It kinda boils down to chucking rocks in the river alone vs chucking rocks in the river with friends.

The whole ‘run government like a business’ idea usually entails running it into the ground. It’s just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.

I am really glad you wrote this, since it dovetails perfectly into my conclusion for anyone else reading. Thanks.

Oh man I had forgotten about the pink Bible lady. I just can’t keep track of all our goddamned coups in Latin America.

Well, the United States claims no involvement and the complete capitulation and pivot of policy is just coincidence. But also the US State Department wants to drive wedges into the unions and protests by portraying it as socialist agitation against democracy.

These protests blocking the highways are largely being orchestated by the major trade union. That part of the article isn’t wrong.

The short part is: Military tried to coup in 2024. Opposition to the military coup called on unions to strike. They did.

The coup was an internal split of the ruling coalition, so the current president, from the Christian centrist party, managed to win in 2025. He did not include the trade unions or indigenous people of Bolivia in his government and is turning everything over pretty categorically to American/Epstein class interests. (Wealth taxes cut, restored Israel relations/cut off Cuban relations, etc.)

So the disenfranchised unions are striking, which is being written off as little more than insurrection from a defeated party that had a split and an attempted coup in 2024.

You really have to believe and trust the current American government to really critique the protests quite frankly.

We allow it if they’re cut into really teeny tiny pieces.

Just being a persistent world was a huge novelty in and of itself.

Asheron’s Call was my time sink. It had quests and stuff but the devs had a storyline they developed with active monthly updates. It made everything feel so alive on top of it also just existing in realtime.

And even so the quests and stuff they added was extra fluff. The social system and trading economy were the backbone of the game. It wasn’t until trade bots really took over that the social system collapsed.

It’s the racism. You can be interested and entertained by it, but many people prefer not to condone it.

The Bay of Pigs, the attempted invasion of Cuba, always seems to get omitted when the Cuban Missile Crisis is brought up.

With Cuba, in just about every case, the United States has acted as both the provocateur and the aggressor. Unless you want to go all the way back to Batista, whose ousting is the primary reason for this stance against Cuba.

Also the United States operates a military base and prison in Cuba already.

A post with a handful of interactions where the OP disagreed with db0. And I guess somewhere else Cowbee made a comment about db0.

db0’s statement appears to be about the damage dismantling a state dystopia can cause, so the other users aren’t quite responding to what he actually wrote.

Other context: LGBT people in GDR technically lost legal rights in german reunification. AFAIK the Nazi era legal discrimination wasn’t really enforced, but also not repealed fully until 1994. So like West Germany was more open to the LGBT movement socially, but also let Nazi laws about it linger on the books a bit too long.

proceeds to pay $100,000 in lawyer fees to fight a $5,000 ticket for dumping.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/16b1a78e-b6f1-4e34-8c0c-50f891cea7fc.jpeg

That’s from the thread I linked, though sharing Permalinks always seems wonky. That’s the exchange from the Matrix

Can fit an apartment complex through those loading dock doors.

From what I saw and read: Mia requested 'reply_is_stupid" be changed to “reply_is_loweffort”, alluding the term ‘stupid’ is problematic and considered ableist. Rimu responded by saying he put pronouns in Piefed so he can’t be a transphobe and then kicked her.

That was mostly the interaction. If you consider Rimu actions, it’s either berift of logic, or it seems as though Rimu equated ableism and mental disability to pronouns and being trans.

I prefer the illogical interpretation. It’s more in line with Rimu crashing out lately from what I assume is extended burnout.

Edit: here: https://quokk.au/c/yepowertrippinbastards/p/895858/piefed-dev-rimu-bans-user-from-matrix

Wandering into spaces just to throw hands is usually the basis for most people getting banned or their comments deleted. The content of their commentary is usually notwithstanding at that point.

It’s my best guess as to why it was brought up in the first place.

Hey, they’re just an r-word and Scandinavia enjoyer, with some light bannings attributed to transphobia and nazism. That’s not at all relevant when they’re out here in the wild trying to forge up some horseshoe theory!

shitlibs who know almost nothing about North Korea

The trick is not to take that qualifier personally. It is possible to a) know something about North Korea and/or b) not be a shitlib. The pejorative use doesn’t have to be owned by the reader.