Rowdy Roddy Piper, not only for his performance in John Carpenter’s “They Live”, one of my favorite movies, but also his portrayal of the multi-layered and powerful character of “Da Maniac”. RIP

Authoritarian Totalitarianism Orwellian CCP Uyghur 50gorzabajillion dead Mao Chineseionaire Tiananmen social credit score xi xinping is Winnie the poo and that’s funny not racist

this one is a way better answer than mine, I’m taking notes. Bravo, wordsmith 🫡

lol well when you just google the Wikipedia definition of something it seems pretty dang cool now doesn’t it? Doesn’t change the fact that global US hegemony thru NEO LIBERAL capitalism is a destructive, exploitative and genocidal right wing white supremacist ideology that has caused untold suffering and relies on stealing the resources of other countries (violently, may I add) to maintain US supremacy. And this is usually, not always, done against non white people. Hence the white supremacist part… Since ww2 alone we’ve invaded like 50 countries.

Those don’t seem like bad concepts. I can’t see how consent of the governed, political equality, equality before law, individual rights, and liberty are bad when applied to individuals.

because they are not inherently “bad ideas”. The world isn’t drawn in black and white, good vs evil. Under US electoral laws American Citizens do not have real democracy. We have a false sense of democracy that is controlled by lobbying (money) corporate/private power (money) and agenda based nepotism (money)

This is the problem inherent in capitalism. Sure we have great freedoms of speech and information at our fingertips but you can’t just hand wave away the destruction brought upon the world by right wing capitalist Neo liberalism by saying “well Wikipedia says it’s actually cool and based, so what’s the problem?!”

Thanks! I’m extremely lucky my parents are both in great health, so I’m focusing on being happy w them. My dad has a strong spirit. He gave up smokes in the 80s. For anyone it may help reading, quitting feels awesome after a while. It’s so worth it in the long run. Just think of how much longer we could have had some of our favorites: Lenin, David Lynch, the list goes on

You don’t understand the scope. It was hundreds of thousands. It was hundreds of millions. Evil Chinese communism knows no bounds and will consume all. I will take all your social credit points now for myself, silly American

I almost smoked over the weekend, found out we lost my grandmother on Saturday morning , still haven’t picked one back up. Starting a new job this weekend too, after the strike on the first, Almost gave myself the excuse that I’m stressing so might as well.

I can put it this way, my grandmother lived a beautiful long life, created wonderful paintings and ceramic vases, career artist, never smoked once in her life and lived to be 95. My grandfather smoked like a chimney, passed about 15 years ago, I think he was about 80. Makes a youngin’ think

I heard it was millions, and that evil communist xi xingping plans of doing it again and name it the scary communist leap forward after his favorite scary communist dictator mowz dong

I would consider myself 100% tech illiterate and I have a hard time figuring out this website I’m on right now and what it even is. And there’s like hundreds just like this. Or something. No advice just yapping.

Idk if it’s really helpful to the convo but As someone who quit smoking less than a year ago after 10+ years I wanna say raising the price won’t help people not smoke. The amount of money I threw at my smokes was just someothing I always budgeted in and it just kinda fucks over poor people who are gonna smoke no matter what. I don’t think this full ban is really gonna do much for already existing smokers. Of course if the cost of selling cigarettes was more than the profit we could get somewhere but at the end of the day every industry would benefit from ditching profit based economics. Thats why I’m a leftist I guess