“I’m getting my head bashed in by jackboots!”

“Well if it was Trump they’d be using baseball bats. If you vote Biden in, we’ll use runners next time”

You mean we’re expected to know that Neapolitan is in reference to Naples (despite the ice cream not being from there) and doesn’t relate to Napoleon at all?

It’s a shockingly capitalist move tbh.

China in its current form is fairly capitalist - they are socialist in name only. This isn’t shocking if you remember that.

China flooding the market with solar panels, driving costs down is a good thing.

Thread is about criticizing China. Yet living life as a hypocrite.

Further replies = flailing

Flail away.

Oh get off your high horse.

We criticize the Chinese government for spying on its citizens. We claim it’s undemocratic to do so. Yet we do the same thing. This is not whataboutism, it’s textbook hypocrisy.

Meanwhile in a ”free” country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

Edit: apparently people are confused by whataboutism and hypocrisy.

It’s not that it’s unsafe to drive in Detroit due to crime, it’s just that the automotive industry lobbied hard to make the country car friendly, and that city faced the worst of it.

Canadians*

Evangelical Christians support a Jewish state in Israel because they believe that once Jews return to Israel will herald the Armageddon, and will eventually see the return of Jesus Christ.

People need to know about the comparative effects of being exposed to 1 x-ray vs being exposed to hundreds.

Meanwhile Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup.

Memes aren’t always meant to be funny.

Not necessarily:

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

Well sure, but you have to also remember that there is an entire country that bases its existence on the fact that their god gave them the right to that land, even if it means that nobody else can live there.

New or used?

Dip it while you flush.

“Oklahoma is OK”

Wonder whose job it is to milk Santa