A dumb sideline- question from a country where shower heads are always hand held.

I visited AmeriKKKa once and the one thing that was different was the showers and tubs. The places I went had showers you can’t detach from above and only shallow tubs. I assume one is to sit around in the dirty water and that supposedly is “showering” and I thought it to be odd. I could not properly wash my nether regions or even armpits that way because am used to pointing the water upwards with the shower in my hand.

Tubs have disappeared from around here long ago due to how much water they consume and when we did bathing, we would always shower and wash first and then do the bath as a form of relaxation/pampering.

The undetachable showerhead made especially rinsing properly somehow impossible for me. Always felt like there at least might be some soap left in my bits. Tried to bend over and stuff to get the clean water into all places, but felt a bit icky still. The water pressure also seemed to be very low which made it worse.

I really don’t think you can get your ass properly washed like this either. Are the showers in the US still like this or was this a regional thing?

I don’t really understand the use of it that people are describing here, but the way I for example use a bidet would not do that. There is no aiming, I use it like a hand shower because that is what it essentially is.

I use it from the front to the back always and wash with soap as well with my other hand. First water, soap, then a good rinse. Then dry everything up well. I don’t understand how just shooting water up my butt crack would really wash anything well.

Ffs, went to see what is up in the local (nato) leftist party website and these people are literally recommending Anne Applebaum books to “fellow leftists”.

This is so pathetic from a place where Stalin and Lenin met for the first time. Where the streets ran red from the blood of communists that were slaughtered by the white terror and gave us all that we now have.

To think that these “leftists” have just comfortably chosen to ignore all this and just go slava ukraine all day long is doing my head in.

All the toilets where I am from have a bidet and we do wash our bits with them. At least all who I have done bidet discourse with do.

Even public toilets have them and it would be incredible miserable to exist in the world with periods if they didn’t.

But I still need TP as a person without a personal hose for peeing. It’s also nice to dry things up with after the washing and then there’s the period stuff. This post seems to ignore that not everyone has similar plumbing.

For what it’s worth I personally take part in this because I need to understand better where all this is coming from and how people think and it’s also incredibly disappointing for exactly the reasons the OP pointed out. Yet these “tankies bad” posts just keep on coming and are symptomatic of the state of the left in the West.

I approach online discussion thinking that there could always be people reading it who could benefit from seeing the counterarguments. I know I did, I used to have far more brainworms (no doubt I still do). But without seeing the arguments I don’t think I would have evolved past them, at least not as quickly. Our basic westoid countries are very hegemonic on the bourge talking points.

It doesn’t mean I don’t touch grass or try to aid class consciousness in my every day, but I am not going to post about those on an online forum.

I am still undiagnosed and not in the US, but this sort of thing and employment evaluations are still the big reasons I haven’t pursued it.

We have the tech broyi big data medical records where I live, if I had the diagnosis, it would be so easy to pick me up from the records. The surveillance that people have just willingly signed up for cover all medical records nbd diagnoses on a national level. They are just ready to be exploited for when this country gets to where the US is now.

I am so worried for our US comrades tbh.

It really does.

Memory time: I remember a moment, well over a decade ago now, when I was with my grandma who was well over 80 at the time (rip) and she started talking about how fleeting life really is and how she feels no different on the inside from how she felt as a 15 year old. And that she isn’t at all ready to die or found some sort of peace with how fast life went by. The body just ages from around you, but the kid that would like to run and jump is still right there wondering wtf happened.

This moment really stuck with me and feels more true each day that passes. Time also goes by faster each year. It’s kind of terrifying.

The “how the hell did I get here so soon” has really been getting to me lately. I got a pretty slow start to everything thanks to poverty & undiagnosed audhd and am just now getting one actual degree done and some decent wages.

I don’t have time anymore to buy a house, nor do I get a decent retirement fund no matter what I do, it’s too late. But most of all, what happened to all this time? I want to do so many things still and this life just flew by, it’s just so so short and I feel no different than I did at age 17.

I have raised a whole kid in between all this and even that feels like the blink of an eye. My partner is older too and I have started to worry about losing him now, every day feels like both a gift and yet the slight dread of it soon all being over underlies it all. Honestly I am the happiest I’ve ever been and at the same time the dread is bigger than ever before. I also expect all of this to fall apart any day now, if nothing else then the fash will fuck us all up (or climate change).

And I definitely don’t feel like a grown up. I never did. I felt very ancient as a young person, now I just feel the same as then.

These people are just so spectacularly unserious.

I feel like your last sentence there captures something very important about the impact of current discourses pretty much everywhere in the west. And it feels more like something the libs in power prefer then are againts as it creates this hard divide that is kind of difficult to pin down.