[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

I haven’t been keeping up with her since around 2017 or so. Even then I felt something was off. I haven’t heard of Skip Intro but I’ll give them a look.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lmao Philosophy Tube has been outed as a NATO leftist. I always had a weird feeling about her. At this point I should completely trust my NATO leftist senses because they haven’t missed once.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Surprised by how few people seem to recognize the Third Way centrism popularized by Bill Clinton in the 90’s. Third Way is the ideology of the New Democrats who also happen to be the largest caucus in the Democratic Party.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

The problem with climate change is that people expect it to be a series of major events with catastrophic results all at once. The reality is a “boiling frog” scenario where the groundwork slowly gets built up over time until it’s too late by the time catastrophe hits.

In many ways it reminds me of those videos simulating the titanic sinking in real time.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remember when “ew they were born in 2000” was a thing people said because it felt so young.

Also teens think you automatically look like a stereotypical middle aged person as soon as you hit 30. They’re often surprised at how young a lot of millennials look.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-arevalo-noem-us-asylum-b1e8336eef14116d2cd2f77f4ee3047e

Our President has denied accepting a deal with the Trump administration that would allow them to dump migrants here. We did accept allowing US border patrol to train our border patrol with how to “screen for suspected terrorists.” This just means brutalizing more teenagers at the border.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

It’s really just wishcasting for an event that I know will never happen. Appreciate the insight though.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Spirits Within is such an odd movie. I remember kids at school being upset because Cloud wasn’t in it lol

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A number of Chinese banks have been cutting off Russian transactions since 2024. The same has been happening with china’s oil trade as companies either stopped purchases or scaled back.

It seems like the banking issue from 2024 has lead to them finding another work around. The oil trade issue is a recent one but it seems like they’re working on figuring out that one as well.

So it looks like they would temporarily comply while figuring out a way to work around it. I regret making the dismissive comment earlier but I was just venting at the thought of my country getting crushed by more of these tariffs/sanctions. The liberalism of Russia/China/Iran can be especially aggravating when your country is being strangled and not even slowly.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was referring more to the sanctions angle of the bill, something China has capitulated to as increasingly more pressure has been put on them through sanctions.

I thought about it some more and realized I made the mistake of missing the point that tariffs are entirely where the teeth of this bill are.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Would this be the push China needs to actually do more or would they fully capitulate as always if this were to go through?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

His entire posting history is mma, debating and powerscaling fictional characters, and whatever the hell “grimdank” is.

Makes sense he’s an idiot.

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These people love to accuse others of having a simplistic worldview when they can only view geopolitical conflicts as good vs. evil.

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This is every incels idea of what marriage is like

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I swear I came across every other couple being exactly this when I lived in the US.

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Best part starts at 6:03 but it's all a masterpiece

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This is from a "leftist" sub. This same user then says they're muslim and that everybody objecting to their take doesn't understand politics and is an edgy teenage tankie larper.

I'm fucking done with NATO leftists on these subs and sticking to TheDeprogram and SLS before I give myself an aneurysm

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It seems that this is an attempt to gain favor with Latin American countries as they move more towards China. I have a feeling this is going to go the usual way of American-led incompetence by giving the private sector too much control and having every project take forever to complete.

Also to note that the biggest America worshipping countries joined this little forum while pledging themselves to their lord.

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One of my childhood friends is finding himself in a tough situation. He's autistic and has struggled to make decent money for most of his life. He recently got a job working as a dishwasher while looking for a trade to get into.

His parents are when the issues kick in. They charge him rent (he's 31 btw) that's currently only $107. They used to charge him $300 back in 2014 and would have it go up by $50 every year to the point he was paying $600 before Covid hit. He still had to pay rent while in school and his parents refused to stop it during that time. The majority of his unemployment checks during Covid went into their rent.

They decided to change things by having him go on foodstamps in order to reduce his rent. He spends maybe $20 a week at the most for food because he's never been a big eater. Most of that foodstamp money goes to his parents who use it for groceries, including his. The thing is that they spend way more than he ever does and completely max out the card every month.

He's been under stress lately because he has to re-certify but his new job has a schedule that's all over the place and makes it so he keeps missing the calls when they happen. His parents insist that part of this process is to help him with his Autism and "become an adult." The stress got so bad for him with all the missed calls that he threw his hands up and decided to just not re-certify because it was adding too much stress in his life. His parents responded angrily by saying he would then "owe" them money in the form of $250 a month plus the $174 he already owes from a loan he took out five years ago.

The big kicker is that they're a pretty wealthy family living in a very wealthy part of Upstate New York, but they leech off what little money he has like vultures. The whole rent thing is said to be helping him with his Autism to become more self-sufficient but if anything it's made him more financially dependent on them than anything.

I know this was more of a rant than anything, but it's been difficult listening to this for years now and seeing him still stuck living with them. It's pretty clear to me that he's scared of moving out of their nice house and living in some sketchy apartment without a car because he can't afford one. I'm just not sure what else there is to do because I'm not living in the US and am unfamiliar with how social services work there.

Is there a way for him to get out and not be living on the edge of poverty?

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This is in response to a post on Hasans subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hasan_Piker/comments/174i8qt/libs_be_like/

Vaushites and Destiny fans are brigading like crazy and leaving behind their State Department logic.

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Used to love this site for creepy factoids but it's filled with stupid shit like this

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I can feel the neckhairs from all the way over here

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Kind of a weird zinger. I thought leftists were stereotyped to be sex-driven heathens?

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This is always how I pictured office life being

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