Pastaguini [he/him] @ Pastaguini @hexbear.net

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Looks like they did.

Not to be a Reddit “This!” guy but I came to this comment section to make this post almost verbatim.

Biden: “i didn’t bring any piss this year” Rest of the speech bubbles: remain unchanged

I’ve seen this stupid comic a million times but it never occurred to me to actually look it up. So I did. Turns out there’s like a million of these comics. You might enjoy this one.

She absolutely would. She did well at a job once in wine sales because she was good at getting people excited about the different types of wine. Ultimately she was let go because she kept getting things wrong (couldn’t remember the country of origin, type of wine, what it paired with, etc) and would make things up on the spot. Customers caught on and complained. But everything up to that point went well.

I think she was trying to say she wants to replace physical currency with Bitcoin so we can end the constant scourge of oafish, clumsy uncles allowing family fortunes to fall into the hands of miserly local slumlords.

I did not have a raging political discussion, however I did have my sister, who considers herself a leftist but probably doesn’t know who Marx was, attempt to express her extremely vibes-based politics in entertaining ways. She showed up to our dinner late and extremely high. A family friend of ours came for dinner who is from South America and is extremely cool, often regaling us with stories of El Salvador and Chile in the 60s. She’d fit in on the site. She brought up Allende and my sister rolled her eyes and said that he was just like “every other mediocre white man who is overconfident”. I asked her why she felt that way and she said she was “just kidding”. I later brought up the book the Jakarta Method and my sister said that “what is happening in Jakarta and the other places in Africa is terrible on both sides”. She then said she’s in favor of the rest of the world adopting the American dollar because it would be “more socialist”.

The subject of the CIA came up in the context of intervention in South America, and my sister related it to the CIA distributing crack in American inner cities in the 80s. This stood out to me simply because I was surprised she knew about it. She then talked about the healing power of psychedelic medicine for about forty five minutes.

Later on, we watched Its A Wonderful Life, which she said was “a good argument for why we need to replace capitalism with Bitcoin” during the scene when Uncle Billy loses the money. I didn’t even ask. I love her and I actually do think her heart is basically in the right place but she’s like a random number generator and seems to invent her completely incoherent world view as she goes along. I’ve thought about recommending at least some theory but I kind of think she’s happier and pretty much harmless in her mind castle.

The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun

This person is supposed to be a professional writer.

Why is the word money in quotation marks

They’re joking

No. I think a lot more people on the right were excited about him when he was an unknown quantity. Now that they’ve seen him in office and none of what they wanted happened (no wall, no Hillary arrest) a lot of the energy has diffused and the election is going to be decided by middle - upper class suburban whites who crave normalcy. I lived in Florida in 2016 and everywhere you looked there were trump flags, trump merchandise, etc. I just drove across the country and saw like three trump signs, one in Indiana, one in Kansas, and one in Colorado, and the one in Colorado just said, “thank you for trying to make our country great again”. Loser shit. The energy just isn’t there.

Also consider the shifting demographics. A lot of older people who tend to vote republican died of Covid these last few years while a lot of young people who grew up on anti-trump media and naturally skew left are entering voting age. There are some right wing young people but not a ton, especially compared to previous generations.

We might not have another republican president for a few election cycles. I think when we eventually do, it’ll be a young, savvy politician who doesn’t talk about culture war stuff as much but “just wants to keep taxes low and put America first”, like a further right Pete buttigieg. The current strategy of latching into divisive culture war stuff isn’t working. They want to recreate 2016 but 2016 was such a one in a million aligning of specific conditions that it’s unlikely to work again, even with bidens falling approval ratings due to unpopular support of Israel.

How long before western liberals claim that it was actually the soviets who did the Holocaust all along?

At what point would this have even happened? It had to have been when hitler was a child because he espoused anti semitism pretty much his whole life, but why would a random Muslim guy in Germany instruct a random child to kill the Jews? This makes no sense.

This exact talking point has been popular with Europeans for centuries and centuries at this point. It’s just as steeped in racist orientalism today as it was in pre-industrial Western Europe.

My apartment building is requiring us to pay $30 for an app to allow us to continue parking in the garage, which we already pay $75 a month for. The entire American experience is just a continuous process of being hit with random fees and charges that only exist to further pad margins. I didn’t get the app and my car got towed from a spot I pay on time each month to have. It cost me $375 to retrieve my car. All for parking in a spot I pay for.

When I worked retail one time a woman, probably in her 50s, started yelling at me because we were out of something. She demanded to know my name and I told her (it's a Biblical name) and suddenly she calmed down. She thought that I was sent by God because of my name. I actually ended up being able to find a suitable replacement and she cried tears of joy. It was a package of bedsheets.

My older Cuban relatives were staying with us in NY the month of September 2001 from Havana. We actually took them to the World Trade Center a few days prior to the attacks. My principle memory of 9/11 was them laughing and celebrating and my dad getting mad at them.

I never knew that, so thanks for letting me know, but be that as it may, there exists far less car dependent infrastructure in China. In America, that giant car is your only option. In China, you usually have way more sustainable options, which we see reflected in their lower carbon emissions per capita.