Listen kiddo, I get it

https://hexbear.net/c/news

I honestly think he’s like 3 cheeseburgers away from a coronary. Whether that does him in or not remains to be seen, but he’s very visibly unhealthy, and has been looking worse and worse each week. At some point all the medical technology and wealth in the world becomes meaningless. Bodies are complex systems and effects can cascade: a heart attack might be fixable but surgeries to fix it might be fatal, especially to someone as old and unhealthy as he is.

I know the US doesn’t allow internal studying of gun violence statistics _{because reasons} but I feel like we can start making some disturbing extrapolations based on the extremely disturbingly high number of people who’ve survived MULTIPLE school shootings at this point.

Indeed, a fact-checking site is the most reliable thing in the world. A fact-checking site would never lie to you or have a bias of their own…would they?

Russian state propaganda is of course so much less reliable than Statesian corporate propaganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFsYsMa31g

Honestly the conciseness of this argument is heartwarming to me. 🥰

Here’s one: study insurgencies that managed to hold off and/or beat the US and get ready to apply those tactics because that time is coming. Best get to networking too.

They have to win elections and they have to fight from within.

Wait everyone! Don’t you see? If we join the Nazis we can change them from within!

Great hero of the people: Neville Chamberlain

To be fair, that’s pretty much the ancestry of West Germany. Well, that and all the Nazis who got a great big beautiful American bailout.

Obama drone struck that 16 year old American kid, and when someone in his administration was asked about it, he said that he should’ve had a better father

Oh boy the irony

What are you talking about?

Fucked if I know 😂 I’m studying it on my own from textbooks and online resources, not in a classroom setting taught by scholars much much smarter than me. I assume the reduced complexity of simplified characters makes it more accessible though, which is why I understand the PRC makes Pinyin required on road signs as well.

I’ve been enjoying studying Mandarin. The tones are a bit weird but the grammar seems surprisingly simple, everything can be written pretty universally in pinyin, and Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.

I didn’t invent clinical depression but my god have I innovated it

That’s a debate since authoritarianism to libertarianism is a spectrum so there is no official “normal” and its generally used qualitatively on individual polices

So, essentially, it’s subjective?

Where the state has extra power that they can use to enforce their goals

Extra power in comparison to what? What is the normal amount of state power?