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Cake day: June 6th, 2025

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  • The USSR had socialist in it’s name. The word socialist will always have a connotation of “something to do with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”.

    The German Democratic Republic had the word “Democratic” in its name. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea currently has the word “Democratic” in it. Therefore we can look to those nations for what the word “democratic” means, right?

    Right!?




  • I boycott economically. So I’ll eat a hamburger, but not one from McDonald’s, et al. I’m not even sure what boycotting a culture even means, nor what it would entail and/or accomplish.

    So I don’t buy anything that winds up lining the pockets of Americans. That’s my boycott. This means that, for example, my next smartphone will not be running iOS or Android. It means I don’t go to American chain restaurants or buy brands owned by American companies (even, perhaps especially, if they claim, like a certain famous brand of ketchup in Canada does with its tomatoes, to source the raw materials in the host country). It means that I will not pay to see an American movie, nor to listen to the music of an American band.