There used to be a prominent meme on the Chinese internet about how Trump was actually a Chinese asset, but like in a positive way. Basically saying that Trump was a double agent deliberately crashing America’s economy. There were a bunch of pictures of Trump doing stereotypical old Chinese man things like taichi in the park lmao

This sucks. I’d want it to say something like “I ride a bike and own a gun”

It’s source filmmaker, I think. Same thing used to make the “Meet the Whoever” TF2 videos

Every person who says this will simply describe capitalism with more welfare

Yeah it’s very bizarre how so much is still physical over there. CDs and DVDs everywhere. Payphones that actually work. Everything’s cash too. Every time I come back from Japan I have a sack of coins.

There’s also a lot of advertising there about eating healthy or recycling. Not as any specific product, but just odd public awareness campaigns done by cities or interest groups. That feels really 90s

I’m sure you can agree though, the most 90s thing Japan does is how everyone smokes everywhere.

World poppy production has plummeted after the US left Afghanistan

I got faith

Of the heaaart

Steady, mostly passive income. Free healthcare working ok, education.

This happens so often. Talking to someone online who seems like the biggest oaf alive and then it’s revealed they’re a landlord/landlady

That’s the same way a lot of words were developed though. Like the word “fence” to mean someone who buys stolen goods came about due to thieves’ cant, a bunch of words used by thieves and beggars to confuse medieval cops. I think it’s better to say words can adapt to situations rather than saying it’s being forced. A ton of words that were underground slang are now just normal words.

Glad to see Trump supports the polydactyly community

flashback to my college days getting asked on surveys what my politics are on a scale of liberal to conservative

they’d always mark me as “independent” since their scale had nowhere to put communists

i outright use the word communist to describe myself to liberals and that usually cuts off any potential liberal camaraderie pretty quickly lol

I think at this point the average American conflates “liberal” with simply an attitude on how much you hate or don’t hate queer people, regardless of any other political sentiment. One time a chud told me the only real political issue is abortion.

us americans are not, to put it lightly, an intellectual country

Maybe it won’t be your thing, but I really really like Haibane Renmei. It’s more melancholy comfy, and some moments are a little intense, but it’s overall very sweet and meaningful to me.

We got a Truffaut lad over here

I’m a communist. I don’t win if there’s a Democrat or a Republican in office. Someone who has cast two ballots for Trump has a dead rat for a brain and should be promptly sent to reeducation, not given some military bozo to vote for.

The civilian equivalent of his position was CEO of a fortune 500 company

He was the civilian equivalent of a huge piece of shit? Ok.

I really respect the area of Kerala and its commitment to their public. Very robust educational system, healthcare, and a focus on access to clean water. That’s just from stuff I’ve seen and read though, I’ve never been to India, I’m American.

I hope the best for India’s future, but it seems worrying from what I hear. I would hope for greater collaboration with China and an easing of tensions with Pakistan. India is a massively diverse place though, with multiple languages and even multiple writing scripts, so sometimes it’s amazing it’s a functional country at all.

Most of what I hear though is about India dominated by very right wing movements, but there’s a strong history of Indian working class movements as well. I’ll try to be optimistic about the future. Also as an American I am fully aware of my country’s horrifying exploitation of the Indian people. The Union Carbide disaster is still the worst industrial accident in history and its impact should never be forgotten

i’m tankie and gay and covered in feces (some of which is my own)

A lot of that is probably steam decks