I've already posted more here than in 10 years of reddit, what is happening
Kerry posting has gone from annoying to cringe to boring. At least come up with a new shtick lol - I suggest posting hog
I'm exhausted from a 14 mile hike today. Incredibly worth it though. One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Extremely magical.
A lake in the mountains. I had seen it on a previous hike from a distance and decided that I wanted to go there and was not disappointed.
My favorite place I've ever been was a mountain lake near Reno, I just sat for an hour or so and drew the mountains
Anyone else feel like something really big is brewing? I can't help but feel like the next decade is going to be one of extreme change and turmoil
Literally Blue MAGA. It makes them incredibly mad when you tell them, too.
The contradictions of capitalism are becoming more apparent
Also the impending climate collapse
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
SpaceX is still on target for tourist flights in 2021 which means for americans there will be a significant window of time in which it will be easier to go to space than to canada lmao big current-era mood
i'd say just take a long break for your mental health lol
it's all garbage anyway
Mr. Trump, sir, please enact the RV so that I may sell my Iraqi Dinars and live the quiet life of luxury nagging wage cage workers!
Thank you for your service, but yeah what Graphite said, make sure you're taking care of yourself too <3
It turns out that painting is cool and good, not too hard, and pretty cheap! Art is good folks, you heard it here first
Some day I want to paint along to an episode of The Joy of Painting
Alright what is trump trying to do with this tiktok shit? Is he trying to destroy the company or get them to sell it off to Microsoft on the cheap? Zark Muckernerd also just apparently came out with his own tiktok ripoff a little bit ago. Is this just the lamest battle ever in the new cold war with China and Trump is just trying to score some relative victories well he still can?
More over, does anyone over the age of 16 care?? Obviously it's authoritarian as shit but what a weird fuckin target. Is the PRC transmitting sleeper cell activation codes via tiktok memes or some shit?
As far as who cares, it's gonna hurt Chinese people in the US who use it to communicate with family and friends in China.
Alright what is trump trying to do with this tiktok shit? Is he trying to destroy the company or get them to sell it off to Microsoft on the cheap? Zark Muckernerd also just apparently came out with his own tiktok ripoff a little bit ago. Is this just the lamest battle ever in the new cold war with China and Trump is just trying to score some relative victories well he still can?
Going to copy an earlier post of mine since this sort of question keeps coming up.
People here tend to view US imperialism as this big unified thing where the empire is a single entity trying to execute some grand plan on the behalf of capital, but it’s actually a bunch of different people with different amounts and kinds of power trying to use the machinery of the empire to their own benefit, often in conflict with each other, usually on the behalf of capitalist projects, which are also often in conflict with each other.
And yeah that’s complicated and it’d be nice to wrap it all up in a bow, but it’s particularly important for understanding the anti-China push, because there’s no coherent empire-level strategic end that can be pursued by opposing China, but there are plenty of individuals and groups that can profit from it. Any company that can profit off of moving production or resource extraction to the US or one of its victims has reason to escalate tensions with China (even if total profit declines; total profit isn’t making a decision). And the generals and intelligence departments responsible for maintaining the ability to act against China (“just in case”) also benefit from becoming more relevant, even if that doesn’t benefit the system as a whole.
And... yeah Trump's just in it for the racism, to rile up his base, and to get the approval of whoever he talked to most recently. But the support behind that is going to be from whoever profits and whichever branches of intelligence agencies get promotions.
I would've bet on there being some factory or resource-extraction industry in the mix too, but it's looking more and more like a huge chunk of this is a pissing match between the valley and Tencent.
does anyone over the age of 16 care?
I saw a bunch of older women suddenly start telling everyone around them about how good TikTok is a couple months ago, so I think the demographic has shifted somewhat. Apparently the algorithm is really fucking good and pivots away from teenage girls dancing in a hurry. Never actually got around to trying it though.
This is a part of the trade war, which I think is reasonably seperable from the rest of the tensions between the US and China.
I view the US threatening to ban tik tok no different than the US being mad about the current Chinese trade imbalance and forcing them to buy more American soybeans and shit.
We are loooooooooooooooonnnnnggggg past the point of saving the country's political discourse. When it comes to this topic, the American left has no meaningful impact, so we end up using the terminology that's been well established for clarity. Nothing you said is wrong, but it makes conversations more intelligible in some contexts to refer to conservatives (right-liberals) and left-liberals separately when talking about cultural issues (since that's the only real divide between them, we agree).
I've been eating psyllium husk for 2 weeks now and I shit gloriously, and when I wipe the toilet paper is clean.
Eat your fiber
Hey are you still watching Bill Maher? Is he still being a whiny boomer like he was in April?
Its worse than ever before, he had Bari Weiss and the author of the Harper Letter on at the same time and the latter talked about how privilege isn't real because of Nigerians
Psyllium husk is awesome, it's like lube for your poop.
Also I just got a bidet seat and it's fucking magical, my toilet paper use is rapidly approaching zero.
What is the worst Beatles song in terms of politics/ideology?
I choose Revolution .
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right
Fuck you Lennon. Things didn't turn out alright. Did fucking Hoover ghostwrite this shit?
yeah I always hated that song and it doesn't even sound that good. Fuck you Lennon.
I have adopted a lifestyle and media consumption pattern specifically designed to induce dementia join me
