None of the west’s enemies are afforded the same generosity. Maybe we don’t want the majority of guests to be a bunch of mindless parrots who only care about human rights when mainstream media from “their side” tell them to care (as an excuse to project power globally). It ends up permeating all discussions, even ones that aren’t directly about politics and you end up building an echo chamber. It shapes how you see the world, for example, you took a post talking specifically about western leadership to be about “convicting all of western civilization” as if the victim of the genocide is actually the west.

I dunno, apparently someone can support a genocide and still be considered a good guy these days.

Both. It’s kind of like asking if monarchy is the problem or if the problem is just evil kings. Theoretically even a dictatorship can work out well for the people given a benevolent dictator. The issue is with the vulnerabilities inherent in the system. For capitalism, it’s that those with more money have more influence and thus it creates a feedback loop where those with more money have more power to get themselves more money and therefore more power and so on.

What the smurf?!

I’ve been shrimping for decades with minimal back pain so I think I’m doing something right.

Because of lower ping?

Election funds will be all spent then.

That intermediate step is amongus sitting down.

Right above the US are much greener provinces which also aren’t individual countries.

This is fake but it makes me wonder if someone has used a fake profile (that is set up to be more appealing than they actually are) so they could “swoop in” by pretending to notice they were “stood up”.

Worse, based on trends over the last couple decades.

You mean like how the comment you responded to is one of the most upvoted comments on this post?

You’ve got the smug know-it-all liberal schtick down perfect.

Sometimes I just want a sweet apple without the tart and for that SugarBee is perfect. In fact, that may be what the person I responded to was looking for.

but have you tried fuji apples? Pink lady? SugarBee? Cosmic crisp?