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America going Zero to Nicolae Ceaușescu in less than 12 parsecs

just so thoroughly true and highly cross-cultural

Dudes smell bad. Young dudes who are just going through puberty typically don't realize how bad they smell, because they didn't smell this bad until they started growing hair and whatnot. Only children and other kids cut off from older mentors or other wiser peers often don't realize how/why they're so off-putting. And when you combine smell with a host of other physical/social/intellectual hang-ups common to teenagers, its easy to see how "You smell bad" gets lost amid the crowd of other generic insults that get flung around.

Hygiene can't be a one-day thing, you have to keep those clothes from getting smelly for as long as you own them. Barring actually forcing people to take a supervised shower to ensure they soap their ass, put on deodorant & issuing them a clean set of clothing on entry this will always be a problem.

Its a bigger thing for men (especially hairy men) entirely because of physiology. And when you spend a lot of time around other men who also smell bad, you go a bit nose-blind.

Depending on the culture of the group you're in, this can be self-correcting or self-reinforcing. Teenagers with older brothers/sisters will often get the talk about why young dudes are gross much sooner. Kids with younger parents / younger aunts or uncles or cousins / big extended families often get clued in sooner, too.

But - historically speaking - these aren't the kids that gravitate towards CCGs as a means of peer-bonding, because they're chasing their older peers' hobbies rather than clinging to games made for the

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If I watch it, I'll watch it as God intended. Via piracy.

buckling up for Economy Crashed Because Wages Too High headlines in 2025

They hated Jesus because he spoke the truth.

A Toast To The Troops! All The Troops! Both Sides!

Political views are also a choice

Not to get all but you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. You're the product of your historical and material conditions.

In that sense, its not unfair to say that kids who grew up ensconced in the imperial core are inevitably going to have political views informed by their personal economic conditions and educational institutions. What's more, as the benefits of the imperial core being contingent on the continued exploitation of foreigners and "illegal" domestics, the First Class Citizens are in a naturally adversarial relationship with their Second Class and foreign peers.

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That's not an argument against inclusion. At some level, you are right to exclude folks with toxic ideology from events focused on organization and action that these poisoned ideologues are going reflexively to opposed.

It is simply a recognition that certain people have more agency wrt their political philosophy than others. Folks who get to go to University and travel the world and meet people with adverse ideology and conditions and actually do something to participate in the struggle for liberation are on a very different footing than folks who just grew up in the back country of empire and fed themselves from the company store that's suddenly got empty shelves and a big "Immigrants Did This To You" placard where the treats used to be.

I'm sure there's some take on "Nazis" being a cult rather than a political party. And then, if you dig a bit deeper, there's going to be some line about Communism and Nazism being the same, MAGA conservatives and Chapo Leftists just being confused about what they actually believe, and eventually "Okay yes we accept everybody but they still have to Obey The Law" when it comes to immigration and religious practices, etc, etc.

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Alderaan Was Harboring Hamas-style Terrorists

We're going to cut the NHS backlog

By increasing the number of physicians and clinics, right?

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Dave Ramsey is the economics equivalent of JBP.

Giving out some basic bitch tips about paying off your credit card monthly, saving in an IRA, and avoiding long-term car notes. Then padding out his advice with bazinga brain nonsense like "Don't got to college", "Pay your kids a commission to do their chores", "Only invest in dividend yielding stocks", and "Become a slumlord the quick and easy way".

Just awful, soulless, and even-by-common-standards largely out-of-date financial advice that's stuffed to the brim with MLM ads and other scams, intended to play on your naive understanding of personal finances.