JamesStallion

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am not American, but I think my statement can be said to be true of the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain and Italy at the very least since these are countries whose recent elections I have followed a bit.

 

All us WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) countries seem to spend a really embarrassing amount of time talking about the pointless minutiae surrounding our candidates for office and their personal lives.

We are also prone to backing very crap candidates based on personality, rhetoric, appearance ie: things that have nothing to do with being a good executive or legislator.

I think we should ban names from the election process and just have each party submit their ideas in writing and let people vote based on those submissions.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All cars are death machines

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (7 children)

A fucking love haloumi, I fucking love grilling haloumi on my fucking grill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sounds to me like you think a beard is nothing more than an affectation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

In my experience the only thing most people take from this sort of article is that they should not be asked to make any changes to their own lives

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

"Politics is war without bloodshed" -Mao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

so I'm an English Quebec person but I live and work in French, and it is pretty much always officially réunion.

However, my point isn't that the Quebecois won't drop an anglicism from time to time, it is that European folks in my neighbourhood take it upon themselves to correct these anglicisms in the Quebecois, without any self awareness of their own.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"en meeting" I never want to hear another euro douche tell the quebecois they don't speak proper French again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I remember you making a pretty impassioned case that discussion and the marketplace of ideas are not useful Davel. This is what that attitude looks like from the other side I guess.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think its a bot that starts beef

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I love most of what gets posted here as a great reminder of the US‘s unofficial history. However I can't help but wonder where the "real leftists" are who usually go off about how "authoritarian" isn't a real word/was invented by the cia/is just propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But it's not a cookie! It's a Newton!

 

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