I usually coordinate with my friends through SMS (or WhatsApp for my European friends). I had a Facebook account for some family members who are like that, but when I changed my name, I just kind of abandoned it. I’ve never had an Instagram account, and I only ever signed up for Twitter in order to enter a couple of contests. I never actually used it, and I’m not sure I even remember the password. I do have some presence on Discord, which I find distasteful, but not nearly so much as Facebook or Instagram. But again, it’s primarily to keep in contact with people I know who are part of that culture. I don’t really use it otherwise.

Canadian Bacon is a really dumb movie that I absolutely love. This exact trope comes up in it, and it never fails to get a chuckle from me. I like to think that the movie was at least partially responsible for ending it.

I also suffer from anxiety, and I do a lot of the same behaviours as you, including a minimal digital footprint. I have nothing useful to offer you though, aside from some comradeship. I know well how insidious anxiety is, and I do my best to avoid it creeping into my head. This means a limit on digital interactions.

I guess the difference though that I’m old enough that having my life be online is not an expectation (although I have been questioned about it in the past, it’s not uncommon for my age or field of work). So I doubt I have the digital pressure that you do. That has to suck. I’m sorry.

Not blazingly fast, but not terrible. Seems about normal to me.

I saw that thread the other day. I was very proud of the sub for saying that this was both the obvious result, and the historical one. Victoria 3 draws out a whole lot of leftists obviously, but the nearly unanimous response was somewhat surprising.

Was just about to post this. Time to see what bourgeoisie nightmare they’re going to pick to replace him. Kamala Harris definitely seems awful enough, but I’m sure they could find worse.

Wow. I’m really at a loss for words. CPUSA really thinks that posting these reasons for expelling them makes them look good? I would be ashamed to be a member.

The news today is saying it was about 200m away and he was using “an AR style” rifle. Definitely a difficult shot, but if he was using an AR-15, that alone made this a really dumb move. He should have brought a full sized rifle, and aimed for centre of mass. Effective range of 5.56 is about 550m. A full sized rifle would be at least 50% more.

I like to watch the TV series “Mayday: Air Crash Investigations”. The US dubs their version though, and I got curious one day. I watched the original and the US dub side by side of S3E06 “Mistaken Identity”, which was about the time that a US Aegis Cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf. As I suspected, the US version was censored.

It was very interesting which bits were censored. It was fairly obvious that they would want to cut any parts that humanised the Iranians. To my surprise, they didn’t cut the bits where the crew was praised for their actions. But the most interesting bit for me was that they cut a couple of interviews with the crew of the cruiser, where they talked about how terrified they were of the plane.

They absolutely do not want you to know that their great invincible navy spent half their time peeing in their pants when an airliner flew overhead.

Probably some democrat or anarchist. Still, I would have loved to see the bastard shot.

Honestly, it’s not the taxes that kill me. It’s what they do with the money.

But why do all that when you can eliminate melanin instead?

I’m not Ukranian, but this deal sounds pretty frickin nice. I would like my country to accept these terms without a war with Russia.

Indigenous peoples are formally involved in the governance of unceded territories across Canada, including in densely populated areas.

Oh Canada. Your home and not native land. I do find it amazing that they implicitly admitted that we are not in control of our own land though, and actually came out and said that it would be very bad if we did.

I believe that suicide is no longer an option for me as I want to fulfill my purpose in this life and see the capitalist system finally fall apart.

Good. We need living comrades. The light at the end of the tunnel is the day that you move out. Keep the faith, keep working towards that, and one day you will never be under their power again.

Link to the full document is at the bottom of this summary. It’s nothing too terribly surprising, but it’s accurate and a good read.

I don’t think that the dishonesty and hypocrisy is actually lost on them. The difference is that the US is always the “Good Guy”, and whatever enemy of the moment is the “Bad Guy”. When the bad guy does it, it’s because they only do bad things. When the good guy does it, it’s because they had no choice. It also makes it easy to just make up whatever you want about the bad guy, such as this garbage, even when they’re actually doing what they claim the bad guy is doing.

It’s because the free press told them that it was very justified and the only reasonable option.

My sister can pass for Japanese. She doesn’t dissuade people from thinking this, as natives are not well loved where she lives. It’s a hellhole.

(She also has taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and claims there’s no racism there while simultaneously doing this… But that’s another story).

I’ve read a whole lot of US history last year. I’ve never seen the country in this big of a public debacle before. They’ve usually been pretty good about making dissent quietly disappear. But they’re spinning so many plates right now, and the cracks in their “good guy” facade are just growing deeper and deeper. It really makes me wonder if this is what’s going to finally break their back. More and more people are waking up to the reality that they’ve lived their whole lives in the worst kind of propaganda. Something’s gotta give. I think Vietnam was the closest we’ve seen to this, and it was just one war. Now the US faces trying to start shit with China, fighting a proxy war with Russia, and somehow coming up with a way of demonising Palestine and Iran. Their propaganda machine is failing quite badly.