BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8mo ago
I am no fan of white people and even I think this is not right. There is no way this remark was targeted at any other category in that photo other than white. The photo is not "too perfect" for a stock image, it doesn't seem staged at all. The only good thing from this is that at least the racial animus isn't targeted towards minorities. Hopefully this is a good empathetic lesson for what they historically had to face in the past, and why that was bad and wrong.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10mo ago
Who gives a shit what color Tolkien's world was or wasn't. It could have been purple with green spots and the myth he created would be just as great (yes I know he wanted to create a new mythology for England, at that time populated by white people, but characters in myth need not resemble the people who created it, pray tell which Germans resembled the dragon Fafnir?)
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
26d ago
Interesting you say that, because I as an actual practicing muslim (and coethnic) would far rather have the current batch of western elites over the literal Taliban ruling the place.
Sharia law really isn't something you want in the modern world. The prohibitions on interest alone would destroy the economy far worse than what current elites are doing by not listening to economists/giving in to populists.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1mo ago
· Edited 1mo ago
Allow me to present a more parsimonious explanation of everything we're seeing:
Rust is clearly the systems language of the future. It can be just as fast as C++ and has a much nicer syntax/doesn't have weird idiosyncracies (ok, the last point is debatable). However there are lots and lots of C++/C "dinosaurs" whose livelihoods are going to be threatened were it to lose out in favour of Rust. Thus they need a way to protect themselves (as is only natural) and are trying to at the least slow down the adoption of Rust.
In a bid to do this they've found a feature of rust, namely the fact that it forces you to write good code, presented it as "undesirable" and created a narrative of how rust takes away your "freedoms", thereby aligning themselves to one side of the culture war in a bid to leverage the power of that side to protect their income stream. Nevermind that you can very easily write memory unsafe code in rust by just declaring an unsafe{} block around everything.
It's all the usual ploy of people hating technological progress and advancement because it's coming for their daily bread so they put up spurious blocks and fearmonger to ensure that coin keeps flowing to them.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
17d ago
The future of Ukraine is Somali and Bangladeshi migrants working on farms owned by American financial institutions and managed by HR women educated in the US.
Still beats becoming a vassal state of Russia. Europe really needs to get off its ass and start arming the Ukrainians properly (it's understandable why the US doesn't seem to care, but Europe doesn't have the same luxury of distance). Yes, this will cost lots of money, but Europe can easily raise this money by massively slashing welfare and benefit spending.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8mo ago
As for OP, there are many women in the Philippines and Ukraine who would be happy to have you.
BTW, OP shouldn't see these women as "lesser" than western women given that they're more likely to say yes to him. I don't know about Ukranians/Pinays specifically but I would venture to say that they are probably going to be more loyal, invest themselves more into seeing you succeed and make a better mother than their equivalent western counterparts (ofc bad apples exist everywhere so choose with care). When you're 50 what will matter is the bond between you and your wife and how secure your relation with your family (children if you want, in-laws), not how hot or desirable she was at 25.
This is another benefit of getting your parents/other elders to at the least shortlist a bunch of people they think would make good partners for you and then you choose from this set rather than choose completely by yourself. In the latter case you'll be more focused on the short term benefits of your potential partner than the lifelong ones they provide and are more likely to end up choosing a suboptimal person when averaged out over your whole life.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
9mo ago
In the medium term wiping out better stock hurts the worse stock more than letting them rule over you.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
And with outright hostilities like that you can't be surprised when we see you as an obstacle towards our own success and want to see you and yours removed from any and all positions of power and influence. It's a shame really because white people on average are generally more competent than most other ethic groups and having competent people running things is good for society as a whole, it's your culture that's screwed up to the point of no return.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
24d ago
This is a direct consequence of having a culture that values weakness above strength. When the former is valued more than the latter is it any surprise people deliberately try and become weaker to gain status? In his society the status and utility gained by our young man from having two fewer fingers exceeds the amount of utility he would have gained from those two intact fingers so from his point of view what he did was completely rational: It isn't him who is diseased, it is the culture around him.
There is no fix to this problem either. The only way out is replacement by a new culture that doesn't do this. The prognosis is terminal.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
9mo ago
Good in the short term as the worse stock gets to expropriate the creations of the better stock, even worse in the long term compared to the medium term as your country falls behind the rest of the world due to your lower human capital and lack of rule of law leading to nobody external with any sense investing even a single cent into you.
And the kinds of people who prioritize the short term over the medium/long term are basically almost definitionally the ones you want nowhere near the levers of power.
Better stock humans are God's gift to worse stock humans (as a class, not individually, no single person should think of themselves as "God's gift to humanity" because they are not, but as a class of human beings it's absolutely true), without them the low quality stock would be living in even worse conditions than they do at the moment (compare American blacks vs Liberian blacks). Shooting them with bullets is like killing the golden goose and the lower classes need this simple fact repeated to them multiple times until they finally get it.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1mo ago
Another valid solution is state sanctioned "beating the shit out of bad human beings until there is no more shitty behaviour left in them". This is surprisingly effective at getting those who are immune to reason to see sense. Operant conditioning works just as well on humans as it does on lower animals.
Six lashes for his rude behaviour followed by a solemn promise that he's going to get another sixty lashes if anything untoward was to happen to the woman afterwards would set him straight very quickly.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
4mo ago
· Edited 4mo ago
You may not offer unsolicited advice. Presume that other people are competently managing their own lives as they see fit. If they want your thoughts on their relationships, finances, or dietary habits, they will ask.
Interesting. My upbringing was basically the opposite. I was told by my parents (and culture more generally), that if I saw someone doing X to achieve goal Y and I really truly believed that instead of X it would be better to do Y it was my duty to let them know this and the fact that this was unsolicited means nothing.
Imagine you see someone trying to open one of those child lock medicine bottles where you have to push them in first, wrangle the cap around a bit and then twist to open them. However they don't seem to know this and you've noticed them for a while trying to twist the cap and open it and it keeps on failing, and they don't know why. They haven't asked you for help but anyone can see they are clearly frustrated. Pretty much nobody would say it's a bad thing to go and tell them how to open the cap, even though technically it is unsolicited advice. We just take this concept and scale it up to apply to many more things.
Now whether they choose to follow my advice or not is completely up to them, and I shouldn't try to change what they do, but my duty is to let them know and what they do with this knowledge later is purely for themselves to decide. On the Day of Judgement I will be able to say before God that I did what was required of me at that point in my life to help my fellow man and thus I was indemnified from whatever happened to that person afterwards, e.g. if they were swimming in waters I knew to be shark infested I have a duty to tell them they should get out ASAP, if they don't and then get eaten I am not morally responsible for what happened in a way I would be if I saw them swimming there and just went on with my day giving them no warning.
I guess this is yet another example of the cultural differences between the west and my homeland. It's pretty small on its own but when you have many dozens of such things they add up very quickly.
You say: Don't give unsolicited advice.
We say: It's your duty to give unsolicited advice.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1mo ago
and I don't believe for a second Tolkien didn't have an allegory in mind when he was writing that.
The place where that became unrealistic to me was how stupidly Saruman behaved after he got news the ring had been destroyed. The Shire under his control, like everywhere else in Middle Earth, would have felt the reverberations from the destruction of the ring and the fall of Sauron. Saruman would absolutely have known that the Fellowship hobbits were going to return back home soon (knowing their temprament and desire for domestic life) and would fight him for control there.
The very first thing a smart Saruman would have done would have been to completely ethnically cleanse the entire Shire of hobbits by genociding them all (and we know that by this point he was evil enough to do so) and replacing them with Uruk-Hai, so that when the inevetable battle happened at least the locals would side with him instead of against him. And if you read the chapter you'd quickly realise that the fellowship hobbits wouldn't have been able to muster their successful rebellion had there been no more living local hobbits left.
For whatever reason Tolkien didn't write the chapter in this way though... Perhaps it would have been even more anticlimatic than The Scouring of the Shire is on its own, but it would definitely have been more realistic.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
4mo ago
Quick reminder to everyone that Islam exists and does not suffer from this ... problem ...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6mo ago
including the raid shelter killings that have already been publicized.
God those videos are extremely brutal. Such videos should (but we all know they won't) convince everyone that the side of peace and kindness and treating other human beings well and general "stuff westerners say they like" here is Israel, not Palestine. If you want peace in the Middle East, they are the ones you should be supporting. Sure they are discriminatory etc., but the alternative is not Nordic style welfare democracy, it's literal Hamas, and compared to them, Israel are the good guys.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6mo ago
· Edited 6mo ago
Should Palestinians in Gaza just forget the last 18 years and the thousands men, women and children bombed to death?
Yes, yes they should. It sucks but there is no alternative. Israel is too far advanced and strong now compared to the Palestinians, end of story. The time to compete was 50 years ago, and the way to compete was not rockets and bullets but rather a singular focus on economic growth to the point where your soft power grew so much you could influence the players that really matter (lets be honest here, both Palestine and Israel are too small to influence the world by themselves) to put extreme pressure on Israel because they wanted to trade with you (which is what Israel is doing now to the Palestinians, see the proposed normalization of relations with parts of the Arab world).
Violence no longer works on large scales in the 21st century (see Russia v Ukraine) if you want to create a peaceful country and prosperity for your people. The only reason it works for Israel doing the reverse is that the Palestinians are much weaker (to the point that it's no longer two equals fighting - which leads to a lot of damage to the world; but more like police subjugating a riot - minimal damage to the world if the police handle it right), and because Israeli economic heft will mean other countries turn a blind eye to what is going on, were Palestine to try the same, they would rightfully be sanctioned into the ground. Until Hamas understands this the very people they want to help will suffer even more than they would in a counterfactual world where Hamas suddenly disappeared off the face of this planet.
Even if Hamas wants to take the fight to Israel physically, the way to do it is not through the sticks and stones tier rockets but rather through diverting economic resources into high end military research to make yourself a plausible equal of Israel in the domain, and then threaten them (this is never going to happen, but it's still the right way to do things if you choose this path).
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
8mo ago
If you want to learn about the latest happenings at breakneck speed with reasonably high confidence that it's not a hoax, rdrama.net is probably the best place for it at the moment.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
10mo ago
· Edited 10mo ago
Russia (like the rest of Europe) is slowly dying. That's fine, everything eventually comes to an end. However it made an inadvisable move to lash out one last time before the inevitable, one final death throe before the end, but this too has backfired on it and made things even worse for the country as a whole. You can't blame them for trying something, but you can blame them for picking a particularly bad thing to try. In the modern world we have reached an equilibrium where military power means less and less compared to economic and cultural staying power and many of these events are just (painful) lessons to those who weren't able or willing to follow the winds of change. Experience is the best (and most painful) teacher as they say.
Sure, it sucks for current Russians (and Europeans) but this is just the wheel of fortune, nothing more and nothing less. There are times when you're climbing up, and times when you're being kicked down. It's just what it is. Given that it's very hard to compete with the current hegemonic American culture if Russia really wanted to be successful in spreading its ideas in the modern world it would defund its military and spend the money on boosting Russian fertility to create lots of people who believe in Russian ideology instead.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
There are a few second-gen South Asians here, I know BurdensomeCount is one for example.
Ah, while my parents are also in the UK I wasn't born here, I came with them to this country during my early teenage years and I think my basic mental view of the world had part formed before I stepped foot on Western shores. A significant part of my schooling took place outside the UK. So I'm not really second gen (but equally not really first gen either).
2nd gen immigrants (Indians and east-asians) are desperate to integrate into normie white culture.
If you were to ask me what I see myself as I would without a doubt reply that I am Hindustani and not English.
No matter how I dress or talk, or the way I interact with other westerners in the end phir bhi dil hai Hindustani. And I am and will always be proud of it.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
1yr ago
Oh, it's extremely shameful, the problems with our society are really really bad. However they are by and large due to incompetence rather than the culture itself being poor. Not to say our culture doesn't have problems, it definitely does, but they are easier to fix than the bastardised mutant of liberalism that rules the roost in the West right now (I'm talking about the elite culture, not the prole culture, that thing is no better than modern western "liberalism").
Again, you can blame us for not domesticating our lower classes properly like they've done so in the west (this is something I actually admire the west for, you've domesticated the common man really well) and that really is our failure but modern western elite culture now has far worse problems.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
4mo ago
Russia is putting all its abilities into winning, the US considers the Ukraine war an afterthought. And yet, despite being an afterthought they/them are able to check the entire might of the great "masculine" Russian bear.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5mo ago
Canada already proved euthanasia is a slippery slope, so I don't buy all the talk about how this isn't an important issue.
Slippery slope? Canada is doing absolutely the right thing when it comes to Euthanasia. It is not being forced upon anyone, merely given as an extra option in addition to the normal healthcare system for those who's diseases are really bad.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
5mo ago
Some people are born pedophiles, they should still be locked up and at the very least heavily monitored if they ever molest children.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
6mo ago
Random rumors from the internet:
https://twitter.com/realpepeescobar/status/1711973752924455254
Mossad is now blaming Huawei.
Hamas used Huawei smartphones with no Western backdoor.
That completes switching the blame to the new "axis of evil".
Russia-China-Iran.
The source is a twitter account named @RealPepeEscobar, so do your due diligence, but if this is true it's absolutely hilarious: Western intelligence agencies spend their time and money breaking into their own side's hardware rather than that of the enemy...
One of the replies to the tweet says he'll go and buy a Huawei now, and to be honest who can blame him, just like how having western rather than Chinese backdoors in your hardware protects you if you're living in China, having Chinese rather than western backdoors protects you if you're living in the west.
Seeing things like these almost makes me feel sorry for westerners, ... almost.
My personal upbringing taught me to always treat all women with great respect/guard their honour. I was never interested in sleeping around for instance. Shortly after I entered university one of my fellow countrymen who was a few years above me told me that the Western women around me were for having fun with and were not suitable for marriage. He told me that when I was ready for marriage I should bring over a sweet girl from back home. At the time I found the statement to be offensive towards women and was somewhat indignant, for surely (or so I thought) these women were just like those back home but without a strong social norms to guide them and in the end they all wanted the same thing, but over the years with experience I have come to see the wisdom in his words. Western women really aren't worth much more than having fun with.
The problem here isn't women as a whole, but women infested with western brain rot specifically. And Western men played a big part in letting their society get to such a point.
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