Meta was making Threads federate, so they know at least.

Most young people have more applicable life experience to current situations than the average Boomer IMHO. Unlike them, others weren’t born at the luckiest point. And didn’t piss it away like them

They’re saying they like minors

Can you rephrase that in any way that makes sense?

Hey, you want to argue the world should be treating the US as a pariah state as well, I have no objection.

The UK doesn’t quite do that, though, do they? How’s that war in Iran going?

If the rich control the elections, doesn’t that make them meaningless?

Just wait until The Guardian learns about the CIA!

They actually dig up the 100 million victims of communism, brought them back to life, then killed them again

They needed the mask when the USSR offered competition. Once there was “no alternative”, they went mask off.

wasn’t the chip ban from the Biden admin?

how long is Europe going to continue to do US policy just to screw China while being directly threatened and witnessing the US lose a war in Iran?

see The People’s Republic of Walmart

and they wonder how China keeps coming out on top

GDP during WWII isn’t very helpful a statistic, especially considering the occupation.

It would not be an improvement - do you have any idea how bad the 1990s were in Russia?

There’s a reason that Putin has high support, and it’s not all manufactured. It’s that the Yeltsin shock therapy was really traumatic - largest peacetime drop in life expectancy in recorded history.

heh yeah - his Cartoon Guide to the Computer actually has one of the best explanations of how basic circuts are translated into boolean logic of ANY source out there, still.

Definitely read the book This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed.

Non-violence by the SCPP is now treated as not only their only tactic, but the only valid tactic ever. But that’s historically just not true. Even Dr. King and others realized that their tactic of non-violence was working with other groups who were not pledged to non-violence - and in the setting where the US was worried about its image versus the USSR in the third world. Nor was it the primary driver of what limited success the movement had.

Larry Gonick drew heavily from A People’s History of The United States, to his credit. I gave these to all the kids in the family.

If you haven’t read The Cartoon History of The Universe, I cannot recommend it enough.

Ironically, Dave’s entire argument has always been an idpol one. You can’t criticize him, because as a Black man (even a millionaire) he’s more oppressed than any other group.

And, like always, idpol over intersectionality is used to maintain the existing hierarchy. Guess what Dave, the leopards did eat your face.