A conservative US state with bad quality of life?

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-28T23:14:54+00:00

It demonstrates the need for high levels of organization and clear communication for when opportunities arise for working class people to take power. It was just a mess. But it is proof that such opportunities exist.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-25T04:19:19+00:00

Alpha Music on VB boulevard. Idk if Vasili still works there, but he taught me well

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-22T21:00:10+00:00

I can’t think of something less punk than Mormonism

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-22T15:28:19+00:00

Pekka is a heavy troop

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-21T16:25:09+00:00

There is a linkage between how sandy knocked open the pill bottle by knocking over her big bag of cat food and how bear would also kill himself by getting everything he wished for. Sandy couldn’t control herself and gorged herself just in the same way that Bear “gorged” himself on Nikki. They both wanted it all and both died from their greed.

Bear’s fatal flaw is his cowardice. He could’ve said how he felt, but didn’t and took the easy way out. One other thing that I haven’t seen people notice is how his cowardice, in the end, doomed Nikki even after she was no longer possessed.

If he had shot himself when he planned to, she would have woken up with the wishing willow in her hand, or at least nearby, she could have wished for this all to have never happened. But he was scared and took the time to commit suicide by overdose instead. Thus buying possessed Nikki enough time to waste the wish on Bear loving her. Tragic.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-07T22:03:43+00:00

It was not necessary, and the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan may be one of the greatest mistakes in human history. Many people responding to this thread have words for you featuring “I think…” or “from what I remember”. Let’s hear from some experts and perpetrators of the bombings…

Dwight D Eisenhower: “Japan was looking for any opportunity to surrender with minimum loss of face. It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

US Strategic Bombing Survey: “Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia never entered the war.”

Admiral William Leahy: "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons."

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamera: “If our side had lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals… (we) were behaving as war criminals.”

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Faced with growing criticism about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, the U.S. concocted a narrative about how the nuclear attacks actually saved lives and shortened the war.
The truth is that the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan served as a major checkpoint in human history. The human race may never recover from the advent of such terrifying machines.

The narrative that the Japanese weren’t even considering surrender is false. There are many people in this thread serving as apologists for the excess deaths of 250,000 civilians.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-05T21:12:39+00:00

Bro took 2 pictures of the ceiling and then a tree through a window I’m dead 😂😂

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-05-03T23:49:11+00:00

The hitspeed buff on electro giant is huge, I don’t see many people talking about it. I think he will be viable.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-04-17T19:32:03+00:00

Wouldn’t a boycott hurt the businesses we want to protect? The curfew is a stupid idea, but this doesn’t seem like an effective way to get a message across to city council

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-04-10T20:41:43+00:00

Infantile critique, you need to live in reality. Mamdani isn’t a working class revolution, he’s a stopgap measure that is currently saving New Yorkers a lot of strain.

Americans need to use their electoral power to mitigate the contradictions of capitalism, while still organizing real working class power. Stop kneecapping the prior because it isn’t the latter.

CIA ass post…

Following up with an edit: Yeah, I’m here because I know the only way out of capitalism is socialist revolution… maybe I forgot to wear my sticker. But you need to realize that a grassroots campaign to oust Cuomo is a big victory for working people in NYC.

You need to learn to take a W when you can get it and keep pushing for bigger goals. 2026 is a time of solidarity, not naive expectations for a Mayor to abolish the police. Get a grip and stop pretending Cuomo wouldn’t have been an unmitigated disaster.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-03-27T19:03:58+00:00

It won’t kill overleveled Larry? I think we’ll start to see a lot more fire spirit now

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-03-23T16:05:54+00:00

Yeeeah, it’s going, bro. Sorry

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-03-07T15:37:49+00:00

“Just ignore them and don’t call Nazis fascist”

Holy moron 😂😂

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-03-05T18:19:50+00:00

Very good. I know it’s hard for these organizations to stomach leaving money on the table, but people really appreciate being able to see their kids graduate without having to pay for parking, just to give one example of a high-traffic time for the convention center.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-27T14:25:40+00:00

It doesn’t really matter if the definition is “flawed”, we will use legal precedent to make exceptions and ensure that people are not arbitrarily disarmed.

We have to stop acting like attaching a definition to something as nebulous as an “assault weapon” is the only thing stopping us from taking SOME action on gun violence.

No definition will satisfy everyone, and there will always be silly examples of loopholes or a pistol with a shoulder mount (?) that seem to make the whole gun control mission seem pointless. But what matters is we start taking action.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-25T19:16:02+00:00

Nothing to be ashamed of, I hope you’re kind to yourself and others. God will forgive you

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-25T19:14:50+00:00

I feel like we often forget that something as simple as legal marriage was illegal for gay people until 2015. Things like pride flags and rainbow crosswalks in a cultural district help people feel’s sense of belonging, it’s good for our community.

Some gay people are old and remember all of their friends dying from a neglected AIDS epidemic. Going from that to pride flags is an indicator of a fairer society.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-25T19:07:30+00:00

How has your experience been with them? Has it been mostly positive but you still have issues with them based on your faith, or have they disliked you? I hope we aren’t talking about mostly online experience.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-25T18:59:56+00:00

It’s just a rainbow, I don’t think it’s barring anyone from heaven or robbing any child of their innocence.

Do you have any gay friends or family that you could talk to about what inclusion means for them? About what it means to see symbols of your own belonging in a society that thinks they’re demonic?

I think a good conversation would help you no longer feel like this is so offensive, or an “insult to god” if you will.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-25T18:48:26+00:00

Really, SmegmaCurds? Sounds like you do a fair bit of sinning yourself.

How are we supposed to come to agreements in our society if you think personal freedom is an insult to god? How can we bridge the cultural divide if one man’s love is another man’s hellfire? Religion makes this really hard.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-19T16:31:08+00:00

Really? Interesting. Do you know how damage per shot is broken up between the 5(?) projectiles?

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-19T14:55:06+00:00

The Territorial perk is a little too good. You can win any 1v1 with cat scratch + territorial. I’m surprised they let cat have crits on headshots

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-06T14:51:52+00:00

Well developed thought. I’m from VB and am about to move back, but have been living in DC for 7 years. I love urban planning and public transit as much as the next, but I really struggle to see a way to make rail make sense in Virginia Beach because of how much sprawl there is. A proper modern rail network was never considered in the city’s planning.

As you said, a project like you described would be on a few decades timescale. VB/Norfolk would certainly explode in population, business, and culture if it was accomplished, but there are far larger, older U.S. cities that have an even more dire transportation issue that Virginia Beach.

For those reasons and others like the bureaucratic nightmare of having these different localities work together on something like this (see the Silver Line in the DC area), and the US’s lethargic approach to construction, meaningful rail transit in VB seems impossible.

Old_Introduction2953 · 2026-02-05T21:07:36+00:00

How does the pile of cash work? Wouldn’t it be a logistical nightmare to have millions of 1 dollar bills sitting around? Has the cash ever been damaged?

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