MercuryUprising @ MercuryUprising @lemmy.world

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Asians tend to be extremely conservative, particularly Chinese immigrants. They grew up in an authoritarian world, and view the progressive policies of the West as antithetical to their own. They don't care if Trump is a racist, or blames them for the Kung Flu, because he represents their views on what a government should be.

Stop calling them conservatives. This level of ultranationalism has fascist written all over it.

The both sides message is particularly insidious because it takes a real criticism and then equates it with something that is potentially much worse. It does nothing but limit options, and breeds nihilistic cynicism and nothing more. The worst part about it is that it is based on an absolute lie: the idea of both sides being the same doesn't make any fucking sense, because in this world nothing is the same. If it was the same, it wouldn't need to have a distinction. It's an argument against progress, and therefore a wholly conservative viewpoint in that it states that rather than choosing the best of the two options to not bother at all. To stay the same, or even revert.

It's totally dystopian and reminds me of Russian propaganda, which is designed to erode faith in everything, so that the people in power can make the decisions while the people feel helpless.

You could have Trump come out and say it to him directly and he wouldn't believe it anyways. Your friend chooses to believe what they believe the way a fanatic believes in their delusions. It only serves to reaffirm their belief structure, and nothing else. If Trump pulled a 180 tomorrow, these people would simply claim that he has been brainwashed or that he's a paid imposter, or anything else.

They are aggressively stupid. They would rather take the whole ship down with them, than admit they might be wrong.

It's true, you get microtransactions for everything these days. I pay a fee (technically I don't get a discount) because I told my cell phone provider to stop sending me spam multiple times a week. I'd rather pay the couple bucks per month extra then have to deal with that bullshit.

You just need to do more drugs

I dunno about all that. He wasn't exactly a beacon of intellectualism when he was young either.

uh.. what?

The song was basically a diss track aimed at DMX among others. Not sure if you were being sarcastic and knew that, but just in case you didn't. The previous section of the verse is "Motherfuck D, Motherfuck M"

Watch Niger descend into total degeneracy sponsored by Russian meddling. Way to fuck yourselves and your entire country over for years to come.

"Only X I know is Xzibit or RBX " - Kurupt, Calling Out Names

I'm swinging back in the other direction and refusing to serve rednecks and people with navy suits and red ties.

Have you seen how much sugar those hicks put into their tea though? It's gotta be hot because they put coca cola grade amounts of sugar, to the point where it wont dissolve in the water anymore. Sweet tea contains 36-38 grams of sugar per 16 oz. That's a fucking soft drink.

It should be taxed on the corporate side. Taxing sugar on the consumer side becomes a poor tax, because poor people will still want sweets from time to time, making those treats now more and more expensive. Well off people will just accept the tax because it's marginal to them, but when your chocolate bar that you treat yourself to once a week goes from 1.29 to 3.29, then it really fucks your day up.

What should be done is incentives to provide less sugar/glucose-fructose on the product side and encourage companies to make snacks and beverages that have less sugar content.

It's honestly right in everyone's face and yet mentioning it people will act like it's some sort of fringe conspiracy. No, motherfucker. It's their policy. They're open about it and they leave a paper trail.

He's showing us how much smarter he is than the rest of us and why he deserves the billions he has.

Is daddy what he calls Grimes?

Wannabe dictator acts like a giant crybaby and tries to get attention, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

Pakistan is in the bag