China saw how USSR collapsed and are trying to prevent the same.

Nationalist uprisings? Erase minorities.

Singing revolutions? Murder the songbirds.

And regarding the seep throughs, I had some terrible experiences with db0 recently. From people who are openly racist to people who accuse me of racism.

It’s wild how plenty of more conservative countries have had female presidents in the past.

Hegseth was the guy in the Thalmor embassy you get drunk to create a diversion.

No, I found it at a regular store and found it silly that a symmetrical thing could be “left-handed friendly”.

But I was corrected by the other commenters.

Yep. My ex-girlfriend tried it once and said she spent most of the high vomiting.

“Well, daughter, haven’t I taught you to forgive and to forget? So, your father sowed his oats, oh still you should not fret. Your father may be the cause of all the boys in town, but still…… He’s not the one who sired you so marry who you will.”

Nobody should be a chamberlain.

Silicosis is a horrible way to go.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania had several good leaders in a row.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had a stream of absolute, selfish idiots, nobility included, for most of the time it existed. Reading it’s history is an exercise in frustration.

Well, akchually it was before the cold war era.

Am European; can confirm.

One bad fall from a scooter and you’re one of them.

"Who likes all this slop and why does nobody take credit for it?

Does Sam Altman ever walk across a neighbour that used to be pristine but is now covered in garbage?

Maybe he’s the one who loves garbage.

Does he live in a trash can shaped house and keeps a cute worm as a pet?"

Every 60 seconds in New York, a minute passes.

You could try finding out the international phonetic spelling and offering it to people. Teachers in particular should be fluent in it.

My name is [ˈjustəs] in it, for example.

Trump’s ilk are using the Nazi playbook: find a visible minority that your voterbase finds uncomfortable and dehumanise it until it’s okay to persecute it, then expand dehumanisation to other, less visible or uncomfortable, but troublesome groups.

When you are in an infighting competition and your opponent is the far-left.

Oh wait, they’re taking their clothes off!

The ”C” in “AI” stands for “competence”.

Yeah, that part is exceptionally nasty and serves very little point in the story.