"What could possibly go wrong?" might as well be 's motto.

Can't win 'em all, I guess. Even papa Xi is bound to miss sometimes.

Sometimes I can understand where Brexit is coming from, if I was British, being distinct from Europe would be a point of pride. (Yeah, I'd have to be Bri'ish, but my point stands).

Thing is, I have WASPy relatives that I'm unfortunately going to be spending thanksgiving with as well and they're capital C CHUDs. I'm warning you, getting all up in their face is what they want. You could call them cracker all you want but CHUDs are mostly immune to emotional damage. If you go about it like that, all they'll do is laugh about it at work about how they totally owned their SJW relatives.

There's a more nuanced strategy I take. Just make them feel like the burden. You're there to have fun and they're the ones that cannot put politics aside for a single goddamn day if you have to call something out make sure to end it with "look, I'm not trying to argue, I'm just saying."

Aren't they hyper-religious too? Shouldn't they be thanking "woke" developers for not "tempting them into sin" or something?

Oh yeah, I forgot, they apply 'protects but does not bind vs binds but does not protect' to their religion too.

Can confirm. For what it's worth, Tel Aviv is actually somewhat chill. But it's like the California of Israel: just the LEAST bad part of a horrifying monster.

Why do I get the feeling they will think I am too vehement in the crusade on antisemitism when I suggest throwing neo-nazis into gulags to do hard labor?

I did some searching online, and it looks like Long Island as a whole has a very similar population to Sweden on an island a fraction of Sweden's size.

Holy shit on a shingle, car dependency on that should be a war crime.

I have bad news for 12 year old lib me who heard about this and called it "educational communism"

Because guess what? The economic system where incompetent idiots hold you back is good 'ol capitalism.

YES! Oh my God it is a tragedy that vacations are proudly seen as a thing of the past here.

Imagine living in, say, California and taking a week off just to go surfing or explore some of the national parks or smaller towns. Hell, imagine a country that doesn't try to gatekeep its youth from walkable cities that make it possible to make and have friends to share those vacations with. I'm sorry but, the people in charge are complete misanthropes that want to force their miserable loneliness on others.

I've said it before and I will say it again, the US is the anti-fun country and it's the fault of the puritan WASPs who have no taste in anything.

: "The WEF wants me to own nothing and be happy!"

: "You will own nothing and be happy."

: "Oh sorry, of course I will own nothing. There is nothing wrong with literally everything being a luxury good. Hell, make me work for free. Porky knows what's good for all of us!"