because “first world” and “third world” terms technically only mean countries allied against or with the USSR during the Cold War, respectively.

it has no bearing on that country’s development although that’s typically what’s it’s used for nowadays, like your comment

the illustration has a closed fist so I think a hearty thwak! is called for.

88 to 144 thousand. hmm I’ve seen those numbers paired together before …

dupsteb

I can see it. the underlying principle is control of oneself so anything that implies otherwise was faux pas/taboo

there’s a conversation to have regarding reclaiming oppressive words and ideas, but it has to be driven by those being oppressed in order to really work and be felt by society as a whole as acceptable

people are corrupt. the Romans were no different in being hypocrites

iirc large dicks were seen as brutish and savage by everyone, as if you had no control over your primal, animalistic urges and just wanted to fuck all the time. small pp = civilized.

they’d just go “you know what I/the sign meant” and not concede anything

ah I see it now

because a lot of them are just as guilty

Epstein didn’t kill himself

you accidentally forget to pay ur credit card minimum for one month and you’re docked so many credit score points that you’re ineligible for being given a loan.

but we bail out these megacorps time and again and just keep letting them operate like nothing’s amiss

shit’s borked (intentionally, to favor those with means)

I was gonna say cruise ships and coal power plants and airplanes

weaponized incompetence