It won’t be pretty outside, but hey! Most likely you will be spending big chunks of the year in your bedroom due to the increasing likelihood of the thawing permafrost unleashing even more deadly pandemics anyway

Yeah in Germany every car has a 30cm red triangle in the side of the trunk and you are supposed to put it up a few metres behind the car when it breaks down so people can see that there is going to be an obstacle on the road

Ok wow you learn something new every day. Taxonomy is weird

Eating a lot is not the original meaning of gluttony in Catholic mythology. If you look at some of the self-evident deadly sins like envy, pride, greed, or wrath, you see these don’t refer to a specific action you commit, but rather an abstract emotional attitude, a “pre-sin” from which actual sins stem. For instance, sloth is not you spending an afternoon on the couch, it refers to a general lack of goals and eagerness to the point that it is harmful to you; and lust does not refer to having a lot of sex, it refers to your thoughts being dominated by desire. In the case of gluttony, it refers to a general obsession with having things in excess of what is good for you.

On a side note, in German traffic law they later came to mean the seven ways of wrongful driving that warrant criminal prosecution: Not respecting right-of-way (pride), wrongfully passing other cars (envy), driving wrong at pedestrian crossings (gluttony), driving too fast at an intersection (greed), not driving in the right lane (wrath), attempting to turn on motorways (lust), and failing to mark defective cars in traffic (sloth).

In this case, it is more like gastrology

The Bureau of Industry and Security versus the full weight of the Chinese government

How about Samsung, Apple, Google, Nokia, Ericsson, Comcast, AT&T, Telecom etc. versus Huawei in 2018? They could have had this “fair” fight instead, they specifically chose what is coming to them

I live 800 kilometres from the nearest coast, I DARE this plesiosaurus to come and get me

The problem is, what if they don’t? You do realise the enormity of the trust such an argument demands of the civilian population if you want them to be on board with military adventurism against nuclear powers? We don’t know for sure what goes on in the mind behind the button, and at least if you ask me, the risk of them having other motivations such as blind national pride, belief in conspiracy theories, or mental illnesses seems already great enough to demerit any such ideas from the start

There are plenty of nifty things war does for the capitalists: Capping supply and creating demand for goods, accelerating inflation, destroying surplus stock, lending emergency powers to the bourgeois state, reducing the power of unions, normalising corruption and castrating regulatory bodies, making workers need to accept lower wages; it even has a whole market of its own

Sorry but somehow I really don’t think the people handling nuclear weapons are awfully concerned about the consequences such an action will have on their street cred

Really bro, molecules? Did you think you were being sneaky trying to sell us on the idea of establishing hierarchies of electron shells?

This is not about justification but expectation. I do not think anyone here is trying to justify nuclear armageddon. The Japan bombs, along with numerous nuclear weaponry incidents in the past that humanity barely evaded, merely show that the patience of nuclear powers about such incidents is much, much shorter than commonly expected, and that crossing red lines said powers have long been making very explicit could reasonably turn out to have been a bad idea in hindsight

Lol I’m just trolling, I don’t actually believe in hibernationalism

wait, are you unironically gonna talk smack about the liberator of Auschwitz? if so why

If you’re rich and a communist it’s because you’re pampered, if you’re poor and a communist it’s because you’re jealous, and if you’re middle class and a communist it’s because you’re lazy. We have something for everyone!

The fuck are dormant states? North and South Dakota?

Rumour has it that the bear once tried to raid the federal honeycomb but the cells were so big it had to squeeze through and then it just stayed in the shape

The Europeans too like to pride themselves of their trains; which, granted, are faster than in the US individually, but in order to get from Rome to Berlin, you have to change trains at least three times and sleep at a station so it also takes 20 hours

There is no version of socialism that could be “what we want overall”. In each country where it is implemented, and within that country in each province, socialism changes its form to address the practical demands of the situation at hand, as they are dictated by the current local topography, climate, vegetation, state of infrastructure and material conditions, culture, demographics, history, law, foreign relations, military capabilities, advancement of urbanisation, education, bureaucratisation, and familiarity with technology, prevalence of diseases and their countermeasures, pollution, availability of public activities and facilities, et cetera.

The socialism in China is the socialism of China, and the socialism of neighbouring nations such as Vietnam, Laos, and the DPRK already looks very, very different; even moreso than the variation between and within China’s cities and provinces. Neither is its current form of socialism the same as what they did in the 1960s or in the 1990s. I suppose you don’t live in China - that much one can read into your takes - therefore I can already promise (disappoint?) you that when socialism develops where you live, it will be nothing like the Chinese version.

The Chinese government stole my sex drive, literally

See, I told you they’d find a way to deal with the demographics issue