thank you mr putin for showing your commitment to denazification by starting at home

does it make you feel good when you use the suffering of hawaiians as a punchline

A market regulated by an uncorrupt government, you say?

election season produced some takes that are reminding me a lot of this situation, wherein something completely innocuous/outright good (being openly indignant about systemic oppression, displaying a user's preferred pronouns) is smeared by liberals who are trying to associate said good things with bad people, thus drawing a connection that anyone who supports these good things is actually a bad person

they got it with bernie because he yelled, and abusive men also yell, therefore anyone supporting bernie is supporting abuse. the angle taken here is that hexbear users have pronoun tags, and hexbear users are bad, therefore you should be suspicious of anyone who has pronoun tags. they're just dipping into casual transphobia as a very limp attempt at an own

remember back when people said bernie shouldn't be president because he raised his voice when he spoke

something that really grinds my gears is the sheer number of people who are willing to treat the US and the decisions of its capitalist citizenry with kid gloves whenever someone fucks up. a piece of entertainment is getting rid of their gay characters? well, that's just because you're not allowed to have those in Russia, and we've gotta sell there. elon is trying to get rid of the block feature on twitter? well, he's just capitulating to the authoritarian wishes of the Saudi Arabian government, nothing he can do about it. a million preventable deaths to covid? well, if only China had said something earlier so we could have gotten started on doing nothing a couple months in advance

it's such a strange narrative that americans are never actually responsible for anything and they're just doing what everyone else forces them to do when the closest thing they've got to a cultural identity is this idea of not being beholden to any other nation's whims

lib friend just let me know that although he is very upset by this news it is important not to engage in mocking :vote: libs because if it wasnt for the GOP then this never would have happened. lol. haha. if only there was anything that the dems could have done in the past decade but oh well