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Both IIRC.

How would that help? Bots will just move to another instance. Maybe yours.

Thats... Gummo?

the US is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and that people still fail to see that after the epstein files is actually shocking While this is true progressive.international/blueprint/…/en/ To be fair, you didn’t pick ubiased authors here. Neither of the authors is capable of saying anything negative of China. For example, Paweł Wargan proponent of new Chinese imperialisms with extra steps - e.g. thecommunists.net/…/multi-polar-world-order-is-mu…

I was under an impression that it was always “police station” with the quotes, to make it more sinister or smthing (and it was sold as something unlicensed by the country where ir was repoeted, obviously) But the Evil Empire did prosecute someone in the case of those stations, as far as I can tell with no verdicts yet - but it seems to be some PIs? justice.gov/…/private-investigator-sentenced-pris…

Corporations should pay and be held accountable No. The board and the directors should be personally responsible, and should be punished in addition to the corporation paying money at the minimum.

I do think its impossible that the goverment not made of worker class representstives can be socialistic. Just by the simple fact they do not represent the wast masses, they will ultimately be disconnected from workers and/or serve their own petty bourgeoisie interests. Agreed? Even ancient Greeks knew that when the representatives in democracy come from rich families they always serve their families first (see sortition, a practice they used to offset that).

it’s always bad to be associated with them. There are multiple countries sharing that sentiment though? E.g. every European neighbour of them except Belarus? (At least according to Russian TV)

I vastly prefer suntan background and blackish font. White on black makes my eyes tired.

Literally! They were told to return to office to achieve higher productivity (it was circling the news around September?)

male victims were provoking, i.e. asking for it. What the heck is wrong with you?

But they do commit ~50% of spouse murders, so at least thet have that for them? Oh, and the women are vastly underrepresented in the victim statistics. Interestingly, some researchers when they control for provocation, do find that the difference is because of gender norms, and without them the violence rates equalize psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-290… Another fun fact, when it comes to incarceration rates women do tend to get more lenient sentences because they are women (and act pitiful on the trail) - however it is slowly changing as more and more judges slowly learn to ignore that bullcrap. Sources and initial readings can be found in this wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime It is fun :)

spam musubi

That’s sushi with spam. I wouldn’t call that unique because how similar it is to any other sushi, its just an ingredient replacement. Now if the spam was specifically seasoned or prepared then yeah, it’d be a unique snack.

Frybread is basically hungarian lángos

And deep fried podpłomyk recipe is also very similar.

loco moco

I can’t find anything like it, or from similar ingredients, so I’d call it unique. They are similar dishes, but either with more than 1 ingredient removed, or lacking the complexity.

cheese zombies, jojos, Seattle dog, huckleberry everything, etc.

Grilled cheese sandwich, potato wedges, hot dog with a different ingredient, huckleberry is an ingredient, not a dish.

Southwest USA and Mexican have a lot of overlap but are also just as distinct with “Tex-mex” being it’s own culinary thing. Puffy tacos, chili con queso, cornbread, cowboy caviar, nachos, etc.

Igredient replacement, literally not a dish but a dip, Native American, a bean salad, nachos are Mexican. Tex-mex I think is mostly one ingredient replacement. Literally you had a lot of beef and cheese and that’s how you made Mexican recipes.

Midwest, Alaskan, southern, east-coast, Puerto Rican

Midwest and Alaskan, as well as east-coast, those three sound most promising. Can you maybe tell a bit more about them?

Southern is likely to be European cuisine with one ingredient replacement, Puerto Rico is famously a territory of the USA, but not a state :-)

pasta is any less “Italian” despite it just being Chinese noodles with a few changed ingredients.

Yeah, pasta is not a unique Italian dish. It was invented by so many cultures independently. Bolognese sauce on the other hand is, as I can’t find any other similar dish that was invented independently from it. Do you see the distinction I’m looking for?

Edit: you might wonder why then I count pumpkin pie as a unique - the main ingredient changed, and you often add caramel and pecan pies on top, making it significantly different than other pies.

Out of all the dishes you mentioned, only Gumbo is a uniquely USA dish. Jambalaya is an African recipe with an ingredient change to match what was available. Mudbugs are eaten everywhere where they are present, and I personally think that Polis Zupa Rakowa is the best usage of that ingredient. If were talking about the mudbug boil, every cousine I know of that has access to them have similar recipe. Blackened redfish is uhhh... Hot pan with spices to pretend its grilled (ingenious, but not a unique dish https://www.foodrepublic.com/1631780/origin-why-redfish-banned/) Crawfish etouffee - huh, I think it's also an invention. The cooking method and igredients seem to be unique enough that its visibly distinct from any other similar dish that I know of and could check the recipe of. Courtbullion on the other hand is too similar to French one that I would call it a variation, instead of an unique invention. (Does that make sense? I'm not trying to diminish other foods but to showcase how unique Gumbo and etouffe are)

I've been thinking about it, and I can only name 3 dishes that were uniquely created in the USA (so no General Tsao Chicken), that were not an old recipe with a changed ingredient because it's hard to get the original (so no Jambalaya), or were not just bigger sandwiches (so no Italian sandwich): Gumbo. Pumkin pie. Buffalo wings (but I'm not sure if this can be called a dish, as its so simple its more like a snack, and its fast food). If someone can think of more, please advise - I'm extremely curious. Edit: Etouffe is also one.

I’ve got bad news then: 90% of everyone’s food fucking sucks.

I kinda wanna hug you because that sounds awful. At least in my bubble (Poland) it does not suck, although for example the quality of tomatoes is dropping like crazy for the past decade or so.

Unless of course you’re making a strawman about food in food insecure countries?

That is an interesting point and I want to add three cents to it. Sometimes diasporas preserve the original recipes better than the country of origin. An example of it are some Polish dishes that were preserved closer to the original than in Poland, because when Poland was under USSR occupation there were severe food shortages and some recipes had to evolve or were literally forgotten. (IIRC that was just a few cakes and pastries, but hey, it still happened!)