts.

People didn’t forget. They never cared. Biden didn’t win by 5 million votes (and that’s not actually a significant percentage), he won by 50k votes in a few counties that flipped their states.

What if that was the max?

You’re right, we won’t KNOW, it might be the single exception from the past two hundred years.

Shockingly accurate

Uh, if there’s a “rest of the world” why haven’t I seen it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TransyTalk/comments/121tiz2/that_it_crowd_episode/

Not me, I didn’t consent to that

When it’s to attack a foreign nation that’s not even threatening you, for sure. Definitely a weapon of the capitalist class against both their own people and other capitalists.

But when you’re being attacked?

I don’t have a problem with, for random example, the Soviet Union drafting millions of people to beat the Nazis. Or America. Or Britain. Just the aggressors in a war are committing enslavement, the defenders can at least be argued to being entitled to a collectivised defense.

I’d say even Mao drafting people for the Civil War didn’t count (all people living under capitalism being understood to be being attacked and the KMT being genocidal corrupt warlords regardless who started the first period of the war in the first place)

It’s the part with the brain. It’s also very hard to do when he has his adamantium.

However, it’s worth noting that the adamantium is toxic and his powers don’t work as well while they’re constantly fighting it, meaning non-metal Wolverine has regenerated from clumps of cells that no longer had a brain. This implies his mutation can both rebuild his entire body from scratch and that a brain isn’t necessary either, BUT the largest cluster still probably was the only active one, otherwise we would have had multiple Wolverines growing from the cell clusters that survived brain death, so, to me, the more interesting question is what happens if you eradicate his brain and then cut the remainder perfectly in half?

One must assume it would indeed result in Cloneverines. It’s only logical.

It will never stop being absurd to me that so called “fiscal conservatives” can’t seem to understand what a limited resource is. Or pollution.

Even if global warming was a complete hoax we should still be transitioning. Every nation that doesn’t have immense oil reserves should be transitioning! It’s literally in your national interests you nationalist fuckwits!