I keep cold things or products that are identical or related together most of the time. So all the bags of chips, or all the cans, all the meats, all the frozen stuff, etc.

And I guess like the other guy, I usually stick fragile stuff on one end or the other.

CNN is reporting 40 dead, but that the shooting was at a shopping center outside the concert hall.

In the video I wish I hadn’t just watched it looked more like that to me.

Well, those certainly are some attractive lobes. 😏

The best you can come up with is that they asked him for his tax returns to be mean?

Gestures around

Out of ALL THIS, that (and they should have continued ignoring his fraud) is your example of how the government is attacking him unfairly? A speck of sand compared to a dumptruck full of bullshit?

So, same as usual then.

Plonk.

You’re avoiding the question. Would it be repulsive for abuse survivors to invite her to talk?

Because it’s transparently obvious that you want folks to go “of course that wouldn’t be repulsive” so you can go “AH HA!” when in reality this tortured attempt to equate the two has no value aside from disingenuous rhetorical plays as you are attempting.

I’m just slightly more optimistic about our ability to resist them.

What form would such resistance take if not advocating loudly for defederation?

It’s because the US right will celebrate literally any action that they perceive as working against what they think everyone left of them supports or enjoys. Kyle was a clean cut looking young white man who heroically skirted the edge of laws regarding firearm purchases and visited a town that was not his own where he made sure to keep looking until he find a situation that required him to use his gun. The context was protests fueled by the death of George Floyd and shooting of Jacob Blake at the hands of police.

There were probably folks who literally touched themselves after hearing a red blooded, AR wielding young white man was able to be acquitted of murder after shooting protesters at a BLM protest. On top of that, one of the men had some form of pedophilia in his past, boosting their drumbeat of messaging claiming that folks who support LGBTQ+, and by extension all democrats and leftists, are groomers out to molest kids.

It was a perfect storm of trump supporter daydreams all centered around Kyle Rittenhouse. Folks who buy into all or most of that view are big fans.

Thank you! I didn’t read your links, but I will.

You’re welcome!

But then those last two quotes are pretty bad. Killing Putin or even having Putin do a 180 wouldn’t change anything.

Assassination is never something I advocate, but there are a few world leaders who I would not complain about if natural causes could catch up to them sometime soon.

Thanks for the additional info and feedback. 🙂

You too!

Fair. I suspect it would be interesting to discuss these things with you over a beer, but also that it’s too likely to end up feeling like an argument here, so I won’t press further. Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks!

Fair enough. I don’t believe this is what is happening (“denazifying a NATO-backed neighbor”) and haven’t seen a source suggesting it is that doesn’t itself look like propaganda, but I’m also OK agreeing to disagree on that. I asked only because without further context it seemed like not supporting Putin was a big component of your comment.

I understand your position now, even if we disagree on Putin also.

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

Thanks!

each instance can do its own thing. so its very strange to see people shitting on meta for doing exactly that.

You mean scrubbing mentions of a competitor from their platform? That’s not OK, and it’s an indicator of their future behavior that is very consistent with their past behavior.

this hate-boner everyone gets from the idea of meta on the 'verse is childish.

You are entitled to your opinion. (And so are the folks you think are being childish.)

Eventually I left because their list of blocked instances got too long for my taste.

Ah I didn’t know about this - how can I see that list?