Did you edit your comment so that mine doesn’t make sense?

That’s skeevy.

You an I… We are either going to form an unstoppable super team or… You ate going to end up as my nemesis.

You write essays at your job?

I can fall asleep, near instantly, at will.

I call it my time machine function.

I’m not sure calling Gorbechev an idiot is right though.

Just because he was a victim of external interests, as you describe. Feels a bit victim-blamey.

“Look what you made the US do to you”.

Yeltsin, maybe though.

Which bit of history does this represent?

At first I thought it might be the break up of the USSR, but that doesn’t really work here. So that leaves me at a loss.

I just can’t see how Gorbachev and Trump, or their actions, are similar.

That’s a superb trajectory.

I went on to the +2A and then an Amiga 500. Loved that machine, but always the fondest memories for me were typing in code out of magazines on my ZX.

“People make fun…”

Do they? They were massively popular in the UK and are generally remembered quite fondly by people who used them as kids.

Learning basic, playing games.

Sure, we griped about stuff, but folk gripe about everything.

This sort of retro-focussed content that makes weird assertions about how people felt and feel gets recycled way too often.

Classic bully behaviour.

Stupid and self defeating.

I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

That’s really not one conflict. Conflating them was what the US regime at the time tried to do to whitewash their decisions.

Also, at least you do know people who were completely cool when everyone just pulled out of Afghanistan leaving the folk that worked with them to suffer the reprisals of the Taliban, so ask them if it was worth it.

But let’s not forget the time the US dragged the world into a horrible war on terror just so it could maintain oil prices too.

Yes, that was what I joking about.

Nah, let him come here and make sure his motorcade gets stopped on the streets.

You just know that Trump is going to have to say and do some batshit wild stuff to distract us from this.

What next?

My money is on claiming Antarctica as US land because of …uh… Ice prices or something.

Nah, you got Hungary too. All the fash.

Real Art of The Deal shit.

Absolute fucking masterclass in statesman-like diplomacy.

Genuinely a moment for all Americans to be proud of. Truly, exceptional.

So you think it should be a binary decision? Either see only things you’ve actively curated or put up with anime tits.

No one is suggesting it is anyone’s fault for posting stuff, just that if there was a tag system people could choose.

You seem defensive, is everything ok?

Can’t be true, there ain’t no gays in the freedom gulf of America /s also

Unpopular opinion, but in the west particularly, folk have mistaken writing on the internet for action.

Tweeting resistance rather than performing it.

A lapse into inaction framed as radical rest and self care.

Online they are fierce warriors of justice, offline they go to work in Starbucks, use their apple devices to talk to their families and enjoy the treadmill of streaming services.

And this isn’t to blame them. This is the point of consumerist capitalism. To trap you in a gilded cage.