Jiggle_Physics

We also, specifically, forced them into cultural re-education camps to force them to be christian, not speak a native language, or engage with anything from their native roots.

Lonely, social security, grandmas gettin in dat protein

Just looked up some serving sizes, etc, at some of the most famous cheesesteak places in philly. This will be around 2500-3000kcal. Honestly not as high as I thought. I was thnking a 12" philly would be around 2000-2500kcal, and turns out they are like 1000-1250kcal less.

Not sure how many I ended up eating, but I went to my grandmother's house one day. She was the kind of little old lady that had bowls of candy on every table in the house. The day I came over, I was helping her move the appliances in her kitchen around, so she could clean. She had a bowl of gummy bears on the counter. Gummy candy is my favorite, so I ate the whole thing while I waited for her to sweep before I moved an appliance out, or back into place. When she went to wipe down the counter she realized it was empty and asked if I ate it. I said yeah, and she informed me they were fiber supplements, of which one dose was 2, and I apparently had eaten an entire bag of them she got from Sam's club.

That night sucked.

I am not sure which one, the letter just says "under current executive order", and it killed a program that granted supplemental coverage for a variety of different drugs, and other treatments, that meet whatever requirement, so drugs I take for polycystic kidney disease are now denied to me. Also another long term therapy for complications with my spina bifida might get the axe, the order was blocked, but since this requires there to be secured future funds for them to approve it. Now they are looking at the instability of this situation as a reason to drop it until things stabilize.

Many conservatives around me are now deeply regretting voting for trump, because it has put their lives in turmoil, for similar reasons to mine, I live in an apartment building for people with disabilities. When you vote against basic QOL, even against your own interest, often because you were too ignorant to know anything about what you voted for (many people here are saying they heard that he supported one, or two, things they liked, and wanted to MAGA, and are not "political enough" to know everything else, and didn't really know what tariffs are), and supported out-right bigots, and numerous other things, well, you deal with the consequences of it. Reactionary party support for shit like this will earn you hate. No I am not defending the DNC, they are corporate own imperialists who are responsible for the disenfranchisement of the working class. However voting for bald faced fascism shows a lack of empathy, and therefore you lose a lot of empathy for your own plight. Trust me, I live in Appalachia near norther WV, it is very poor here, very working class, and very desperate, very conservative. A lot of people here are now regretting their vote because they lost a lot of compensation, at their jobs, due them changing the budget to get a year+ worth of materials before the tariffs. Even the c-suite had to take cuts, and several major employers are eyeing moving to the EU. Some are still doing strong mental gymnastics to justify their support, however, as their income dwindles, and they struggle even more to support heir families, hopefully they will begin to look for alternatives. The tide is shifting back to being in favor of unionization, and general collective bargaining, so there is hope.

How is libertarian socialism better than socialism with chinese characteristics?

Hmmm... maybe, you know, not having a police state, not having all media, and communications, from places other than china either just blocked out, or highly filtered, not having a single group of people effectively controlling all the power, and strictly determining anything any media has to broadcast, stream, upload, publish, etc.

Let me guess though, these things are somehow not a part of chinese socialism?

Trump is the one who fucked up the treatment I need to live. Literally his orders have stopped it.

The point of saying the pain, etc., is because you were saying everyone here are privileged to the point where they complain about "only" making 80k a year, and live easy lives, with little struggle. There are tons of people on lemmy who are poor, and working class, and marginalized.

Beyond this there is a reason china hasn't taken all the lands in the waters around them, or the parts of russia they claim heritage to, or other places they have their eyes on, NATO. The US military infrastructure developed with NATO literally is what is locking them out of their south china sea expansion, and so on. And no I am not saying NATO are the good guys, they are just the imperialists that currently have their military super structure in place to keep others from expanding. If NATO dissolves, and the US leaves the area, we will see china start making good on their claims of land ownership not recognized by anyone, the south china sea, etc.

Yeah, that was some baffling shit. Makes me wonder if it's some sort of bot.

How could I have forgotten the gold rule, no fun on the grad!

It almost feels like some sort of AI bot framed to make people angry, for not being leftist enough, or something, with the underlying intent to create a shame response to criticisms of like trump, I guess... such a weird thing to go off about.

Correct, it is me that kills all the children in your area.