Good old pseuicide.

Nobody gives a fuck about your ranting.

But dey took ouyr jaaabs!

we don’t need unfriendly, human-rights-violating countries owning anything over here.

Again, let’s not act like the US corporations wouldn’t do it if they could. In fact, a lot of them do... just in other countries. Chevron, Monsanto, Coca-Cola, Chiquita, etc have all done similar. Just not on US soil, and that seems to be anyone here really cares about.

Unlike all the US based, unfriendly, human-rights-violating corporations that are already here, right? You realize that the Supreme Court is already trying to gut the right to strike in the US? They don’t hate China’s human rights abuses. They’re jealous that they can’t get away with doing it here without a slow roll.

This being Virginia, and unspoken narrative also goes something like this: The locals don’t have the edumucation or training for those jobs anyway, so it would likely mean the jobs would go to “newcomers” from, gasp, Northern Virginia, or “the north” generally, who would drive up housing demand and have smarter kids…

VA resident here. Fleece-vest guy is pandering to the MAGA base while at the same time pushing his perception as “moderate.” Nothing new here.

“You killed a plant which would have created 2500-”

“You really think China of all government is concerned about the welfare of Earth or people in general?”

Don’t you know? Wealthy elites know what’s best for the poor, coal smeared masses. Then, when they don’t have enough taxes to spend on infrastructure, school and police, the GOP will spin it in the next election that, “Dems kept them from having jobs and that their communities are hurting because of ‘socialism’”.

I wonder if he has banned Smithfield Foods from being used in VA Gov’t yet? It is owned by the Chinese and the company gave $30K to his inagural committee.

They know that their constituents will blame the Dems anyway.

Yet he won’t loose the support of anyone who voted themselves out of a new job. But at least they’ll have a lot of time to congratulate themselves about how they stopped CRT from (*not) being taught in elementary school.

Fucking redneck governors. Doing their reliable best to always do the shittiest things.

“wasn’t she posting again under a different username?”

I was part of a Harry Potter-themed online community where something like this happened. There was a teenage boy who got super popular and was basically loved by everyone. Soon, he brought his neighbor, a young woman in her 20s, into the community and introduced her to everyone. A month or two later, the neighbor made…

When I was a system operator on a bbs in the 1990s, we had this happen all the time. The people who faked their deaths weren’t even good at it except for the guy who paid for his obituary to be placed in his local newspaper. 

“I told them that she is dead to the indie world, the internet, because we had to stop her, period,” Troy Meachen told the Times, adding that the feedback Meachen had received for her writing in these spaces was “really brutal.” He explained that his wife’s “addiction” (her words) to the online romance community and…

Her psychiatrist talked to the times? I mean, even with client consent, that seems pretty weird. I work in mental health and if a newspaper reached out to me to confirm anyone as a client or any details of their care, diagnosis, or anything else, I wouldn’t do it even if the client gave consent. The idea of it just…