I go touch grass regularly. Actually I went bike touring and camping this very week. And the week before. Want some pictures?
And no. Just like life, I'm gonna stay here, be a thorn, and point out the obvious to the boot lickers. Otherwise I would have killed myself a long time ago.
They call it collateral damage. Or is it casualties?! A few hundred thousand in Iraq. Plus a few tens of thousand in Afghanistan. And maybe some torture here and there.
And I doubt this person is old enough to have fought literal fascists.
All heroes for participating in the glorious defence of capitalism democracy.
But don't most MAGA do that during interviews? A reporter will ask a perfectly tame question and they will start accusing them of being woke antifa working for the Democrats.
The country illegally invades other countries, torture its citizens, in the name of finding WMDs and bringing democracy. Their infrastructure is destroyed and thousands of civilians are killed as collateral damage.
Yet some people sign up to do that job and expect the very same government that disregard human lives and rights in other countries to treat them like heroes.
They are serving the interests of capitalism and the rich, and are surprised when the very same system that they thought were defending turns on them?! How fucking naive can a person be?
The US could send its "veterans" in a meat grinder once they are used for corporations' benefit and people would still sign up for it.
My handicapped neighbour was at one point complaining that the government was cutting paratransit and her financial help, and was blaming it on the number of refugees we were taking.
Like, oh dear... if you think the government will cut social programs to give the money to other poor people, and that a choice has to be made between them and you, you've been had.
Poor against poor. Don't look at the rich bastards.
Live streamed is kind of a stretch when Israel was openly targeting and killing journalists for attempting to show the world what is really going on.
All the Western and foreign journalists fled Palestine and Gaza when they realized that Israel would kill them. Then they killed the remaining Palestinian journalists that couldn't leave.
Indeed. They are absolutely right to whine and should in fact do much more than just that. In a way it's what makes it easy to be cynical about the situation.
At least so far your heroes haven't cut power, water, and destroyed civilian infrastructure. Although apparently destroying schools wouldn't change much in terms of education.
But still. You aren't all shitty. Of course. It's just that the good people will still let this happen and even participate if you give them a reason. I'm old enough to remember the Freedom Fries. I'm old enough to remember people protesting the illegal invasion of another country by the US. See its civilians tortured and described as "collateral damage". And the people that participated in this are heroes. Veterans. Commenting here. Saying that no, the US will not invade Canada, or Mexico, or Greenland, because the population, and even the troops, wouldn't allow it. English is not my native language and I struggle to describe how fucking naive, gullible, and wrong that is.
I could easily be stuck in the US but the "lottery of life" made me born 200 km North of its borders. We don't choose where we live, or get bombed by a US missile. Some people in the US certainly also know that. I'm just sorry there isn't more of them/you.
Nineteen eighty-four is in a weird limbo where some people think its about the evils of totalitarianism, while others think it's about the "evils of communism".
"If you see ducks, ducklings or wildlife attempting to cross a freeway or road, stay in your car and call for assistance."
Huh. At least it's minor injuries.
Where I live a woman was sent to jail for 90 days for stopping her car for ducks on an expressway and killing a motorcyclist and its passenger when they slammed into the back of her car.
I don't know how much improvisation she puts into it but AFAIK she is written by a team of three men and the series in which she stars were created by Charlie Brooker.
It's also ironic to see some Americans whine about the military invasion of their cities while they've been doing much much worse in other countries, against international laws. It's only appropriate to surround a building with helicopters in the middle of the night, invade their homes, force whole families outside and treat them like animals when it's done by heroes finding WMDs in a country full of terrorists, not in American cities.
But you have to at least lay them over the backrest so they don't become too wrinkly. At first. Then when it becomes unmanageable you can just pile them on.
And "better" depends on your sources of energy and what your goals are. Like most people here, I grew up with an electric stove and we are just used to cook this way. It's just an adaptation. I use gas stoves in camping and in my cabin, and I'm so used to an electric one, that I hate using gas.
Electricity here is cheap and clean so if you want to eat hot and warm food and minimize the impact on the environment, and your bank account, you should probably get used to cooking with electricity. There's also different technologies. My mother prefers a glass-ceramic stove but induction stoves are also getting pretty popular. Or you can pay more, pollute more, continue to breathe the results of combustion and keep buying fossil fuel to cook "better". I consider less pollution for millions of people, and less reliance on the oil & gas industry to be "better".