“cootie catcher programming” … ?

1. USA isn’t Europe.

2. Being conquered is nasty business, too. Ask the inhabitants of Bucha if you find any.

If Europeans don’t make weapons of war, someone will eventually conquer them.

And y’know, we have yet to see open, full-scale war between atomic powers. Nuclear deterrence seems to work (for now).

About 8-20 mm give or take. Any longer would look bad due to male pattern balding (I should probably go even shorter).

Not particularly happy with it, but toupés/wigs or shaving it off completely seem like a pain and I’m definitely not going on medication or doing surgery just for longer hair.

I typically go through a door and look for a place to put my coat, but you do you.

Such as … ?

If Peanuts are nutpeas, tell me wtf cashews are: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashewbaum#/media/Datei:Cashew_apples.jpg (don’t say “apples” just because that’s literally the file name …).

Nah that would be weird. I don’t visit much because of health issues, and I don’t really eat the typical sauerkraut dishes, either.

The Germans I know don’t make sauerkraut, they buy it (usually; my grandma probably knows how to make it, even if she doesn’t always do it). Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!

They don’t hate just the children, they hate everyone who isn’t the 0.1%. As for why their voters are falling for it? Propaganda works.

Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).

Though if I’m honest, it’s not just social media - even “respectable” print and tv publications have been pushing the “brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication according to statistics (at least here in Germany).

Rightwingers don’t usually care about whether immigrants have citizenship or not.

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

I guess apathy is slightly better than hate, but it’s kind of hard to be proud that so many people see all this hate and chose to not vote.

There’s a German word for that, Machtergreifung.

Being moderately well-off doesn’t mean anything when the government decides to deport you or otherwise deny you rights (abortions, anyone?). USA is also the country with (one of?) the worlds highest prison populations per capita, which is seriously fucked up. They even made inmates do firefighting in the LA fires, without proper safety equipment.

I go back and forth between lamenting that corporate propaganda created this state of things, and lamenting that so many people are dumb enough to fall for it. Calling voters dumbasses doesn’t solve anything, but I’m definitely thinking it a lot lately.

No, it’s pronounced fow-veh!

For roughly Jetta-sized cars by Volkswagen, it’s usually Passat or Golf (including the ‘Golf variant’ station wagon). VW Passat is fairly common as a police car, too.