great point. The orange should also be just the front of his face. the edges and neck should be his naturally translucent un-oranged wrinkly skin.

qanon is wildly conservative.

and what’s homophobic to you about two guys kissing?

very well could be.

I did not realize that graffiti was based on an actual photograph.

Good article.

I appreciate that this was the photo the bbc chose to express German concern over US Russian relations;

yeah, it’s right in that same article.

looks like that’s the “details below” part of that paragraph.

people saved them before they were Taken down.

https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

thank goodness, people needed to stop listening.

the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.

usually the public has a window where they can offer input.

if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.

i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.

and more will follow, thank goodness

Rump bragged he would basically sabotage the utility of weapons and equipment the US sells to allies.

“am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed”

yup.

Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren’t the problem.

everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that’s why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.

the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.

wwwwhoa that is crazy.

foam retardants aren’t effective? is the battery burning too hot?

I’ll tell you, I backpack between cities regular, and a lot of those agricultural towns don’t even have police stations.

every time someone, including myself quotes the population of China, (officially 1.4 billion), I think about the huge towns in the middle of nowhere that I’ve been to and think “or maybe 2 billion”

“You need me to recap this exchange…?”

nope, I did that for you a couple comments above.

“as they saw China, the country, as in the regime, as dangerous”

you are making things up. That is not what @DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee said.

@DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee said:

"I hate the culture”, “I hate Chinese culturue”, “fuck China”, “I hate the whole thing”

The whole thing, sport. The people, the culture, the whole thing.

After I pointed out this was racist, DP was quick to change his tune, and say he hated everything about China, specifically the culture, except the people.

Hating culture or thinking one is superior to another is racism, especially when you know so little about the culture except the people who make it up.

Quick def for you: “Cultural racism is a concept that has been applied to prejudices and discrimination based on cultural differences between ethnic or racial groups. This includes the idea that some cultures are superior to others”

“Your concern was their apparent racism”

Yeah, I don’t like racism so I call it out when it occurs. Usually it stems from ignorance, and they just have to be called out to be woken up.

“criticizing this position of your,”

not my position, you’re making this up.

" personally find America snd China’s regimes parallels,"

absolutely absurd, as I explained above. but it’s good you changed your tune to: “although ideologically opposite”, which is still incorrect but more open-minded.

See, all I have to do is call you guys out and you start thinking more critically.

“without addressing a single point of it”

Which part do you want more help on? I have a lot of time and am free to continue correcting and educating you.

“without addressing a single point of it”

clearly not true, and you know it:

“except for…”

except for addressing every single point. With verifiable knowledge.

“I’ve already deemed this a closed argument”

Oh, clearly, it’s so closed you needed to write paragraphs rewriting yours and others’ comment history and reframing their racism.

“Be well, have a good one.”

Thanks, I’m having a GREAT one!

I have to get all your uninformed false starts out of the way somehow.

“…you instantly decided I was talking about China when…”

Yes, seeing as how you said you were commenting on a thread about China and the US, and then at the end mentioned the Chinese and the Americans by name with reference to your comments, I did come to the conclusion you were talking about China and the US.

since you were literally talking about China and the US.

“Thank you for remembering China has, technically, the longest standing continuous civilization.”

I did not say that and that is incorrect, but you’re welcome.

“I’m aware”

clearly, you are not.

“But since we are focusing our attention on recent history…”

that is your personal myopia, do not speak for others.

“Shall we deny the revolution led by Mao…”

I guess you could, but I don’t see the point of disagreeing with me there.

His regime and its effects are very well documented, If you look into it at all, you’re just going to prove me right.

“let’s also ignore and deny the…”

go for it.

you understand that your denial of basic historical facts is the reason you are so far off base here, right?

“Fascinating how any ideology, when led to it’s extremes degenerates into essentially the same outcome.”

I was waiting for your historically incorrect conclusion of magnet theory, and you finally made your way there.

your argument that the sky and the ocean are the same thing because they’re so far apart from each other is a ridiculous conclusion, but explains your thought process.

I haven’t deleted any of my comments. Why would I?

I prefer confronting bigots and those with limited understanding and correcting their ignorance.

You being racist is not “all good dude.”

You changing your tune is not bad, though.

You’re the only one frightened enough to be using personal insults.

Saying an entire country sucks ass when all you know about it is the race of its people is racist.

Hating cultures you don’t know anything about is racist.

What you said is racist.

I’m glad you’re changing your tune, but it doesn’t change your earlier racism.

“…I know these things.”

You are factually incorrect. you obviously know nothing about china if you think a huge swath of their workforce is useless.

You don’t know things, you are ignorant of things.

what you know: “I hate the culture”, “I hate Chinese culturue”, “fuck China”, “I hate the whole thing”

Most of this is defined as “cultural racism” - "Cultural racism is a concept that has been applied to prejudices and discrimination based on cultural differences between ethnic or racial groups. This includes the idea that some cultures are superior to others "

You said you hate all of it,which includes the 1.4 billion people, which is more conventional racism.

You are racist and are saying racist insults. That’s who you are now, but you do not have to be stuck there.

Now you are trying to change what you said, and claim you are not racist. That’s a good first step, really.