His name is Yogi Bear, not Yogi the Bear
skisnow
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People moaning about tankie propaganda are missing the point that it’s not about how amazing China is, it’s about how American politicians are letting their people down.
The “because totalitarianism” argument is a non-starter - plenty of functioning democracies have built effective high speed rail. China is being given as an example because they’re a similar size while having much less money; it’s a counter to the “we’re too big” excuses usually made for why small European and SEA countries are also able to do it.
There’s a doublethink at play where Socialism is both a totalitarian slavery regime with gulags and mind control, and also just when everything is like it is now except rich people pay taxes
“This technology is so useful we’re going to force it on you every way we can think of”
And they still haven’t figured out how to stop Netflix from crashing 15 minutes into every other show I watch. First year I had it no problems. Then one day about two years ago, bam, unwatchable.
I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.
Meanwhile in the UK pedestrian deaths are down despite the number of miles walked increasing.
You've been fed and are repeating racist bullshit. People buying houses for their own use aren't what's driving up prices, it's people buying up houses they don't live in. Being "local" or "foreign" is an irrelevant distraction designed to feed into mistrust of people who are different to you.
I'm reading this after coming from a thread in which people were mocking or handwringing over an article that suggested the official poverty line was unrealistically low.
Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.
[Israeli public broadcaster] "A boycott may begin today with Israel, but no one knows where it will end or who else it may harm."
If that's what they're leading with, it shows how weak the rest of their defence is.
(also, am I being cynical, or is "who knows where it will end" meant to be lowkey invoking the you-know-what?)
You say that as though the US doesn’t exercise eminent domain frequently. It’s a non-starter of an argument.