ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] @ ShimmeringKoi @hexbear.net

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I spent $82 USD on cold, flu and bronchitis treatment last year!

The fact that this is considered expensive there made me do a choking double take in the same way as learning that an actual mansion in the 70s used to cost like 20 grand.

It's surprisingly easy to agitate over there, being a leftist on the western internet and especially reddit is like training your arguing skills in a high-gravity environment. I'm accustomed to maneuvering around such unrelenting hostility that the friendliness of rednote is shocking to me.

Everybody there is so nice

Ostensibly, but if you ask any billionaire about it they'll just suppress a laugh

Medical teams treated 11 people for injuries sustained while running to shelters,

At least a hundred thousand people have been slaughtered, and we're expected to feel bad for 11 settlers who tripped and fell running to their shelters from a single return missile?

Because capital will recuperate any and all critiques of itself no matter how milquetost or fundamental, from Bernie Sanders to the Che Guavara shirt.

In 7th grade another kid ran up and started swinging on my way out the gate after school. Neither of us were competent fighters, so no serious blows were landed by anybody. But I still got suspended for being jumped because, in their exact words, "But what did you do to de-escalate the situation?"

In 5 years:

"Sure diamond is so cheap to make that we can now use it as a building material, but at what cost?"

This affected world-weariness about the tragedy of human nature is a form of ahistorical cope we learn to avoid the pain of acknowledging the amazing progress happening elsewhere while we in the empire are made to wallow in decay. If you point me to any specific problem whatsoever, I will happily trace how the US Cult of Capital either caused it or is making it worse.

The united states is an existential threat to all life on earth, and there can be no peace or security until it is dealt with

In evil badcountry, the regime puts out bounties on heads of state who defy their will

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That tracks, when I saw the footage it seemed more like a bazinga self-funeral pyre than any kind of attack

"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."

It's meaning in abstract is simple, but it's actual manifestations are usually quite complex. Self-censorship for example: If you self-censor out of fear of a negative social reaction, to what degree is that actually someone else stopping you from talking? Everyone else, or the idea of everyone else? I would say that any view that's held by a group of people that's pervasive enough to cause others to calibrate their words towards them, any cultural context strong enough that visitors feel a need to adjust for it, automatically and unconsciously practices censorship.

Damn, that sucks. The users there must be missing out on so many good Luigi memes

What's up with threads?

Lol who are the absolute hall monitors slamming the downdoot button on this one?