TheDrink [he/him]

Good article. I’m lucky to have avoided this in my childhood despite being noticeably overweight for most of it. Kids’ bodies are still growing and they all grow in all different ways and they should be taught early that all human shapes are beautiful.

As a health crisis, fatness is the perfect encapsulation of Calvinist brain worms. Because we have a phenomenon that cuts through our entire society, effects literally the majority of people, and instead of looking at societal factors (like relentless food advertisement, increased portion sizes, dumping sugar into everything, creation of food deserts, and so on) we blame the people it effects and call it a personal problem.

Almost everyone in our society is eating the same slop day in and day out, and the people who are just genetically predisposed not to hang onto fat or to not get hungry as often or whatever else get to act like they’ve figured out some kind of secret. It’s the same phenomenon that causes rich failsons to assume that they’re just harder workers than everyone around them, a modern version of Predestination.

boutta VPN to China and get a Chinese phone number so I can use their superior websites.

We literally impeached him for threatening to not send weapons there for the civil war that ended up exploding into the full scale invasion.

Ah yes, the impeachment that accomplished so much and is extremely relevant.

I don’t care what Trump said or would have preferred, under his administration our government continued to fuel and escalate tensions in the region when we should have been pushing Ukraine to implement Minsk II and end the civil war. Maybe you could classify it as a mistake on his part instead of malice that he didn’t stop the arms shipments even though he really wanted to, but people are still liable for mistakes.

you know we genocided an entire continent of people, right? And continue to?

I literally cited an episode from that genocide as my reasoning for Jackson being the worst president.

wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy

The Soviets wanted deescalation after WW2, and supported self determination for liberated countries including Korea, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. Whatever you think of communism, the American policy of “containment” is directly and indisputably responsible for the suppression of democracy in dozens of countries and wars which killed tens of millions of people all because some of those people would have elected communist and socialist leaders we didn’t like.

Andrew Jackson and it’s not even close. Not to downplay the horrible crimes committed by many of our other presidents but I don’t think anything rises to the level of the Trail of Tears.

Remove Jackson from the running and it’s a more interesting conversation, however thinking about it reveals just how interconnected all of this stuff is. While the current genocide is occurring under Biden, we can’t forget that the conditions that lead to Oct 7 were created under Trump. For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

I think the worst in my lifetime by a mile is Dubya, but while his wars were massive and consequential we can’t forget that George Senior also killed scores of people in Iraq, and Clinton carried out the sanctions regime that killed scores more. Clinton was also the one who broke Labor’s influence within the Democratic Party - but it was Obama who was swept into power on the promise of a working class revolution only to smother it in its crib.

But yeah my top two are Jackson and Dubya but beyond that I’m not sure there are a lot of crimes in the history of America’s presidency.

lmao pay money to have your kid get fast food training? what level of hellscape is that?

there are five left wing political parties

we should create a single unified left wing political party for everyone to rally around

there are six left wing political parties

edit: I’m pessimistic but anything is better than just continuing to do what he’s been doing for the past four years, so yeah I hope he does

Even under the rigged electoral system, the liberal opposition groups unexpectedly won the most seats

All of these groups hated each other and couldn’t form a majority

Extreme ultra conservative appointed prime minister

It’s sort of like poetry, it rhymes.

raising money

It’s the Death Star a tech startup now? For the metaphor to be on point it needs to be over time and over budget but also the recipient of seemingly infinite military industrial complex funding.

I bet it’s trivially easy to get that LLM to generate a bunch of super based pro-Palestine output.

“Some BODY once told me…”

Torrenting The Tonight Show be like

I’m imagining a Ukrainian terror cell blowing up the ICC with an American-made bomb and everyone blaming Russia.

lmao someone near me has one of these things, every time I pass it on windy mountain roads I think about how many of them have had brake failures.

Also if you pool the Americium from 100 detectors together they become pretty dangerous.

lmao I know for a fact the top image on that page used to be Aayla Secura, when did they change it?

a shower—or sonic shower, sanisteam or turboshower—a bath—or sonic bath or ripple bath

You can’t just add sci fi words to a thing and pretend it’s a new thing!

Knowing too much and at the same time not enough about Romans is also a big red flag.

We call this the “marble statue avatar valley”

How it started

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