Yeah Beto has also been vocally anti-Israel lately as well, but he's also not had any hope of a legitimate political career lately. That can't be making him friends with Democrats. He kept losing every race he was involved in, so the donors dried up.

Also in the 2020 primary there were so many candidates he had to pigeon-hole himself to one particular issue to be notable, he tried being the anti-gun guy. He did the thing Democrats aren't supposed to do which is confirm what Republicans think of them. Democrats are usually more submissive and conciliatory to Republicans. When accused of being anti-gun Democrats are supposed to be like "oh well uh, well, yeah you're right mr. republican we should still protect the blah blah." Instead Beto was outright saying "yeah we are coming for your guns, no one needs an assault rifle" and that probably didn't make him friends among the rich donor class who actually control everything

They went with Biden because they simply don't have anyone left

yeah the average person looks at Pete and visibly recoils in disgust. He'd be a Democrat version of DeSantis. He does well to his specific crowd, white comfortable nerds who work at Deloitte, but everyone else just sees a robotic weird rat man. Horrendous vibes emanate from him.

I mean I wouldn't put it past the democrats to put their chips behind him, but normal people see his entire vibe as fake corporate mandatory fun overly sentimental nothingness. He's a physical manifestation of Patrick Bateman. People don't look at Pete and see themselves, they look at Pete and see their weirdest supervisor at work. They see debate club nerds who they used to bully. They see a guy who would have worn a bow tie to elementary school

Who? Is this one of those rappers or streamers you kids are always talking about

just do like the rest of us and study Althusser in the original French, that should cause enough pain

or I don't know, build a ship in a bottle

i think it's just easier to do content moderation on websites and stuff on TV/movies has become more keen on scrubbing slurs, so it's seemed like slurs have been less normalized, maybe?

in daily life I haven't noticed any drop in slur usage since the 90s. People will still call stuff gay or homo in a negative way. I've had the homophobic f-word slur screamed at me by passing cars a few times while on my bike. My coworkers will let loose any number of slurs that they claim to not even realize are slurs, mostly the homophobic or transphobic kind.

Yeah and white people absolutely will say the n-word when they think they're in private company. I've had taxi drivers say it to me since they see a white person and think they can relax their language around me. I used to work at a grocery store around 2014 and older customers would regularly complain about prices and say "that n-word is making the prices higher" (referring to obama), like right at me at the register.

The USA is a fascist country and every new person I meet is regarded as a potential reactionary until proven otherwise. I put elderly white people under the most scrutiny. Explicitly, outwardly queer/trans people are the only types I feel really comfortable with anymore

a person I talked to once said they couldn't listen to Chapo because of all the slurs and I can only believe people get it confused with cumtown

unless they're talking about slurs for italians

yeah good luck lmao

Even Israel thinks it's still 1982. Like I don't even know what Iran would do at this point. They're one of Hezbollah's major allies. The telegraphed missile barrage was really out of character for Iran who typically tries to play it cool.

Israel is having a hard enough time fighting ragtag Al-Qassam militants with homemade RPGs. Hezbollah actually has funding and infrastructure. They have technical trucks and artillery. Why would Israel try to do this? Do they really need this much of a reality check? Maybe they're stuck in 2006 where Israel kept indiscriminately shooting civilian targets in Lebanon to the point Hezbollah got justifiably terrified of just how evil Israel could be, so they called for a ceasefire after a month.

How would it go over if Israel tries to do the 2006 Lebanon war again? Like with cluster munitions and white phosphorous launched at civilians. Am I gonna be reading "Hezbollah also hiding behind human shields"?

Covering myself in pig shit to ward away the foreign devils

Other people at the gym meticulously crafting their protein intake

Me: gimme that n u t

Silent Hill has a small child who will bully you and call you a fartface. Also apparently it manifests pizza and hotter versions of your dead wife. So that's cool.

This is such a sweet manga.

Yeah the guy who was personal bodyguard to Oda Nobunaga and was allowed to carry swords when it was illegal for anyone to carry swords except for samurai or royalty, that guy wasn't a samurai. Ok.

You tankie scum may believe you're leftist but us soul-wizards can see through your facade

How can you hex-tankies claim to be leftists when you don't even have a tower full of ancient grimoires in forbidden languages?

I really respect the area of Kerala and its commitment to their public. Very robust educational system, healthcare, and a focus on access to clean water. That's just from stuff I've seen and read though, I've never been to India, I'm American.

I hope the best for India's future, but it seems worrying from what I hear. I would hope for greater collaboration with China and an easing of tensions with Pakistan. India is a massively diverse place though, with multiple languages and even multiple writing scripts, so sometimes it's amazing it's a functional country at all.

Most of what I hear though is about India dominated by very right wing movements, but there's a strong history of Indian working class movements as well. I'll try to be optimistic about the future. Also as an American I am fully aware of my country's horrifying exploitation of the Indian people. The Union Carbide disaster is still the worst industrial accident in history and its impact should never be forgotten

That was straight a Yakuza style dynamic intro. bum bum

DETROIT BOUNCER

CAPTAIN OF THE NAZI PUNCHING CLAN

The interview I saw about him was more like he doesn't feel any emotions outside of making money. Like he gets bored or twitchy if he's not doing something connected to making videos or generating revenue.

Inhuman, soulless husk. Meat puppet generated by capital to do its bidding. Marx was correct when he said the bourgeoisie are more of slaves to capital than the workers are. People like Mr. Beast are barely even conscious entities anymore.

Yeah I'm also swimming with Polish genes. I really don't wanna have to learn all those words made of like 11 consonants in a row. I already know kurwa and bobr, which I believe are the only important words.

We've been living in WW3 since at least the mid 90s

Am I so old now that people are debating what constitutes 00s culture like in territorial terms

Is this kind of thing for people who were born in like 2005

I think you meant dit is nott en reel laanjugge