angstylittlecatboy

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[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Cars, yeah it's fucked. But I think keeping things walkable is good.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My city's most recent mayoral election is arguably a better argument for FPTP sucking than US presidential elections. The progressives were split between two candidates so we got the moderate, who's pro-car in a city where people move for walkability and is painfully clearly trying to get an inroads to national politics.

It's better than the nearby, bigger city though. SHEESH.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We do but it's about more plants and animals than humans.

My school had decent sex ed though (New Jersey)

Team Multiplayer in general. There's nothing fun about getting yelled at and in some cases banned for not playing the meta.

Yeah the PBS hack was LulzSec

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Every cuisine except for those of uncontacted tribes is shaped by migration, trade, economics, etc. The ingredients Italian cuisine is most known for are pasta (derived from early Arabic forms of noodles) and tomatoes (South America.) You can say Lasagna was invented in Italy, but you can't say it's the product of cultural purity that Europeans tend to think of their cuisines as.

Only to the degree that the hamburger actually is an original American dish does "pure" cuisine exist. People looking to discredit American food call it German, and while it evolved from Hamburg steak, by most accounts the first people to turn that into a sandwich, and then top it with cheese, lettuce, and tomato instead of gravy were in the United States. Burgers are German only to the degree that Bahn Mi is French.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

What kinds of food can 100% be attributed to the US? Fast food? Spray cheese?

None, but the notion of any "pure" and "original" cuisine existing is a myth that normalizes nativism.

When Harris first came on the scene I thought to myself that the election became a battle between Reagan nostalgia and Obama nostalgia. And I cannot blame any American for feeling Obama nostalgia because I feel Obama nostalgia, but reliance on nostalgia blinds us to new ideas and current issues.

Nothing will be done until the politicians can no longer ignore end FPTP movements.

Guns are pretty much banned in Japan and the UK.

Still, presenting it as a binary is harmful to the movement, when Americans regularly poll in favor of stricter gun measures but not an outright ban.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

According to polling most Americans support stricter gun control measures but not a ban. As usual, it's the Electoral College and FPTP (IMO, no country with either should be listed as a full democracy. Not USA, not UK, and not Canada.) Still, it is true that the gun issue is too often presented as binary (but I'd actually say this is just as common with foreigners arguing for gun bans as it is with Americans arguing against it.)

Taylor Swift is clouted up. She can move away from Twitter and people will follow.

I'd give up gun control for America to no longer be allied with Israel.

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