Carl [he/him]

He was a communist, Elmo. (positive)

This actually exists, although the most you can do with it is fly around and take measurements, no near-space stations.

lmao that’s great.

One time I asked GLM to run a test on a piece of code, and it wrote a python script that printed “Text Successful!” to the terminal but didn’t actually do anything. These things are so incredibly bad at times.

Nationalize your ports to prevent private foreign companies from buying them.

Okay Russia is understandable cuz they’re in a war, USA understandable cuz they’re saber rattling, but genuinely what is China doing besides minding their own business?

A few years back there was a news cycle where a bunch of western outlets reported on this image of Xi Jinping being served two cups of tea at a Communist Party meeting, generally casting it as some kind of power move, “look at me and how much more important I am than all of you”, type thing. Very similar to the reporting around Donald Trump getting two scoops of ice cream at a White House dinner while demanding that everyone else get one.

Further investigation revealed that this image was taken at the start of a very long Party meeting, which likely explains why Xi felt the need for two drinks, and that furthermore that it has been expected for Party members in China to pay for their own drinks at these meetings since the days of Mao, so the story was a fairly ridiculous mix of projection, Orientalism, sinophobia, and anti-Chinese propaganda, which the OP is invoking for comedic purposes by comparing it with an image of Zelenskyy with two glasses of water in front of him.

With Trayvon it was a random crank who got explicitly told by the 911 operator to stop following him who then went on to change his story about what happened multiple times. Now it’s just standard procedure.

I worry about this shit because my younger siblings are mixed race and about this age. If ICE targeted my city like they’re doing Minneapolis I would tell our parents not to let them go anywhere alone because this could 100% happen to them even though they’re all citizens.

The joker would never.

American spaceflight isn’t going anywhere, it’s just in the process of being privatized.

When it was illegally dissolved the Soviet Union had full employment, healthcare, housing, and a diverse economy powered by high technology wielded by a well educated population. It had problems sure, even Stalin was writing about the economic problems of the Soviet Union before he died, but there is no universe in which the petro and weapons manufacturing state of modern Russia can be considered anything but a world historic failure, a vindication of everything the Soviets did, and a practical demonstration of the efficiency and efficacy of central economic planning.

In short, capitalism works well on paper, but in practice…

break the lever so that it cannot be pulled

there should be a “block instance” option in your settings, though I don’t think that blocks them if they post in a separate instance which is the whole point of the fediverse.

I find it hard to believe that imperial china didnt invade anyone between 598 ad and 1912

lmao okay it took me a minute to figure out, that’s great.

historically accurate Ariel where she’s just a dolphin

It’s always projection. Even if they’re not literally doing the thing that they accuse their opponent of doing yet, the fact that they’re making the accusation reveals their intention.

Ah shit, this means they’re gonna do everything they made up about Xinjiang (if they’re not doing it already at the alligator place)

Should be noted that Europe had commons for hundreds and hundreds of years before they all got enclosured and they managed them just fine with local-level spontaneous democracy.

Also the “tragedy of the commons” as we know it today was invented by a malthusian in the 1960s and everybody who invokes it as an argument against socialism ignores the part of the essay where the author advocates for central planning

Been doing rideshare late at night the last week, holy damn I didn’t realize how bad the public bathroom situation was in my town, and I’ve got a car to hunt for one.

We should genuinely have a public bathroom minimum. You want to run a store in town? You gotta make your bathroom open to the public. Don’t care if the people using it are customers or not.