i’m your stereotypical reddit trio: tech, politics & shiposting/memes so i do communities like badposting or us news & politics and linux and i prefer these over the alternatives because of the engagement.

americans & proper grammar/punctuation don’t mix. lol

i would edit my timeline to change things pertaining to my homosexuality: namely avoiding entering my marriage that doma forced me to dissolve and avoiding permanent debt in student loans that dadt forced me to take on; both were a heavy & permanent detrminents to my financial future.

i’m living your preferred alternate timeline and i can assure that things REALLY sucked for people like me so the thought of someone else desiring it blows my mind.

i think maybe i could see it if i were a little bit older so that i could have enjoyed the liberalism of the 70’s; but then the hiv/aids scare would have impacted me even more than it already did.

i don’t bother to simplify it even though i probably should since people hate it so much they try to take their anger out on me.

Born too soon to be a gay space pirate.

if it happens like it does in the expanse; we’ll all be incidentally bi because of polyamory and bigamy. lol

OF COURSE there would be theater queens among the groups then. lol

this is like shrodinger’s immigrant: both lazy and taking all the jobs at the same time

you’re not far off that musk is pro-oligarchy; but framing it as american, russian, or chinese both misses reality and attests to the effectiveness of american propaganda

so he’s pro russia, china, and america at the same time?

I’m sure it’s going to be worse for my nieces and closeted nephew (assuming that my gaydar is correct).

I used to think it sucked having conservative Mexican parents; but maga parents are on a whole other level of worse.

My family is exactly like this and my sister keeps her distance and advised me to do the same.

I petulantly refused and got it rubbed in my face 15 years later when I saw the trump flags flying outside their homes during Xmas. I have no intentions in seeing any of them ever again.

youtube is like all heavily backed social media platforms and legacy media; you’re wasting your time is you want something other than bickering or propagandized information.

yes and i suspect that it’s only a matter of time and i’m pessimistic atm because that scale of that time is in centuries like it was for the irish and canada’s first nations.

the unrest will pervade the americas for a very long time given the nature of the natural boundaries and trade traffic through this side of the planet; only periodically quelled by the american military like the ancient egyptians did with their own military and people in the centuries immediately after the bronze age collapse.

the nations the furthest from this declined empire’s imperial core will be the first to shake off the grip and it will cascade; but i suspect that the countries nearest it (both geographically and economically) will be stuck the longest, if not permanently through induced culture change or war.

yes and i bet that’s why my gov’t is responding w the military in peru and i expect that they will do the same w mexico; it’ll be an military iron fisted death grip intended to destroy any attempts at creating an economy through any alternatives like english did to irish. the canadians tried to do something similar to their first nations; but public sentiment changed enough to force them to reverse course and something like this is latin america’s only hope no matter how rich or powerful china gets.

yes, but temporarily so as evidenced by americans actions in south america and africa.

we have a history of making people like leopold blush in our drive towards resource extraction in the global south and the people in peru, ecuador & the congo are about the experience the most modern, painful, and quick version of it because of this.

i had the same thought when i saw the chinese limit gallium and other mineral exports.

We’re already starting to forget about Luigi; I doubt liberals care after another minute.

– or south korea

aka: the same things that effects everybody’s outcomes.