The lack of burgers is a glaring omission.

Elon's Nazi salute could not have been timed better for Xiaohongshu. Days ago, the general view of him on there was still where it was back before he bought Twitter, when people just knew him as the cool science guy who makes rockets like Iron Man. The American users started giving some dirt on him, and then wham, the clip was all over the platform, it got taken down because of the Nazi salute, but you could not have asked for more something more concrete to show them.

My biggest criticism of this game is that you can't throw support Thälmann at the end unless you've put substantial effort into building relations with the KPD. It says something like, "They won't allow us to support them," like what?? Meanwhile, even if the bourgeois parties hate you, you can still support them into government to "maintain stability" while getting nothing in exchange!

I guess if you could simply support Thälmann, it would make stopping Hitler too easy and wouldn't be much of a game.

When you're trying to get every achievement in a single run

My favorite interactions are Chinese users coming up with really obvious solutions, and having to explain how much deeper the problem goes.

"Since your rent is high, why not just build high-rise apartments?" Because if we gave poor people a place to live it would bring down property values and investors and landlords would lose money so it's easier to harass them until they go to the next city and become someone else's problem.

"If you have all these taxes but poor social services, where does all the money go?" Not only does it not go to helping us, it goes towards the military and police who are actively harmful.

"If your groceries are expensive and you have lawns, why don't you just grow your own food?" Well, we should, but if you have a landlord they might not let you.

"Why do you put up with this instead of standing up against the rich?" Hey, you know that Marxist theory that you had to learn in school and thought was super boring? Well, while you were learning that, we're taught that communism is the devil, so instead everybody comes up with their own bizarre explanations of why things suck that usually involve siding with the ruling class against other countries, if not blaming minorities in our own country. And also people are so chauvinistic that they think any problem we have must be even worse everywhere else because "WE'RE #1!"

There so much stuff that I'm not used to explaining because everyone's just internalized the horrors and rationalized them away, and there's also so much stuff I wouldn't be able to say because people run away screaming if you try to apply Marxist framework to things.

There's gotta be a "Oh yeah, the time knife, we've all seen it" meme I can make out of this.

Not everyone is stupid and reactionary in as public a way with as large of a following as that person

They only got that following because of people watching them for the cringe, no? If so many people laugh at someone that they become widely known, it seems kind of circular to say, "Well, since they have a large following it's ok to laugh at them."

There are much more deserving targets imo.

I've been low key critical of it for a long time. No matter how cringe someone is, if it's an ordinary person and they're young, we shouldn't hold onto it for too long. There's some indication it was meant to be ironic from the start too. Either way, plenty of people have cringe politics from when they were young that they'd prefer be forgotten, there's gotta be a statute of limitations on that, right?

Oi! You got a loicence for them flowers?

It's actually a Luigi post

I don't fully understand it, something got lost in translation, but the spirit is there which makes it really funny to me. I looked it up and there's a saying that goes, "Fuck your family back 18 generations" so it might be that fuck got mistranslated or censored into greet. I also wondered if it meant, like, "I'm used to dealing with his type." The way it came out makes it sound like she's some kind of immortal being, like, "I witnessed your great-grandfather's birth, loser" which would be a really funny flex.

Either way, it's like, "I didn't quite get that, but hell yeah sis!"

I couldn't help but think of the stuff people do in The Boys to appease Homelander, it has that whole forced, desperate, cloying tone.

I couldn't resist checking and goddamnit I knew this would happen https://www.treecoin.global/

Shutting down TikTok as a joke wasn't ok.

I always want to do bits about stupid crypto concepts like "TreeCoin! The first cryptocurrency backed by trees!" but it always turns out to actually exist and I've given up hope that I could shitpost hard enough to come up with one that doesn't. I don't even have to look it up to know that something like TreeCoin already exists, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there were ones named after each specific type of tree.

That link isn't working? The community can actually be found here.

"We know this won't make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics," a statement posted to both Willis' and the group's official pages reads. "Our song Y.M.C.A. is a global anthem that hopefully helps bring the country together after a tumultuous and divided campaign where our preferred candidate lost. Therefore, we believe it's now time to bring the country together with music which is why VILLAGE PEOPLE will be performing at various events as part of the 2025 Inauguration of Donald J. Trump."

"Tankies are stupid babies for not voting Democrat."

Hi, my friend said they got a call from you saying you're "all out of me," does that mean that you, uh, sell copies of me here? And how much are they?

EVERYONE SAW MY BEANIS?!?