A communist US would still grow oranges and peaches.

logically, yes. It would also export sturgeon caviar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

Nasdaq pulling everything down…

They may have made the wrong decision.

Right.

Because communism doesn’t exist, it’s completely free of problems.

(not /s, by the way.)

Both will be gone in 2 months without printing…

Yep. WTF the bike lane just ends and cars are signaled into moving there?

It is probably safer than just making cars cross the lane, but there’s some transition missing there.

It’s not “dodging”, and your bills would be a lot more expensive if the government insisted on billing companies by their revenue instead of profit.

But you shouldn’t be paying any income tax if you barely make ends meet.

Well, if you get a small enough ruler you will already disprove quantum physics. No need to use it for anything.

Videogame cities are all dead and creepy… I can’t imagine what anybody finds beautiful about them.

Of course, they are this way because they are literally designed, by a tiny number of people, and with sole focus on the player. But still, no idea why anybody can think they are beautiful.

And tomorrow is Corpus Christi, I hope most of you here have it as a day off.

Well. On the other hand, Trump can also decide to attack them, what will completely change their current situation of being attacked by him.

So… Aggressivity always escalates if people interact at random without a cooling period?

That’s quite a hypothesis. Seems realistic. I wonder if anybody tested it.

It’s deeper than that.

People have been doing this since cars became fast. There’s something in our brains that automatically turns driving into a battle.

Without your bad rephrasing:

1 - “The cult of tradition” - At no point he gives any shit to tradition

2 - “The rejection of modernism” - That’s partial at best, and partial hits do not count on that scale

3 - “The cult of action for action’s sake” - Yes

4 - “Disagreement is treason” - Absolutely not

5 - “Fear of difference” - Dude, how the fuck did you claim he hits that one? Absolutely not

6 - “Appeal to a frustrated middle class” - Yes

7 - “Obsession with a plot” - Yes

8 - cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak” - Their enemies are never strong

9 - “Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy” - Absolutely not

10 - “Contempt for the weak” - Absolutely not

11 - “Everybody is educated to become a hero” - Yes

12 - “Machismo” - Yes

13 - “Selective populism” - Yes

14 - “Newspeak” - No

Anyway, it’s complete bullshit to just list those criteria like they are a checklist. I’ve listed them here just to show that even that bullshit argument is bullshit by its own standards.

Are you claiming that fascists don’t need to be authoritarian? It’s not on the list, by the way.

He’s not a good person’s identity, by any means. But he’s not fascist.

I guess the right word here is thick.

I understand it as the author saying he won’t do either.

As cults go, it’s note-worth when one doesn’t.

You would put the dams close to each other, so there’s almost no water on the intermediary reservoirs.

There’s an obvious improvement, where you put them so close that you need no water at all between them…

Well, yes, the USA politics is dominated by two extreme-right parties, and while “right” and “left” are mostly meaningless terms, on such extreme cases they actually have clear meanings.

IMO, those are very well designed symbols for saying “this will eat your hand away” and “this will break you in an infinitude of pieces while it throws all those parts away strongly”…

But yeah, I have probably been expecting too much awareness from random people. You are probably right on that part.

(Also, does the box have any hidden burnt mark?)