I favour the triers

hey do u ever think about how the sidgeno 1000 game celebratory vid messages sound like back and forth letters. and how the one thing sid didn't address was geno inviting him to moscow

what if we were teammates of 19 years who said things like "i remember watching you play in latvia, thinking how lucky i was that i was going to be your teammate" and "sid saved me" and "only for pittsburgh, always with sid" and "i just always liked him from the start. always have. always will"... and we were both boys

Edit: After recieving plenty of anon hate, first off, we pissing on the poor here?

"Well actually it was europe who raced to conquer africa" - see the start of the post, I know that, I said so myself.

"Oh so europe learned racism from america!?" Not what, I said, strawman argument, next.

"But what about how europe is being racist to "insert people"!?" First of, I never said all racism in europe was gone, there is still racism found all over the place. But unlike in the US, a vast majority of this is by individuals found largely in isolated rural areas (again, note, not all, but most), as opposed to the straight up institutionalized racism backed by the US government and a a significant percentage of the common folk.

Aka, Europe, while not flawless, has largely left the worst parts of racism behind. There is still plenty of things to fix, but the trend is on a whole (but not neccesarily for all specific aspects) decidedly improving.

Unlike in the US where the number of hatecrimes per year has been on the rise since around 2013 (with france here being a notable outlier in europe where the number has also gone up lately, so again, not perfect). Next, despite only making up about 13% of the US total population, nearly half the people in state prisons are of color. On pretty much all levels, when adjusting for population, white people proportionally hold a vast majority of the higher paying jobs, and white people on all job levels make more money than non-white people.

And then of course there is ICE. A state funded militia which regularly mistreats, and both accidentaly and purposfully kill people bases on straight up racial profiling. Which, yes, gets a lot of pushback by a big portion of the US, but also gets applauded by many, and importantly, the state fully backs them up.

The US is also a big player in forcing other nations hands in backing Israel. They certainly don't hold all the blame, but we know they have directly and indirectly held economic threats against EU member states to keep them on Israel's side. And in modern times if the US weren't present to start a war in the middle east, they nearly always butted in to fuck up the rebuilding process afterwards, which is a whole other tangent but let me tell you, while again, Europe started it when they rushed to split up the Ottoman Empire, no other nation has caused as much damage to the middle east in modern times as the US

So I'm sorry, but to all the people (or the one/ few repeating anons) who have been spamming me after I posted this. I stand by it. Europe has plenty of problems, economic disparity, generic dislike of immigrants regardless of where they are from, political issues (comparatively trivial compared to the US, but still) and plenty more. But when it comes to racism, for the most part, no matter where you're from you can go to most places and be fine. There will be small things, and certainly specific cases where you see bigger issues. But on a whole, racism is a lesser problem. Still a problem, but not a significantly impactfull everyday problem.

Unlike in the US, where you fought a war over race, had massive historicall landmark protests over race, yet still to this day struggle to the point that normal news from the US make the fucking union newpaper look tame. So yes, compared to Europe, the US is the fucking problem.

Edit: After recieving plenty of anon hate, first off, we pissing on the poor here?

"Well actually it was europe who raced to conquer africa" - see the start of the post, I know that, I said so myself.

"Oh so europe learned racism from america!?" Not what, I said, strawman argument, next.

"But what about how europe is being racist to "insert people"!?" First of, I never said all racism in europe was gone, there is still racism found all over the place. But unlike in the US, a vast majority of this is by individuals found largely in isolated rural areas (again, note, not all, but most), as opposed to the straight up institutionalized racism backed by the US government and a a significant percentage of the common folk.

Aka, Europe, while not flawless, has largely left the worst parts of racism behind. There is still plenty of things to fix, but the trend is on a whole (but not neccesarily for all specific aspects) decidedly improving.

Unlike in the US where the number of hatecrimes per year has been on the rise since around 2013 (with france here being a notable outlier in europe where the number has also gone up lately, so again, not perfect). Next, despite only making up about 13% of the US total population, nearly half the people in state prisons are of color. On pretty much all levels, when adjusting for population, white people proportionally hold a vast majority of the higher paying jobs, and white people on all job levels make more money than non-white people.

And then of course there is ICE. A state funded militia which regularly mistreats, and both accidentaly and purposfully kill people bases on straight up racial profiling. Which, yes, gets a lot of pushback by a big portion of the US, but also gets applauded by many, and importantly, the state fully backs them up.

The US is also a big player in forcing other nations hands in backing Israel. They certainly don't hold all the blame, but we know they have directly and indirectly held economic threats against EU member states to keep them on Israel's side. And in modern times if the US weren't present to start a war in the middle east, they nearly always butted in to fuck up the rebuilding process afterwards, which is a whole other tangent but let me tell you, while again, Europe started it when they rushed to split up the Ottoman Empire, no other nation has caused as much damage to the middle east in modern times as the US

So I'm sorry, but to all the people (or the one/ few repeating anons) who have been spamming me after I posted this. I stand by it. Europe has plenty of problems, economic disparity, generic dislike of immigrants regardless of where they are from, political issues (comparatively trivial compared to the US, but still) and plenty more. But when it comes to racism, for the most part, no matter where you're from you can go to most places and be fine. There will be small things, and certainly specific cases where you see bigger issues. But on a whole, racism is a lesser problem. Still a problem, but not a significantly impactfull everyday problem.

Unlike in the US, where you fought a war over race, had massive historicall landmark protests over race, yet still to this day struggle to the point that normal news from the US make the fucking union newpaper look tame. So yes, compared to Europe, the US is the fucking problem.

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

She’s thinking this while Ilya drinks a prosecco split out of her belly button before passing out with a sigh that sounds like ‘svane.’ Somehow Ilya ends up in the dry spot on the bed and at one point she considers rolling him onto the floor.

“if you could pick up another language, what would it be?”