I honestly can’t fathom a nation being dumber than America. Maybe that’s my American exceptionalism talking but we really are dumb.

In 1979.

It’s fake. It doesn’t work. They skipped safety procedures. It’s not efficient anyways. It’s not scalable. It wouldn’t work without state funding. State funding is the reason it doesn’t work. Social credit score.

Eh they’re psychos. Let’s provide free mental health care to literally everyone else and then wen can work on the baby killers.

See but Kissinger felt like a worthy adversary. A cold, calculating man who you could despise but also know he was smart and crucial in shepherding the empire.

Bolton is a raving lunatic who just wants to bomb Iran and will settle for any point on the map remotely close to it. He didn’t earn shit, he made his name during Bush 2 when America had no powerful adversaries. He didn’t mastermind shit, he just got to ride with the new cabal in power.

Dick Cheney is my generation’s Kissinger. Dick Cheney is who we direct all our hexes and curses towards. And unlike Kissinger, Cheney made sure to get paid handsomely for his tenure as evil advisor to the emperor.

Well in military terms it’s a counter offensive because they wanted to retake land that was occupied by the Russian offensive. But you’re right, it’s not technically an offensive because Ukraine didn’t retake any land from Russia.

My favorite child, the Lord has one mission left for you. This will take you to the deepest corners of hell to fight the vilest demon.

Tell him this one’s on me.

As much as I’d like him to die, getting to read an annual headline of “Chauvin stabbed in prison yet again” also sounds acceptable.

I struggle to even say Zizek is a misguided socialist. He’s a cranky without useful analysis. The only two things he’s done well are his ramblings on consuming anticapitalist media and making Jordan Peterson look dumb.

Sorry my brain autocorrects to all caps cis because I do, in fact, type often about the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Hey trans comrades, I got a question as a CIS. I work with teenagers and there’s a decent amount of them that are trans or simply non conforming to CIS stereotypical looks. I substitute teach, so I usually don’t know the names of students.

I’ve made a mistake before of needing to get a kid’s attention and saying “excuse me young man/young lady” or “excuse me miss” or something like that. And they turn around and I’ve misgendered them. What’s a gender neutral way to get the attention of someone that I can start using instead of gendered words?

It’s pretty universal that converts are extra zealous to prove their faith to other, while lifelong adherents don’t feel the need to prove anything.

The death of those children are the fault of the settler colonial Israeli state. Hamas would not exist it Isn’treal wasn’t engaging in constant genocide of the Palestinian people. If the people of Gaza were free I doubt they’d pick Hamas, but when it’s been decades of occupation they support the militants that constantly resist the IOF.

Not liking punk is pretty punk rock though if you think about it.

can’t while my trans comrades remain unliberated.

From basic googling I found ~250,000 Ukrainian collaborators in various ways and 7 million Ukrainians in the Red Army, 4 million in the Ukraine campaign alone.

Always important to point out that more Ukrainian fought in the Red Army in WW2 than with the Nazi collaborators. Just to piss off the “national liberation” crowd.

My commune once explained to me how capitalism works and why it fails. A teacher decides that those who get the best grades get to take 10 points off the test of the kids who get the lowest grades. The kids who did well don’t try on the next test because they get free points from the kids who did bad on the last test. The kids who do bad try hard to get a better grade, but don’t because their points go to the kids ahead of them. Also the grades your parents got in school determines your first grade on the test. Eventually everyone kills the rich kids and the teacher.

The Airbenders went from a nation of peaceful nomads to being reborn as international cops without borders.

I think the synthesis here is that yes sports are dumb. So is dungeons and dragons. Adults can like dumb things, just acknowledge they are not serious and are for playing around.