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Yeah I’m going to shut up now because you may be right. Appreciate it.

My bad if you’re actually trying to better wrap your mind around this. I think my frustration stems from the feeling that Europe doesn’t seem to realize they have much of the same problems as the US, just being 10 years behind, imo. We definitely are on more of a tinder box as a result of there being so many firearms in the country, but right wing populism is growing across the Atlantic just like it is thriving here. Im not going to try to invalidate what your friend has experienced since coming here.

I feel like there’s a bigger trend towards empty populism worldwide and authoritarianism that people aren’t realizing. It makes me feel like posts like this feed into a crab in a bucket kind of situation. It doesn’t help I’m from New Jersey and my state regularly gets mocked domestically so I’m already primed to be on edge. I wouldn’t have posted my last message, in hindsight.

Open mind is more of an aspirational handle I guess

Just going to add my own anecdotal experience to the mix; I’ve lived in the northeast US for my whole life. I also used to be a teacher. I’ve never once been a victim or bystander to gun violence. Now I am in a spot of the US with more strict gun laws, but I have also lived in places with laws that are more lax.

Basically this

I don’t get how you can talk about annexing a territory and then at the same time denying China’s claim in Taiwan. Either it’s off the table for everyone or it’s going to end up being open season

Because he wants to appeal to republicans in a time when they control all the levers of the federal government. He’s desperate not to be in their crosshairs and is trying to offer up an alternative is my read.

Everyone talks about how fun chopping up the Bourbons was and then leaves out how shitty the Reign of Terror was in the wake

I think it’s great that the standard of living in China has increased by leaps and bounds over the past 50 years. I think it’s not great that they censor their internet so heavily. I also think it’s pretty lazy of you to paint me as a racist just for not agreeing with you, but go off.

If you can’t criticize authority I don’t find that to be an open Internet. TikTok doesn’t exist in China. Try to say Trans rights are human rights on Douyin and see what happens.

The great firewall exists. They have to use euphemisms to get around the censors.

I waited in line for five hours to vote, and I don’t even live in a place that does voter suppression bs. I can understand why some people threw up their hands and went home. Then you’ve got the people who did vote but had their vote invalidated by bureaucratic nonsense. The deck is stacked against the people

Nearly half the electorate didn’t vote for the reactionaries. I’d also add that this regression isn’t an exclusively American phenomenon, we’re just unfortunately at the vanguard.

21. Joan Kawai: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. He went to the Pelicots’ the same night his daughter was born. He has been in jail since 2021.

What the fuck is wrong with these people. It’s astounding how many irredeemable pieces of shit there are out there. Fucking pathetic, the lot of them

I suspect he knows, he’s just a bad faith self serving douchebag

Lost cause of the south levels of willful delusion

North Korea is a thriving democracy; it’s right in the name!

It’s like stalker and fallout had a British baby. I’m intrigued

I think that’s what Loops is, but I haven’t tried it out