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From the outside it's funny to see how fast America is becoming like China. But I feel for you guys, and in the long run nothing is funny about it, only in the short.
China for all its faults has a functional government, growing economy and rule of law is strictly enforced. Would we be so lucky to become like China. The US is spiraling towards becoming like post soviet Russia.
Would we be so lucky to become like China.
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Compared against the direction we are already taking its an easy choice.
Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than "both are bad"... I guess at least China has socialized medicine so you won't die from ingesting boot polish.
Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than “both are bad”
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel are all "authoritarian" but wildly different societies. Merely labeling them as "authoritarian" and leaving it at that is short circuiting your reasoning skills.
One is a kingdom where everyone knows who is the king and who they are listening to.
The rest fake democracy, where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.
where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.
That's how neither of the last three work. To keep it short the last three are:
- settler colonial state where genocide has popular support.
- mafia-state where reality doesn't matter
- Indirect democracy dominated by a party particing Democratic-Centralism.
What your described is something like France and Bernard Arnault. There's many like this but that's your normal freedom loving democracy™.
edit: who is the secret rich dude running Russia and China if its not Putin and Xi? 🤣
~~dicks~~ spoons out for ~~harambe~~ free speech 🥄🥄🥄
It's just cold out right now...
Shut up.
Oh splendid, the spoon gestapo’s here—scrubbing dissent one forking emoji at a time. Musk-Trump synergy in full clown mode: delete the 🥄, bury the evidence, pretend the resistance never happened.
Imagine feeling threatened by a utensil. These chuckleheads nuked spoons faster than a toddler bans broccoli. ”Fork in the Road”? More like ”Fork You”—but labor’s serving petty defiance with a side of Slack rebellion.
Keep licking that boot, boys. When your dystopian flowchart includes emoji purges, maybe the problem isn’t the spoons—it’s the rotted system they’re scooping out. My status? Still a shovel.
Seems like a violation of their first amendment rights. The government is not a private company.
If no one is willing or able to defend constitutional rights, they don't really exist any more. I hope there are legal cases being prepared at least, to challenge all this new censorship.
Emojis are characters... They can still be pasted in to text fields...
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Time for the knife emojus, I suppose.
The ides of March is coming up. Just saying.
So it's not so much a fork in the road as it is a chopstick.
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There really should be a pitchfork emoji.
If they want forks, they'll get forks. Just not in the road.
Edit: I should have said, "fork in the chode". It was right there.
there's also not a traffic cone emoji. Not that related, but I swear there was one.
O----
When you take away the spoons, the only choice left is between ~~pitch~~forks and knives. Metaphorically. In Minecraft.
There is no spoon.
Could always sub with a spork.
I just don’t have the spoons for this.
Salad Fingers has entered the chat.
That'll work for sure.
Oh, FORK YOU Trump!
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