I personally don’t think he did it. He could easily be a grifter trying to take credit for a very popular act. There’s no shortage of those. All you’d need to do:

• Walk into a public place with a bag of somewhat incriminating items, but nothing that’s linked to the actual crime scene.
• Arouse enough suspicion to get the cops called on you. Being a white guy with black hair and a hoodie is not enough for someone to call the cops on you, I have no idea why people believe that was enough for a McD’s employee to call the cops.
• Claim credit for the shooting to the cops.
• Bonus points - Have a social media history praising similar actions.

The altoona cops then forwarded this to the NYPD, who were desperate to pin this on someone, after they messed up and let the shooter slip through their fingers. Out of the all the tips, this was the best one they’d gotten so far, so they’re running with it now.

This also explains why Luigi’s taking credit for some, but not all of the claims the police made (especially about the money he was supposedly carrying).

Most bathrooms have sinks, you can just wet some toilet paper if there’s no bidet.

We use flushable litter, so it takes like 30 seconds twice a day to scoop and flush it.

Nearly every societal problem has a solution, but you need a medical / buddhist / marxist / approach (probably a lot of other disciplines / lenses use this approach too, those are just some ones that more or less follow this).

• Correctly identify the actual problem.
• Find the root cause(s) of the problem.
• Name / describe the state without that problem.
• Outline the cure / steps to carry it out and reach that goal.

The only problems that aren’t solvable, are things that would break the laws of physics.

As for drugs / alcohol use, lemmygrad and hexbear have a lot of good threads on drug / alcohol use, and how to view it, and handle it collectively. The USA is probably the worst example of a country to look at for alleviating the societal ills brought about by alcohol and drug mis-use, so its good to look at how socialist countries have tackled it throughout history. If you can’t find a thread I’d recommend asking over there, because you’ll get a lot of good answers.

Oooh yeah that’s a good one.

Harry Belafonte - Mary’s Boy Child

Brenda Lee - Its a Marshmallow World

A rarer jazzy one to get us started:

Thad Jones and Mel Lewis - A Child is Born

Its also really surprising to me that western europe, especially germany, being a front line of the cold war, doesn’t have higher home-ownership rates. These are very rich imperial-core countries, which had huge infusions of resources from the US to raise standards of living after WW2 and provide a more appealing “alternative to communism”. Yet home-ownership is still pretty low in a lot of these welfare states.

Home ownership is by family, not every single person.

Also just because something “feels” wrong in your gut (probably because it doesn’t satisfy your western-supremacist biases), doesn’t make it false. Claims should be backed up by data, not gut feelings.

I don’t want to turn this into a homeowners association / HOA gripe-fest, but we “own” our home, and I’m not allowed to put a bird-feeder on my balcony, according to HOA rules. This is in freedom-loving USA.

That was def a consideration in deciding the name of this platform. I was playing a lot of lemmings at the time, and learned that them being mindless suicidal drones is just ridiculously false. SO why not just own it and let the redditors think that they’re the unique brain-geniuses, and have them call us something that is easily disproven.

A highrise just means any tall building, with enough floors to make an elevator required.

Housing highrise buildings can either have apartments for rent, or condos sold outright (usually with some kind of a homeowners association that takes care of utilities, trash, etc that you have to pay recurring fees to).

In my country (the US), highrise condos exist but are much rarer than every other form of housing. In Spain I saw a lot of highrise condo buildings, some of the condos even had two floors. Imagine a mansion inside of a highrise building, pretty neat.

It’d be worth looking into their source there.

Good article on this:

Advertising is a cancer on society

Depends on the country, or how big a picture you’re taking. Dubois didn’t have much hope for the US, and he placed most of his hopes for the future in a union of African states, and PRC and USSR of course.

I highly recommend reading Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history. It debunks this myth that liberalism was about emancipation for all.

Okay then, here are some articles showing how china’s people’s democracy works, and why they intentionally avoid the capitalist dictatorship model common in western countries.

Is China a Democracy?

• Is China a democracy?
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• What kind of democracy does China have, and how is it different from the west?
• In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government. How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
• How does China’s political system work?
• How are Chinese leaders elected / chosen? How meristocratic is the system? How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?
• Who runs China? Makeup of the national people’s congress.
• US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China’s Government.
• The american dream is alive… in China.

I love this video because it really concisely breaks down what needs to be done, in a common-sense way. Countries thinking they can solve their problems while skipping the most important step the PRC and other socialist countries took - eliminating the parasitic landlord class and nationalizing industry and finance, are deluded.

Paul Cockshott - Obstacles to the China path in Latin America.

The very first article yogthos showed you, had a poll that showed half of usonians don’t think their country is a democracy (they’re right)

The US congress, its highest governing body, hasn’t gotten over a 20% approval rating for many years.