There was a similar backlash to caviar and champagne when the Soviet Union made them cheap as hell, actual rich people have long since moved on to more exclusive social signifiers like yearly ski vacations and sailing that can’t be made cheap as easily so I think this is Gen X middle classers clinging to what they’ve got because they can’t afford to move the goalposts.
this whole “whether you vote is public record” shtick is the weirdest psyop ever, never mind the fact that I’v definitely voted in every election I’ve been an adult for but my record doesn’t show anything after 2016, so those services that purport to show if a person voted or not are bullshit.
Hang on. 2016 was when I started voting third party. Did I get put on a list?
Osama was more like Gorbachev’s rival. Then he had the betrayal arc with Bush. Obama taking him out was the writer having the new villain kill the old one to show how strong they are.
Not China, but Japan felt this way to me too. I knew other Americans when I lived there who would insist that we eat at the Chilis on base, when we could go to just about any Japanese restaurant and get better food for half the price.
I suppose I would have to actually read Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR and then do whatever’s written in there.
Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic
Damn Destiny said that? Things sure change huh.
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Lmao I read halfway through that thread before realizing it was about 2020. Some things never change.
kidney gallery
You joke but this has been my go-to wear for a while and it’s good. The only change I make is I switch to a black polo or other collared shirt when I need to look professional.
It’s so wild how normalized that shit was for so long. A cursed fact I know off the top of my head is that CP wasn’t criminalized in the US until the 70s, so the boomers grew up with it being totally legal.
We’re almost at the point where AI could convincingly fake a piss video.
Disastrous news for China’s traditional Terracotta Army industry.
China isn’t even running the reeducation program anymore. It achieved its goal of integrating the rural Uyghur population into the national economy, building for them better economic options, more political representation, and fighting back against Wahhabist ideas that had been imported to the region via the Taliban. If the world was sane this would legitimately be held up as a massively successful de-radicalization program - not without its overreaches and mistakes, sure, but one worth emulating and improving upon elsewhere in the world.
But because libs are racist they see educating against Wahhabism as being anti-Muslim. They see more political representation as indoctrination, and better economic options as slavery.
because of mandatory conscription every single adult in the country needs to be tried for their complicity in genocide
There’s at least one who can plausibly claim not to be.
There’s something about anticommunist pearl clutchers. Like they don’t actually disagree with the things they accuse Stalin, Mao etc of doing, they think that’s shit’s extremely cool and wish that they could do it themselves to their own political enemies. The pearl clutching is therefore entirely performative, “oh the Commies banned books they don’t like unlike us the free speech warriors”/“we should ban every book that depicts a non cishet person.”
like me shiny stuff, don’t like children working in mines, simple as.