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[โ€“] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I know it's purely theoretical and it will never, ever happen but blue state governors could take radical action to stymie Trump.

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Ninja edit

I just realized I hardly ever use the word "stymie". I will correct this oversight. I think it's an inherently funny word.

Inherently funny word

An inherently funny word is a word that is humorous without context, often more for its phonetic structure than for its meaning.

Vaudeville tradition holds that words with the /k/ sound are funny. A 2015 study at the University of Alberta suggested that the humor of certain nonsense words can be explained by whether they seem rude, and by the property of entropy: the improbability of certain letters being used together in a word. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer posited that humor is a product of one's expectations being violated.

I admit that kastymie would be even funnier.

[โ€“] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 9 points 5 hours ago

geordi-no Fight Trump with $50 million because of rhetorical fireworks

geordi-yes Fight Trump with $50 million of actual fireworks