What a difference in where one grows up. I have never once heard about John 3:16 and I had no idea what it is. You learn something new every day, I guess

Muricans and their cars xD

There’s nothing wrong with pressuring your loved ones a bit - especially as a parent. I read it in a loving, paternal tone rather than a demanding, controlling one. Of course, if it was literal it’d be problematic.

The guy is complaining about not being able to find girls - so I wouldn’t read too much into it either.

Well, I don’t see the flags anyway. We don’t know these two people or what their relationship is like.

I was about to ask what you meants with wizard lego… but I assume you mean that they make Harry Potter ones?

Don’t you tell me Russia hasn’t been waging wars. That’s an insane statement. Even looking past Ukraine, since the breakdown of the Russian Empire 2.0 (aka the Soviet Union) Russia has invaded Georgia twice, Transnistria, Chechnya twice, and Dagestan, as well as having upheld Al-Assad’s regime - don’t tell me that guy isn’t evil even if he stood up to Israel - and are now heavily involved in Burkina Faso, Mali, and the CAR. Now do you want to talk about all the shit Russia got up to between 1920 - 1991? Or the countless genocides of the Russian Empire as well as the continuous oppression of ethnic minorities in the Caucasus and Siberia, including using them as human meat shields in Ukraine?

The West deserves hate, but so does Russia. Don’t be a tankie idiot. No one is choosing Russia because Russia isn’t that important anymore. Others are choosing China and that makes sense.

You know what’s completely ridiculous? Your black or white view of the world. Reality is that there is no benevolent state or any kind of financially succesful entity that isn’t built on some form of exploitation. The Western system is evil. So is Russia for sure. China. UAE and the Saudis. You have India now rising by building strong ties with USA and Israel. There’s no geopolitical force that’s built on good. That you’re incapable of realising that and just go “West bad so everyone else good” is quite telling about you. Besides, Russian Jews - strongly overrepresented in the oligarchs statistics - traditionally have strong ties to the Israeli state and Zionism. Russia’s - like everyone else’s - current interests are only based on what they perceive to be the most gainful. If Putin could’ve benefitted from siding with Israel instead of the China-Iran-Assad axis he would’ve done so immediately. To even suggest that Russia is anti-Zionist out of benevolence is insane.

Besides you now say he has “Russian roots” but right before you were attempting to convince people that he was “Ukrainian”. So

YSK that he grew up in Yaroslavl, Russia to Russian-speaking Jewish parents. Calling him “Ukrainian” just because he was born in Odesa during the Soviet Union is misleading. He had/has close ties to the Russian state and became wealthy off of Russian oil and aluminium deposits in the 90s.

So yes, you can blame “the Russians”, but you should rather blame the system.

In that case it wouldn’t be that common to have a “casual” boyfriend coming to sleep over after a month though

I always make the same argument as to why left-wing politics has been so generally unappealing to working-class, average people - in spite of the irony. I vote left, I have a uni degree, and they still piss me off. Don’t talk about Marxist analyses, and don’t make everything about gender identity or Palestine (I care deeply about Palestine, but it’s not the main issue that I’d want my local political party to focus on) make it about the issues facing regular people on an every day basis. Say “bro, me like taxes” instead of producing a 20-page paper on the evils of capitalism.