I have zero doubts that the president of Norway would write a more coherent letter in English

Is that the sort of thing that would survive screenshotting and messing with the color balance?

Yeah, none of this is a surprise, sadly. The CDU is effective, but wants evil things; the SPD is better on the surface, but both ineffective and cowardly in the moment it counts; FPD are capitalists; AFD/FW are racist manipulators; and all of them are willing to sell Germany out to better themselves.

I’m not happy with the other parties, but I don’t see them as problematically, either because they’re less relevant or less corrupt (from what I can tell as an immigrant here for five years- I don’t know what the fuck BSW is about, for example, but I certainly don’t trust it).

Scholz was ineffective, but he’s not the one for whom the invasion of Venezuela was very complex or who sees a migration problem in the Stadtbild. He enabled the FDP, but merz is enabling the AFD, so that feels like a tossup.

What I’ve really noticed more recently is that at times the tantrum is mostly performative. Like they’re not deeply and gravely upset, they’re just acting it out.

Literally yes. They’re testing the boundaries of what they can do and seeing what the results of different types of behavior are.

Well yeah, but it makes me tired and food fixes it.

I used to think the sound of cicadas was the sound of sunlight, because it always seemed louder the brighter it was.

I definitely gain energy in a colloquial sense from food when I’m hungry.

Like, if I haven’t eaten much that day, I’ll want to nap around 16/17, then I’ll be alert and energetic again if I eat dinner instead of napping.

I know you’re not supposed to diagnose historical figures, but Kant is like the textbook definition of autistic. He made the rule that he would smoke one pipeful of tobacco a day, and lamented for years that he couldn’t find a bigger pipe. His moral philosophy also demonstrates the kind of rigid thinking that is characteristic of autism.

I just also searched for that meme and gave up, but lo!

notable difficult language

If it helps, this is relative. If you learn one tonal language, others are then easier to learn.

I think we have different definitions of “technically true,” but that’s probably true for a lot of terms. Have a good new year’s, if you celebrate.

We currently produce enough food to feed everyone and the international system is capitalist. Does every death from starvation or malnutrition count as a tick against capitalism for you? What about deaths from diabetes in the US? If not, you should look more into how the numbers you’re citing were generated and see if you still want to spread them. If so, you might find that capitalism has killed more than “communism.”

Also, just as a nitpick: 6 million Jews died in the holocaust. 13 million people died altogether (not including war casualties).

I know you feel like we’re on opposite sides here, but I really do just want you to research this a little more, no need to come back afterwards if you don’t want to.

A free market can be implemented in many economic systems.

I’m asserting that capitalism didn’t do that on its own. The USSR is not a good example of communism, no, but it’s certainly not capitalist, and if they hadn’t provided competition at every step of the space race, beating the US out most of the time, the US wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.

Ah, the Space Race. Something that was famously only participated in by capitalist countries.

My point was that the shitty part would have happened once way at the beginning, so I wouldn’t expect the people living in what was formerly the US seven hundred years after the alien takeover to still be hugely affected by it. At least not more than their neighbors.

To be clear, I’m not faulting the Russian people if they are, just surprised.

I thought the mongol empire was relatively chill to live under, as long as you didn’t resist them.

It’s basic chivalry

It’s been a decade or more since I did it, but I wasn’t very frequently sick at the time, nor am I now. I do get more severely sick than my husband now, but he’s an overweight omnivore and I’m an underweight vegan, so I assume it’s more related to that. Itchy nostrils sound awful, but I’ve never had them.