TheLepidopterists [he/him]

As someone who has in the past relied on a public bus to commute, I’ll say that 30 minutes is a dream and my commute temporarily went from 15 minutes to over 60 because when my car broke down and I couldn’t afford to fix it, I had to go in the opposite direction of work and then come back towards work from there due to no direct bus route, and my time to myself at home shrunk even more because the last bus to arrive at work arrived well before my shift started while the first bus to leave after it left a while after it (I don’t remember exactly how far off, this was like 8-9 years ago, but I remember having minimal time to myself or to spend with my partner).

Frankly I could have easily lost my job and possibly ended up homeless, and if someone has destroyed my car on purpose instead of it being bad luck, I’d have been on the verge of over it.

Unless you’re in one of the like 3 places in the US with good public transit I think this is kinda shitty, and if you do it to a cheap car/poor person’s car, you’re actively a bad person.

Label looks like this

I’m pretty sure it was Venture on an Atari.

Malt vinegar or that pepper sauce from steak n shake. Well the generic from the grocery store, but it’s the same thing.

Very unserious understanding of world politics.

Of course they’re viewed more positively in middle income than high income countries. The high income countries are all part of a global military alliance focused entirely on destroying communism and have fed their populations anti-communist propaganda for decades.

They’re one the main geopolitical adversaries of the political block that all the rich countries have formed, whereas they are investing in and helping develop poorer countries.

It is an absolute laugh though that all the countries that destroyed the Middle East over the last 30 years think China is a threat to world peace.

Democracy is when everything sucks and gets worse every year while centrists keep eyeing Nazis as possible better allies than the left.

If you force the government to improve society in any what you’re an “authoritarian” (oooh, how scary. btw, I’m pretty sure “authoritarian” as a cudgel against the left that equates them to the right is against board rules).

Peaceful revolution is when you burn 48 people alive in a building while a mob of neonazis keeps them from leaving.

This is a good bit.

Why is it necessary to cancel all consular services for Ukrainian men if they’re so eager to fight? Are you sure the bloodlust and desire for battle you’re perceiving isn’t your own?

Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I’ve heard though.

OK, so China has looked out for its own interests and created an economic advantage for a fraction of its own population.

If lifting hundreds of millions of your poorest into the middle class is just naked self interest, why are Western countries so unwilling to do it? Are they stupid?

The modern American fascist is too soft to hear dissenting opinions.

Unforced until God strikes you dead for being a selfish capitalist.

Ananias and Sapphira is my 100% favorite part of the Bible.

I love it when petty bourgeois traitors to the revolution are executed by God after a struggle session.

Typical

As someone who wants the end of Western hegemony I have to say: do it

Oh yeah, I knew about that part but I think I assumed the defederation would stop all visibility in both directions, and I guess they can see us but are hiding from us, like, as you say, cowards.