Wait until you find out about the Clumps.

I agree, but the pretense of metering and diplomacy, no matter how fleeting, is gone.

Trump is at least as far right as Netanyahu. He supports the full destruction of Palestine and Palestinians. His election has dropped all Israeli pretense in their propaganda. They can now do what they want with impunity since Trump’s administration will provide all the international cover that they need and Trump’s admin will happily brag about the genocide they helped to perpetrate.

Brussel sprouts have changed just as much as you. They are less bitter than in the past due to selective breeding. https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/do-brussels-sprouts-taste-better-now-yes-here-s-why-01ghed9q8dr8

Fascism is popular, I’m sorry but it is true. That being said your counterargument can be true, and is true, at the same time. They share the same space.

Top 10 Tell me you’re a bigot without saying so.

There are lots of reasons this happened. Fascism is very popular (as a whole we are not good), voter suppression is functioning as planned, destabilizing education from preschool to university makes people more susceptible to fear mongers and racism, vast amounts of corporate and wealthy influence on elections who favor the party of deregulation, the DNC shifting right instead of left, etc etc etc.

Edit well I’d never heard of honoki wood! Learn something new every day. Honoki (朴の木, hou wood, Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia, Magnolia obavata -hinoki wood, from Chamaecyparis obtusa.

I voted early in-person.

Cops will use any excuse to surveil and police people more. They are authoritarian cancer.

One of the single best lines in all of cinema IMO.

Bomb oppressed peoples.

Totally agreed, however in the context of news, it is a deliberate editorial choice. Money speaks through the editorial boards of these corporate news organizations.

For decades.

Fuck Russia and fuck Israel.

The IMF still controls the global south’s access to money. They are still driving global direction of debt discussions. They still require endebted countries to cut social spending and open up to privatization. Even BRICs money, like from China, as you state, is beholden to IMF approval.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/10/02/brics-and-the-imf-debt-traps-what-can-the-contingent-reserve-arrangement-do-for-the-global-south/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/4/the-global-souths-poor-should-not-be-subsidising-the-imf

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/imf-good-china-debt-trap-🤦🏾/

China and the BRICS countries are piloting a new path forward with the attempt to make the world more economically equitable. Anything that upsets the status quo will get negative press from the likes of politico.

Last year they promised Premiere noise reduction similar to that in Lightroom or Photoshop. Still waiting.

The IMF is a mafia. Forcing countries into debt is a policy choice, not an ethical choice.

Fuck the Catholic Church

Signed: Recovering socially catholic person who was forced to deal with the very insular and problematic Catholic bullshit for 18 years. Trauma is center to Catholicism. It is the point.

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