That’s the point. There’s a pretentious implication that your priviledged when the term “expat” is used, but their just emmigrants of priviledged western nations.

Its the same with the UK “expats.” When brexit first happened many UK expats were blown away that Spain was treating them like Immigrants even though they were.

You could just start telling everyone your an expat of your country of origin. I don’t know if it will help you, but it certainly will make you sound more pretentious

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last year when a number of states started to effectively ban adult content.

-You could also argue it happened a lot sooner over a decade back when every high traffic website started transforming into a walled garden.

why not both?

Yeah but the engines of capitalism & infinite growth in a finite world gotta go brrr.

“How fast was that on a scale of zero to Liz Truss?”

Just one awkward pause

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LOL. Most of you couldn’t stop yourselves if you wanted to.

Are we painting Stalin as a good guy here?

No, I’m painting a bad analogy as bad. Do better!

Stalin is one of three world leaders that SAVED Europe from Hitler. I also find it hard to believe the much of Europe was scared of Tojo who may have instead also been scared of Stalin. --That’s was a bad analogy. Do better.

“May” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that title.

profit is simply a means of seeking control…

Someone (probably bluesky) almost definitely spent a large sum of money on marketing/astroturfing for Bluesky