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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • The rail strike was bad, but then Biden turned around and got the rail workers almost everything they had been asking for.

    As to Foreign Policy, what specifically was bad? The pull-out from Afghanistan? It’s hard to stick the landing when the guy before released 5k enemy fighters while reducing the US military presence to less than a skeleton crew.

    But other than that, the US was mostly respected by the world under Biden. We had some bad trade deals from Trump, but were working on fixing things.

    As to splitting the Democratic party, that’s a great way to never win elections again. Because you cannot have three viable parties under First Past the Post voting. It’s literally impossible.




  • So you’re telling me you’ve only ever used shitty, low budget induction. Likely only ever used the countertop plug in units.

    An actual induction stove is much better than that.

    They are a dream to cook on, they have all the speed of gas, but none of the side spill heat. All the heat is concentrated in the pan itself.

    Woks do have issues due to their shape. And those issues crop up with any western style stove. So who cares. There are eastern style induction stoves, they’re more expensive but work fairly well.

    Or you can buy a cheap countertop unit and pretend that its the best induction can be.










  • You don’t seem to actually understand conservatism.

    I’ll give you a little primer. Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre created the philosophy of Conservatism as a response to the French Revolution. They were searching for a way to maintain the power of the Nobility in a world that was chopping off the heads of the worst offenders.

    Make no mistake, the power of the nobility meant white supremacy as well, because that’s how the nobility always functioned.

    But anyway, Conservatism says that the rich are deserving of their riches because they’re just better than you and I. Often invoking God or some bullshit argument that doesn’t boil down to the truth of “my ancestors were fucking monsters who stole a bunch of shit and would literally kill anyone who didn’t obey.”

    Anyway, Conservatism has always relied on their being an in class, and then everyone else, but separating that “everyone else” into classes and then sparking resentment among those lower classes.

    That’s how it works. Apartheid is when Conservatism is winning, you have your rich elite, and then two out groups, the poor whites and then the bulk of your disfavored minority group (who might very well be the actual majority).

    This gives the rich assholes the opportunity to exploit two different groups against each other, lowering the pay of both. And that’s good for the bottom line.

    Actually having to pay real wages to the minorities, to treat them as equal to the poor whites who are also being exploited, well that raises everyone’s wages and is seen as the greatest evil that conservatism knows.


  • The thing is, DEI was always going to become political. Evey single conservative is some level of white supremacist.

    You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.

    The conservative mind sees people as all innately fitting into social hierarchies. And brown people are always at the bottom.

    Trying anything that changes that hierarchy is seen as a direct attack on conservativism. Because in a very real way, it is. Which is the fucking point. DEI policies were a subtle attack on white supremacy via capitalism.

    The argument was that companies that practiced DEI made more money.

    It worked for a time, but the jackasses would rather throw money away than abandon their social hierarchies.

    They’re kind of mask off about it all now.