Seems to me like a critique in reverse about sex in regards to women’s anatomy. I like it.

Chef’s kiss that his rank was Stabschef and he died on the night of the long knives

Great post. Thanks a lot.

I’m not from the US, but I’ve had similar experiences in half a dozen or so countries all over the world. I couldn’t even imagine my life if I’d never moved away from where I was raised, nor do I ever wish to go back to that time or place. The world is so goddamn full of excitement and opportunities. I never tire of new experiences.

I may get responses to this post saying “must be nice to be rich,” but I was raised poor. I literally just got on a plane after giving away whatever was in my apartment. A day later I was working a job making the equivalent of 300 usd a month and having a fucking blast. I met my future life partner quite literally the next day.

I have so many good friends from my childhood who are drowning in money or stress issues, yet when I try to entice them to make a significant change, each of them finds reasons why it’s “impossible” while continuing to complain about their lives. What I’ve come to realize is actually impossible is convincing anyone to step outside their comfort zone.

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Exactly. What’s new here is not the anti-democratic imperialism, that’s for sure.

How is this not the top comment?

This is glorious and I’m convinced!

The Palestinians have suffered more than enough, and the US is entirely complicit in that suffering already.

Fuck that shit. We don’t want your garbage. That country has already shit on us enough for generations.

Truth. Still, solidarity with Cuba. I hope to be there within the month.

That’s definitely a bonus for them

What what whaaaa??? I thought the US was a force for supreme goodness up until the millisecond that Trump became president.

This was most definitely the turning point. And just who were George Dubya, and Clinton, and Reagan, and Nixon, and goddamn Kissinger, and Robert McNamara, and the Dulles Brothers, and all the slave owners who founded the country?

A shining city upon a hill, manifest destiny, exceptionalism. Well-meaning promoters and protectors of democracy forever and always. Just what would the rest of the world do without you?

/s in case anyone actually needs it.

I run into people all the time who use the term “America” without at all meaning that country wedged between Mexico and Canada. Los Estados Unidos is often how you’ll hear the nation state referred to in Latin America, whereas “America” usually refers to the entire hemisphere.

It always blew my mind that the USA colonized the word America to have it refer only to themselves. How fucking on-brand is that?

I’ll give you this; historically, they’re at least as real as the concept of whiteness.

https://theconversation.com/whiteness-is-an-invented-concept-that-has-been-used-as-a-tool-of-oppression-183387

Fuck, that last bit cracked me up. Consider it stolen.

I fully agree with you, but add the additional point that countries are fictions as well.

You’re making good points and they’re all true, though it just seemed quite coincidental to me that in the exact year that the US drops a lot of support for Ukraine, the EU just happens to be capable of ramping up the funds available to their eastern neighbor.

Thankfully, the EU is not the US, but I still believe that political will has been playing an outsized role until Trump curtailed US support. Of course there’s obstructionist Orbán, at least for now, yet somehow in 2025 the EU still managed to increase their support for Ukraine.

I really hope that continues and even expands. Otherwise it may be dark times ahead for the entire EU, which I don’t want to see.

I see this and my first thought is that Europe could have been doing more the entire time, which would have been in its best interest to do.

That’s not at all to say the US shouldn’t contribute to help their (previous?) allies, but at least the blundering haphazard mad house that is the current White House has accidentally prodded Europe to help itself more.

It’s been said before and worth saying again. Fuck the IOC, and fuck the Olympics. I love that amateur athletes get to shine, but the overt corporatism and lack of respect for local communities makes it quite counter-productive.

When an athletic event is “brought to you by Coca Cola,” I mean, who are we even trying to fool?

Great info. Thanks so much! I’m no defender of Word or of Microsoft, so I’m always on the lookout for alternatives, though Libre Office most often suits my rather simple needs.

A glance at their website says that the data is only stored in Europe, though on Azure servers encrypted at rest to which Microsoft holds the encryption keys. That last bit is an absolute deal-breaker for me.

Zero- knowledge encryption or don’t waste my time. I’m not putting legal/medical/etc docs into the cloud with only a “trust me bro” from the creators of Co-Pilot.