It’s a ritual? How many other casters do I need there?

I have a hard time believing this is anything more than a shill, given both party’s history of shilling.

It honestly seems downright disingenuous, as though the author of the article wanted to make a “both sides” article but then realized Tom isn’t a fucking moron.

It means you aren’t allowed to talk about how much you make, but you can trust us that you are making the same as everyone else.

What are old people gonna give out on Halloween now? Nickels? Inflation is ruining everything!

I was literally just talking about Peep Show at the bar tonight and I completely forgot it was the theme song! Great fucking show.

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from the trailers for the movie Disturbing Behavior.

Also obligatory shout out about how they are a criminally underrated band and their albums are fucking great if you like clever, sarcastic indie rock.

One of the only times I’ve seen Eric caught unaware and completely off guard.

Nice. I should be able to handle path tracing at 1440p, assuming it works out of the box and doesn’t turn into Cyberpunk v2.0

Yeah, well, mama needs her marlboros.

My favorite band. Hell of a live show.

Listen, as a white foreign national I’ve received nothing but good will from the Chinese government…

/s

I can still hear the accent.

Klutz books were truly amazing. I had that one and several others, and they were incredibly formative for me.

We gotta start throwing fry oil on these idiots

Fine, I won’t use any form of grammar or spell check on this post, so you can shove the AI argument up your ass.

It’s fine to call me out that I shifted positions, so I’ll connect them so you don’t think I’m moving the goal posts. Accountability isn’t separate from atrocities, it determines whether they stop or continue unabated. We’ll look at Minab, since that seems to be something you like to talk about. The details about that came from inside the house… US goverment officials leaked that to PBS and Bloomberg. The government’s own people exposed it to the press. That doesn’t happen in China. And your idea of equal is itself unequal. You are weighing the foreign actions of the US with your thumb on the scale, and then looking at what China does within its own borders as though those people don’t matter. Humans are humans. It doesn’t matter where the problem occurs. Whether China is acting within its own borders or without, it’s still a boot crushing humans, and fuck you if you think otherwise, honestly. And as far as the argument for the US getting worse, I don’t disagree. However, the reason you know it’s getting worse is because you can read about it in our own papers.

You want to show them as equal, but the scale is badly mismatched, and I’m not going to play “match this atrocity” with you, because that game ignores the thing that matters most. Every example you listed is known because Americans can expose their own government. Reporters dug up the Minab strike, families are suing over the boat strikes in federal court, and people are protesting in the streets. That process is slow and often fails, but it exists. In China, the people who try to expose the government get silenced. Doctors who warned about COVID were reprimanded, and protesters were detained. Xinjiang, Tiananmen, and Hong Kong are either denied or defended, and nobody inside the country can push back without risking prison. So, what do you actually value? If a free press, independent courts, and the right to criticize your own government matter to you, then these aren’t twins, even fraternal ones. If they don’t matter, say so.

This is how it’s pronounced in my head, and until now I’ve never had a reason for it.

You should read up more about the horrors that China commits, then. I understand that the US has it’s share of atrocities, but the two aren’t “twins” by a long shot.

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