You say this ironically, but there are several relatively recent U.S. presidents or people in their administration who have said things that would get them branded tankies today.

I’m thinking specifically of a speech Jimmy Carter gave where he said it’s no wonder North Korea ended up the way it had, considering we bombed every building over two stories into the ground.

Kissinger is also obviously evil but only because of his realpolitik - by modern ideological standards where any anti-Western power is treated as worse than Hitler by even social Democrats, his dispassionate readings would get him labeled a Marxist.

Marxism is the only valid framework to analyze the world.

Physical, human-legible media, like punch cards

They’re answering like that because they’re trying to be kind and give you the benefit of the doubt - but no, lol, no one here over the age of ten believes in magic anymore lmao. If that’s the straight answer you want

No lol. Belief in the supernatural in any form is un-Marxist.

Whether that’s angels and demons and deities, witches and ghosts, or astrology and healing crystals. It is a virtue to have a completely Materialist worldview.

Never admit your mistakes. Always commit.

Signal is great. They always give good coverage for progressive causes.

Worldwide Socialist revolution. Creating a society hostile to the accumulation of wealth, where all means of production are controlled by the workers.

I think both are bad communication. When I hear “messages are not end to end encrypted”, I think that my ISP or a hacker might be able to see them but not, like, ordinary people. In reality, whatever shitheads are administrating either your or the recipients instances.

I think “private messages are visible to both your and the recipients instance administrators” would be more clear

“Leftist”

.world account

Let me guess, you would have voted for Obama a third time if you could?

Reading this article just makes me sad about how shit Magic is now compared to how it used to be

I think the larger point is that private messages are visible to instance admins.

The Mexican section of your grocery store should have Clamato or other brands of Mexican tomato juice

I missed the joke too, I thought the joke was that 98F temperatures were hot enough to kill the average Brit

I didn’t know the PS2 had a keyboard

Finger maiden? I hardly know her maiden!

Sex and beer

Most cities have a bus service, but they only rarely connect to smaller towns (“smaller” being relative here, like 30,000 people).

To put it in perspective, I live in a suburban apartment outside of a medium-sized city in Ohio. There is a single busline that goes through my neighborhood (which thankfully has a stop right outside my complex). A bus comes by once an hour between 7 AM and 7 PM.

This can get you to work if you’re lucky enough to work a 9-5 next to a bus stop. My work has a bus stop, but I work a 4-12, so no luck.

My favorite bar is in the next town over, a college town about 15 minutes down the road. If I wanted to get there by public transit, I would need to wait for the hourly bus outside of my apartment, get off at a grocery store, wait about a half an hour for a connecting bus from the college town’s bus service, and that’s not even counting the drive time.

And if I don’t leave the bar by 6 PM, of course, I’m stranded without an Uber or something, because even on weekends (not that I have weekends off work) the busses only run till 7 PM.

And there’s other towns nearby that I literally cannot take public transport to. I had to work an event in a smaller city (but still probably within the top 20 in the state for population) about half an hour drive away. There is no bus service that connects me to them. The only options are driving or Uber.

From the thumbnail those looked like PSL signs

I was going to answer “in the Internet Hole”, which was also my college nickname