PearlRiver

Is that not how it always goes? Robbing a bank got you in jail a lot longer than assaulting a woman.

The USSR was selling art to fund the KGB. Stone glass houses.

A tip at McDonald's. Hello I ordered at the kiosk and just spoke literally one word to the young lady over there why am I tipping...

Ultimately the only antidote to US propaganda is nationalism. Anyone in my country who is caught funded with US money may as well hang themselves they are electorally dead as a dodo.

This to be fair is why the CIA had to move suitcases with money instead of bragging about it on Fox News...

To be fair some of those CEOs will have trouble finding golf buddies for a few months.

Also if you have a few hundred million bucks you will still have your mansion if you get it wrong.

The world has gotten more political. Everything is going to shit and we have not even really started the climate change.

I read a book once about doctors who went into the slums to treat cholera in the 19th century- noblesse oblige. We are now WORSE than the Victorians.

I remember this came up during COVID. The government was worried that homeless people and illegals would be afraid to report symptoms. GPs are specifically free and don't have to ask for papers or insurance to combat these health crises.

Tammany Hall did not happen because they were immigrants it happened because someone thought it was a good idea to have people who could not even write their own name vote. Democracy hinges on a well educated populace who actually gives a shit- which as we all know has not and never will happen.

The worst form of government- except for all the others so far tried.

Yes I too was downloading anime in the early 2000s. As someone living in a small provincial town there was effectively no real way to watch Naruto or GitS.

Piracy made the world a digital village.

If everyone wears a smartglass it becomes easier for the creeps to hide. A tree in the forest.

When a minor gets online it is only a matter of when not if before they get questions about their underwear.

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America does not want friends only vassals. Which arguably is what Canada became after the British left.