@gyyyeTt@dav3syco@Rror79 Anyone who claims to be “self-sufficient” is LARPing. Even still, if your excuse for Americans never standing up to tyranny is that they simply withdraw from society, give up their cities and live like cave people, that is not a convincing point in favor of the states.
@dav3syco@Rror79 In other words, in EU they have top-down government-enforced thought police, but, strangely, the US’s more indirect management of public thought (via social ostracism and big company enforcement) is actually more effective.
“The alphabet is Arabic.” Liberals don’t actually know things, they repeat slogans they once heard and most of the time they get it partially or completely wrong.
@martyrmade@charlesmurray The claim is also just untrue. She could wear that dress anywhere in Lebanon and certainly in Damascus and nobody would care. It takes exactly one minute to look up a “walking around Damascus” video on YouTube to figure this out. One need not even get off the couch
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
@Deploy_U@Jorgebuxade “Ummmmm posting this might make people realize my leftist positions are anti-human and turn everything into shit. Thankfully, the authoritarian state agrees with me, so I can report you to the police for it.”