Loved it! Love Belinda! Ncuti feels like he's coalescing well for me now. I love their dynamic. Show feels well balanced.

You are so high on yourself

Too much tankie bullshit probably

that's good. don't lie, have standards.

i wouldn't say it's for "optics," but you have to know your interlocutor. if the person is nervous about legitimate abuses in AES, acknowledging failures openly is more honest and real than dancing about to make excuses for them. owning failings is human, and would be a distinct departure from capitalism, that's for sure.

but i get you, capitalism as a system is unironically constantly using force to extinguish you. i get it. it's not an enviable position.

"Far from paradise" seems pretty generous for what i perceive as a dystopian nightmare state. they are cut off from outside information. there is retribution on families if ppl try to leave. also, you can't leave. this is insanity. outside forces don't make them behave that way.

Xi: whether that popularity is real or not is a question, though, when he can push for the suppression of dissent or critique in the social sphere. one CAN'T challenge him. that doesn't seem legitimately representative.

i'm looking over your reading list. we can add that to the list. but there's a reason i block hexbear and lemmygrad but not .ml. tankies fucking suck and i Socialism will never be taken seriously as long as it's important to ppl to defend fucking Stalin.

just never could get into D&D.

currently playing Apocalypse Keys. planning a FATE game, and Outgunned.

well, if you insist, we will grant it to the Dutch.

still, EU countries have far superior electoral systems than the US to help mitigate the rise and influence of Fascism.

And this is still the underlying cancer in America. We're here today because Obama broke their brain.

Popular, two -term, erudite, black man as president with no scandals.