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Oh you reminded me I have some Coco Ichibanya curry mix in the cupboard somewhere. I know what I’m eating tonight

The reason why people here will say you’re apologizing for American actions is because we don’t equate China and the US on the basis of being states. We see the USA as far, far more harmful to the world, regardless if China has truly authentic socialist ideology in is government. I really think you’d agree to this.

It’s a valid ideological premise to be wary of states, sure. That’s fine, we can talk about the details of that after we organize a revolution.

I don’t think you’re a bad person or that you’re truly trying to defend the US. I think you’re just saying things that come across as rhetorically inauthentic because you’re repeating things we more closely connect to liberals.

There weren’t any confrontations like this that tturned violent during the fall of the USSR, for instance

There actually were some brief instances of crowds firing rifle rounds at the Kremlin and getting return fire in response during the August 1991 protests. I don’t think it escalated though and I don’t think anyone died.

Although these were pro-government demonstrators who wanted the USSR to remain intact.

Those are tanks from the national government designed for defense against state level enemies, directed at unarmed young adults from the same country right?

The protestors had intercepted several buses full of PLA soldiers and beaten them to death, and then had taken their weapons and body armor. The eventual tank man incident was after days of escalated skirmishes and fighting, which involved molotov cocktails and firefights. There was at least one instance of protestors hijacking a military APC and taking it for a joyride.

The tanks showed up three days after initial attempts to disperse the crowd had failed. The guy in front of the tank happened on June 5th. The previous day of June 4th, protestors had dragged a soldier out of an APC and burned him alive.

I’m not gonna comment much on the merits of what the protestors wanted, or the escalation or force, or any of that. It’s not my place and I’m not from China. I’m not going to tell them how to organize their society. All I know really is the protestors were there for various reasons, probably a lot of them for legitimate grievances.

However I am American though and I can tell you that if a protest movement here in the States had set fire to an American soldier, everyone there would get shot. And that’s not what happened in China. These are smaller scale examples, but I only know to compare it to something like the Kent State massacre or the 1967 Detroit riots. By a comparison to those, the Chinese soldiers were extremely restrained, using standard riot-control methods. The only instances I know where PLA soldiers opened fire upon civilians were when the civilians were armed and shooting at them first. Whereas the American national guard was much more willing to fire fully-automatic rifles into crowds to kill unarmed people indiscriminately.

I’ve used them before and typically feel like shit afterwards. I have permanent frugal brain from being homeless for a while.

It’s a normal thing to get food delivered, and especially normal if you’re disabled, but maybe excessive in some cases in the guy who spent $25k a year on it.

Maybe there are meal services that deliver food to disabled people in your area? You could possibly take advantage of that. If you would otherwise go with a restaurant I’d always recommend seeing if the restaurant itself offers delivery instead of using grubhub/doordash/etc. You often save money that way and also the driver will be paid better. And tip generously.

You don’t need to feel insecure or anything if the situation doesn’t apply to you. I mean that in a nice way and don’t think you should feel ashamed at all if you’re in a bad spot right now. It’s enough that you’re trying to learn and do better.

Getting food delivered can be a normal thing for disabled or elderly people but leave it to capitalism to give us the worst possible version of it with extra exploitation

I know people who order pizza from Chuck-E-Cheese? Who goes there for the food? You go for the weird Star Wars arcade game and the scary animatronics

What the hell? With that same budget this guy could have gotten twice as much catering. Or had food in person at much fancier restaurants. For that same amount of money he could have like flown to France and had a 3 Michelin star chef feed him directly into his mouth like a baby bird.

Or he could have at least ordered food that isn’t dogshit. How do you eat $4000 of Chick-fil-A per year and not die?

There’s a particular Midwestern thing of putting a working TV directly in front of the broken TV

I actually kind of embrace the players doing whatever they want, so long as it’s not some way to harass other players or the DM. If they’re doing something to deliberately ruin the game, that’s not acceptable. If they’re doing something the DM didn’t expect or account for, that’s just the game baybee. It be how it is

I live in Texas but I shouldn’t carry a gun because I’d have probably shot some racist idiot in CounterStrike: Global Offensive by now.

It’s stressful how mad everyone in Texas is too. Especially while driving. If they’re delayed 5 seconds, it’s grounds for a shouting and slurs. If they’re delayed 1 minute or more, a gun comes out. Everyone here needs to go as fast as possible while visibly armed.

I was fixing my bike on the sidewalk in a suburb about a year ago and two guys with guns came out to threaten me, told me I was acting suspicious. I have a feeling if I weren’t white I’d have been shot. I’ve also had drivers in big trucks tap me from behind while biking.

My cousin once shot at a lost driver who was simply using his driveway to turn around. He carries an actual SMG to meet UPS at the door too. Everyone’s paranoid that a civil war will erupt at any moment. Pure narcissistic lily white panic.

you’re all my posting comrades now and you have no choice in the matter

I’ve always thought there had to have been weird obsessives in like 1850 who spent too much time on the telegraph

Engravings have no tactical advantage

The show’s sudden widespread popularity always felt like a western version of Japanese otaku culture to me. People were making their own comics, fanart, radio plays, etc. It was like doujin circles. They even would stalk the voice actresses like creeps.

It’s always been interesting to me how closely otaku and western nerds will come to imitating one another without significant contact with the other. There’s like a platonic ideal of weird creepy nerd they’re all drawing from in the ether. They even have their own weird fascist contingents. Japan invented incels too like in the 80s.

Aren’t the ponies assigned to various jobs at birth or something? Like they have a magical inclination to be lower class or whatever.

I’ve never watched this cartoon and I don’t know shit but from the little I know about their society it did seem like a capitalist realism framework

Apparently right after the Bosheviks seized the palace they raided the alcohol stores and had a giant party/orgy for a full week