PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other's foreign power.

A man can dream, right?

The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet.

Recognizing that being impoverished in a prosperous and developed country is better than being impoverished in an economically struggling country is not propaganda. America is not the best place to be poor, but it isn't the worst, and the self-pitying idea that being poor in the US is as bad as or worse than being poor in any country is some utterly ignorant shite.

A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met.

Do you really know nothing about living standards in Cuba?

You’re living in a fantasy.

How ironic.

They're not mutually exclusive.

but have you tried being poor in America?

... have you?

Jesus Christ.

I live well-under the poverty line. It's bad. I also know it's nowhere near as bad as an average existence in Cuba.

Read up. Read personal accounts. Check economic statistics.

Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking privileged.

First was in the 20s. Second was the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxI5qQAUWVc

"Racism is recognizing when the PRC does something bad"?

Unsurprising, unfortunately. This remains a deeply racist country.

Wouldn't that be ridiculous

This is one of them classic, body-horror angels

hongry

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ?

but getting mad at them now after you’ve prevented them from doing anything at all just seems petty.

It would seem to be a trend.

They're such adorable little genetic dead-ends!

[Pug noise]

It is a bit disturbing that we bred a dog variant with the ability to scream.

The same kinds of Very Serious Leftists who are now saying spontaneous revolutionary action is the only solution that is acceptable.

I remember constant complaints of "The Dems didn't even TRY anything, they should have proposed bills even if they knew it would fail!" before the second Trump presidency.

Now it seems the chorus has changed to "I can't believe they're trying something they know will fail!"

Curious.

no you dumb fuck: this is a physical act that carries a symbolic significance.

"My useless symbolic action will make the masses Rise Up(tm), while THEIR useless symbolic action won't!"

👏

just fuck off and say you’re a coward and violence isn’t the answer blah blah liberal nonsense fuck you.

Sorry that I find the idea that Congressmembers brawling will help our situation at all risible.

You want to use violence as the answer to this question, get real about it, not asking clerks and octogenarians to get into slapfights in the halls of Congress on your behalf in the strange hope that it'll cause a mass uprising wherein you won't have to lift a finger.

oh it wouldn’t!

So, “They’re pandering to the wrong people; I want them to pander by doing different useless symbolic actions.”

So you agree with my comment you originally objected to. Good. Glad we're in agreement.