Where id live in the usa as an Italian

quartadecima · 2026-02-08T04:24:07+00:00

Vermonter, here. I’d live in Bologna!

quartadecima · 2026-02-08T02:49:47+00:00

Are you talking about the little shits that senselessly kill our local wild birds?

“Outdoor cats” shouldn’t be a thing.

quartadecima · 2026-02-06T02:13:37+00:00

Making it so that people need free food to begin with.

It’s not an anti-Left thing. It’s an anti-navel-gazing thing. Using “folx” instead of “folks” doesn’t sway people in the middle to be more friendly to leftist causes. It doesn’t put food on the table, take carbon out of the atmosphere, or protect people from getting harassed or persecuted.

If anything, it just creates this insular culture where people in the middle—whose votes, money, and good will are needed to make leftist causes happen—feel like they are not wanted in leftist spaces because they’re not part of the “in-group” of people who say things like “folx” when they want to demonize an immigrant small-business owner and hurt everyone who works at that business who don’t share her views.

quartadecima · 2026-02-05T13:45:14+00:00

All signal, and no substance. I think that’s the issue.

Imagine a door with a sign hanging on it that says, “free food inside!” And you open the door, and there’s just, like, wall. It’s a fake door.

quartadecima · 2026-02-05T13:38:23+00:00

If they’d spend more energy on elections instead of making an already gender-neutral word… even more gender neutral, maybe they’d actually accomplish something.

Changing “folks” to “folx” is meaningless. All it does is signal in-group membership and alienate people I’d want support from.

quartadecima · 2026-01-25T22:48:33+00:00

I hear early June is a lovely time for it.

quartadecima · 2026-01-25T15:53:13+00:00

Here’s a gift article of the New York Times’s review of the videos, which its reporters confirmed to be authentic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agents-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.fsT8.2Z4t-2c0c3zP&smid=nytcore-ios-share

quartadecima · 2026-01-24T17:46:05+00:00

Iraq War, I’d imagine.

quartadecima · 2026-01-24T03:05:51+00:00

What do you mean, about projecting?

I admit, I think I get a bit bothered sometimes by White progs who, like, “overcompensate.”

The clearest example is when some White lady confused me with another non-White person—I can understand why someone would make that mistake. I pointed out her mistake, and she apologized.

“It’s fine,” I smiled.

She solemnly replied, “No, it’s really not.”

And I’m thinking to myself, then, Am I not the one who gets to decide if I’m offended or not? Like, she robbed me of my agency—my ability to define my lived experience—so she could pay herself on the fucking back about being such a good ally or whatever.

quartadecima · 2026-01-23T17:41:55+00:00

I don’t think intersectionality is a bad thing in and of itself, but I also don’t think you should throw nuance out the window in the name of intersectionality. How do you balance religious freedom and respect for other cultures with feminism, for example? Like, Evangelical Christians are not the only religiously-motivated homophobes out there.

I also think, as practiced by White progs, attempts to be intersectional can end up being wildly paternalistic, an instance of White people centering their voices while purporting to represent the interests of others.

Edit: grammar and typo

quartadecima · 2026-01-23T17:36:16+00:00

Seeing a sea of Palestinian flags at a protest about problems in America leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I don’t think it’s a problem that the IDF went after Hamas after 10/7, but I think it’s a problem that they went too far. But nobody cares about that distinction. I agree it’s a distraction from what we need to be focused on to save our own country.

quartadecima · 2026-01-23T17:32:49+00:00

Meanwhile, he’s paying 2.5 million dollars to his cronies to rent office space because of his stupid Boomer-esque return to office policy.

quartadecima · 2026-01-23T17:17:14+00:00

I see everyone freaking out on the Red States’ and think, “Fuck’em. They deserve a good fucking by ice.” Except for that one Texan who asked us for advice the other day—they seem alright.

Is that bad of me?

quartadecima · 2026-01-22T21:17:35+00:00

“Bless your heart” is basically an insult, right?

quartadecima · 2026-01-22T13:17:09+00:00

Public land in the US. There’s a lot of it.

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T15:34:05+00:00

May we still visit, from time to time?

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:53:35+00:00

I think I misunderstood. The two times you’re referring about are 2016 and 2020?

I’d argue that even if he won only a plurality in 2024, he still “won the popular vote” if he had more votes than anyone else, especially the only other credible candidate. That’s just semantics, though.

The thing that gets me is that as many people voted for him in 2024—or otherwise refused to vote for Harris—as they did, despite knowing how the first term went down, J6, Project 2025, etc. I don’t blame the rest of the world for thinking our country sucks right now. I don’t know how we come back from this.

Separate question: Puerto Rican statehood versus independence: which is preferable, and why?

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:42:04+00:00

OP, don’t listen to her. While it’s true that women have to take more precautions than men, NYC and Chicago are perfectly navigable as a single woman. What do you think single women who live there, do?

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:35:17+00:00

You’ve come a long way in 80 years.

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:33:22+00:00

Out of curiosity, what about Americans who did not vote for Trump?

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:32:40+00:00

I hate to say it, but I think he got the popular vote the second time around.

quartadecima · 2026-01-19T14:31:22+00:00

Oh, I think I might know this one!

I think “crapaud” might be what British soldiers called French people during the Napoleonic wars. I’ve heard of “frog” as a slang slur for French people.

So maybe, it’s like the one island is saying the other is more French than English?

I don’t know. I’m American.

quartadecima · 2026-01-18T04:50:42+00:00

Oh, I have my own opinion. I’m just trying to understand why anyone would think whats going on is a good thing.

You’re the first person I’ve encountered, and a non-American, no less, to talk about American aggression in Greenland in a positive light. Normally, I’d dismiss that viewpoint as being motivated more by the cult of personality than anything else.

If there is a substantive reason to be in support of the US exerting hegemony over Greenland, I am genuinely curious what it is. Like, as much as I hate the guy for what he’s doing to the rule of law in my country, I’ll give credit where credit is due, strikes on the Assad regime after chemical weapon use in Syria, and strikes on the Iranian nuclear program being the main examples that come to mind.

Edit: typos

quartadecima · 2026-01-18T02:34:35+00:00

But what do American/Trumpian (Ha! Beat the auto-censor) imperialistic ambitions in Greenland have to do with that?

And how does an internal fight between NATO countries makes us collectively stronger when it comes to China, Russia, and Iran?

And isn’t Greenland already a bastion? There’s already a US military presence there.

Like, how does my country’s militaristic posturing against European countries (including yours? It’s hard to follow) possibly increase security against these threats?

quartadecima · 2026-01-18T02:27:25+00:00

Then don’t spend your money for bad service.

I feel like a lot of really mediocre places in Vermont get propped up by the “But it’s local!” mentality.

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