Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Yeah, that makes it very hard to vote for them, I feel that. But that’s a problem that gets worse by not voting for a democrat.
Republicans have promised to genocide harder and trump has already been coordinating with netanyahu to counter anything that might reduce palestinans deaths.
I don’t like it either but it’s time to be an adult, do the unpleasant thing, and vote for a democrat.
Don’t vote “for/against whoever”. Vote against trump like an adult - that means voting democrat.
Sure, picking between two options that you don’t want is legitimately hard for human brains to do. But republicans have promised and begun to brutalize minorities at ever larger scales, and are objectively worse than democrats on everything that matters.
Handing the reins of state power to fascists has never improved life for leftists or humanity.
Why is the person conscious during organ removal? That’s yet more cartoonish supervillainy that does not sound credible to me.
from the article it seems like it is not that much of a stretch
That Wikipedia page reads like it’s been heavily edited by falun gong folks. Most of the references supporting their arguments come from their own sources or the hilariously named “Victims of Communism Memorial Fund”, a right wing US propaganda outlet that is as credible as its name suggests.
It’s meant to urge caution. Falun gong are an oppressed, openly fascist cult who will earnestly tell you that their leaders have mastered levitation. They are not honest or credible.
They have definitely faced repression by the chinese state but large scale organ harvesting on demand is cartoonish supervillainy that stretches believablity.
The falun gong are major funders of fascism worldwide.
They bought more pro-trump facebook ads in 2016 than anyone except the trump campaign itself.
The buy a lot of ads for victor orban and other european far right figures.
If they’ve already proven they can steal and lie, of course they’ll get VC money.
The reason drug ads all say “may cause [list of terrible things]” ultimately traces back to thalidomide.
The system which requires the monitoring and reporting of potentially adverse events, even after a drug has got through trials is called pharmacovigilance. That’s what generates the data those risks are based on and it was developed in the wake of the thalidomide disaster to help prevent it from happening again.
Reminds me of a line from The Maxx: “The Crapon-in-a-hat and Jean Paul Satre team up to fight nausea? Sounds like a losing battle to me.”
You’re a troll though. It’s easy to tell because every single post in your comment history is trolling.
I’m gonna block you now but best of luck with your future trolling.
Threaded messages seems fine to me, as you said that usage is more well understood than threadiverse which risks conceptually-centering a billionaire controlled platform.
The existence of threads makes threadiverse an inappropriate name for fediverse content aggregators, is the point I was being overly sarcastic about.
Defederating from threads seems like the best way to make it nice. That way there’s less influence from psychopathic billionaires who happily stoke genocide for clicks.
Jokes on you - I’m quick to smile, non-judgemental and a patient conversationalist! 😊 The last time someone have you a compliment in public it might’ve been me and you’d never know! 😘
I wasn’t trying to comment specifically on you or your teeth, it’s just one of those weird things that people notice about our culture, but people from here don’t realize is not the same in other cultures.
normal oral hygiene
Cranial deformation is just normal infant care in groups where it’s practiced.
Many western cultures practice dental hygiene in a way that doesn’t produce the “bleached wall” look that so many in US culture deem high-status. Teeth slowly change color and natural misalignments develop with less need to artificially modify that.
Teeth in the US are just a way more important site of identity than elsewhere. When people make fun of the US, teeth are often part of it because it’s something we’re way more intense about than other people are.
I use an unsweetened charcoal toothpaste, it’s definitely the least unappealing one I’ve found.
a great feeling when your teeth are … clean.
Yeah I’ve had people describe such a feeling but I’ve never experienced it. Closest I’ve experienced is a pleasant feeling of knowing it’s the maximum time before I have to endure that again.
white
I was not raised in the US so that artificial wall of unnaturally blinding white teeth has no value to me. TBH it seems like foot binding, neck-extension or cranial deformation - an extreme status marker that’s fascinating from an anthropological perspective.
If you honestly believed that democracts and republicans are identical on israel and you care about human suffering you’d look at all the other ways that trump and his fascists have promised to brutalize everyone who’s not them and minimize human suffering by voting for a democrat.
Trump killing trans people, immigrants and palestinans is not a moral victory for opponents of our genocide in gaza.