Would you say that you’re wearing imperialist clothes then for the tactical benefit, like a soldier on a secret mission disguised as the enemy?

Everyone understands Russia is correct to invade because NATO can’t be a neighbor, and that NATO is correct to “take” Ukraine because it’s possible and useful in keeping Russia in check. The problem is that this is imperialist logic. The common sense that runs the world of zero sum capitalists. The “think of the shareholders” of geopolitics.

Plus, vampires are a cultural tradition. The Prime Directive is on Edward’s side.

People pointed out that any financial support frees up budgets for offensive weapons and she changed her stance. (Or maybe it was the backlash in general.) I don’t know what votes have come up since.

I feel like most of his movies are like this.

He is impervious to doing good things. That early “concession” just couldn’t last.

Could a god make a bean so large that they couldn’t eat it?

Roy Mustang?

I think Canada, Australia, Britain, and Europe are weak ghouls who stood by our side while we inflicted evil and misery on the world. At least in a moral sense, I’m glad Trump stuck his fingers in the pie and made all these Five Eyed goons run away.

It was especially disgusting to see everyone post pictures of dead soldiers and act like helping America fight all these wars was a noble thing that Trump was denigrating. Imagine being proud to wage war at the behest of corporate America.

At the end of the day, these ghoulish cultures didn’t rebuke American policy, they rebuked Trump. They didn’t like that their slice of the pie was being stolen by a conman. It skeeves me out to think we’re going to grow closer again after all this. Really hope I’m wrong and we snap out of it.

When I got my hands on one it disgusted me to see Google recommends throwing them in a landfill once they end support. I didn’t know people were just throwing these away. I mean how many got saved by someone with the tech literacy? 5%? Less?

Feels like websites should start listing system requirements. Why can my laptop run songs of syx with 10,000 citizens but it can barely navigate news websites? Why does Steam take up more resources than a game? Everything that views web content is bloated except for things like Lynx.

Well yeah. “Economy” with an asterisk. Where everything is made up and the points don’t matter (except when the results feel right). Feels like this line of reasoning requires a whole lot of “obviously it’s this, this time, you can just tell” spackle to fill up the gaps.

I don’t get it personally. I don’t see how they conspiracy-hole this and that, and pretend the most outrageous things, but then supposedly diesel or whatever is the last straw. Decades of being financially fucked into the ground by conservative policy, a decade of But Joe Biden!, and now diesel does it??? Ok I guess.

It’s not their money. These people have 5 aces in their hand. They cheat and then instead of golden rocket cars, they buy the media, our politicians, and secret compounds where they brainstorm how to dismantle democracy and start cults.

It’s just that the cheaters that top the leaderboard also know how to play the game, so they overlap legitimate investors and business owners. Musk and friends don’t need to cheat every hand because the deck is already stacked in their favor.

They lay the malefactor upon his belly, with his hands tied behind his back, then they slit up his fundament with a razor, and throw into it a handful of paste that they have in readiness, which immediately stops the blood. After that, they thrust up into his body a very long stake as big as a man’s arm, sharp at the point and tapered, which they grease a little before; when they have driven it in with a mallet, till it come out at his breast, or at his head or shoulders, they lift him up, and plant this stake very straight in the ground, upon which they leave him so exposed for a day.

The Gulf of (Central) America

He keeps saying pizza but what he really means is Pizza™.

Has anyone actually tried a genuine rollout of data centers? Eg no lying about bringing in jobs, no cheating the energy grid, no building loud data centers near homes, don’t paint people as idiot luddites for opposing AI.

I wonder how different sentiments about data centers would be if the people building them weren’t pathological. Probably not good, but having a punkass showman leading the way seems like self-sabotauge.

You like rock music.

We’re a culture that has influential athletes advertise gambling apps to kids on social media. I 100% guarantee these policies aren’t about the sanctity of sports nor protecting the children. It’s definitely other values that are driving people to fight this hard to legislate trans people.

They sorta just came out and said it. They think we’re “unhumans” that need to be killed. We’re not real humans so the law can’t protect us. JD Vance waved around a manifesto saying conservatives need to load up their muskets and ignore the rules. A lot of us believe them when they say they want us to die.