When things go wrong? When things go right for coal and gas plants, the “boom” is a humanity-threatening event that already in its extremely early stages has been named the Holocene Extinction.

It’s because you’re not using the same muscle groups. Simply set the pickle jar on the ground, put your power foot on the jar, grip the lid, and heave with your entire lower back and glutes in the open direction

There’s also a pity mechanic in which your chances of waking up on a Wednesday increase the longer it’s been since the last time

it must be nice, living a life so simple that you can build your reality by only listening to the people who come from a place you like.

the racist thing is Americans calling literally any other country in the world “authoritarian” because the way they do it doesn’t involve police apprehending you for failing to pay your Big Mac microloan

America has 4% of the world population and 25% of it’s prison population. Over a quarter of our prisoners are held with no trial and a majority are held on nonviolent charges. America has the largest military in the world and has used it to exact more death than any other nation on the planet today. America has the Patriot Act, the TSA, the CIA, and the FBI. Any discussion about authoritarianism that does not start and end with America is an unfounded attack on every other nation mentioned, and that’s usually gonna be american exceptionalism and prejudice against whoever the other nation is.

Social credit, insofar as it actually exists, is barely any different from a criminal record, and certainly less restrictive than that combined with a FICO score and an advertiser’s profile.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/

things people who invoke holodomor on an hourly basis say

social credit is just gen Xs’ and millennials’ rebrand of orientalism and yellow peril. Boomers just called it called it China’s tentacles. It’s beaten to death and it wasn’t funny when it was brand new. Find new material to veil your orientalism please, this one’s all used up

Taiwan claims way, way more territory than that

You don’t like China claiming Taiwan? Surely if illegitimate land claims are bad, you have issues with Taiwan for claiming China, Mongolia, Russia, Pakistan, India, and more, right?

One party where a basic platform is defined and differences are expressed vibrantly on top of that is better than two parties that brand themselves as different but only offer a couple of aesthetic differences and concessions to keep people mad at the opposing party and not the underlying structure

tankies are literally the ones who beat the Nazis though?

we literally have the highest per capita rate of prisoners on the planet??? you can literally look at a member of the government legal enforcement force wrong and get imprisoned??

absolutely innovative and pioneering humor. A stroke of genius. One of the most unique and original jokes I’ve heard in ages. You are truly a visionary.

It’s actually not just South America, many other countries, including “first world” nations, let in thousands of Nazis as well

this is terf shit, right?

are you sure its your life that’s swell and not your brain that’s swelled from your long COVID?

that quote still actually applies if you accommodate the fact that he didn’t actually count Indians as human beings

based? yeah I hope so too

nerd lmao

I acknowledge that this isn’t a question towards me, but I’m gonna take a stab regardless, so compared with Lenin, Stalin:

• didn’t have the advantage of “noob gains”, or the period where all of the low hanging fruit fixes to what was basically feudalism could be made
• had to amass nearly the whole productive output of the union to defending against and defeating the Nazis, as well as drafting nearly every man in the country in a highly self-defensive war
• had to start from rubble at the end of the war
• was the target of much deeper and more frequent propaganda, as the USSR under Lenin was an alarming proletarian experiment to capital, but the USSR under Stalin was a global superpower that threatened hegemony on a daily basis
• faced famines and sanctions of a much higher magnitude at much worse times than Lenin
• and yes, fumbled a couple things very badly which lead to a non-negligible amount of death (although, and I recognize that this is impossible to prove, handled most things far better than any bourgeoise head of state handled their similar crises)

He was decent. He isn’t a god, he didn’t do perfect, but when you count how shitty the hand he was dealt was and how much better things were going by the time he walked from the table, he did pretty damn decent.