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BigSadEnjoyer
>>97664
wowow so crazyyy wow
BigSadEnjoyer
opna is cool but thats kind of wierd to want to be someone else lol
>>97674
anon
>>97673
everyone thinks im weird
anon
i am... not belonged anywhere
anon
i dnt like cheese why is that so weird. its a weird food. people shouldnt eat that its gone bad
>>97839>>97677
anon
>>97676
.play not even winsleydale
anon
cheese shouldn't be eaten
anon (You)
It can be good sometimes
anon (You)
but usually I avod it
anon
if i took a glass of orange juice and left it on the counter until it was SOLID you wouldnt eat that now would you???
anon
whys it any different for milk
anon
thats even grosser
anon (You)
it tastes good >>> sometimes <<<
anon
if rotten eggs taste good will you eat them?
>>97686
anon (You)
Im not even talking about what is it called
anon (You)
mold cheese? YUCK
anon
all cheese is mold chese thats what it is its milk thats so moldy its turned solid
anon (You)
bu thats extra mold in yo mold
anon (You)
if cheese looks somewhat tolerable the latter does not
anon (You)
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I like smoked cheese though
anon (You)
otherwise Im not eating
anon
🤷♀️ its all the same to me
anon
all YCUKY
anon
and if i say that in public. people look at me like i said I eat pet dogs
anon
Its NOT WEIRD TO HATE CHEESE
anon
ITS A WEIRD FOOD!!!!!!!
nonners
.play puppertown
anon
cheese smell like feet
>>97702
nonners
we have new glegle mascot
anon (You)
new glegle just dropped
anon (You)
(yesterday)
nonners
it only exists after i notice it
nonners
no
anon (You)
>>97710
I feel appreciated
nonners
whos that guy
anon
do you think lee is still out there making those posts or has it been an autistic copycat for the past few years
anon (You)
Could be both really
anon (You)
including the copycat baiting itself
anon
the son of lee
anon (You)
what is your final verdict
anon (You)
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Is this really their mindset
anon
>>97719
he lost the moment he became a schizo spammer
anon
are you familiar with the baskin roberts guy on /tv/
anon
>>97723
in a nutshell, he's basically an autist that spams "baskin roberts" or "trust fun band!" on any thread involving the simpsons, seth macfarlane show, or saw the movie franchise with an ai generated pic of the jigsaw puppet and simpsons characters every single day
anon
he also samefags to an insane degree, saying stuff like "Kek, this is kino!" to his initial baskin roberts or trust fun band posts
>>97733
anon
he is absolutely incomprehensive
anon
let me find ground zero
anon
[link removed]
anon
bah
anon (You)
they cut my powa
anon (You)
>>97725
LOL I love this one
anon (You)
I use it all the time
notamerican!!dcmzmFf2DM
>>97651
i have it since 12-13, i dunno, never asked or thought abt that thing before (because children dont think too much)
anon
>>97647
i love hidamari sketch
anon (You)
us <3
anon
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you holding the grenade, me pulling the pin
::blush
>>97746
anon
>>97743
why is this one crying, that's not really blushing :<
anon (You)
one doesnt exclude the other
anon (You)
maybe someone hit her with pepper spray
anon
holy fuck
anon
i just watched an episode of house md and they needed to use epi twice and they USED IT TWICE
>>97756
anon
they are learning!!!!!
anon
>>97756
epinepherine its like the most common and useful medicine for emergency medicine they use it like fucking candy in the ER because it's also extremely safe
>>97765
anon
Its whats in epi pens
anon
its addrenhaline
anon
basically any time someone has airway obstruction or heart stopped or its too slow or they're going into shock or like 28 different other things you give them epinepherine
anon (You)
I know I was just making an inappropriate joke
anon
and they never ever ever use it on that tv show
anon
oh okay sorry my autismo is showing xd
anon (You)
>>97758
but the only reason I know about this is because of ss13
>>97766
anon
>>97765
yeah thats exactly how its used in real life you basically dont even wait to see whats wrong with them you just stab everyone with it because it stablizes every condition ever
>>97772
anon (You)
I sometimes mistake it for mining medipen and waste it
anon
xd
anon (You)
this is why I engineermax now
anon
i havent played real ss13 in like 5 years because i cant get it to run on leenux and byond doesnt work on wine and its slow as fuck thru a vm
anon
>>97766
.play mgs4 syringe abuse
anon
sadge
anon (You)
rip
anon
Ss14 on steam is kinda fun but it doesnt have the same magic
anon (You)
tile movement was a choice not an issue
anon
also the medic system kinda sucks also checkem
anon
.skip
anon
its super boring to play med or chem on ss14 because you just make and use a kit of like 8 useful drugs and they solve everything ever
anon
once in a blue moon someone gets cancer or something and the chems get to do something slightly more complicated
anon (You)
its weird how much muscle memory there is in ss13
anon (You)
I havent played it for years but I just did everything automatically kinda how tf2 voice commands work too
anon
im like that with cdda tbh
anon
i pick it up like once a year and think ive forgotten all the keybinds and then my brain just does them automatically
anon (You)
im too stoped to install graphics mods
anon (You)
and that kinda turns me off from cdda
anon (You)
the sheer mindfuck ultimate apocalypse in the game is kino however
>>97790
anon
I think one of the default ones is the best anyways, chibi ultica
anon
but yeah i see where ur coming from its not an especially pretty game
anon
>>97787
it is, but once u get really familiar with the systems it gets kinda boring
anon
theres an expression for it i cant remember, its like a really wide lake with shallow water
anon
Theres 10 billion things you can do but basically the only useful thing to do is find a few millitary zombs and get a gun that shoots 556 and then blow up a 556 turret at night when it cant see you and then build a death car and then the game is sort of solved
anon
and they keep adding stupid pain in the ass changes for muh realism but theyre all dumb and stupid and just amount to "this thing wouldnt be as easy in real life so we're going to add 10x the microing to do it in game also it will take 30 days instead of 3 days now, hope u have books and a vibrator dumbass"
>>97795
anon
but even so if you beeline a 556 gun and just play patient basically nothing is ever a threat and you want for nothing you just keep traveling to find whatever you need
anon
and if u ever find a m107a1 the game is just over, the ammo is everywhere and it oneshots everything and has the max range possible
anon
>>97795
i kinda like zomboid more now tbh, cause at least u can play with other people, the multiplayer is rly fun
anon
you *can* disassemble and reassemble every item in the game from base parts and grow crops and develop a settlement and do drug synthesis from plant feedstock and forge your own tools from raw metal and stuff like that but absolutely none of it is worth the time and effort. its always easier to just drive a little longer and find the item. and all the changes they add make all the real effort ways of doing it HARDER like why??
anon (You)
exactly, the crafting requires you to grind soo much and then grind again and again to unlock smithing
anon (You)
no keep going
anon
"you wouldnt be able to teach yourself metalworking in a month" ITS A GAME THERES ALSO NOT ZOMBIES IN REAL LIFE IDK IF U KNOW THAT DEVS
anon
sry ill stop ranting lmfao
anon (You)
but yeah, they also nerfed woodworking to the ground, because disassembling wooden shit AKA the only real way to get xp doesnt give you any xp any longer
anon
and they added super agressive skill rust for literally 0 reason
anon
Like?? if my background is a mechanic and ive been working on cars for any length of time, if i stop working on cars for a month I'm suddenly going to become an incompetent baby who can't remove a transmission?? how is that more realistic what the fuck does that even mean?????
anon (You)
In one of my longplays I wanted a mechanic level to go up and had to download a mod to automate removing every single thing from a car and putting it back
anon (You)
its just painful
anon
yep....
anon
and just to add insult to injury they made cars take a fuck of a lot more effort to repair simple damage and just maintain them
anon
it was already like an unnecessary thing to do, you really don't need more than any random gas car with a half decent engine and 2 cargo slots in place of the back seats. But you were ALLOWED to go above and beyond and spend a few weeks reading mechanic books so you could make an autism car with 3 V12s and a bunch of solar panels and military plating and stuff because its cool and fun
anon
and it was like. doable. took a month of ingame time maybe, and the guts of a dozen cars, but it was very doable with some persistence
anon
now the cars fall apart faster than you can fix them
anon
for No! reason!
anon (You)
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I will die irl of old age before I can do shit I want to do INGAME cheating feels almost legit
anon
And half way through you'll forget how to apply bandaids to yourself and forget how to speak and how to tie your fucking shoes because u spent a month just doing cars, why didnt you practice tying your shoes dumbass??? it's not enough that you read shoe tying 101 last week, that doesnt count
anon (You)
tbf I saw bunch of cool ways to tie your shoes in pinterest
anon (You)
maybe there indeed is a shoe tying 101 book out there somewhere
>>97818
anon
>>97817
there probably is lol
anon
now whenever i play i just do lab starts with fucked mutations, its the one challenge in the game i actually enjoy
anon
By the time i escape the lab and find a decent rifle the game loses all interest to me, theres no dangerous enemies at all. except the fuck you storm which fucking kills you instantly regardless of your gear and says fuck you the whole time and even if you hide inside like you're supposed to you get spammed with stupid spoopy 3rd rate creepypasta writing about how u hear spoopy noises outside SHUT UP
>>97822
anon
i DONT WANNA HEAR IT
anon (You)
>>97820
Too bad there is no decent way to actually balance sprinters because if they are on you're just dead
anon
and ur not allowed to disable it because that would make the poor developers sad :'( and if they were sad they wouldnt want to work on it and improve it :'( (they said this like 2 years ago and havent done literally anything with the system and there is exactly 0 reward to jumping through all the hoops you need to go out in the storm)
anon (You)
brb\
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
#ai DSM-V diagnostic criteria for cooties:

The concept of "cooties" is not recognized as a diagnosable disorder in the DSM-V. It is generally considered to be a childhood belief or game rather than a clinical condition requiring diagnosis and treatment. As such, it does not have specific diagnostic criteria within the DSM-V.

However, if an individual exhibits extreme distress or impairment due to their fear of cooties, they may meet criteria for other disorders such as anxiety disorders (e.g., specific phobia) or obsessive-compulsive disorder. In these cases, appropriate diagnostic criteria from the DSM-V would be used for assessment and diagnosis.

It should also be noted that some cultures do recognize conditions similar to cooties, such as koro syndrome in Southeast Asia which involves a fear of genital shrinkage due to supernatural causes. However, this falls under cultural syndromes and is not included in the DSM-V either.
DSM-V diagnostic criteria for cooties:
>>97830
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
#ai DSM-V diagnostic criteria for cooties:

At least 6 months of persistent and excessive fear or anxiety related to contracting cooties (imagined insects, germs, or diseases that can be spread through contact with others)

The individual avoids social interactions and physical contact due to the fear of spreading or acquiring cooties

These thoughts and behaviors interfere significantly with daily life activities

The fear is not better explained by another mental disorder (such as obsessive-compulsive disorder)

Note: The presence of a specific phobia towards other insects, germs, or illnesses does not necessarily indicate a diagnosis of cooties. It must specifically relate to the concept of "cooties" as described above.
DSM-V diagnostic criteria for cooties:
anon (You)
Cooties is real
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
>>97827
#reply Apologize for your blatant cooties denialism. This is literally killing people!

Therefore, the diagnosis of cooties would not be appropriate or recommended. Any concerns about excessive fear or anxiety should be discussed with a mental health professional for proper assessment and treatment.
Apologize for your blatant cooties denialism. This is literally killing people!
anon (You)
Pretty sure they made a horror movie about that
anon (You)
but then again they do horror movies about anything
nonners
hi nons
nonners
n-nons??
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
hemlo
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
#ai Is air vegan?

No, due to the fact that air is made up of mostly nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide, which are all gases and not derived from animals or animal products. Is air vegan?
shrimp
>>97824
imagine lacing your shoes using the pattern on the left but you do it the same way on both shoes so it doesnt mirror
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
#ai I put poo back in my pee hole and now it hurts ow ow what should I do?

You should start by contacting your doctor or a healthcare professional for advice. Putting foreign objects in your urinary tract can cause serious infection and damage, so it is important to seek medical attention immediately. In the meantime, try to drink plenty of water to help flush out any potential bacteria or irritants from your urinary tract. Avoid inserting anything else into the area and refrain from sexual activity until you have been properly checked by a medical professional. I put poo back in my pee hole and now it hurts ow ow what should I do?
anon
>>97676
hey I find cheese really underwhelming and an odd texture too! the extreme creaminess makes me gag. #hug
anon
>>97672
opba is nice and shares pictures taken outside. you could go on a jaunt and take us some pics mbe
anon
i do not like donald trump
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
one take
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
thirty
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
I'm not a big fan of the government
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
thirty on thirty
Haskellslut!!YMUa9BcKZ.
I'm not a big fan of the government
p!nIOh.loris
the garden is full of butterflies, i wanted to catch one, but its better to leave them be and appreciate its beauty from afar...
p!nIOh.loris
hiya wormies
anon (You)
its leeches™ now
anon
imagine being leeched through your worm
>>97857
!nIOh.loris
wut
anon (You)
>>97859
but she said same thing
anon
imagine if there was less talking and more worm leeching
anon (You)
she didn't say that
anon
wet pussy
!nIOh.loris
gatuno molhado
>>97868
!nIOh.loris
everything hurts
!nIOh.loris
ow ow o
!nIOh.loris
>>97868
#ksay meow meow
!nIOh.loris
>>97873
#kiss
hiya sis. been studying much?
shrimp
not really the work is super easy/lightweight
shrimp
the math is super easy and fun tho the english is like. not hard but im just not good at english
>>97887
shrimp
grammar stuff is ok but theres certain things that i dont grasp quickly
>>97878
!nIOh.loris
>>97877
oh you'll get around it
!nIOh.loris
i believe in you
shrimp
thankuu
shrimp
yeah i just gotta like study a lil for that
shrimp
i was never good at english in school either
shrimp
i loooooooooooove math tho
>>97892
!nIOh.loris
funny, i also love math but i have trouble learning it
anon
shrimp! shrimp! shrimp! (I’m cheering)
anon
>>97876
ooooh can you study that by showing us? how is class and teacher? I bet this is still good to make the next stuff easier for you since it’ll be a smaller step now : D
anon
I like strawberry too
anon
>>97885
#kiss I got left behind in those classes too sometimes if that’s what you’re saying. I got it eventually though before I forgot it again
>>97891
!nIOh.loris
>>97890
yeah, pretty much this.
to make things worse, i was raised on the notion that one must be independent and not be a burden on others so i tend to not ask for help. which snowballs into things getting worse...*sigh* story of my academic life
>>97893
anon
>>97891
yeah that’s really bad : ( my teachers were happy when I actually asked questions and caught up, but that didn’t happen in all my classes..
anon
>>97894
>i
love imaginary numbers -hey you’re using them right now!!! corruption!!!
>>97896
anon
:)
anon
blue Monday!! that was it! dun-dun-dundundundundumsundundun song I couldn’t remember
weather
HOW
DOES IT FEEL
anon
TO TREAT ME LIKE YOU DOOO
anon
it’s. banger fr fe
weather
welcome back to banger our at libpol.sugery
anon
very respectful of others names weather ty ty
BigSadEnjoyer
shrimpyy why is it so fucking colddd
BigSadEnjoyer
its too cold to do anything but lay in bed too cold to paint to shower to clean or do laundry its literally so fucking colldd
anon (You)
have you considered taking a COLD shower
>>97911
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97912
i do kind of agree with him, but it should be handled by making major social media elements have to do ID verification on their end instead of a EU wide service that way anonymous conversation can still exist in certain places and you have safer spaces for more average users. obviously total destruction of anonymity is like big brother shit but stuff like facebook and twitter are filled with bots and foreign actor political cyber terrorism (part of the reason trump got elected).

tieing posting on websites like that to real identity would reign in the abillity to spread like blatent foreign actor misinfo and such
>>97915>>97916
BigSadEnjoyer
like consumers who want a safe decent place to talk should gravitate to companies that verify u are talking to real people

and schizo loonies would have shit like private forums and 4chin
>>97917>>97925
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97915
well, letting psyops and bots rule the internet unimpeded convinced the majority of the western world to hate trannies so glad thats working out for u
>>97919
anon
>>97918
they hated trannies without psyops before hand
BigSadEnjoyer
and yet our access to healthcare and the state of transhealthcare only improved between 1980 and 2010. and when all the russian bots started campaigning against woke and rainbow politics trump passed a bunch of laws to target trans people specifically. strange how those things overlap. curious.
>>97935
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97921
Verifying your ID doesnt mean making your ID public. you have to use your ID to do digital banking and no one thinks thats wierd it just makes sense.
>>97931
BigSadEnjoyer
Maybe if we passed laws that held social media companies accountable to what goes on on their platforms they would care about reigning in actual terrorism and shit
>>97928
weather
>>97914
yeah if you wanna do any kind of real-world interactions with people (buying selling whatever) then you really wanna know the person you're talking to isn't fake
the concept of "banning anonymity online" is incredibly cringe and shit though
>>97926
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97925
yea thats why I said I "kind of agree" with him. I do think its a big problem but banning anonymity isnt the right solution
>>97930
weather
>>97921
google plus was a mistake
weather
>>97924
this is impossible lole..... if we stop promoting terrorism on facebook then they won't make as much money :(( think of the shareholders!!!!! won't somebody PLEASE think of the shareholders
>>97929
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97928
EU actually passes laws that reign in monopolies though. like banning loot boxes and games marketing gambling to kids. they actually ahve the political power to reign in these companies.
>>97932
anon
>>97923
>common sense legislation
weather
>>97929
they have the power to do all sorts of things but lobbyist groups have incentive to make sure they never use that power (sad)
>>97933
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97932
yea america is fucked. the answer in america is just know how to use the tools the bad actors use better. we literally live in the cyberpunky dystopia. too have free discussion online you have to use foreign VPNs or know how to build your own and such lol. america is a very unique country imo, its a very specific type of corruption combined with this wierd heritage of individuality and rugged individualism means that we have a very restrictive society that also arms us with the tools to resist that society.
>>97934
weather
>>97933
well put (as someone who isn't american).... i guess it's good that the tools to resist the stupid shit of society are right there, but then it seemz ez for people in power to take away those tools and then the individual is forced to be a part of the shitty society that sucks ass
>>97936
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97934
well trump is making an unprecedented amount of changes its really scary. the purging of the beaurocracy from anyone who isnt republican is THE scariest thing to happen in american history. we literally have never had such a blatant insane act as this. nothing trump has done, the anti trans stuff, the anti immigrant stuff none of it is on the level of purging the government from people who arent trump loyalists.
>>97938
weather
>>97935
why all the parentheses anon
weather
>>97936
you heard it here first folks, u gotta LEAVE THE SINKING SHIP or else BE RICH ENOUGH THAT IT DON'T MATTER
>>97940
weather
and i don't imagine there are many millionaire+ ppl hanging out on lib pole dot org...
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97938
considering fleeing to canada maybe they will take me as a refugee because of trumps gender laws xD. also immigrating to canada isnt as bad as many countries.
weather
yeah canada is just diet usa. still got the same stroads and weird shit but at least they are explicitly not america
weather
i can imagine that many many people will be booking it north + south of the USA as time goes on
BigSadEnjoyer
trump declared the cartels a terrorist organization so he can use the military against them :O
BigSadEnjoyer
tbh kind of based though cartels are very evil i dont really care if cartel warlords get whacked by navy seals lole
BigSadEnjoyer
that said mexico seems less stable, I would have said argentina is a really nice place to move but they just gutted their entire country and deleted their middle class entirely
BigSadEnjoyer
Buenos Aires is a beautiful city
BigSadEnjoyer
its REALLY hard to move to europe :(
weather
i was just about to say..... europe is nice....
t. lives there so i'm biased
weather
i wouldn't even say it's nice it's just distinctly not america
weather
by the same logic you could say moving to china is nice
tho the language barrier in china would be way harder to integrate into
BigSadEnjoyer
a big part of if a country is nice to live in for me is how good are the consumer goods, how good is the food/produce? how affordable is shipping. EU is more expensive consumer goods for less variety / higher quality.
weather
idk dog i go to my local low-cost shop and it has plenty of different fruits + vegs and they're cheap for my income...
BigSadEnjoyer
well Ive only been to france and scotland for europe and their stores where just, idk how to put it, they dont touch our supermarkets ill just put it that xD.

in scotland I was in random tiny coastal towns and france I was in normandy. I visited hte bigger cities too.
>>97954
weather
>>97953
touristy type vibes to both of those places i think, but i've never been so not sure....
weather
to be fair we don't have super-duper-mega-marts where you can buy guns and shit, no. you buy everything from its own specialised shop (for the most part) and buy anything else u need online... but imo if you need more than what is around in a big city then maybe u don't really need it...
>>97956
BigSadEnjoyer
>>97955
No its more that when you go to a dedicated super market it will just have like...
Im sure vedgtables and deli meats are pretty comparable but you will also have like import foods from all over the world, german, mexican, japanese products just on the shelves. the variety is very big, sauces, spices and such. and most will have fish markets and such. our access to import goods is insanely good.
weather
true, EU doesn't rly have a lot of import stuff. some of the low-price shops have german and eastern-european stuff, but japanese? (native) mexican shit? nah
BigSadEnjoyer
yea in the US even cheap shitty places to shop for food like Walmart will have tons of import international options.
weather
i slurppose if the choice is between
a) having lots of variety in food and produce
or
b) not being actively hatecrimed by the govt and society
then it seems like a simple choice to me....
weather
i feel the pain of change tho tbh it's not nice to have to upend ur entire shit and learn an entirely different way of being
BigSadEnjoyer
yea for sure hahah but it is sad as an american to give up like... having all this massive consumer options. you can get everything and its cheap because shipping/trucking/gas is heavily subsidized by the government. the same day delivery shit from amazon for anythig you can think of lol.
weather
same day amazon delivery is insane to me. fastest i could get somethin is 2 days and that's fierce speedy to us bogdwellers
BigSadEnjoyer
America is a good place to be rich xD
weather
alas, only the rich are rich.....
BigSadEnjoyer
yea :<
BigSadEnjoyer
I really think of america like cyberpunk dystopia. if you have money you just have everything you could ever dream of and if you are poor you cant even see a doctor.
>>97969
weather
no wonder people who DO have a lot of money want to make sure that their money freedom can never be lost
BigSadEnjoyer
I mean thats why all the middle class educated people from all over the world move to work and live in the US lol. the rate of masters/PHD degrees is like 40% more among immigrants than the general population. if you are worth something you move to the US where you can access shit you cant get in most other countries and get paid way more.
>>97970
weather
>>97966
yeah the baseline for shit like healthcare is infinitely better anywhere but america
weather
>>97968
it just sounds like "you can make a fucking boatload of cash in usa" which is nice but. idk i just don't give a shit about being rich. i want to be sustainable and not worry about bills or buying food or turning on the heat or getting into an accident. once that shit is covered.... more money is useless
BigSadEnjoyer
yea me too but unfortunately all the european countries that have that kind of security are extremely gatekeepy and its literally impossible to get permanent residency/citizenship.

even the "hordes of brown people" european rightoids complain about are all not on permanent residency status and just get deported randomly all the fucking time through no fault of their own.
weather
perhaps with enough pressure from this usa exodus, their restrictions may relax.......
weather
maybe i'm biased (i am) but i think living anywhere else is better than living in america, from the shit i see about it
BigSadEnjoyer
I think a big misconception that foreigners have about america is viewing it as a monolith. like america is INSANELY diverse, as diverse as all of europe is. the culture and social norms of like rural oklahoma are just another country entirely from maine. we are so big, so diverse in biome and geography and have such a diversity of specialized economies that its really more like a conglomeration of different countries than people who arent americans or even americans themselves think.

if you live in a place like new york you wont have to worry about the government infringing on your rights and such. but if you live in texas you cant even get an abortion now. the difference between the states is really big.
weather
understandable when individual US states are the size and have the sovereignty of whole countries....
weather
i guess if the president of europe said "i think trans people should die and rich people should live" i guess i would not like to live in europe
the downside of it all being technically one big country is that the differences are smudged out and one group of people can dictate how you live ur day2day
BigSadEnjoyer
I will say that trump is literally unprecented in what hes doing also most europeans are america haters xD
weather
idk i'm an america hater lol
BigSadEnjoyer
Ive never talked to a european who liked america I think part of it is that even in america its very trendy to hate america
weather
based
BigSadEnjoyer
Like im left leaning so the majority of people I know hate america xD

but I think there are many many wonderful things about my country that make it worth fighting for im just worried that with whats going on now the fight is truly lost. I am praying that america doesnt go full on nazi and than having a civil war or smth and balkanizing
weather
that's a good point........
as an external america-hater, i just see the downtrend as reason to gtfo and live somewhere else, but if it's somewhere you really LIKE and WANT to be good, then it sucks more cause u wanna stay and make it good.... i can fix him....
BigSadEnjoyer
well I think america has created many beautiful ideas and such. like I think a huge part of modern lgbt theory is an american export and thats a good thing. like many countries see pro LGBT activism as specically an american export like poland. america has done many good things, had many good ideas its very complicated.
weather
very true, i do think a lotta queer liberation shit has come from america and been taken by other countries...
weather
it's so big that it's bound to have a lot of good sides and a lot of bad sides, in equal measure
BigSadEnjoyer
I think the general distrust and hatred for government in general that exists to some extent in EVERY American is kind of based haha
weather
hating your government should be a baseline, cause it means they always have something to improve on
weather
no governing body or way of running a country is perfect or even close to it, so we gotta keep reachin for something better instead of pissing around in the dirt like it's the best we can do
weather
if there's one thing humans can do is try to do a thing better
BigSadEnjoyer
I just wish there was a way to break out of the 2 party system so actual progressivism can have a seat in government
>>97993
weather
>>97992
#this #this #this (real) the two party system is a cancer on the US
weather
vote for shithead you hate or idiot you don't like. if you vote for someone else it's worse than not voting at all. fuck you
BigSadEnjoyer
yea pretty much. also the electoral colelge is insane. like I live in NY state which is like 65% dem vote on every issue in every region. so my vote doesnt matter.

how the college works is if 65% of the state is blue the whole state is blue, so if a state is always blue or red you literally dont need to vote its a forgone conclusion.

and the voting that matters insanely much like the houses (senate/congress/local government) no one votes in.
>>97997
weather
"ohh noo better voting systems are too complicated..... numbers??? ranked voting?? AAAA it makes my head huwt...."
weather
>>97995
and then the swing states are the ones that make up the actual difference and get heavily pandered to. electoral college sounds like a good idea when society didn't have instant communication rocks in every home and place of business and in every person's pocket
BigSadEnjoyer
yea it was designed for a different time but the problem is again 2 party system. both sides are trying to win the "who rigs the boundries of the electoral collage better" game and neither wants to get rid of it because they both covet the benefits of rigging the college to make them win every time.
weather
playing a proxy war in your own mf country. embarrassing
weather
i wonder if america will ever actually change how the fundamental shit works in voting and government, cause it seems like the "murrican perfection" mindset is so deep-baked in culture that the idea of changing it is too insane to imagine
weather
like more than two parties with a different voting system.... no more electoral college, or reduced importance.... those sound like they never gonna happen
BigSadEnjoyer
it wont happen until a civil war, balkanization event or the singularity achieves conciousness and imposes new forms of power on the world
weather
we literally need AGI in order for america to give up the electoral college. insane
it's new heights to the "we can imagine the end of the world better than the end of capitalism" shit
BigSadEnjoyer
yea... xD
weather
i hope there is some kind of "altercation" within america and i hope it doesn't kill very many people at all, but any kind of internal civil war kicks everyone up the ass and makes it insanely obvious that what's currently happening is NOT working. get better baby please please please go to rehab america
BigSadEnjoyer
I think best case scenario is an environmental disaster or world war or something, so we had a president FDR who put in place all these socialist programs that literally revitalized and fixed the country after the great depression, which was caused by the finanical insititution and rich people taking too much to the point society and the economy broke down. the worse things get the more political power the left has to actually move society forward. unironically rightoids gain power in periods of stability and prosperity because enough people identify with the power structures they want to "protecc whats theirs from the other"

when the dust bowl/great depression/wwII happened back to back times got really hard and that built a huge amount of social solidarity, class conciousness and a desire to make things better. americans are REALLY good at reacting to disasters when doom and death is on the line.

so I think the best case scenario is actually massive environmental disaster, financial ruin and maybe a bit of global war and death and destruction and then finally people will be so dispossessed and unhappy they have to turn to a better form of government to get things running agian.

its literally what happened with FDR's new deal.
>>98008
weather
break the system, and the people in charge have to leave it..... i rly wish we had a high-level understanding of societies and humanity as a whole that we could just say "do this and it will get better idiot"
weather
>>98006
so what you're saying is we need a war........... epic.........
weather
america (nazi) vs america (not nazi). fight
weather
i think if the highly regarded people in power are smart enough then they'll rig shit so most people are content ENOUGH to not riot. you get to rent forever and you hate your job at raytheon packaging co and your food is full of sugar and microplastics, but you have tiktok :) and instagram :) and reddit :) yippeeee
BigSadEnjoyer
#ai what is the american new deal FDR

The American New Deal was a series of economic programs initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in the 1930s to combat the effects of the Great Depression. It aimed to provide relief, reform, and recovery for Americans suffering from high unemployment rates and widespread poverty.

The New Deal included various initiatives such as the creation of federal agencies like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided jobs for millions of unemployed individuals; Social Security Act, which introduced old-age pensions and disability insurance; National Industrial Recovery Act, which established codes to regulate fair labor practices; and Agricultural Adjustment Act, which sought to stabilize farm prices.

In addition to these programs, FDR also implemented policies that regulated banks and stock markets, created public works projects like dams and bridges, and offered financial aid to struggling industries. The New Deal significantly expanded the role of government in providing social welfare services and stimulating economic growth.

While controversial at the time due to its large-scale government intervention into private enterprise, many credit FDR's New Deal policies with helping lift America out of one of its worst economic crises. Today it remains a significant part of American history as an example of how government can intervene during times of crisis.
what is the american new deal FDR
>>98012
weather
>>98011
>rich people hoarding too much money
>spend that money on infra and shit people need
>country gets better
BigSadEnjoyer
also invented retirement, pensions, government sponsored home loans, etc
weather
based as fuck
BigSadEnjoyer
unfortunately it was racist and black people didnt get the benifits :(
BigSadEnjoyer
believe it or not the racial disparity in class wasnt as bad before the 1930s/1940s. poor whites and poor blacks lived pretty similar quality of life. then the New Deal came out with all this investment into working class families and it was only given to white families and lifted tons of white families out of poverty and just left the black families in ghettos in cities.

thats why I am very pro reperations there are people who are still alive today who were denied these federal home loans and they should be able to sue for the racist denial of these benefits that tons of white families are still benefiting from today int he forst generational wealth
weather
oops! it's all racism again
weather
the smartest thing rich fucks did was turn the class war into a million other identity wars based on race or gender or whatever the fuck
weather
too busy fighting one another to start kicking shit upwards at the people who hold power to make changes
oops haha i was talking about all leftwing people... my mistake....
BigSadEnjoyer
A time will come when things get so bad they cant hide anymore.
>>98023
BigSadEnjoyer
I wonder if 30 years from now people will take about the united healthcare CEO assassination as a focal point of history where people started literally becoming so frustrated and angry that they started just commiting acts of terrorism to dismantle that corporate stranglehold
>>98024
weather
>>98021
#this (SO much fucking this)
BigSadEnjoyer
I think its a problem to say rich fucks though because lots of people are considered "rich" but they arent the people who are the problem. like if someone has 2 million dollars they arent really living much different from people who make 200 grand USD a year. the problem is the giga million/billionaires who literally control the entire government.

the problem is corporations, which have all the rights of humans PLUS more but are procedurally generated entities with no morality, ethics or constraints in the evil they will inflict on the world in pursuit of infinite growth. people being wealthy or being able to get wealthy isnt the problem. the problem is corporations have the rights to destroy the planet and society to make line go up and the fact that its leadership is LEGALLY required to participate in this process even if they themselves have something like a conscious.
>>98029
weather
good point.......... important to be specific rather than broad
weather
corporations as analogy to a cancer hmmmmmmmmmmm
weather
>>98025
strong agree that a lot of the problem comes from megacorps whose sole purpose is to extract value and give it to shareholders.... i guess it's a natural consequence of centralising power and wealth like that, you succeed in a capitalist world where money is king so you want to "succeed" and win the game even MORE
BigSadEnjoyer
modern economics is actually starting to realize that there is no way to prevent monopolization in an unregulated economy and it doesnt have a solution to RETVRN to a time when competition actually existed.
BigSadEnjoyer
I think if there is a single policy I could implement, like if you came to me and said make a law you can make one law:

Foreign entities can own no property. Foreign individuals can own a max amount of individual properties with a hard cap on the amount of acreage.
>>98033
weather
forcefully breaking up monopolies seems like a good idea, if only as a stopgap before corps just make a bunch of shell companies and split themselves up like horcruxes or w/e
weather
>>98031
would stop one country seeing another as an investment opportunity for limited resource of land
BigSadEnjoyer
cost of living is 1 to 1 tied with foreign ownership.
>>98035
weather
>>98034
as in.... more foreign owners make cost of living go up?
BigSadEnjoyer
yes.
BigSadEnjoyer
Foreign owners make giant holding companies that own literally the majority of habitable buildings and then turn them all to air bnbs that dont have long term tenants and no one has anyone to live anymore
BigSadEnjoyer
thats why NYC banned all air bnbs and other such types of companies but its a drop in the bucket. foreign owned real estate conglomerates have so much market control they can price fix and artificially raise rent prices to the maximum amount possible and they will make more money by haveing 30% of their properties unooccupied by rent them all for triple what they are worth. its just monopoly power and its all due to foreign real estate investment.
>>98043
weather
minmaxing rent gains seems evil and bad
weather
i don't like what airbnbs have become, but the concept seems good... as u say, without some kind of limit it just becomes a game to make fuckloads of money from limited land
BigSadEnjoyer
the problem is megacorps not airbnbs themselves xD
BigSadEnjoyer
the real estate megacorps will make more money to turn half a city into airbnbs than just have decent rental spaces that are well managed and fulfill all the rights tenents have. so they choose the option thats MORE MONEY and then the cities literally go into a death spiral (see LA, san francisco, san diego)
>>98044
weather
>>98038
keeping properties empty is fucking EVIL and i don't like it
not developing a property or renting it or selling it, and that being THE MOST ECONOMICAL CHOICE, is fucked up
it's land tax time!!!!!!!! get land taxed!!!!!!
weather
>>98042
much easier to make rich cunts pay for 30% of ur properties than actually make livable spaces for the majority of people (yucky ewww)
BigSadEnjoyer
under Biden there was actually a bunch of lawsuits by the federal government against real estate companies that exist purely for land owners to price fix. essentially the reccomend how much rent you should charge for your property and let you see what all the other renters in network are charging. that way if the price starts going up you can know to raise your price. but problem is the price NEVER goes down so all that happened was the company was used by real estate monopolies to trick independent landlords into raising their prices so they dont compete with them.
>>98047
BigSadEnjoyer
and they have proof they lied about land value and manipulated the data landlords saw to try to make them charge what was convenient for the monopolies
>>98049
weather
>>98045
very sneaky.... abusing the common greed of people to want to get the most value for their properties.....
BigSadEnjoyer
yea its a way of attaching what should be the "free market" to the monopolies power allowing them to capture the entire market
weather
>>98046
even worse lol, just straight up rigged shit!!! evil!!!!
BigSadEnjoyer
insanely evil. and guess who runs the monopolies? foreign investment groups who have no interest in keeping american cities liveable
>>98052
weather
>free market
>look inside
>rigged
weather
>>98050
if anything it's in other counties' interests to destroy a world power like america by making big cities unlivable and unproductive....
weather
i'm generally not a fan of the "foreigners are the real evil" but i would certainly agree that if your country contains land (it does) then your country should be the one that decides what to do with that land, not other people, not other countries
weather
if someone came into my house and said my bathroom was theirs now because they owned a majority share in some corporation i'd never heard of, i would be mad
weather
i need a place to SHIT dammit
BigSadEnjoyer
I think every country should prioritize their citizens prosperity over other countries every time, and that should be true of every level of government. Look out for the people you represent. And then every level government is protecting the level below them. The problem is when the highest tiers of government get infiltrated for private interest which is true of every form of government thats ever existed ever.
>>98057
weather
>>98056
taking care of ur own is like the basic principle of running a government, yes yes yes......
BigSadEnjoyer
unironically kind of support the tik tok ban but it should apply to everything lmao.
>>98063
weather
yeah i was sad that it was instantly reverted and basically just a pr stunt for the incoming trump
weather
the poor proles had to go 12 hrs without their slopfeed.......
BigSadEnjoyer
I dont have a problem with tik tok, I dont use it, but I do think governments should be wary about foreign owned megacorps operating and lobbying in their country.
BigSadEnjoyer
Unfortunately corrupt politicians dont really care who the bribes come from.
>>98064
anon
>>98058
kinda agreed and there should be a ban on any media outlet getting too big or having too centralized control
>>98066
weather
>>98062
#this the issue is doing whatever makes the most money (easy to measure), rather than whatever makes the most goodness in ur people (hard to measure)
BigSadEnjoyer
I think there will eventually be a paradigm shift where the value of labor gets so low due to technilogical innovation that we have to build some form of universal income benefit or unemployed hordes of dispossed people will literally just become an occupying army that tear everything down because its that or starve to death
>>98068
weather
>>98063
i guess when a corp is so big and you say "no no naughty, go get smaller and break up now" it's kinda hard to say what parts of it should be made smaller... like so many anti-monopoly rulings seem to be about preventing mergers, cause it's clear that corpA + corpB is too strong, but if a single corp is already too big??? do you just tell em to fire a bunch of people??
BigSadEnjoyer
I support microsoft buying blizzard because I hope microsoft runs all these IPs I love better than blizzard lole
weather
>>98065
cost of labour will certainly get much much lower as other countries rape africa again into becoming the new china
and brazil and india and china again
BigSadEnjoyer
More that like modern manufacturing continues to improve. most people think like "industrialization" is an event that happened and hte modern factory was invented. but modern factories factually use less and less and less people. factories that had 400 people in 1985 use 50 people now.
weather
a i c, more the techno-futurist kinda vibes where u say "tea early grey hot" in a british accent and the computer does it and doesn't even make fun of you for it
weather
ai revolution time wheeeeeee yippeee wahoooo

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