My dad grew up in St. Louis in the 70’s and 80’s. He never heard his parents say “I love you” to each other or even kiss. This is because in America, love for anything other than the accumulation of wealth is forbidden. And definitely not because my grandparents were a terrible marriage.

Yeonmi Park spends her time tourring far-right podcasts and conventions. You might as well talk to Cubans in Miami about Cuba.

Claims Lithuania doesn’t border Russia.

Post map showing Lithuania’s border with Russia

Amazon has more money than most countries. They can outlast any company in court, or just ban you from their services in the future.

People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren’t gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it’s not surprising why voters will go for the change option.

That’s essentially been the Republican playbook in the US for the past 40 years. Introduce heinous legislation, media and opposition hem and haw for a couple weeks, pull the heinous legislation for something that is 75% less heinous which passes. Rinse and repeat and people consider it a victory every time their rights are eroded away

This has been the Israeli M.O. since the 50’s. Antagonize their neighbors, steal their land in the name of “securing the area”, then put new Israeli settlements in that stolen land. Rinse and repeat until we get to the current day.

Same for Israel

Thanks! I have almost worked through my backlog of sci-fi books and have been looking for something new while i wait the next book in the captives war series to come out

Your point being? Do you think Orwell named the UK after a US air force call sign that wouldn’t be coined until after his death? I won’t be lectured on literature by someone who has the media comprehension of a middle schooler.

Where have i tried to use the British Empire to measure social progress? I mentioned an example of English literature where ot is comical to think England would be the nexus of power, which someone then said doesn’t count because it was from “centuries ago”. Now i don’t even know what y’all are trying to yell about, as a thread about the British descent into fascism turned into American literature to whatever the hell you are even talking about at this point

I would love to discuss German, Indian, and Chinese sci-fi, but none of it seems to be very popular on the international stage so unfortunately we can’t discuss it. The guy i responded to complained that American media focuses so much on America, while citing only Star Trek, but that’s literally how media is in every country, so i cited British media because that’s what i am familiar with as i am a dual citizen of both countries.

And perhaps associating the racist policies living people grew up with as something that happened centuries ago is why we can’t make much progress today.

Aliens sure seem to visit London all the god damn time in Dr. Who. People write literature about the places and people they know. Why would an American write a book about aliens visiting Berlin?

Also, how long ago do you think 1948 was? Because it wasn’t “centuries” ago. And the most prominent American sci-fi authors do not have their stories revolve around the US. The Foundation, Dune, Star Wars, and the Expanse were all written by American authors and only one of them has any characters from the USA

As opposed to British fiction where everything os centered around London? George Orwell thought London would be the center of the Anglo-American axis back in 1948 while the British Empire crumbled around him.

I keep trying to get my buddies to do a group groom session after we go disc golfing, but they aren’t interested.

My understanding is that Japan is de facto an nuclear armed state, they simply haven’t made an warheads. They have the all the necessary technology and fuel enrichment, so they could quickly arm if they thought it would be necessary in the near future.

There is a 0% chance Pakistan launches a nuclear missle to their west. India will launch their full aresenal yhe moment they detect a missle launch from Pakistan

Perfect example since slavery wasn’t banned until the slave states straight up declared war on the free states. You’ll never get a wishy-washy candidate to oppose institutional violence. Only direct action will end injustice

You can easily replace a sponsor. Or better yet, dont! The shows didn’t have a sponsor 10 years ago. Ads are ruining everything

Starmer doing everything he can to ensure Reform UK sweeps the next general election.

I can’t name anything he has done in the past 10 years