Blame the US for declaring that US minors are too stupid and US parents too neglectful to pay attention to what is purchased online.

They have to kick off kids from their game, legally, and nearly all mobile and online games that have any way to spend real money will be doing the same within the next year.

I had hope for the future and planned a whole life once.

Yeah, snopes isn’t a trustworthy source, and more importantly, there absolutely was. I know that for an absolute certainty, and gaslighting isnt going to work.

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn’t on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn’t a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don’t know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don’t really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

Acting like a liberal is of course included in liberal ideology.

Anyone can be cured of liberalism before it decays into fascism. They’re hoping you get cured.

Political correctness is what racists think being woke is, which is why they’re angry.

When did academic journals just start publishing nonsense? When did conspiracy theories like a shadow cabal of evil people that record the rich and powerful abusing children become obvious reality? When did literally hundreds of government officials state UFOs are real, they’re not human, and there’s a good chance they’re not natural phenomena?

Science only has trust if you can trust those with the means to verify the work, do actually verify the work. The reproducibility crisis in all scientific fields was at a peak before LLMs were on every single phone; now there no such thing as trustworthy peer reviewed research that can be reproduced, even if the money was there to test everything that was published.

Tl;Dr the entire scientific world lost credibility and a whole lot of conspiracies were proven real as more CIA docs got declassified. Anything might be true at this point.

You’d need a language everyone recognizes no matter what their primary language is, and one that anyone could get a translation for should they run it through any given translation app…

Sindarin fits all the parameters thanks to Peter Jackson’s contributions to spreading the language to every single major region.

Just like the pit of infinite despair and spiked dildos is technically different from the pit of infinite spiked dildos and despair; being to the left of republicans because you want to burn orphans for warmth instead of fun does not make you left wing nor a good choice.

The act of stabbing your artery in order to stop the gangrene you got from repeatedly stabbing your arteries is indeed just as bad as dipping your gangrenous tissue into your open wounds to spread it faster. Neither make you better. Neither is a true stopping point.

Or in other words, Dems are the clutch and reps are the gas. You have no brakes. You might be able to stop without a brake, maybe even stay stopped. But shits going to get worse no matter which you choose since you’re actively ignoring the brakes.

The lower tiers vote for the higher tiers, and anyone can join government.

As far as your concern, there’s a reason the government in china actually works, vs the US that stagnates for decades.

Only actually qualified people have power. You prove yourself over years. Xi, for example, has a doctorate and decades of proven experience; and that was after winning his external elections.

to compare to to western democracy, you don’t vote for prime minister, the people you voted for votes for prime minister. Just add a few layers with publicly auditable and contestable elections.

Its run by the communist party, whose purpose is guiding the country to communism and self dissolution; which has necessitated not skipping over the industrial and consumer revolutions, both of which likely require capitalism, but in any case have been done with capitalism so that path is easier and known, allowing them to benefit from the waste from less competent countries.

Or in other words, they’re the only country in history to execute billionaires, whatever they are is objectively better than the US or EU.

The problem with having 365 million people or so in a sick society that encouraged and rewards destroying each other is that things get worse automatically.

Dems doing nothing makes things worse. Reps doing nothing makes things worse. Its a prisoners dilemma where the only winning move is to kill the cops and hope for the best.

If al gore won we’d have still invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, it would just be in bush jrs first term in 2004 that we invade Iraq.

You have to agree communism is the goal, that’s the party. Within that party are hundreds of factions that are all striving for votes so china gets to communism in the way they think is best. That’s the democracy.

Its like if the US formalized an oath to continue being loyal to the US into a single party that you have to join in order to be in politics; and from there split into dem/rep parties. You’d still vote for factions and reps, but all of them would be required to at least have the same ending goal in mind.

It prevents people like trump from getting far, as keeping up appearances isn’t really possible the longer you spend in the party.

There are of course downsides to this approach, but a lack of choice isn’t really one of them; you just don’t get to vote for the destruction of the government or country.

I would argue axels came first, and the wheel is a derivative. See the likely methods accepted by (non ancient alien) archeologists for paleolithic to bronze age wonders made from stone; they used logs on the ground as rollers, essentially an axel, it wouldn’t take much of a leap to carve out the majority of those logs to lighten the load, creating a fixed wheel axel, which just needs a semipermanent but smooth rolling attach point to a vehicle or tool to be even more useful.

With enough grease any old stick can be an axle for a while, the wheel is the hard part.

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Just like Ukraine is warring with Russia, making Ukraine a dick, right?

He wanted money and the adoration of old white people more than improving anyone’s life.

I usually support people’s fetishes but I do think he took his a bit too far. Raceplay should end when it starts affecting literal Congress.