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Xi Jinping is a better leader than Donald Trump. That one's a gimme, actually. I would be a better leader than Donald Trump, and I don't even like telling people what to do.

China isn’t a democracy but to be fair its government is almost certainly far more popular with its people than America’s is

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Everyone gets to speak besides this guy

questions of whether protests are “justified” are not are invariably very silly, but it’s inarguable that the people of Hong Kong deserve universal suffrage, as do the people of Mainland China and the people of America.

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So you're saying I could be a millionaire.

every time you make freezer food for dinner instead of buying takeout like you actually want you should earn two hundred dollars cash and a round of applause

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"Healslut" sounds like a Scandinavian word

yeah my isekai adventure was going pretty well until I accidentally called the cleric 'healslut' and now he won't stop asking what it means

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Good news! I'm not having sex, and I don't even need the desert island!

they say if you were alone on a desert island you wouldn’t have gender and that seems reasonable given that if you were alone on a desert island you wouldn’t have sex either

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May I present to you my little series: Legend of the Red Barracuda, or, Driving Through Space With The Windows Rolled Down

One big difference between real space travel and sci-fi space travel is that in sci-fi the ships are like a car you can take to wherever you want. The same ship can take you to Jupiter or to another star system. You can even change course halfway through if something pops up.

But real life space travel is very very difficult. Every mission must be planned years in advance and everything from food to G-forces needs to be taken into account. A ship designed to take you to the moon absolutely will not be able to take you to Mars.

Sci-fi often has fictional technologies like warp drives and artificial gravity and inertia dampeners to account for all that. But often times writers just forget about these stuff and assume a spaceship is just a vehicle you can point anywhere and it'll take you there safely.

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They have it coming

the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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What if we all just refused to pay our hospital bills

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oh okay

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Girlboss is still a boss, fellow workers

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Headline writer in mid-November 2024: Hot diggety dang, we're doomed!

headline writer suffering the agony of coining “President Evil” in a blinding flash of inspiration that hit two weeks after Trump already lost the election: shit! fuck!

headline writer experiencing the ecstasy of watching Biden drone strike his first orphanage three months later: oh thank god

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reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

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Kinda like the New Deal, right? A way to placate the masses without actually handing over the levers of power. Only in the case of the ACA, the effect is falling apart much sooner.

*stares directly into the camera*

Gee. I wonder what could have happened to provoke that change of heart.

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This looks like a moment that would seize me.

Everyone has a single moment in their life where they have an opportunity to accomplish something truly incredible. Will you seize that moment, or let it slip away?

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Louise bourgeois, 1973