Dear US liberals: the US don't actually need Russia to fuck its shit up for it. The fucked-upness is built in. Hence why all the money has enslavers on it.
Remembering that I've ended up in places that have turned out to be incredibly trendy by complete accident. This happens when you're a poor person livin in a big city, so you catch that bit where stuff starts to take off but the gentrifiers will only visit it with a distateful look but not deign to live there cause of being massive postcode snobs.
It'd be nice if all the bad shit that goes on in the US got noticed and acted on more often than just when some GOP asshole is in charge.
"Oh, shit, Murikkka is..."
Horrible? Built on the pure evils that are the speciality of colonial empires funded by joint stock companies and extreme cruelty and atrocity? Still talking about evil bastards like Jefferson and Washington as if they was gods rather than demons (worse than that, just really evil evil fuckin humans) as every dollar spent on propping up that hubris infested empire budded from the eurocolonialism that spawned it on land that was never theirs with labour without consent or payment with the effects felt *to this very day* has the faces of them monsters printed on em? Evidently very comfortable with the fascism that grows like a toxin in the colonial petri dish that never gets smashed? In dire need of being demolished and redesigned by the ppl it marginalises the most 24/7? Yeah. Pretty much.
If you need a whole damn essay to explain why an AI chatbot of Anne Frank is in extremely poor taste, you're gonna find a lot of other ethical stuff pretty fuckin complicated by comparison, cause that one is an easy "Hell no"
@skinnylatte The fact I was able to get a random burger while hurrying between airport gates in Malaysia that outranked entire restaurant dishes in the west says quite a lot.
Weirdest thing to me is seein the "out of touch" argument.
Dude. Most of the ppl in power are very, very rich, very very powerful and spend their time at dinner parties with very, very rich and very, very powerful ppl who get out of bed every day and go "Ah, yes. I am considerably richer today, and possibly more powerful" and that goes extra for when it's in a very very rich and very very powerful country.
I don't know how to tell you this, but that bit is about as baked in as it gets.