I don't think that the dishonesty and hypocrisy is actually lost on them. The difference is that the US is always the "Good Guy", and whatever enemy of the moment is the "Bad Guy". When the bad guy does it, it's because they only do bad things. When the good guy does it, it's because they had no choice. It also makes it easy to just make up whatever you want about the bad guy, such as this garbage, even when they're actually doing what they claim the bad guy is doing.

It's because the free press told them that it was very justified and the only reasonable option.

My sister can pass for Japanese. She doesn't dissuade people from thinking this, as natives are not well loved where she lives. It's a hellhole.

(She also has taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and claims there's no racism there while simultaneously doing this... But that's another story).

I've read a whole lot of US history last year. I've never seen the country in this big of a public debacle before. They've usually been pretty good about making dissent quietly disappear. But they're spinning so many plates right now, and the cracks in their "good guy" facade are just growing deeper and deeper. It really makes me wonder if this is what's going to finally break their back. More and more people are waking up to the reality that they've lived their whole lives in the worst kind of propaganda. Something's gotta give. I think Vietnam was the closest we've seen to this, and it was just one war. Now the US faces trying to start shit with China, fighting a proxy war with Russia, and somehow coming up with a way of demonising Palestine and Iran. Their propaganda machine is failing quite badly.

Is this laissez-faire?

Unless you're blonde or going grey. I really wish I'd gotten started earlier in life, but I'd already started going grey when I did laser. The laser got most of it, but I had to finish with electro. Much more costly, painful, and time consuming, but effective on all hair.

Welcome back comrade!

EDIT: LOL! I just tried to set my bio to use the hexbear pronoun tags per this post and I just found out that I'm banned too. Irritating, but not the end of the world. I still love my comrades here, and many on hexbear. Just some power drunk anarchist mods with no dialectical analysis.

Showmanship.

Thankfully it's not a lifesaving drug. But yes.

Good.

I'm on a drug that costs even more than that. The whole process is bizarre, and appears to be scams all the way down.

What happens for me is that my insurance covers a big chunk of it, which still leaves me with a bill for thousands of dollars. But the drug manufacturer provides me with a card that covers that amount. So the whole thing costs me $5 out of pocket.

The aim seems to be inflating the drug prices to an insane degree to extract more money from the insurance companies. Who then fleece my employer for more money. Who then pay me less, as the insurance is such a huge benefit. And I can't afford to lose that insurance, so they have a captive employee. And I'm supposed to marvel at all the money I saved.

It's not just Grampa who is a Nazi.

here you go

I'm sorry comrade. That's rough.

Nothing like that would ever happen

If I read a comment on here about mass sterilization of all white people, I might upvote it assuming it was a joke.

Pretty much exactly what I thought. The original post in the modlog was a little extreme, and I probably wouldn't have upvoted. But certainly nothing ban worthy. White people ACTUALLY DO THAT to my people. Don't they always say "do unto others as you would have them do to yourself"? I can certainly see blowing off some steam now and then.

But yeah. This post? Wow.

Yes, but we all know that US presidents are above all laws. The system needs to be dismantled first.

I'm not a big horror fan. They just don't do much for me. But I want to suggest Jacob's Ladder to all my comrades. A fantastic movie.

That is just not true. Homosexuality was absolutely a crime.

Karl Gorath, a gay man, was first convicted under the law in 1934. He was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp and later to Auschwitz, where he survived until its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.

In 1946, more than a year after the end of the war, Gorath was prosecuted again. During a court appearance, the same judge who had convicted him during the Nazi era greeted him with the words: “You’re here again.”

Gorath was sentenced to five years in prison and later spent decades battling to undo the injustices done to him. His Nazi-era conviction was annulled shortly before his death in 2003. Post-war convictions were only annulled in 2017.

Yes. Sorry, best source I could find in the time available. But it's true and well documented. West Germany specifically, although other western countries weren't great either.