I had a Soviet watch for a while, but the winding mechanism got a little stripped or something and I couldn’t find a jeweler who knew how to repair it or even where to get replacement parts. So that’s something to keep in mind if you want a Soviet watch.

You’re going to find a lot of punk bands that would fit your preferences. Try checking out smaller punk bands on Bandcamp.

One of my favorites is G.L.O.S.S.

Their music was great although they’ve all moved on to other projects. Good anti-capitalist, anti-fascist punk rock made by trans women. Truly punk music in that they made only two albums that add up to less than 20 minutes, got contacted by a big record label, then decided to break up instead of compromising their own values.

I refuse to use any gaming guides that don’t have cool ASCII art at the top

The canteen item’s description in that game says it has a bunch of filters that turn water into Monster. I’ve always found that funny, like you stand in a river full of perfectly good water and your scifi thingie turns it into green bro-juice

One of these people has a Pulitzer

The moon is covered in cheese you goofus

not when i’m done with it

If I remember right one of their primary sponsors is the heiress to the Getty oil family.

The Internet was always reactionary like this. I think people who are nostalgic for a more innocent internet must have been children in 2007 or something.

Yeah American Catholics are largely distinct based on race and income from what I’ve noticed. Wealthy white Catholics have basically nothing in common with poor Latino Catholics other than supposedly the same religion

France is currently trying to ban Muslim children from going to school so clearly something went awry

Yeah that’s not true, Louisiana is mostly protestant. It’s had the national average of Catholics (around 21%) for decades now.

I think Louisiana just has larger numbers of white Catholics than other states.

A lot of this rhetoric only ever works when people have never encountered nor will ever encounter a trans person. Trans people aren’t real to a lot of Americans. There’s very little visibility or understanding. You ask a person to name someone trans and the only name they’ll have is maybe Caitlyn Jenner. They might know Lia Thompson or Chelsea Manning if they’re slightly more tuned in.

But most Americans still haven’t encountered trans people in their daily lives, it’s a pure abstract concept. It’s all imaginary mind palace games, so of course it’s gonna get couched in pseudoscience terms.

The average American probably can’t describe the difference between a drag queen and a trans woman, by the way. It’s all considered the same thing. I’m personally a non-binary agender person who prefers she/they pronouns while also preferring to present masculine, so imagine how they’d interpret any of that.

Yeah Beto has also been vocally anti-Israel lately as well, but he’s also not had any hope of a legitimate political career lately. That can’t be making him friends with Democrats. He kept losing every race he was involved in, so the donors dried up.

Also in the 2020 primary there were so many candidates he had to pigeon-hole himself to one particular issue to be notable, he tried being the anti-gun guy. He did the thing Democrats aren’t supposed to do which is confirm what Republicans think of them. Democrats are usually more submissive and conciliatory to Republicans. When accused of being anti-gun Democrats are supposed to be like “oh well uh, well, yeah you’re right mr. republican we should still protect the blah blah.” Instead Beto was outright saying “yeah we are coming for your guns, no one needs an assault rifle” and that probably didn’t make him friends among the rich donor class who actually control everything

They went with Biden because they simply don’t have anyone left

yeah the average person looks at Pete and visibly recoils in disgust. He’d be a Democrat version of DeSantis. He does well to his specific crowd, white comfortable nerds who work at Deloitte, but everyone else just sees a robotic weird rat man. Horrendous vibes emanate from him.

I mean I wouldn’t put it past the democrats to put their chips behind him, but normal people see his entire vibe as fake corporate mandatory fun overly sentimental nothingness. He’s a physical manifestation of Patrick Bateman. People don’t look at Pete and see themselves, they look at Pete and see their weirdest supervisor at work. They see debate club nerds who they used to bully. They see a guy who would have worn a bow tie to elementary school

Who? Is this one of those rappers or streamers you kids are always talking about

just do like the rest of us and study Althusser in the original French, that should cause enough pain

or I don’t know, build a ship in a bottle

i think it’s just easier to do content moderation on websites and stuff on TV/movies has become more keen on scrubbing slurs, so it’s seemed like slurs have been less normalized, maybe?

in daily life I haven’t noticed any drop in slur usage since the 90s. People will still call stuff gay or homo in a negative way. I’ve had the homophobic f-word slur screamed at me by passing cars a few times while on my bike. My coworkers will let loose any number of slurs that they claim to not even realize are slurs, mostly the homophobic or transphobic kind.

Yeah and white people absolutely will say the n-word when they think they’re in private company. I’ve had taxi drivers say it to me since they see a white person and think they can relax their language around me. I used to work at a grocery store around 2014 and older customers would regularly complain about prices and say “that n-word is making the prices higher” (referring to obama), like right at me at the register.

The USA is a fascist country and every new person I meet is regarded as a potential reactionary until proven otherwise. I put elderly white people under the most scrutiny. Explicitly, outwardly queer/trans people are the only types I feel really comfortable with anymore

a person I talked to once said they couldn’t listen to Chapo because of all the slurs and I can only believe people get it confused with cumtown

unless they’re talking about slurs for italians

yeah good luck lmao

Even Israel thinks it’s still 1982. Like I don’t even know what Iran would do at this point. They’re one of Hezbollah’s major allies. The telegraphed missile barrage was really out of character for Iran who typically tries to play it cool.

Israel is having a hard enough time fighting ragtag Al-Qassam militants with homemade RPGs. Hezbollah actually has funding and infrastructure. They have technical trucks and artillery. Why would Israel try to do this? Do they really need this much of a reality check? Maybe they’re stuck in 2006 where Israel kept indiscriminately shooting civilian targets in Lebanon to the point Hezbollah got justifiably terrified of just how evil Israel could be, so they called for a ceasefire after a month.

How would it go over if Israel tries to do the 2006 Lebanon war again? Like with cluster munitions and white phosphorous launched at civilians. Am I gonna be reading “Hezbollah also hiding behind human shields”?