third world countries where multinational corporations have been buying up land and propping up and collaborating with authoritarian governments for decades: first time?

me speaking in morse code

well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they're surrounded by water all the time

what if... the US invasion of Iraq and Saudi censorship of the press can both be bad?

I'm from the Philippines and I can explain why, at least here, most people still use chrome. Over here, we're much more concerned about our money and time over our rights and privacy, which means we usually just choose the most convenient and cheap money-wise, which is why the majority of us still use chrome and why the government here can get away with so much shit. we don't care about our rights not because we're being given bread and circuses, but because we're too busy making a circus out of ourselves so we can buy bread.

non-american here. I knew the conservatives in your country were bad but holy shit

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

chatGPT doesn't chastize me like a drill instructor whenever I ask it coding problems.

my language doesn't have gendered pronouns so we just use "siya" for singular they and "sila" for plural.

I'm curious what other languages specify if "they" is singular or plural and how?

don't forget the US-backed Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.. he oversaw a borderline ethnic cleansing campaign against moro muslims in mindanao, had thousands tortured and killed and sometimes had their mutilated bodies strewn on public areas(this is what we call salvaging), created an oligarchy that lives on today and, with his wife and children and billions of public funds, was flown out of the country by orders of Reagan when his regime was toppled by the 1986 revolution.

and now his son, who continues to deny his father's crimes and refuse to return the billions they stole from us, is president.

mmorpg sweats be like:

Filipino here, I'm curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?

don't get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they'd never pull stunts like this over here.