anachronist

Sorry we're not getting along Canada but we have an illegal alien you're going to have to take back. He's addicted to a lot of drugs, and is a deadbeat dad many times over. His favorite hobby is accusing people of pedophillia.

We are melting ice caps and boiling lakes to help high schoolers not learn Spanish.

I dunno how much I buy that. America's been going fasc for most of my adult life. Under Bush we had the patriot act, "enhanced interrogation," "extraordinary rendition," etc. Sure we didn't have masked brownshirts pulling people off the streets (of America) yet but everyone could see where it was all going and people were incredibly upset.

The Putin and Xi-loving tankie seems to be an artifact of the internet. It's the meme-internet trajectory of "haha" to "ha ha only serious" to "seriously." It's a way to revel in the base pleasures of the malevolent thug without having to be Pro-trump, Pro-America or Zionist.

I mean, they attacked a warship owned by the world's greatest superpower and then only after being caught they gave a laughable explanation causing the superpower to say "We accept your apology but not your explanation" with no further action taken. How Israel continues to get away with it is a question for the ages.

That's the funniest thing. Like, if you were an original Hungary-era tankie, at least you could say "the Soviet Union is the leader of the worldwide Communist movement, I believe what the SU says about itself." But Putin's Russia is explicitly not Communist or Socialist in any way. Putin's ideology is inconsistent but his public statements are all basically imperial or "blood and soil" nationalism. How do they twist this guy into being a "comrade?"

Hexbear tankies really are something incredible. I've been around left-wing politics most of my life and in the real world I've met like one or two people actually like them. Difficult to understand where they all came from. I'm thinking maybe it's a r/Pyongyang where it started as a joke and then they started taking it seriously.

Renters have two options:

• get fucked
• move (and get fucked)

At least if the homeowner sells they get the windfall.

I was living in a neighborhood that gentrified and my rent went up a "life altering" amount. I had to move to a different, shittier neighborhood and had nothing to show for it. If a property owner has the same thing happen, they may be forced to sell, but they will get a massive windfall. Renters get nothing besides a kick in the butt.

"hype" is literally media attention

hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match 

Merriam Webster

It's really incredible. Then again, there's a theory I heard that Israelis like it when Jews feel/are threatened elsewhere in the world, because it promotes Zionism.

Mozilla executives are once again carrying water for Google.

If there is any doubt who they work for, watching them testify in defense of Google's monopoly should be all you need.