That’s a MAGA thing

I know it’s an increasingly unpopular take and

Every day the ring is passed to the next person in the rotation, out in the open and acknowledged by all. The new bearer has to pledge, "I definitely will not be a punk-ass bitch and try to keep the ring, and I promise to suck everyone’s cock if I do. "

Instead of “China is not trying to oppress its citizens” it’d be more accurate to say that China is not in the state of advanced decline that requires [as much] oppression of its citizens to maintain power and control. Everything else, unfortunately, is spot on.

Even left as-is, it’s a far cry from “intentional propaganda”. What motive would there even be to spread such? Do you imagine hordes of self-hating Americans, Chinese bots and shills, and China stans are behind every post that criticizes the U.S. and praises China? Or that someone somehow managed to “brainwash” a significant portion of the population into believing complete fabrications and/or turning their allegiance to China?

The reality is that most people have a far easier time believing pleasant fictions and ignoring inconvenient facts than they do swallowing their pride and conceding to an enemy. On the Internet it’s pretty much everyone, and the rare exceptions must be eradicated. Case in point.

“Probably”? Can someone point me in the direction of something slightly more conclusive? Cuz it could be that… but I could totally also believe that it’s chemicals and shit in our food and environment.

So you’re saying he’s really really ugly

These are the moments you live for.

If Chuck Schumer placed I would know that the end is nigh.

Check out revanced.app. You’re welcome.

Chill dude. I’m saying that there are jobs that employ people who often have a criminal history, and gaps in their employment record really often are because tey went to jail.

So, even though you may not interview very many former criminals in your line of work, surely you shouldn’t be at a loss to understand why anyone would ever think that.

Man, you must live a privileged life if it didn’t even cross your mind that jobs might exist where that is a legitimate concern.

I believe this is the best answer.

I wasn’t trying to be serious, if that wasn’t clear.

With literally no communication, that student has bigger things to worry about than grades, like why are Mommy and Daddy shutting me out?

If teachers refers to our current style of teaching in public education, then maybe.

Japan is such an anomaly. They are certain ways that don’t exist anywhere else, that would be impossible anywhere else. If Japan didn’t exist, I wouldn’t have believed it could.

Also they’ve been paying for stuff with their phones for years and years—on exactly what basis are they a cash society (though there’s nothing wrong with that)?

!mediashare@lemmy.world

No. Trump is categorically not even close to Bush or Clinton or Reagan—but that’s just my opinion. I think it’s rather you that needs to get off your high horse for behaving like a perfect hypocrite.

Try to be less combative next time and it might result in an actual adult conversation instead of the aftermath of an adolescent hormone spike

What a cringe take.

So if the argument were about whether a license was important, in the general case, as a selling pointl for books, I would have no choice but to concede.