The majority of countries denying the western claims are muslim-majority Global South ones

You mean most of the countries that back the Chinese are countries that heavily rely on China or are extremely invested in by China, and often times ones that have relatively poor views of or are sanctioned by the US? That’s crazy, would’ve never imagined.

I thought those same governments’ treatment of Palestine has shown that muslim-majority countries aren’t afraid to use other muslims as pawns for their own political and economic gain?

Wait until you hear about how the colors white, brown, and the line of purples (purple/magenta/rose) work…

??? are you just resorting to bringing up completely unrelated shit to escape embarrassment? I imagined context could make it clear but mentioning “former communist countries” I was speaking of communist countries in history which formerly existed, but now no longer exist. If I meant countries which were communist but now aren’t, I would have specified “formerly communist countries”. Why would you even think it was implying that a country being communist in the past means it’s leftist in the present? How do you reason that?

The funniest part of this shitty rhetoric is you thinking that former communist countries are left wing.

You think Lenin and his government wasn’t left-wing? What the hell? And you think Mao wasn’t a leftist? Are you just going to deny that any authoritarian government was actually leftist?

No, when the US overthrows your left wing government and installs a right wing dictatorship/psuedodemocracy thats actually a right wing system now.

When did I say anything to the contrary? What specific country could you possibly be referring to that you think I’m talking about?

What an incredible admission to not knowing shit about dick and still being ignorant enough to think your opinion matters.

Wtf are you on about lol. You’re crazy

I don’t remember a time where kidnapping people and putting them into concentration camps away from their families made something not left, actually it seems pretty common in former and current communist countries lol…

but actually i meant “slightly more left” in the sense of economic-social matters, not… killing or kidnapping people matters.

Godspeed

The only things that the Biden administration has done that’s bad is genocide obviously, but a little genocide never hurt anybody… I guess you could try blaming him for inflation or gas prices, or the fallout of COVID-19, but that would be kind of dumb

You can, of course, say he hasn’t done enough, which wouldn’t be wrong, but the things he’s done have had a pretty positive effect on the country and have brought us at least a little closer to the left – even with an opposing congress. I can’t say I like how he treats, say, nationalism and the Middle East, but he’s at least somewhat redeemed himself from just being a “moderate Republican” I would say. At least his administration has brought in officials who are tougher on corporations, even if he’s still a corporate Democrat.

yea but unless you think you can convince half the population to chop every billionaire’s head off we’ll just have to deal with it until we die of climate change

late gen z and early millennials

i hate this post because it’s completely inaccurate and ignorant of the science, i have to link something every time i see it, like this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/yqmm0o/

i love seeing english speakers have an aneurysm trying to pronounce xi/ksi. especially the british, their pronunciation is disgusting (zai???)

the act is disrespectful, to refer to human beings using pronouns; by referring to people using fully qualified names, respect and humility is shown. pronouns are a declaration of war on the attributed creature, as immense inferiority is implied. societies created names with purpose – and to sidestep names is to break the fabric of culture!

I can +1 this, a looong time ago I tried uninstalling Microsoft Edge and it made the system go ballistic. Every time I clicked a link, instead of going to my default browser (Chrome then) it would just open a completely broken Edge window with no functionality. Any time I tried to change settings, it’d do the same thing. Anything to do with touching the internet got fucked. I spent hours trying to reinstall Edge, contacting a Microsoft support person who was useless, before I realized that the official site only provides the Windows download for Edge if you set your user agent with… any system other than Windows. Huh.

It’s newspaper headline dialect. Normally it’d be “A Chick-fil-A owner” or “The Chick-fil-A owner” depending on which one it is, but news headlines often omit the article (in this case “a”).

It originated partially as a way to save money, letters were expensive, and partially to keep people’s attention by not taking too long to read; but now it’s mostly just historical and used because many headlines don’t “sound right” without it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/ofxnbn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/pzdleo/

^ Reddit threads of people talking about the phenomenon

It may be confusing for those not accustomed to such things, especially ESL learners.

how? he’s the owner of a chick-fil-a, and he drove to the victim’s residence and committed statutory rape. what about the title doesn’t plainly describe that???

reddit has been pretty much the only reliable option that isn’t stackoverflow, in my experience

god, you’re gonna make me orgasm

i don’t wanna be the one to tell the slaves “hey guys i know forced labour sucks and all but we gotta have more ammo for this random war half-way across the globe so you’ll just have to push through it”

same for things like EVs. i like things that use batteries a lot, but i’d really have a stronger guarantee that the materials to make it aren’t sourced by slave labour or methods that harm the local ecosystem… i mean a large part of that problem is also that the US has fuck all for recycling laws, i don’t think most lithium is actually recycled anyways. but that’s a different topic

Coal (anything) doesn’t “contain” energy. We can transform some things, and some transformations produce energy in some form or another.

Akstchually energy is a property of matter, or matter is a property of energy, whatever 🤓 but your point still stands

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