You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can’t in China, because it’s an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we’ll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that’s what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.

My guy, I’m living in a state that tried to arrest a woman for removing an ectopic pregnancy.

Yep, and your state voted for that. My state amended it’s constitution to prevent this situation, also through voting.

In China, you don’t get that option, because China is an authoritarian state.

Authoritarian doesn’t simply mean “bad” even though authoritarianism is bad.

You know what’s not a sign of an authoritarian state? An appeals court overturning a bad verdict.

Crystal Mason’s contentious illegal voting conviction must be reconsidered, criminal appeals court says

You should really click the links you use as evidence.

China is an authoritarian state that had a literal one-child policy until recently

Interstellar is a terrible movie that doesn’t say or do anything special and I still don’t understand why anyone thinks it’s so amazing.

I did really like the robot guy though.

Here’s how you actually “manipulate the algorithm.”

1: take up residency in the comments, and at the same time start a few basic accts that don’t say anything too controversial (day in the life kinda stuff, thirst traps, etc). Establish a basic presence

2: once you amass a following, you start with pretty basic stuff lots of young people agree with - housing/healthcare reform, work reform, etc

3: an important part a lot of people miss - have your own team troll your comments. Stir up shit. The goal is to get people riled up, not move the needle in any specific direction

4: throw out something big (it’s been confirmed that Russia is behind distribution on TikTok of OBL’s “Letter to America” recently). Fight on both sides, tagging in as much of the greater sphere of commenters as you can.

That’s it. That’s all anyone’s doing. Just do this over and over and you eventually drive people crazy.

They did the exact same thing in 2016, they did it in 2020 with BLM, they did it with Ukraine. It’s nothing new

You cannot be this stupid.

I genuinely refuse to accept that you honestly believe what you say here

People from a place get to name the place. Americans named it America as a shorthand for USA.

Its no less weird than any other country name, which are similarly arbitrary.

The point is that en masse, when immigrants move to America, they create more jobs than they “take,” because immigrants are also consumers.

H1B visas might be used to make certain specific roles far more competitive, but you’d be hard pressed to make the argument that the tech sector isn’t one of the highest paying sectors period, or that they’re short on jobs

Lots of people are opposed to all sorts of legal immigration. Many people actually believe that immigrants can take away jobs from natives if they come over en masse, and then we won’t have jobs for people born here

It’s dumb but they believe it.

We’re not having a discussion about grammar, we’re having a discussion about how phrases can be misleading even if technically correct, and how those phrases can end up serving inhuman agendas.

We’re having a discussion about the way a person wrote a headline, and I explained that, rather than believe an elaborate conspiracy theory, you could acknowledge that this is just the way English grammatical structures work.

The alternative to “hit by a train” is going to be multiple sentences long to convey the same information. Your conspiracy theory about it being a deflection falls apart because the entire article is about how the officer is legally and ethically at fault, accepts that, and that the family understands that.

“Trapped prisoner in path of train” oddly enough, is slanted language with misleading nuances.

hit by train

hit by car

hit by a pitch

hit by stray bullet

struck by new knowledge

This is just the way our natural grammatical structure works.

Never have I cared so genuinely for places I have never before known about and cannot pronounce.

Absolutely guarantee you she is fun in bed. She’s completely fucking bonkers and red flags make for great sex.

average western homeowner(assuming house price of 1 million dollars)

That is not in any way average lol

It’s pretty great to be me, man. My life is kickass.

I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a big difference between how people act with anonymity and how they act in real life.

There are definitely real Nazis. They are definitely bad guys. Removing a blue checkmark is not anywhere close to the same as people being deported to concentration camps in the literal Holocaust.

Do you understand how ridiculous this sounds?

Nothing is going to happen to any striking workers. No one is “coming” for the actual trade unionists.

I also disagree with the current ruling on roe v wade

If the people paying did not believe they were getting their money’s worth, they would stop paying that much. The problem is, the ceiling is set by whoever can realistically pay the most.

My entire point is that CEOs are obviously overvalued, due to the ability of extremely large firms to pay exorbitant salaries via stock. This creates a negative ripple downstream that hurts a lot of smaller businesses.

What do you see as a false equivalency? My point is the actual harm skyrocketing CEO pay does is result in a more difficult time for companies that get their C-suite poached away.

I’m not equating anything. Worker pay is independent from CEO pay in that capping CEO pay has no expected impact on employee wages. Companies are already paying the market rate - they’re unlikely to just raise wages forever because of this.

We can have our own opinions on the ethics of that, but if we’re not running companies, that doesn’t matter. If you wanna fight for fair wages, you’ve got to live in reality.

Doctors are highly paid because they are scarce. You’ll note that surgeons in the UK, as an example, make about a third or less of what a US surgeon makes.

Our residency system, coincidentally, induces artificial scarcity of doctors