Poutine_And_Politics [he/him]

I wanna say Hollow Knight but I'm too slow for it and it keeps kicking my ass.

But play Hollow Knight anyway it's one of the most gorgeous games I've played.

In the book they also imply that North Korea ripped the teeth out of all their citizens so that, when they inevitably turned, they couldn't bite people.

The stance is what gets me. It's some fucken weird jazz hands slash gameshow host thing and it looks so goddamn weird. Mixed in with this fake smile that doesn't reach the eyes. Man. Imagine putting your life on the line for this half-melted Madam Tussaud's wax sculpture of a failson.

Sounds about white.

Worse still is that a lot of kids like this grow up to not only hate and resent their parents, but will either mirror their parents' parenting when they have kids - continuing a cycle of abuse - or will overcorrect and become a helicopter parent. There's this weird, perfect balance to maintain between letting someone fail, and teaching them how to succeed.

Literally bookmarked that to send to people who just parrot that shit over and over.

I would fucken love to but I can't even lift 10 lbs let alone my 300lb ass for any kind of pushup, modified or otherwise.

6 additional CVs off the top of my head. If India and Thailand are considered allies (I sincerely don't know anymore who is and isn't), 8. Which yes, means 3 aircraft carriers (2 Chinese, 1 Russian) out of 22 int he entire world are not allied to the US.

The US has 11 aircraft carriers. The entire rest of the entire fucking planet has a combined total of 11.

The US has as many aircraft carriers as the entire fucking world combined. It's incomprehensible.

some passages and chambers large enough to accommodate tanks and vehicles advanced network of cave tunnels and passageways there have been reports that bin Laden has been moving around the area on horseback

Love how they think he'd managed to build this absurd 1,000 person cave complex that can have vehicles and tanks drive through it, but this MFer was vibing around on horseback. Amazing.

Considering every other comment on that Voat thread includes the anti-semetic K-slur, yes.

It's almost exactly a George Lucas scenario where she started writing Fantastic Beasts and was never told "no" so instead of a coherent plot and extended storyline we get uh, one movie about this rando going to New York to find a monster, and one movie about Wizard Hitler wanting to kill all non-wizards so the Holocaust and the atom bombs/cold war never happen while also having this weird like, three way whodunnit about a baby? Fantastic Beasts 2 was a fucken trip.

80% of Canada is situated entirely around the Lake Ontario shoreline and Vancouver. Want to move outside of the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal island, or Vancouver? Hope you like no real job prospects that aren't heavy industry and construction jobs! Sure, it's cheap as shit to live in like, Sudbury, or Regina, or wherever the fuck, but good luck having an actual job.

Honestly I thought just the audio was bad but man the followup is even worse holy shit.

"We can build a new administration that reflects the full diversity of our nation. The full diversity of Latino communities. And when I mean full diversity, unlike the African American communities and many other communities, you're from everywhere."

How is this man the harm reduction candidate lol

My favourite Joe Biden quirk is that he's absolutely and utterly incoherent like 90% of the time, and kinda has this meandering old grandpa tone when he talks... unless he's talking about black folks or progressives, at which point he sounds genuinely enraged, and also manages to be extremely coherent.

Real talk:

Like, I know it's completely possible to visit North Korea, but literally everything I read about it has the exact same shit going on - about how it's forbidden to ask questions, to walk around outside of the very narrow tour guided segments, about how you run the risk of being detained and tortured for random reasons and shit like that.

Is there a way to actually visit North Korea without immediately getting on The List and also not as part of one of these tour groups that's likely grifting the fuck out of things? The place fascinates me, but between the outside propaganda and the seemingly only way to visit looking like the biggest possible grifts around, I dunno.

Yeah probably, until the US flexes its muscle and gets the entire world to sanction China's economy. Which of course would harm the workers in the countries doing the sanctions that rely on this kind of stuff, but hey, nobody gives a shit about them right?

I mean I'm sure China would be a-okay with it. Being able to convert the facilities they use to mass produce Western goods and turn their attention inwards could work out for them.

Yeah, probably. That's kinda the most terrifying thing about the assassination of Solemani under the Trump admin. At any time, for any reason, in any nation on the planet, the US can annihilate someone - and there's no recourse. No nation can take the US in a stand-up war. No nation can take it on in an economic sanction battle. You just gotta let it happen and wait for it to collapse on its own.

I love how these articles don't point out that having this kind of lifestyle is also only accessible to the rich. Anyone else getting up at 4:30am for work probably dragged their ass into bed sometime around 10pm, exhausted and just finished cleaning the house from dinner and maybe having an hour or two to chill. They're then going to scarf down a bagel and burnt coffee before stumbling onto a bus at 5:15am, or maybe be lucky enough to get in a car and commute for an hour just to get to the office. These rich fucks who get up at 4:30 to do yoga and slam down green drink or whatever the fuck don't ever cook or clean or anything. They can always walk to work because they can afford to live wherever they please. They've not gotta deal with their own kids, or fuck all else.

Being rich means you literally have more time and fuck I can't stand it.

On the other hand, “welp, looks like another case of projection from the anti-gay crowd” often veers into “haha that dude’s totally gay but it’s woke to weaponize sexual orientation as an accusation when I’m accusing some chud of projection” territory. And certainly there are plenty of straight folks who are bigoted as well, and turning an environment with rampant homophobia into “probably just another closeted, projecting gay guy” isn’t good.

I've always wondered like... what goes through people's minds with this. Is it just that typical libshit thing of pointing out hypocrisy?

Because I've never seen anyone expand on that. It's just "haha I bet that anti-gay guy is gay" as if... the fact that he's gay is a joke. It's kinda disgusting.