Zombie-Mantis

Ready to collapse?

I didn’t say it wasn’t? I just said the new party and it’s leadership are a joke. I didn’t say anything about the UK, itself.

Joke of a name for a joke of a party. Corbyn et al have already lost all credibility after the launch debacle.

Thankfully, the UK has more than one alternative to choose from, both the Greens and LibDems are shaping up to be strong left-challenges to the Uniparty and Reform.

And 45 in Fahrenheit is just cool, light jacket weather.

¿Por qué no los dos?

I don’t disagree about “American” being too vague, or the implied cultural supremacy over the rest of the Americas, I just hate the specific term “Unitedatatesian” because it’s long and ridiculous. Besides, it doesn’t really solve the problem of vagueness, it just shifts the question from "Where in the Americas" to "Which United States," since (while the USA is probably the first country you think of when someone says “America” or “United States”) there are other federal republics, some of which use the same or similar language.

If you want to use a seperate word that’s more specific to the United States of America, we already have one that’s deeply connected to our history and culture, which is easy to say, and which won’t get us confused with people of any other country: “Yankee.” It’s even used already in a lot of countries, notably by the English, and variants of it are used in other countries.

I despise “unitedatatesian” as a demonym. If you don’t like “American,” just say Yankee.

But yeah, Trump needs to either support Ukraine or fuck off. Our nvolvement is only desirable if it involves a shitload of material support to Kiev, not this backstabbing bullshit.

At least he’s honest, I guess. This time.

Evil hitlerite country, should be occupied and liberated.

Maybe in some scientific settings, but nowhere else. Why would it be logical to use a temperature system in every-day life who’s base is set to a temperature that doesn’t exist on Earth? Celsius and Fahrenheit are human-scale measurements, useful in daily applications. Celsius is a bit more logic-y, and Fahrenheit is intuitive.

As in, an improvement on the original (fewer famines) model? Or an upgraded, more effective (bigger famines) model?

Maybe this time they won’t dismantle the worker’s councils after the revolution, that’d be nice.

I think I’ve got an even better idea, then. Make the carving the main attraction. Cut the shoots down after everyone’s done, let it grow until it’s tall again, and repeat the process.

You could make it play into some historical traditions of impermanence and cycles of death & rebirth

Call me crazy, but who cares? It’s bamboo. Those names will disappear in about a week. Reinstate the entry fee, have a guy water-bottle-spray teens carving up the grass too much, and call it a day. It’s not that complicated, nor a huge deal, it’s bamboo.

M’Perry

It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?

Well, that kid didn’t ask to be there, so that’s pretty tragic.

That letter looks like a written speech impediment. Like you can’t quite pronounce “th” so you say something stuck between “p” & “b.”

I know what it is, I just don’t especially like the look of thorn.

Well, Trump has had some harsh words against Putin recently. The issue for him is that he’s too fucking impatient. He wants to be the man who solved the war in a day, but neither side is willing to give up like that. First he supported Russia, but the Ukrainians wouldn’t give in, then he supported the Ukrainians, but the Russians wouldn’t give-in. Then he pivoted to the middle East, hence the “12-day war” that he “ended.”

This business with Venezuela is no different, in my eyes. He wants a big win under his belt, and an external threat to bring a rally-aroud-the-flag. It’s like Mussolini desperately invading Ethiopia, in hopes of strengthen his position at home, only to isolate Italy from the world. It’s all just very, very stupid and evil and shortsighted.

Reopening Venezuela to the global markets is certainly a part of it, but “stealing their oil” isn’t. It’s more about the fact that they’re a thorn in America’s side, by not being part of the established political order, and calling themselves Socialist. It’s just all politics, and balancing coalition interests with public image.

Though, they wouldn’t really be “reinstating capitalism” either, just reopening them to markets and (hopefully, from their perspective) privatizing parts of the economy. Or, more specifically, bringing them into the global investment capital system. Venezuela only ever really nationalized a few key industries, there aren’t giant worker-enterprizes to disassemble, like in the Russian Civil War. It’s a much easier transition, and still, in pursuit of domestic political capital, not resource rights.