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I note you didn’t attack the substance of what was said, just who it was paraphrasing.

Capitalism is the worst economic model except for all the others.

She and I started dating, and she’s had a lot less time for making Fediverse friends since starting her new job.

That’s a very long nickname, but it also tells me everything I need to know. I assume his new town nicknamed him that.

You’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song? I don’t favor her music, but I’ve heard several songs.

So I have a frame of reference, have you ever heard a Beatles song? How about Coldplay?

I didn’t know Lemmy hated Taylor Swift. If I heard that, I would have guessed it was because she is “too mainstream,” but now I also see that it is because she is rich and is in a relationship with someone not politically pure enough.

I also suppose that endorsing Harris in the last election probably turned people off.

You’re taking too long in the shower. Think about water conservation.

Did anyone else read the title and then get surprised that the author is not who they thought it would be?

You have my sympathies, OP.

Under capitalism, companies do what their owners want them to do. The owners can choose to try to grow, to shrink, to sell, or to close.

Publicly owned companies have shareholders, and the shareholders usually want the company to grow so their investment grows. Shareholders can have other values, but anyone can become a shareholder.

Under non-capitalist systems, the government might own some or all companies. Then the companies do whatever the party in power wants. The party in power probably doesn’t have time to run all the companies, so they give some level of independence. They can reign that back whenever they like.

The most common motivation in non-capitalist systems is probably greed and growing personal wealth of party leaders via corruption under that system. Luckily, the people can vote in a different party and/or protest against party corruption except in all real-world cases, where that is banned or suppressed.

Corrupted by the West and its hegemony.

In America, it is a harsh term for the vagina. As a gendered term, it would be considered a slur. For some reason, “pussy” is more acceptable but carries the same connotations. The latter is used to describe a coward, while the former would be more akin to “bitch.”

Hag

We’re all holding our breath until we find out if the farter is MAGA or a radical leftist.

Especially if the bullet doesn’t full stop into the target or a barrier behind it.

“People called Romanes they go the house”?

I get the Hans & Franz reference, but I didn’t notice OP’s username. My reference is to chess grandmaster Hans Niemann describing how he beat world champion Magnus Carlsen in a controversial match.

Chess speaks for itself.

You’re probably right. That’s not enough to avoid downvotes because you potentially don’t count yourself among the Tesla haters. If your comment is ambiguous to the point where people aren’t sure where you stand, they will assume the worst.

Hans?

That’s odd. I thought it was the MMR vaccine.

This is a just a correction, but it seems fitting on a post about language and learning languages.

“Half” is the noun you are looking for. “Halve” sounds slightly different and means “to split in half.”