It's not like it's all ancient history. Sanctions are ongoing, there was the attempted coup with Operation Gideon, plus the weird attempt with Guaido, propaganda campaigns, etc. and how many things we don't know about. The US is still meddling. They are the largest empire in the world, the sole superpower. Of course they can do a lot of things and have a lot of affect. Of course Venezuela has a lot of itself to blame for its problems, like not diversifying from oil more, but you're going too far the other direction and acting as if the US has no effect on its own sphere of influence.
It was about 60/40 when I went, maybe 70/30. Mostly dancing, but some politics sprinkled in there, too. Mostly anti-China stuff. I get that China has done some bad stuff so it was easy easy to applaud and all, but now I know it's just because they're a cult that got huge and some Chinese President didn't like that.
Which isn't great because freedom of speech should be a thing, but also, huge popular religions can cause great harm, so I'm not really on their side now that I'm seeing what Christian Nationalism can do and looking at what happened in South Korea. Making sure government isn't hijacked by some crazy popular cult maybe isn't a bad idea. Also, they're ultra conservative, anti-medicine and evolution, anti-feminist, homophobic, and support Donald Trump and supported the lie that Biden stole the election, so ya, wouldn't be surprised if they've been hiding their politics more since I've seen them to stay generally popular and hope people don't suspect they suck lol.
Same thing with Biden lol. Obama interfered hard to get him elected during the primary. He's not great, but he's been surprisingly better than Trump (in every way but the genocide thing and immigration) so hopefully she's better than expected, too!
There's a huge movement to do so that. Look into land back rights and all that. But the Israel Palestine thing is more urgent because it's better to stop a genocide from happening in progress right now, then to make up for one that has already happened. The only people comfortable with America's genocide are the same right wing and centrist people supporting Israel right now.
Thanks! I'll look for that one! And you can tell, I really want to avoid returning to my reddit level of online addiction I was at previously. I'm close with Lemmy, but there's not enough content for me to get there yet lol.
The USA got to do a genocide, so we get to do a genocide! Why are people so unhappy about this? "Never again" just means against us, right? We can still do it?
Ya this doesn't sound like a bad lesson tbh, but it needed to have some kind of warning and a way to not participate, plus it should have had all students in the slave auction and not just the black ones, so even the white kids could see what it was like at the time. The needless "n" word could also be dropped lol.
Haha totally just realized these are the same guys. I saw that video on Lemmy recently. I'm glad to see it helped! Now they have to actually improve their warranty support process...
Haha ya, I totally get that. For me: I've been doing more little projects on my phone (designing games on my off time, researching work problems, etc), started carrying around a journal to write in on my bag, I downloaded the Shonen Jump app and started reading manga for anime I've wanted to watch but haven't gotten around to, and I listen to podcasts not just when I'm driving. Hope some of those suggestions help or kickstart your own idea.
I also want to start carrying a book around with me like I did when I was a kid, because I have such a big list to get through and I have lots of pdfs for rpg books I've downloaded but haven't read. I've tried to read them on my phone, and I succeeded with one book but the screen is so small lol. Maybe I need to look for a good e-reader that reads pdfs without straining my eyes, like I heard e-ink readers or something like that do, but apparently not with pdfs, I guess?
Oh that's cool. I'm happy that it exists and now kinda sad it's only owned by one VTT. That would've been a good resource for other VTT's out there.