Biden could build abortion clinics on federal land right now

The president can only do good things with monumental effort

The president can do bad things easily without problem

Libs are still on about Trump drinking water with 2 hands? Completely indistinct from chuds screaming about Obama’s tan suit.

Strategic anti-CIA brain surgery

This is just anecdotal, but I visited southern China in 2019. I don’t have broad knowledge of Chinese society, but I went to a bunch of DIY style punk shows around Shenzhen and there were tons of cool queer folk there. I ended up talking with a trans man for a while with my broken Mandarin and his broken English. Told him I’m an American who greatly admires China and he thought that was cool.

Yeah, there are a bunch of very open trans and gay folk in China, but maybe that depends on where you go and what strata the people belong to, I guess? It’s not at all like what westerners claim, where they say it’s completely illegal to be trans and all trans media is censored. I didn’t see that at all. I met a bunch of trans people who seemed to have very ordinary, normal lives.

There’s probably room for improvement, but that’s everywhere in the world. I don’t live in China though so I don’t fully know what struggles there are

Listening to people younger than yourself also keeps you grounded in the present. Too many people get stuck in the past, or get isolated from wider society. I really don’t want to become a detached old person, that’s one of my greatest fear. I don’t ever want to have the feeling that time has passed me by and I’ll never understand the world.

I haven’t had that feeling so far, thankfully. You’re right about younger people needing mentors and stuff, I hadn’t seen it much from that angle. I think older people need to listen to younger folk as well, to keep them grounded in reality. Younger people aren’t aliens out to ruin society and they’re not naive confused toddlers either. They’re people sharing the present and we don’t need to have such a generational gulf or apprehension if we’re all on Earth and alive at the same time.

why would vaush show any interest in me? I’m not a child

substory where kiryu tries to fix va*sh and make him normal but fails, gives up and instead just beats him up several times outside of the Poppo mart

Is this like a personal defense sword someone might carry around the countryside?

I don’t think it’s a calvary sword. It’s got fancy engravings but I don’t know how common that was on swords in the 18th century. I think it was It was kind of uncommon on personal defense swords in the 17th century unless you were some rich dude

I tend to like the young folk and identify with them way more than people my age, not in a creepy way I hope. Probably because I don’t have kids and am terminally online. I’m optimistic about everything. I don’t think there’s anything about younger people I fundamentally don’t understand.

I don’t get sending huge amounts of money to streamers, but I also don’t have huge piles of money to throw around.

I actually like how younger people are going more minimalist in their fashion taste. Lots of reappropriation of stereotypical work clothes, like Dickies pants, overalls, stuff like that. That’s a neat trend I’ve noticed.

Also, a lot of people are saying that Gen z are a lot cooler than our predecessor politically.

This is what’s said about every young generation. I don’t mean to rain on your parade or anything, but young people being more progressive than previous generations has been a staple of the US since at least the 1950s. Boomers were at one point considered radicals who threatened to overthrow all of society. It’s what got said about Gen X too and Millennials.

Progressive young people tend to either acclimate or die off, but we still gotta have hope. I really hope younger folk can get it together and decide on a better future.

Liberals in general treat politics as prayer and ritual to a pantheon of polytheistic gods. You must perform the Biden voting sacrament or else the nefarious Putin will ruin this year’s grape harvest.

Reminds me of in 2020 I saw a post detailing Elizabeth Warren’s platforms and one of the bulletpoints was simply “Healthcare”

Normal person is old white man getting arrested for harassing a school board

Not normal is when gay person

Height of comedy. Also there’s gotta be something going on with right wing self-image, or maybe just who they’re trying to appeal to. I remember in 2016 the image they tried to project was hip, cool type of internet racist who knows memes. Now with this and the stupid Mr. Birchum show it’s like their self-image is instead very grumpy impotent old man.

Their ideal image is of a befuddled old man who doesn’t understand anything and annoys everyone. An old man who complains a lot but never accomplishes or changes anything, that’s who they see themselves as. Also this guy is like 65 years old with a teenage daughter in high school? Pardon?

Communism is when no iPhone

Wait, communism is when slightly less good iPhone

I’m an adult, near middle age. I bike everywhere. It’s nice.

I don’t have kids and never would, so I can’t talk realistically about what that would be like. But I sincerely doubt I’d have any issues maintaining my current standard of living if I had like 6 times my income, but also two kids. In fact, if I was given $250k per year I’d volunteer to raise someone else’s kids.

If the kids had disabilities or long term healthcare issues then yeah, that could be debilitating. I wouldn’t put my hypothetical kids into a private school unless I was worried for their safety.

You gotta understand that to me $250k per year sounds like infinite money per year. So I’m never gonna be able to logically proceds that. I’m way down in the pits of selling manual labor and I’m never going to have anything higher than what I make now. $250k sounds like a fantasy, made up amount of money that I can’t even fathom. If I woke up tomorrow with just $15,000 in my bank account I’d probably collapse and start crying.

You’re not doing better class analysis, you’re doing class reductionism

The elements that made New Vegas good were the team, the near infinite money they had, and how everyone seemed to enjoy the project. From interviews I’ve read with Josh Sawyer and Tess Treadwell, it seems like everything went as smooth as game production could have gone. They were never worried about deadlines or anything, despite the 18 month production time. They wanted to have more Legion territory, but otherwise the game is how they wanted it to be. So I don’t know how those elements would get replicated.

Pentiment is really good though. Outer Worlds is…ok. I guess we’ll see.

hang on, I know we’re supposed to have a popular mandate based on the whims of voters but before we do anything we have to consult the transphobe children’s author who lives in a castle

The internet at this point is so segmented and full of islands. YouTube channels can have 67 million subscribers and yet be completely unknown outside of its regular viewers. The uptick you’re seeing might be restricted to its own circle of viewers, maybe? Because I haven’t noticed anything like that. Internet popularity manifests as weird bubbles that don’t intersect.

But I could just be in a different bubble. I haven’t noticed an uptick nor do I even know who Cyraxx or kingcobra are.