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Wtf

Need For Speed Underground 2 and Burnout 3. Got it as a combo deal for Christmas as a kid.

1.5 TB for the PS4, and 500GB for my PS3, which also has PS2 and PS1 games. No PS5 yet

Or even 9gag, I would say it went downhill, but it already started in the dumps so…

They saw a captioned video on the TikTok and actually believed it

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

• Nelson Mandela

I struggle with this one a lot, I definitely have a lot of resentment built up as I’ve grown up. But holding all in just makes my life worse, it only hurts me. It is mental prison of sorts. I think there’s another Mandela quote that states exactly that as well.

My personal definition would be “authoritarian communist (or “”“communist””“) regime supporters/apologists”.

What does this actually mean? Is Nelson Mandela a “tankie” to you? You might think I’m being facetious, but I’m serious. I’ll link some photographs and quotes from Mandela that a lot of the capitalists in charge want you to forget:

“I read works by and about Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro. In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and non-traditional thinking that had led him to victory.”

“The revolution in China was a masterpiece, a real masterpiece. If you read how they fought that revolution, you believe in the impossible. It’s just miraculous.”

“From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution.”

“Within that international support for our struggle the Soviet Union and other socialist countries stood out. The governments and peoples of the socialist bloc gave material, moral and political support to our struggle in a manner and on a scale that we will never be able to repay.”

So again, does this make Nelson Mandela a “tankie”? If so, what does it say about "tankies " and the west, in that the so called “tankies” supported Mandela in the fight against apartheid, while the west did not. In fact, the west often supported apartheid. Even Antony Blinken admitted to that recently.

“The Soviet Union was supportive of the freedom forces in South Africa, and of course unfortunately, more than unfortunately, the United States was much too sympathetic to the apartheid regime, so that history also doesn’t get erased, you know, overnight, it’s a process,” Blinken said.

I just said this in long form lmao

Me saying a market regulated by an uncorrupt government can generate wealth for many and generate a middle class.

Okay I know people might hate me for saying this, but isn’t this just modern day China? Think about it:

• While the government is definitely not uncorrupt and has many problems with corruption, Xi has introduced many corruption purges, and billionaires in China have actually faced legal consequences up to the death penalty. When is the last time a billionaire in the west actually faced legal consequences? (Just to be clear I am not pro death penalty, just illustrating a point).

• China introduced markets with Deng and they are regulated by the government. Though this one is controversial among the left (quite a few Maoists think China could have achieved the same or even better results without the introduction of markets to the point it was done in the 80s and 90s).

• China has generated wealth for many to the point they likely have the largest middle class on the planet in terms of sheer numbers, and in quality of life indicators such as average life expectancy, China has overtaken the US. They also achieved the largest poverty alleviation campaign in modern history.

This is not to say that China is a perfect country with a spotless human rights record or anything like that, it’s to say that we can learn from what they’ve achieved and take our blinders off. And it’s pretty ironic that your meme lines up with that in certain aspects.

There’s a cheap dark joke in there somewhere about Germans and Nazis

It’s a messaging app where you message other people, including close family and friends. Emojis are one of the most used features. If the emojis look trash compared to the competition, that’s one more barrier to entry for the average user. Me and you most probably don’t care about that at all and prioritise other features way above emojis, but for other users it matters a ton.

Because an instant messaging platform is only useful if there are people to, well, message on it. WhatsApp has the userbase worldwide, telegram does not.

In a lot of irl spaces where I live, women can enter on discounted prices or for free, and this is done by the ownership to prevent the bar or club from becoming a sausage fest. Online dating doesn’t have that, so it ends up with 80% of the userbase being guys, and all the issues that causes.

I’m not saying that online dating needs to copy that model and start getting gross/sleazy promoters, I’m just saying there’s a reason why it’s used at clubs and bars. A more equal gender split would do a lot to improve the online dating experience.

It’s definitely getting worse across the board with everything lately, that’s true. 5-10 years ago online dating was probably a ton better.

Yeah I hate the commodification of every aspect of our lives. I’ll hold out from using the dating apps for as long as possible

Same, I agree mostly. Though I find being able to date offline and in real life, for lack of better terms, to be worth it. It also puts you ahead of all the people who just use online dating in a way, because you have a real connection with the person you are talking to.

But the profit motive is inherent to all the online dating apps. It’s what decides how the algorithms work. There is no app for just meeting people seperate from that.

Are they though? Isn’t loneliness at an all time high among young people in industrialised nations? Could the commodification of relationships though apps be a possible reason for that?

Because I find the idea of letting some profit driven algorithm decide who you date, and the commodification of dating, a bit sad.

You can adjust the age filter in tinder I think. Never used the app though, but my friends say there is a setting for that.