it depends on the addiction; alcoholism & gambling are.

The US will likely manage to carve up a sphere of influence for itself, but it’s quite clear that they’re overstretched already.

this part depresses me the most.

in the future: as brics nations work together towards ameliorating the effects of climate change to keep their populations fed, watered & sheltered, thus diminishing their capabilities; the g7 will continue to expand their already dominant financial and military control over the g20 & other vassal states through their access to abundant natural resources in canada, greenland, africa & the caucuses while continuing to further contribute to climate change in the process.

there’s been 4 people (out of 64) that made it past 70; 3 have lived until 100 or so and they were all skinny, short men.

it’s galling to me that my father and brother inherited these genes and it’s worse that they’re both conservatives; by brother is fully blown trump supporter and i know that he’s going to attribute his longevity to living a “clean and god fearing” life unlike his wicked, commie, queer brother.

very true, but in what form?

this particular message feels a lot like latin american leftists and artistic people’s identification w their culturally indigenous roots as a means to eschew their western colonial influence and reject western capitalist dominance, but it ignores the reality that the indigeneity that exists today was reconstructed from western colonial sources because the original was so devastated that the few bits and pieces that survived had to be mashed together into this populist revival intended to bring life to an alternative counter culture that’s almost entirely divorced from its original origins.

ghost dance was the last time a populist revival like this was attempted and just like it happened in the last century, it’ll have a relatively brief resurgence and then diminish significantly in the face of the same western civilization that gobbled up its original incarnation, leaving the people who continue to adhere to it so abjectly impoverished and at risk that they’re naturally slowly attritioning into non-existence; especially so in the united states and canada.

i fully expected that the bullworks recently resurrected in places like mexico and uruguay to crumble before western capitalism & skullduggery; as it has happened several times in the last few centuries; and i hope that i’m only being pessimistic about china’s chances to stem this tide, but the fact that the eu; australia; a majority of latin america (that effectively counters brazil, economically); and the key players in africa are dropping their defenses to the trade war makes me think that history will continue to repeat itself.

please tell me i’m wrong and why. brics doesn’t seem to be an answer given how much some of its founding members are odds with each other today and will be more so in a climate changed future; nearly all of the other countries wishing to join today will be likewise greatly diminished in a climate changed future.

are you me? lol

my father’s side has autism, depression, anxiety, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and obesity.

my mother’s side has autism, adhd, anxiety, alcoholism/addictions and cancers galore.

i got every single one of those and been getting treatment for all of it decades now, plus the added “benefit” of knowing that i’ll be dead sometime in my late 60’s to early 70’s because of it; i’m middle aged now.

the moderators of .world remove your comment if you respond to the tankie insult with “liberal” and it makes me wonder why .ml’s moderators don’t

i wish it was faster

watching these people suffer on tiktok and rednote is heartbreaking; i keep doing the gaming algorithms like they ask me to, but it feels like i’m not doing anything like most people.

again: no one is saying that that both parties are the same.

this just more deflection sourced from indoctrination.

no one’s arguing that one isn’t worse; but there are plenty of people who keep regurgitating this deflecting talking point and that makes it clear thorough the indoctrination has become.

the 2-dollar-store has a nice ring to it. lol

they’re kool aide drinking themselves into a single party state. lol

of course it sounds better; the democrat’s entire schtick is sounding better, but substantively the same.

no one is; but there are plenty of people who insist that the democrats are better because they dump a little bit less shit on you than the republicans while refusing to admit that shit piles up no matter how little you do it.

bUt iT’s bEtTeR WhEn dEmOcRaTs aRe iN CoNtRoL BeCaUsE ThErE’s nO FaCiSm!1!1

does it matter after we hit 104% after tomorrow?

until hexbear, i always thought that terrors only came in the form of reprehensible people; but seeing almost the entirety of the lemmverse get so scared by slop, beanis and owl posting is been nothing but lols for me.

it’s crazy that it took a trade war with the world’s hegemon to spur to bolivians into action.

indeed; they hold all of the cards so the only thing that is going to defeat the rat race is the rat race itself.