miz

yup. pretty much saying "without a king, we will need a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie"

I think you meant Twilight Zone not Twilight

every day the American cope will become increasingly unhinged in an attempt to reconcile observed reality with white supremacy

also prone to outright lying

just start a business

it's easy, get a check for $245,000 from mom and dad like Joff Barzos, and then get additional rounds of funding from your investment banker friends

In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.

—James Madison

we don't need no water

Liu was given a lenient sentence because he confessed, provided details of most crimes’ unknown to investigators, showed repentance, surrendered his illicit gains, and reported other significant criminal activities that were verified - constituting a major meritorious service.

since he came clean, I think it means if they don't find any further wrongdoing during those two years, the death sentence gets commuted to life

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve

What to know about whole-process people's democracy in China

https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202503/06/content_WS67c8f0a0c6d0868f4e8f0784.html

Q: "I have hundreds of historical events you've never heard of before. what have you got?"

A: "repeating platitudes I've heard talking heads say on TV."

they put addictive chemicals in it