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9mo ago
China cultural exports is also a weird one since there's such an international sinosphere that there's plenty of stuff that has been adapted from regional Chinese markets (Cantopop, Hokkien Dramas from Taiwan etc) for broader adaption across the Chinese sphere without really making a blip on anglos.
I've got a Malaysian-Chinese partner and thus probably consume more Sino content than most people. I've enjoyed some of the modern output (Yolo was actually really fun as a boxing movie but also riddled with a bunch of weird diversions from the standard Western tropes that I found fascinating as a culture study).
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9mo ago
My wear and tear on the structure and the aging waterheater and whatnot are round off errors in the property value.
Exactly. Amount of people I know who renovate and then try to claim that the 5% appreciation in their house's value in the time it took them is value added instead of just underlying market fluctuations is insane to me
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9mo ago
I think bringing huge amounts of low tier immigrants with very different beliefs and lifestyles until they viscerally feel disgust at their taxes going to support the degeneracy is the best way to get it dismantled
Isn't a lot of this the reason for the rioting, though? The local untermensch are frustrated by the decision of their 'betters' to import foreign untermensch who make their untermensching lives less pleasant (and frequently are the beneficiaries of programs and efforts to integrate and advance the foreigners that locals don't have access to) whilst fighting for resources.
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9mo ago
Yeah but that's hardly unusual for womens' sports. The elite female athletes I've met have generally trended towards butchness, and that's been the trend forever. Look at the drama with the WNBA & Caitlin Clark with a tacit theme of 'the traditionally black & lesbian-dominated WNBA don't like that they've suddenly become palatable due to the success of a white woman'.
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9mo ago
Him being a skilled medical worker and humanizing the process are parts of that, though. Nobody's saying foreign doctors should be kicked out, but moreso that importation of people to fill pointless laptop sinecures which could go to locals preferentially due to producing little but emails and meetings.
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9mo ago
I feel this all begs the question of the point of recent unskilled migrants. The majority of advanced Western economies are struggling to generate sufficient employment for their native population, unskilled labor is increasingly dead (and what remains is 'unskilled' service economy work which requires cultural awareness and language skills as opposed to the manufacturing of yesteryear) and thus all that seems to happen is a strange choice between either entrenched unemployment or pouring large amounts of resources into attempting to create economic productivity out of the unskilled.
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9mo ago
Then I saw what happened in cities where drugs were de facto, or in Portland’s case de jure, legalized. The externalities from junkies got worse, not better. Regular citizens have to deal with more theft, more random acts of violence, more derelict homeless camp eyesores.
I personally have yet to see the argument that the trade-offs of junkies are worth occasional recreational drug use. I've sampled most party drugs at some point in my life, and I'm not a regular user of any since, whilst I don't mind having ticked that box, I don't see any need to be ongoingly engaged. And the trade-off I get in return for my society being liberal on drugs is occasionally having RPG random encounters with people who are literally irrational actors.
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9mo ago
Personally in this era of fentanyl and other absurdities I'd much rather live in a society with zero tolerance for drugs (and thereby mitigate junkie random encounters substantially) than take on the externalities of recreational drug use. I'm living in an affluent Western society presently, and the vast majority of my perceived threat from my fellow citizens is from drug users.
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9mo ago
I think there's limitations here in the sense that if a random average 5'3 male were to play in the WNBA they'd have a noted baseline advantage but they still wouldn't be the best player in the league due to height handicap.
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9mo ago
I genuinely think that Khelif's opponent here worked herself into a bit of hysteria since there's ample proof that Khelif isn't some world-ending super hitter with her 11% KO rate in amateurs.
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9mo ago
Yes but her opponent has been competing against women for years with good-but-not-great results and an 11% KO rate. There's ample proof she's not some insane worldbeating physical force.
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10mo ago
And I think it's easier to remember the lockdown enthusiasts as overreaching than it is the relatively laissez-faire Trump/Republican approach, regardless of whichever was nominally better at addressing whether the local Octogenerians were sent to early graves slightly or moderately faster than usual. Biden's tribe backed a lot of disruptions to average living that seem like an utterly insane void in hindsight, whilst regardless of how much emphasis you put onto Omicron and the Vaccines for the nullification of COVID the red tribe's stance that it was largely nothingburger seems to have born out.
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10mo ago
I feel like there's a certain energy of 'oh this is our Jan 6 that the media will have to blow out of proportion' to some of the Pro-Trump responses to this and I very much doubt that the media will fan the flames in the same way as they did Jan 6.
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10mo ago
A view Trump as unbeatable at this point.
He really isn't on polling, though. The margin of victory in these things isn't that big.
Joe Biden is nominee unless he resigns or gets hit medically. There's no mechanism for removing him. I agree he would not get the nomination if it was a fresh contest, but he has essentially already won it. I'm quite large on Biden at the equivalent of 30c for nom and 10c for presidency for full disclosure, but the window for replacement has largely passed.
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10mo ago
I kind of agree with their points, but I feel the overton window is sufficiently skewed towards the Left (along with the Left not really being able to understand the sheer breadth of the political spectrum) that these discussions are being had by like 95th percentile Left people and 40th percentile Right People in the grand scheme of things.
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10mo ago
As in not be nominated for the upcoming cycle? I don't really see any reason for Biden to turf her out, nor is there really a heir apparent. Her best shot to be President is either Biden resignation after winning, or getting essentially handed the nom by an exiting Biden now. It'd be very surprising if she won the nomination in a 2028 primary.
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10mo ago
Vibe seems to be of Tory collapse more than anybody being especially pro-Labour or invested in their vision. Reform looks like might be indicative of a surge rightwards, but hard to see anything accomplished by Labour in the interim period.
Gaza-driven Politics continue to boggle the mind.
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10mo ago
I feel like mild facepalm and 'This is going to blow up way out of proportion' were generally the responses, lots of equivocating to the Floyd riots as well.
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10mo ago
Cultural confusion can also be a factor. Remember a case in Australia where a Transwoman was assaulted by a Tinder hookup, but it turned out the Tinder hookup had only been in the country from his native Pakistan for a couple weeks and seemingly had no cultural awareness of Trans being a thing/how to pick up on it from the profile.
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10mo ago
Out-and-out homophobia/sexually-motivated violence tends to not get too much coverage in specific incidents since it's perpetrated by certain cultures that are otherwise lionized by progressive actions. 'There were 50 Trans murders this year' looks shocking and something to be addressed, whilst '95% of those were ladyboy prostitutes running afoul of pimps and gay-panic Johns' is something that'll keep individual incidents off the headlines
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11mo ago
Not generally on the sort of leagues/comps where trans are going to be included.
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11mo ago
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11mo ago
Still Catholics have been a fairly large chunk of the population for the majority of the USA's history and include quite a few successful European ethnic groups that have not experienced significant censure. The Supreme Court is 6/9 Catholic (according to Wikipedia I have no idea who's practicing/adherent)
The greater sinosphere does have a lot of internal crossover between Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia-Chinese, the mainland and other elements which have their own unique voices. Which I think changes the dynamic somewhat versus Japan where their original market was more solid.
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