They'd get the "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" treatment where only the most monstrous and indefensible beasts get put down while the rest of the animals are let free within a decade.
Those are names I haven't heard for 10-15 years
Only traitors and the dead.
Fucking laughable citation.
Sluggy freelance?
Yeah it made me wish I brought my ear plugs that I forgot back in alaska, but for something that I rarely participate in I didn't mind feeling like my ears were bleeding from the sheer raw power of her voice. I was impressed by the techies work behind the scene that calibrated all the sound equipment because she should have been peaking her mic almost all the time with how wild she was going.
I don't know how she went a full hour almost non-stop singing with all the growls and screams she does and still finishing out talking like she doesn't have a hoarse throat! Definitely a master of her craft!
Spoiler no I didn't, I saw someone else a thousand times better than AOC
You mean the American electoral farce, right?
Damn that's a cold-ass bear!
Title: Lenin holding the Soviet flag while walking through a field of grain, in the style of van gogh
cross-posted from an old post: https://hexbear.net/post/218850
Also do you wonder if something you've said is in the book of sayings?
The ‘walking route’: How an underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the US
TL:DR a bunch of western brainwormed Chinese citizens choose to expatriate into the U.S by taking treacherous routes through Latin America.
San Diego, California
They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the journey north.
Like the hundreds of thousands of people around them who have also trekked weeks to reach the US, they’re driven by a desperation to escape and make a new life, despite the uncertainty of what’s on the other side.
But these migrants are fleeing the world’s second largest economy and an emerging superpower.
On a recent winter day, dozens of Chinese nationals waited in different makeshift camps scattered outside San Diego, California, just north of the Mexican border.
It gets a little funnier in a bit
Bundled in hoodies and jackets, they huddled around fires as they, and others there, counted the time before US border control agents would take them away for processing – and what they hoped would be the start to their lives in America.
These arrivals are part of a staggering new trend. In the first 11 months of 2023, more than 31,000 Chinese citizens were picked up by law enforcement crossing illegally into the US from Mexico, government data shows – compared with an average of roughly 1,500 per year over the preceding decade.
This whole propaganda article is only about a few thousand people while making it seem like it's millions. Talk about making mountains out of ant hills
Their numbers are still dwarfed by those from regional neighbors like Mexico, Venezuela, and Guatemala, and they are not alone in coming from other parts of the world. But the influx of people from China making that crossing spotlights the urgency many now feel to leave their native country, even in the midst of what leader Xi Jinping has claimed is a “national rejuvenation.”
As China squeaks ever so slightly closer towards socialism, more yankee-brained liberals, small business tyrants, religious cranks and few desperate disillusioned youths that think the grass is greener on the other side will flee to America and other western states.
Many who left point to a struggle to survive.
Three years of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions left people across China out of work – and disillusioned with the ruling Communist Party’s increasingly tight grip on all aspects of life under Xi. Now, hope that business would fully rebound once restrictions ended a year ago has vanished, with China’s once envious economic growth stuttering.
Blah blah blah China's gonna collapse any day now
Others nod to restrictions on personal life in China, where Xi has overseen a sweeping crackdown on free speech, civil society and religion in the country of 1.4 billion.
“We are Christians,” one neatly dressed middle-aged man said simply when asked what had led him there – a bare encampment thousands of miles from home.
I wonder what kind 
These Chinese nationals join migrants from around the world whose numbers have overwhelmed the southwestern US border with illegal crossings in recent months. Most are seeking asylum after they cross – a pathway that may narrow in the coming weeks as Congress is expected to move to stem that flow amid a fierce debate over immigration.
As if it already wasn't narrow as is.
For now, people from China are on track to be the fastest growing group making those crossings, according to a CNN analysis of the latest law enforcement data on border encounters.
Give it a few months and we'll see the talking heads moan about the Argentinan migrant crisis
And as the numbers making their escape have grown, so too has a network of businesses and social media accounts catering to Chinese migrants, who must often take a circuitous route across continents, before beginning the arduous, overland journey north.
For many, that overland route begins in Quito, Ecuador – a city of roughly 2.5 million high in the Andean foothills that has become a gateway for those escaping China.
Lots of dangerous land to travel between Ecuador and southern U.S territories.
In 2022, Ecuador documented around 13,000 Chinese nationals entering. In the first 11 months of 2023, that number rose to more than 45,000. The country doesn’t require visas for Chinese passport holders
A cottage industry of businesses caters to the border-bound, starting with airport pickups to arranging stays at Chinese-run hostels and organizing the journey north – often for a hefty fee, CNN reporting has found.
Grifter networks abound
Evidence of the growing trend appears across Quito, if one knows where to look.
At one bus station, a ticket agent has a sign for “the Colombian border” printed in Chinese, ready to flash to potential customers. At a local hospital offering vaccinations – recommended for a treacherous jungle crossing – the Spanish-speaking nurse keeps a Chinese translation of the intake form on her desk.
Hella sketch. I'd fly back to China at this point.
Along the fringes of the city’s central business district are a growing number of businesses linked to the trend, travel agent Long Quanwei, who immigrated to Quito from China five years ago, told CNN last month.
At one of these hostels, where a night’s stay with meals costs about $20, printed Chinese-language maps and instructions pasted to a wall detail each leg of the trip. The owner, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of online backlash, estimates there are 100 such small businesses like hers that cater to Chinese travelers, including those preparing to head north.
“Many people come here and don’t speak English or Spanish, so they look for me,” she said.
You can read the rest if you're bored. It goes on about one of the more sympathetic stories of a rural worker who's had a real rough run of it in China and hates being exploited by his corporate overlords but thinks his life in America will be better. I don't think so, but best of luck dude. After that it's more propaganda bullshit. Save your braincells.
The generation that turned cities into expensive playgrounds for the young is now being forced to flee to the suburbs by Eliza Relman
Everyone and everything relating to this article should be dunked on
Jandra Sutton feels like a lucky millennial. She and her partner were able to sell their house in suburban Tennessee and buy a condo in downtown Nashville in 2019, before mortgage rates and home prices skyrocketed.
A few years of suburban living had made the couple "miserable," says Sutton, a 34-year-old writer and content creator. "The closest coffee shop was 15 to 20 minutes away, there wasn't a lot to do in the area, and none of our friends wanted to make the drive to visit us," she says. "It was so isolating."
They now have 1,500 fewer square feet of living space, one fewer car, and no yard, but they're much happier. They're surrounded by restaurants, live music, parks, and many other "third places" to meet people and hang out. They're regulars at their favorite neighborhood bar and bodega, where, Sutton says, "we know everyone by name and vice versa."
The couple could afford to return to the city in part because they're DINKS: double income, no kids. They won't need the extra bedrooms, pricey daycares, or outdoor space that would crush their budget. Sutton's right — they are lucky. Many millennials hoping to buy a home and have kids are being priced out of the urban neighborhoods they've built their lives in and that were reshaped to fit their lives.
WHO THE HELL SAYS DINKS
Some homebuyers who decamped for the suburbs in the horrifying first months of the pandemic have come to regret their move. But as housing costs and mortgage rates hit record highs, they're stuck. Those who stayed in the cities are fleeing in droves, to parts unknown. Millennial homebuyers aren't just leaving the urban core — they're moving to the farthest reaches of the suburbs. The housing market and aging (the oldest millennials are entering their mid-40s, SMH) are turning millennials into the thing every generation swears they'll never become: their suburban parents.
The 'youthification' of cities and far-flung suburbs
For nearly two decades millennials morphed dense, amenity-rich urban neighborhoods across America into exclusive playgrounds for the young and childless. Compared with Gen Xers and baby boomers, a much larger share of millennials moved to cities in their young adulthood — and stayed for longer. They wanted craft-cocktail bars over picket fences, walkable commutes over two-car garages, SoulCycle over swimming pools. In turn, cities were yassified in their image.
Millennials wanted craft-cocktail bars over picket fences, walkable commutes over two-car garages, SoulCycle over swimming pools. In turn, cities were yassified in their image.
That "youthification" trend has accelerated: Cities are getting younger, faster, from San Francisco to Boston, Salt Lake City to Seattle, Austin to Denver. But it's not millennials who are making them younger — it's Gen Zers. (Gen Z, it should be noted, isn't exactly thriving in urban real-estate markets. About a third of Gen Z adults are thought to live with their parents, and many don't think they'll ever be able to own a home.) Millennials, meanwhile, are aging out and getting priced out into suburbia.
Recently, the Suburban Jungle Group, a real-estate advisory firm that specializes in helping New York City dwellers move to surrounding suburbs, has been getting a lot of calls from millennials freaking out as their lifestyle grows out of reach. They got pandemic-era deals and signed two-year leases, and they're seeing their rent skyrocket. "Clients call us in a panic, saying, 'I got my renewal, I have 30 or 60 days to let them know, and my rent is increasing up to 30-plus percent,'" said Allison Levine, the firm's director of communications.
The pandemic only steepened a trend that's been ousting millennials from cities for years: rising housing costs in cities.
In 2017, Tiffany Stuart, then 36, and her husband left New York City and moved to New Jersey when they realized they couldn't afford a larger apartment for their growing family. These days, they both commute an hour each way — Stuart by train and her husband mostly by car — several times a week. Beyond tolls, car maintenance, and other commuting expenses, Stuart is frustrated by the other costs of owning a home, like leaky roofs and lawn care. Though she appreciates the greenery and her friendly neighbors, she misses aspects of city life, particularly all the West Indian restaurants she grew up around in Flatbush.
When COVID-19 shut down much of the country, millions of people were suddenly living their entire lives in their cramped apartments, and demand for larger homes shot up. And since there aren't enough family-sized apartments in urban areas to keep up with demand, in part because studios and one-bedrooms are more profitable for developers to build, that demand shot up in the suburbs.
Census data indicates that in 2022 adults between 20 and 29 were more likely to say they moved for housing-related reasons than for family- or employment-related reasons. Hyojung Lee and his colleagues at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies have found that cities with the most expensive rents and the smallest shares of apartments with three or more bedrooms lost the largest shares of their millennial population to the suburbs in recent years.
To Lee and his colleagues' surprise, millennials aren't moving to nearby dense, walkable exurbs. They're getting way out to peripheral suburbs.
"It turned out that millennials are moving to the most boring places in the world," says Lee, who's now a professor at Seoul National University. "They're moving to really single-family-dominated areas with very few urban amenities."
John Natale, a real-estate agent based in Wall Township, New Jersey, calls this phenomenon "drive till you qualify." He says it used to be that he could find his clients a home in their price range in whichever county they wanted to be in. Now, because prices in exurbs have swelled since 2022, his millennial clients are being priced out of anything within striking distance of New York. "People are adjusting one, two, maybe even three counties over just to be able to afford a house," he said.
Rafay Qamar, a real-estate agent in Chicago, says many of his millennial clients who left the city to buy homes in the suburbs in recent years are trying to come back. "Some of these were rash decisions because properties were moving so aggressively, so quickly. People didn't really have a chance to shop around," Qamar said. "In about a year or so they're like, 'Listen, work just opened up, and this commute is terrible. We've got to sell it and go back to the city.'"
But in this housing market, many are stuck. They can't afford to sell their suburban homes, some of which have depreciated since the market highs in 2021 and 2022, particularly with mortgage rates so elevated. "A lot of people are now underwater," Qamar said.
The urban affordability crisis is hitting all but the wealthiest. As lower-income people were priced out of cities, the rate of suburban poverty rose three times as fast as the rate of urban poverty from 2019 to 2022. Black families have been particularly affected. New York City lost about 9% of its Black residents over the past 20 years and more than 19% of its Black children and teens from 2010 to 2020. It's part of a broader trend, dubbed a "New Great Migration," of Black families leaving expensive northern cities for the suburbs and for the South, where the cost of living is lower.
A roundabout way to more walkable communities
It's expensive to live in the places millennials prefer: walkable communities with lots of shops, restaurants, and public space. An analysis published last year found that homebuyers in the 35 biggest American metropolitan areas paid 34% more to live in walkable neighborhoods, while renters paid 41% more. Paul Stout, a millennial landscape-architecture student with a popular urbanist TikTok account called Talking Cities, says he constantly hears from followers who wish they could afford a home within walking distance of places like coffee shops.
"I can't emphasize enough how many times I read comments with people saying that they wish they could live somewhere more walkable but they just simply can't afford it," Stout says. But while millennials wallow over the choice between a tiny apartment in a dense city and a lonely, sidewalk-less subdivision, urbanists insist any place can be dense and walkable as long as land-use laws allow it and people want to live there.
"There's a lot of places in the suburbs that could be really lovely to live if you could only put a grocery store or a coffee shop on the corner," Stout says. "I'm optimistic that you could actually make living walkable almost anywhere in the US, given the right package of zoning reform."
Zoning codes and other land-use regulations are controlled by local voters — and, particularly in suburbia, they tend to be older homeowners with a penchant for the status quo. Tayana Panova, an urban researcher writing a book about suburbia's effects on mental health, said an influx of younger "city-craving" homeowners and voters could change that, but only if they engaged themselves in the politics of it all.
Millennials could help transform suburban sprawl into town-like communities or small cities with more third places and a stronger sense of community, Panova says.
In some places, it's already happening. "Even the farthest-flung suburbs are starting to see some of the impacts of their new millennial residents. Many that gained a significant number of new millennial residents are also becoming more amenity-rich," Lee said. Suburban retail is booming — half of Sweetgreen salad shops are now in the suburbs, up from 35% four years ago.
"There are so many towns that in the last five, six years I've seen huge revitalizations, where all of a sudden restaurants and exercise studios and trendy stores start to pop up," says Levine of Suburban Jungle. "You can move to the suburbs and not feel like you need to go to the city to have a great dinner or to see a show or live music or the arts."
Panova says this could be "a turning point" for suburban communities with a burgeoning millennial population that "makes them more city-like."
"If we can plant those kinds of urban seeds that grow into little communities, that would be a great way to ease the pressure on these handful of cities that are getting all the incoming traffic of people," she said.
Indeed, if the restaurants, bars, and cultural institutions near Sutton's home in Nashville had been as easily accessible when she lived in the suburbs, she said, she might never have felt the pull back to the city.
Long live the Revolution.
Kodiak's expensive because it's on an isolated as fuck island, leave 'em alone!