They are lol, American MSM outlets always phrase things like that because “We live in a dysfunctional shithole country where everyone is angry and exploited” makes people sad and they don’t want to read it (nor do billionaires who own media outlets want to fund it).

“Only a handful of people indicate to me that I’m being an asshole when I know I’m being an asshole. What are you going to do? I am helpless in this situation.”

I mean those are just rules that some asshole made up. Make up your own.

Nothing is illegal in any way that actually matters except harming another person. All other laws are just words. It’s just a question of whether someone is willing to hold you at gunpoint to make you stop what you’re doing or not.

Which, for downloading pirated copies of old games, is almost certainly a “no”. Especially if you use the most basic opsec but even that probably isn’t necessary. (Don’t use Torrent without a VPN though, ISPs really look out for that, especially shit-ass Spectrum.)

We need to work on our social sciences before any other science can bring anyone real benefit anymore…

Well said. I have associate degrees only in Bio/Chem, and I was going to keep going but… why? To work for an evil pharmaceutical company? To work in the shitty corporate cannabis industry? To advise rich assholes on how to cut down our national forests in a way which makes it appear like it’s not the end of the world?

The only STEM career I’ve found which seems guaranteed to be ethical is the people who do wildlife surveys, finding endangered bees and whatnot to block bullshit luxury real estate. But going through all that education to aim for a single, specific, probably-not-very-common position doesn’t seem very smart.

Oi, beltalowda

There’s also, at least for Spanish but probably for other languages too, a significant difference between the academic version and the colloquial version.

I assume it’s sort of like if you, as an English speaker, only spoke as if you were composing a college essay.

What do you mean? GEO Group stock is doing fine.

California isn’t gonna agree to split.

Split, no, secede, yes. NCR here we come!

Only if you have a badge or say you are a police officer, I think?

When it comes to disabling AI in Google searches, you have two choices:

• Lawful Option: Add -ai to the end of your search, ie, “define asinine -ai”
• Chaotic Option Add profanity to your search, ie, “what the fuck does asinine mean”

Ask the indigenous people of America whether they feel the military liberated them, now or 80 years ago or 200.

America knocked down the fascists because they fucked with us, we were quite content to let them conquer Europe and Asia before that. You’re promoting American exceptionalism mythology. The American government / military isn’t the good guys and literally never has been.

Also it was the Russians who actually defeated the Nazis.

ok

…Sure? Is that an impotent foreign insult?

lmao what are you even saying

So

what you’re saying is you have no actual stakes in the game and are preaching shit to someone who does

got it

I really don’t care what your Blue MAGA “a kinder genocide” perspective on my refusal to endorse your preferred genocidaire is.

You want to win. You accuse the left of causing your candidate to lose. You know what that’s called? Leverage. Time to start listening to our demands if you want to stop losing, because as you can see, we currently do not care whether you or the other genocidaires win. That’s the “democracy” you’re all ostensibly so obsessed with protecting, right? Run electable candidates on an electable platform or you deserve to lose.

I didn’t vote for Trump. (Unless you want to do the “you did by not voting for Kamala”, in which case I also voted for Holocaust Harris by not voting for Trump, so stop complaining.)

So, unlike when I voted for Genocide Joe after being duped into the “lesser evil” argument in 2016, the blood of this administration is not on my hands except insofar as I benefit from imperialism even if I try not to. I did not willingly sign my name off as an endorsement of this genocidal administration, unlike the previous genocidal administration.

I will never make the mistake of voting Democrat ever again (and was never going to vote Republican to begin with). Maybe if they send Biden, Kamala, Trump, and Kushner all to the Hague and apply economic and military pressure to force the collapse of the illegal occupation of Palestine, you can come back and ask me again. I won’t be holding my breath for that.

Where?

Supporting genocide under the patently ridiculous veil of “at least it’s kinder genocide than the other guy”

There’s no option for “no genocide”

Weird, I was able to find one.

the lesser of two evils will do.

“genocide is the lesser of two evils” is exactly where this mentality has gotten you. You may be compromised enough to sign your name off on that. I am not and never will be.

I do recall them being unabashedly genocidal in Palestine though, so I’m not exactly in a rush to give them credit for less-than-the-bare-minimum.

Yes, you can blame the GOP for defunding education as well.

(I have exactly zero love for the Zionazi-owned Dems either but I’m not aware of them ever defunding education)