It’s good old-fashioned xenophobia and is by no means unique to Americans or English-speakers even in the modern era. Anyone who has spent enough time in certain parts of France, Italy, or Belgium has probably encountered it at some point.

It’s everywhere but it is probably most prevalent in countries with a strong nationalist core and, in my opinion, ironically occurs most often in countries that have really fucked around with having an empire in the last century or so.

I was just thinking the OP article’s author missed an opportunity to mention that for this quality of product delivery, Musky believes he is worthy of a $44.9B payday.

Thank you! Have a good one.

It doesn’t need to be spelled out. You just keep misspelling it intentionally.

Attacking first strike detection isn’t the provocation, it’s the response. Amazing this needs to be spelled out, except we all know it doesn’t because we all know you understand perfectly well.

Russia could end it, but won’t, so who is courting nuclear war?

Which invasion mission was “self-determination” code for again?

Or Russia could stop annexing sovereign shit.

Funny to read people carrying Russia’s dirty pisswater, pretending to wring their hands in fear about a response to fucking aggression. We aren’t happening to Russia, Russia is happening to us.

Or the fact that the car on the left has two sideview mirrors on one side, seemingly at the expense of the car on the right, which we find has been left with none.

I’m telling mom you keep hogging abortion.

Interesting because they creep me the FUCK out.

Absolutely! In fact if you’re on Arch you may have a built in conversation starter by discussing your collection of thigh-highs and seeing where that takes you.

I share your hatred but that likely isn’t what is happening here.

Put simply, someone fucked up. At an airport, the competing concerns of health and security are in their most extreme tension. For some reason, someone on staff skewed security when they should have skewed health.

There is no excuse for it, and guaranteed it has already been resolved or soon will be. This is in one of the busiest international airports in the world, and masks are still very common in air travel, particularly from countries like Japan - and I believe this restaurant is even in the terminal that ANA flies into. Restaurants simply cannot afford rent if they intentionally impose restrictions like that on their customers.

For an institution belonging to a religion supposedly focused on protecting children, Gateway made an awful lot of references to this monster’s sins, but precisely zero reference to his horrific crimes.

How odd.

Still figuring out what c/NonCredibleDefense is as a community, but I have learned enough to know that, odd as it sounds, this picture would not be a fit for that community.

Still and all, it is kind of impressive that he was able to secure the gods2 dot com domain name.

It’s the very definition of a happy accident.

Let historians unpack their intentions, I say. And deal with their actions now, while they’re action-y and actively harming everyone and everything.

Have a good night.

Damn I just happened to be adjusting myself when I read this.

They leveled up today.

Mmmm except whatever shibboleths you may utter against “right-wing religious idiots”, comments like yours help those idiots and others like them by giving them a sort of ‘cognitive plausible deniability’ to get up to whatever evil shit they’ve been getting up to and worse.

Like it’s so obviously minimizing real evil - the evil UNDERNEATH shit like this ‘innocent little contest’, genius - under a shield of “d’aww shucks those pesky white nationalists are up to their hijinx again, those silly knuckleheads”.

So in that context, you talking about ‘disgusting right-wing idiots’ comes off as a real fellowkids moment for you.