Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on metamorphosis 39 minutes ago:
They promised he would be a dinosaur, and he became a chicken (sandwich)?
I wouldn’t fall for the same trick. Gotta specify which dinosaur or youll get something lame like a brontosaur.
- Comment on Priorities 2 days ago:
googles cheap airfare to Chernobyl
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
The cube of shame. You know who you are.
- Comment on Woof is dog for "You may test that assumption at your convenience" 2 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s similar to dog, no, but there’s people in Switzerland who probably would consider it a delicacy.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 weeks ago:
Wontonius sounds pretty roman
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
They had literally agreed to surrender before the first bomb dropped, their only condition being that the emperor remain, which the US agreed to anyway.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Kind of. That’s not really reconciled with the a general impression that the US won every single battle, and couldn’t find any more enemies to fight, because the Vietnamese would run away and hide in the woods or among the locals and the US only lost the war at home.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
No, they literally taught that the romans feasted so much they had special rooms for vomiting in. One of my aunts was incredulous that it was no longer taught, and insisted she had been to rome and saw the vomitoria, and remains convinced that it’s just some new theory by some fringe historian.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
Soviet blocking brigades weren’t machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Walking/riding in a thing rain coat, the sensation of rain telling your body you’re completely soaked, while dry as a bone underneath.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
The olive bone is the healthiest part! Keeps your teeth strong.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s missing the 6 month old leg of pork that’s so full of nitrates it cannot even rot.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
People do that shit in restaurants here, its so bad.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
??? If there is any good Mexican in China or vietnam, please tell me where.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 2 weeks ago:
institutionalized racism is worse than trudging through snow once in a while
How many black kids went to your highschool? There’s still institutionalized racism in Ohio, it just takes slightly different forms.
- Comment on Coincidence 3 weeks ago:
Gnorts is just how they say “Hello, my name is”.
Bit of a John Frum situation.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 3 weeks ago:
Same deal with Lake Placid, NY and Hakuba, Nagano, you ask anyone who’s been in a snow area since the 70s about how impassible people’s yards became from the snow when they were in their 20s. At least Sapporo got snow this year.
- Comment on International travel 3 weeks ago:
Do people actually hold that against you? The worst I’ve had to do was explaining that most Americans don’t support Trump, Elon is a Nazi (they didn’t get the memo in east asia), and then contextualizing whatever other weird impressions they have.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
No justice system lets the accused judge their own guilt, but the US admitted those guys were spies.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
I just defaulted to USA because it’s where I and (I think) most lemmitors are from.
In any case, it’s trivial not to get abducted and murdered, simply don’t commit espionage.
It’s weird that you only single non-western countries out when most countries treat espionage pretty seriously.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
That’s a bizarre claim to make when America has been abducting people, torturing them, and vanishing them, without due process for decades, and I am not aware of such a case happening in any of those 3 countries. Except in 2012, when China caught the CIA’s spy network and charged them with espionage.
As far as the bloody history goes, tge blood is only on the hands of the side that invaded and subjugated them.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
wouldn’t go there if you paid me
Why? Vietnam is beautiful, experiencing towns built around bikes instead of cars and being able to buy good meal for 1.20 USD is good for your soul. China is the most developed country in the world right now, and I’m planning to go back in a month or so. I haven’t been, but I hear Cuba has lovely beaches and rum.
Were you under the impression these places were dangerous?
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, if you oppose capitalism too much, you just start hating minorities. That’s just horseshoe theory. They wouldn’t teach it in schools if it wasn’t true.
Definitely don’t come to China, Vietnam, or Cuba and check for yourself, just trust your government.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
Instead of listening to anticommunists from a century ago, why don’t we compare what communists have done in China over 50 years to their neighbor, India? One of those countries exports food for a profit while the children of the laborers who picked that food suffer from malnutrition. Or why don’t we look at life expectancy in Cuba today and before the revolution. You can even compare Cuba to their capitalist ruled neighbors.
To quote (Michael Parenti)[youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14]:
If Communists, if we Leftists, if we Marxists, if we revolutionaries, if we progressives, if we—all we want is to hunger for power, then why do we side with the powerless? Then why don’t we toady up to power? Why don’t we take the road of the Henry Kissingers and the Patrick—Daniel Patrick Moynihans and the Zbigniew Brzezinskis and the Eugene V. Rostows and the McGeorge Bundys, who toady up and mouth for power? When Henry Kissinger was made National Security Advisor for Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller gave him fifty-thousand bucks as a going-away present.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
Weird how they brought a billion farmers out of poverty. I wonder why they would do that if those farmers didn’t have any influence.
We certainly don’t see that happening in capitalist countries right nextdoor, such as India.
the remainder is committing their own little genocide at home
lol you still believe that? Anybody can literally go to Xinjiang, there’s no travel restrictions. Don’t you think they would try to keep foreigners from going there and talking to people if they were committing a genocide?
- Comment on Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes 3 weeks ago:
Don’t send them to NL, send them to Vietnam where driving a car as bikes weave around all sides of you is hellishly stressful, but bikes supply the experience cars promised but failed ti deliver, of being able to go wherever you like at a whim and free to park mere feet from mist businesses.
- Comment on Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes 3 weeks ago:
The Seoul metro has level boarding and like a 2 inch gap, I’ve seen old folks drive their scooters right on.
- Comment on Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes 3 weeks ago:
One way streets are great with bikes.
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 3 weeks ago:
They will remain applicable until the evil empire collapses.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 weeks ago:
Liberals perceive criticism for enabling the right and opposing the left at every opportunity as left in-fighting.
The left identifies the liberals as part of the right.