"yes, I'm voting Kamala this election. When she loses and the trump admin starts arresting my non-white neighbors and forcing them into trains, I'm gonna shake my head smugly--especially at the Arab ones. That way they'll know they should've voted harder "

If that's what's at stake, better have a better plan than voting

I think a better explanation is Israel has nukes.

The only way this could be possibly true is if Israel credibly threatened to nuke the US. If Israel hasn't done that, then the US is simply choosing to keep supporting Israel's genocide.

Not really addressing your main point, but I think the Chinese really hit on something rhetorically by saying x leader was 70% right and 30% wrong.

Burger brain disease is just a more advanced stage of capitalism plus settler colonialism, which is practically everywhere to one degree or another (minus settler colonialism in some places). Not to mention the Empire's influence is everywhere.

If a big concern for you is anti-trans violence, anywhere in East Asia would be much better than the US simply because there's much less violence in general. I like both mainland China and Taiwan. Taiwan is pretty lgbt friendly but is also pretty anti-communist. I know Chinese has a reputation for being difficult to learn, but I think that difficulty is over stated too

Tbh, I might try moving to a deep blue part of the US. Way easier to culturally assimilate, don't need to learn a new language

If we're focusing on media, recently, because of the word "antifa" being tied to anarchists and being used to scaremonger by the media. The media generally scaremonger with "communists" referring to external threats and "anarchists" referring to internal threats (unless its policy or a politician, those can be labeled anarchist or communist or socialist).

PSL is the only significant communist group in the US that is generally to the left of DSA.

Every other formation is either right opportunists, a tiny sect (cult), or a fracturing Trotskyist group.

Ironically,a CPUSA (who made the above yt video) is the communist party. They were recognized by the USSR and still maintain relations with the parties of AES counties. It's pretty bleak they're just Dem tailists.

Planescape Torment is my favorite Isekai.

Presumably, Crystal is a very honest class-conscious billionaire or heiress

Incoming: Municipality passes law mandating a reserved space for police officers for every handicap space a building has.

I'm "ask jeevesing" it

Imo:

Japanese state is a junior partner, unless you also want to claim Germany is colonized by the US. Parts of Japan are colonial, e.g. Okinawa which was colonized by Japan and is currently a occupied by both Japan and the US military.

Otoh, Korea was subjected to Japanese colonialism, which in SK transitioned into a pro-west puppet government. I think this probably counts as a colonial relation still.

Interestingly, on Taiwan they have the Republic of China calendar (in addition to the Western calendar) which begins from the establishment of the RoC (1912 on the Western calendar).

For this to happen, airlines and hotels need to allow free rescheduling for sick people

Irrespective of their politics, Trump is funny and Shapiro is not funny.

Assuming time is linear? smdh

Got it, I misunderstood

Where's this energy when discussing America though?

BE hates America. He thinks all US troops are war criminals. He voices third worldist views that Americans are too morally cowardly and too materially invested in imperialism to fight their government.

Now, that could all be phony rhetoric that he plays up, but he's definitely not engaging in the rhetoric you describe. He's doing something different

Walz becomes VP nominee in morning

Cori Bush loses in evening

Funny.

My 11 year old said, "F#&* that means I'll have to change my [redacted] plans to [redacted] the [redacted]."