The Soviet Union was, if not a traditional dictatorship, absolutely a totalitarian autocracy. Stalin was a brutal dictator and his successors were chosen by the communist party. Elections in the USSR were for show.

Life was miserable almost from the start of the Bolshevik revolution for most people. The USSR’s implementation of communism was so bad, it’s become cliche.

The people complaining about the way Obama spoke were using dog whistles. That’s the point you seem to have missed.

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Oh, so now it’s “get the fuck over it”? Both sides are totally the same!

I don’t think so, bebe. You motherfuckers will NEVER be permitted to live this down. This is YOUR fault. We will make you choke on it.

Nothing you want needs to be done immediately. NOTHING.

It fits perfectly well. The placement changes the emphasis subtly.

“That’s a tall fucking building”

“That’s a fucking tall building”

The second calls the listener’s attention to the emphasized aspect whereas the first might reference the height in relation to other aspects… but would be more context dependent than the second form.

Easy there, Maude.

Not only was the use of the word actually contextually appropriate for literally producing emphasis, it was also fucking funny.

Maybe the problem here is the bizarre attempt at pedantry while consuming a meme. Not just a meme, but a meme about a meme. Unbelievable failure.

But she won’t. She’ll waste her money and end up with nothing.

Oh no! So, anyway…

Congrats on conclusively demonstrating you don’t understand how economies or governments work.

Our side lost because a plurality of people are too fucking stupid to know when someone is lying to their faces.

I’ve wasted countless hours waiting for people on zoom calls to sort out their stupid air pod issues.

They didn’t take away the jack to sell more headphones LMAO.

That is absolutely why it was done.

People who habitually use speaker phones do not understand the concept of “inside voice” that everyone else learned in 1st grade.

And those people should be sent to The Hell of Infinite Screaming Babies.

Congrats on getting exactly what you deserve.

Here’s a wild thought: inequalities are not always written with the lower number on the left… or there wouldn’t be a need for two symbols.

Yup, this looks like the kind of trash that circulates on Facebook

Idiotic conspiracy theories are idiotic

An aircraft carrier costs almost nothing compared to the US budget. That’s not a useful metric.

That take is rank fucking idiocy

Crushingly idiotic take. You can argue that almost anything done with professional competence is a form of art. It’s her fucking job. She can live her life according to her backward, dark age mythology on her own time.

Life is not Factorio, brah. You can’t just plop a factory down and start production. It will take a decade and cost billions. At which point a new administration will be here and will repeal the tariffs.