crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
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crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
The problem is that those subsidies run up against the the bubble that is the Chinese housing market. To be married as a man in China requires that you have a property to even compete. More money is useful for those already planning families but does nothing to make men be capable of marriage.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
I wouldn't be so opposed to the Communist party if they demonstrated technocratic chops to govern. But even if you look at the official figures, the birth rate and the demographic pyramid scream mismanagement. I don't know how people can sell Chinese technocrats as wise and farsighted luminaries when it's obvious they have the same short-term incentives that all politicians share. At least the West has the excuse that democracies elect feckless and shortsighted leaders. What's China's excuse for half a billion pensioners in 2100?
And so far, the solution it seems is to pretend it doesn't exist: to become South Korea with nukes with a quarter of the GDP per capita.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
I am Chinese. I have Canadian citizenship, but that makes me no more a Canadian than a dog born in a stable a horse. And my countrymen see me in this way, as well.
You can't trick me out of my ethnic identification or nationality with your wordcel ramblings. If you want to tell me that I'm not a real Chinese because I don't share your Fifty Cent army opinions, you can jump off a cliff.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
You could write a book about it, but let me condense my concerns into three points.
A) Gross materialism and an obsession with wealth. If you think Americans are disgusting in greed and consumerism, they have nothing on the Chinese. You would think that a communist state would have a more egalitarian ethos, but mainlanders judge very sharply on money and class. When you obliterate traditional mores and religion, what you are left with is a class of hustlers who have no shame or dignity.
B) Placing face over truth. Nearly all Eastern cultures have this to some extent, but China will never foster an intellectual or artistic scene that is worth a damn if the powers that be only allow critique for the purpose of internal power struggle. When you embrace lying to preserve the reputation of your superiors, you move away from the Enlightenment and sink into oriental despotism.
C) Destroying the environment. I'm not a green, but poisoning the water table, scouring the oceans clean of life, and pumping unfiltered toxins into the air is not a sign of a rational or scientific government. This casual disregard for their own stewardship extends to the people as well (baby formula being the most significant, but SARS and COVID are there, too.)
All of these things are bad, and will destroy China if allowed to continue unabated, but the party has shown no signs of even recognizing that these are problems.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
I can understand it, but there is a considerable risk from switching from a flawed democracy as a master to an autocratic communist state. If the Europeans or Canada are complaining about human rights and authoritarianism, then taking China as a master is not an improvement.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
1d ago
As an actual Chinese I can tell you for sure that my Chinese-ness is not dependant on the papers I have or the country I live in, and having an outsider tell me I'm not is hilarious. I'm not a Changstan or a weird cultist, either, but having a foreigner lecture me on my own ethnic homeland is rich. You think you know things but you really don't. Sinophillic russian you may be, you want to believe the best of China to grind an axe against the west. You will be disappointed, in the end.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
2d ago
· Edited 2d ago
I don't like you, not because you're Indian, but because you're literally the meme that goes 'Hello, let me explain to you what being an Westerner is and how this definition includes me'. No, you don't get to be spiritually western until you've abandoned your parochial ideas and pagan beliefs back in the old country. You are a outsider trying to rules lawyer creeds and legalities but no matter how many pieces of paper you show me, your behavior and attitude will permanently make you an outsider - even if you lived here for a thousand years.
Just drop it. Accept that you'll be seen as a foreigner for a generation or two. Then no one will care. No one cares about Koreans or the Vietnamese or the Hmong. Just stop whining about it. But if you believe you are owed apologies for being Indian, then you'll be waiting until the second coming of Christ.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
2d ago
· Edited 2d ago
I am actually Chinese and China is nowhere as great as you think it is. 99% of what is written about China in English is narrative and lies, and about 85% of Chinese-language content about China is the same. So if you are a foreigner making your opinion on China's tightly controlled PR vs the open media of the West that has its laundry hanged out to dry, and siding with China, you're just as foolish as the pro-Soviet boosters in the NYT who didn't see the Holodomor.
I seem to recall one of our own being unfairly profiled as Israeli agent, but at this point, I have to ask. Are you an agent of the People's Republic of China, or have any relation to a corporation that does extensive business with them? Or are you some variant of Maoist Third Worldist?
Note that there's nothing wrong with being any of those things, but the pretense of being a neutral observer chuffing about American degeneracy is wearing thin. Please explain why you believe the communists in China are more trustworthy partners that the Americans.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
2d ago
Rubio publicly supported Vance as Trump's successor a while ago on Fox News. Vance isn't being discarded for anything (he just isn't welcome at a European meetup.)
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
4d ago
They call him a narcissist because they can't stand calling him a Great Man of history, because he obviously is. They're going to call this decade the Trump Era of politics and the beginning of populism dominating the west for decades to come. He's not a boomer selling the house instead of giving it to his kids because he wants to go on cruises: he's a megalomaniac, like Napoleon. He is a man who believes he has a destiny to reshape the world in his image...
...and, based on how history has turned out, is he wrong to believe so? He was radicalized by the bullet shot through his ear. Nothing convinces you more of Providence then surviving death. God himself acts through him, as he did Pharoah: hardening his heart and accomplishing what is necessary for the proper course of history to reassert itself. In short, God is punishing you, and Donald Trump is his scourge. Reflect on your many sins you must have committed for such a sentence to be passed upon you, and repent.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
4d ago
The progressive obsession with creating laborious rights and oversights to business - calling that a win - and then using government power to ignore their own rules is both Sisyphean and Kafkaesque. I hate it.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
10d ago
A famine isn't a drought. People can go without food for a month, very uncomfortably. People without water for a month are dead.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
10d ago
Unless the Shia clerics can drink blood and summon rain, you can't kill your way out of having no water. The Islamic Republic has foolishly pushed themselves into a position where no amount of force will overcome its problems. It reminds me of Xerxes whipping the ocean for its insolence. One hundred million people living in a mountainous desert can't be denied water. Even the Soviets - hell, even the North Koreans and the Khmer Rouge - did not run out of water.
I can't overstate enough how incompetent you have to be to overlook this very obvious problem, of their own making. If the Iranian opposition starts getting denied water, they have literally nothing to lose but their lives - which their evil government is determined to do by dehydration and starvation. Just to make sure... you do know that humans require water to live, right?
The humanitarian catastrophe is already priced in: intervention is the difference between a impoverished but recovering democracy and an atrocity on par with the Great Leap Forward.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
10d ago
Look, I understand that Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria were glorious boondoggles. But Iran is not just a American enemy (or heck, an Israeli one.) It's an incompetent regime. One that has run out of money and electricity and water. You can't shoot your way out of a drought. One way or another, Iran is going to explode. The calculus has shifted - not because of the CIA or Mossad, but because of nature. Regime change will happen regardless of what Americans do or do not do, so getting ahead of the curve and allying ourselves with the Iranians who have already endured and sacrificed so much is smart.
The Taliban, Saddam Hussein, and Assad were not so short-sighted and stupid enough to run out of water. The mullahs of Iran and the IRGC are so incompetent they grow rice in the desert from water captured from dams they themselves built because they are stupid. They ignored the advice of their own scientists because of greed and that is why they are falling now - systematic incompetence on every level. Intervening now will save the world an Iranian refugee crisis down the line, far larger than the Syrian one.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
10d ago
The reason that there has been no military intervention yet is that there is, at this time, no carrier group within striking distance and spinning up a offensive operation takes time. Trump is posturing for a strike. Talks have been called up. It's inevitable now: it's not a question of if, but when.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
18d ago
"Heh, I compare two incidents that have superficially similar argumentations around one another and so once again I accuse the chuds of hypocrisy, gotcha!"
Go directly to Reddit. Do not pass go, do not collect 200$. There is a world apart between making rhetorically weak arguments and fabricating evidence whole cloth. You know this. But here you are, saying something incredibly foolish, to attempt to reignite a past argument that you had failed to persuade in.
You are shameless, that much I know, but you can try to at least not be stupid at the same time. Now, having bitten into this bait, I will spit it out and go on my way.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
18d ago
Children are generally not very interesting before the age of ten. Maybe it's my Extreme Male Brain, but women can take care of em before then.
If a kid wants to hang out with me, it's okay, but I'm not going to actively engage. I supposed if I ever had a wife, I could be coerced into kid minding duty, but there's a small slice of time where they're smart enough to be worth teaching and 'mature' enough to not want to hang out with their stupid dad. That time is worth maximizing. The rest? Eh.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
19d ago
2nd amendment, contrapositive: no foreigner is allowed the right to bear arms.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
19d ago
I have no idea what's going on either. I was thinking about commenting but everyone was talking past each other and alluding to things that I had no context of.
Next time someone tries to call you an Israeli agent, ask them if they want a free pager. Making a joke about it disarms the glowie alarm in our heads.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
19d ago
· Edited 19d ago
As it is the case for many weak monarchs, Maduro may have been the compromise between rivalrous factions who - although ambitious in their own right - don't have the will or the prowess to step into Chavez's shoes. The bumbling fool could play president on TV while the real power brokers run the country.
But what happens when your puppet ruler is kidnapped by a foreign hegemon?
Fictions are durable. If you've been pretending for years he's actually in charge, then people believe that. You can't go 'we're the actual rulers' overnight. And suppose you actually do that. Trump could send Maduro back! Then what happens?
So as long as America has Maduro in hand, Venezuela cannot appoint his replacement without great internal effort. There'd have to be an election. I have no doubt that his vice president is a Kamala and was picked because she would never even sniff power. Any deep state figure wanting to control the Chavista party will do so without a scrap of democratic legitimacy.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
20d ago
I see your username, and I immediately read your posts in the tone of that peasant in the Holy Grail who is complaining about being oppressed.
Using my elite noticing powers, I notice that flouncers with dramatic names begging the mods to ban them rarely, if ever, have anything interesting to say. Maybe the contents of your mind are simply uninteresting, or worse: boring. Why don't you know, make a good post, instead of preemptively winding up your victim complex?
If every bar you go to is full of assholes, maybe you're the common denominator.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
22d ago
It has nothing to do what Israeli politicians say or do and more of the fact that the Holocaust made the Jewish national existence the responsibility of every household. If they don't fuck in Israel, then they'll be demographically drowned out by the Arabs. That's why you get weird things like the IDF sperm squad which extracts sperm from dead soldiers to impregnate their widows, like some demented and sad version of 40k's apothecaries. If you're not spermjacking the dead to increase the birth rate, you're not pro-natal enough.
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
23d ago
· Edited 23d ago
It's frustrating that the problems created by feminine autonomy are dogmatically treated by the West as a masculine problem. Because when men were cruising around, not committing to relationships and having casual sex, in traditional societies they were called 'cads' and 'equivocators'. Women weren't cajoled to 'woman up' to the standards of lechers and playboys. Men have already lowered their standards in the modern dating market. Women aren't expected to cook, to clean, to pay for anything, or even be pleasant. And women STILL EXPECT MORE from their mates then they did in yesteryear!
And now the girlbosses aren't getting married, because Plain Jane doesn't want to settle for Plain John and is unhappily seeking her spot in Mr. Chad's harem. How is this men's fault? Why would Chad commit when he's got a buffet of easy sex to pick from every weekend? And even if we could tame the Chad, there's only so many Chads to go around. What's the average guy who isn't a werewolf surgeon billionaire supposed to do? Yes, neckbeards have unrealistic standards. But what, exactly, does a woman have to bring to the table to be seen as a desirable mate? Can you name any? Or is this just another feminist cope that excuses women of all agency and responsibility?
The bottom 80% of the male population isn't getting 80% of the female attention. They're getting ~5% of it. That's female freedom in action: to pursue the best men. And because of how heterosexual attraction works, only the truly hideous women with no redeeming qualities at all will know how it feels to be an average man. To pretend that there is equality in this is obvious liberalslop. Women are never lonely - never truly lonely - until they pass the age of forty, then they experience the bleak reality of equality. Only then do they understand!
Men know. Young men know. Every male knows about a simp in their immediate friendgroup who goes the extra mile for a woman who won't give him the time of day. Women complaining about noncommitment from Chad is an obese welfare queen complaining about starvation to a Ethiopian. The average man that sits around and waits around for a suitor to approach him like an average woman does will die of old age before he gets approached. The average man - to state it plainly - does not attract the average woman at all, nowadays. All he is a free dinner and entertainment, the human version of watching TV filler when nothing better is on.
Dance, jester! Dance faster!
crushedoranges
Russia and Ukraine are two butch lesbians fighting over a condom
24d ago
Somalians can and do rob from each other in their home country. The difference is that in the West there's enough to steal that pilfering from their kin is no longer worth their time.
My critique is that not only are these campaigns to correct problems wrongheaded and ineffective, they're of the long-term sort that expose the systemic problems of the party. Namely, that the party commands too much from the top-down. Party planners wanted to correct the birth rate to avert Malthusian catastrophe and did so in a inhuman and vicious matter. Now, all of those girls they aborted are a haunting hole in the demography. The slightest concern for the environment or health regulation could have forestalled disaster and plague. But it didn't happen.
Not to say that this doesn't happen in the West. But the corrective mechanisms in an authoritarian society are simply too slow to react to largely foreseeable problems. No doubt the next set of existential crises are lurking about, unchecked, because to point them out would be embarrassing to the local politicians - and to the party, by proxy.
This does not sound like a communist, technocratic government where pragmatism dominates. This is the rot of the Soviet Union - a bureaucracy and party apparatus who can only react and not proactively solve problems. I wish for the best for my countrymen. I hope they prosper to provide a second pole if America should falter. But I enjoy western liberal norms, and I'm not willing to oblige myself to the strong authority of a state. So I'm stuck in an uncomfortable place.
Ah well. My opinion doesn't really matter.
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