Munrock ☭ @ Munrock @lemmygrad.ml

香港，中国

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Someone should deadpan organise a crowdfunding campaign to help Biden pay for his treatment.

https://youtu.be/4T0KrRJ0jTo

But also

https://youtu.be/N5dC-YlN_x8

Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.

If I have any criticism to level at Andy's video, it's that he didn't mention this. The rest of his piece I feel in agreement with.

Anti-woke? Do people like the Snow White remake here?

I agree with everyone else in China regarding that movie (and I'm pretty sure the Black Panthers would have agreed): it's performative virtue-signalling and blatantly insincere about it. It's not real progress, and it's clearly not reflecting real progress because the West is currently regressing. It exists for two reasons: to ease the Western left's crippling levels of guilt from the centuries of horrific abuse they inflicted on Africans and their New World descendants, and to stir up the culture war bread and circuses.

It just smells extremely liberal to be attacking Andy Boreham (someone who's made a career of defending China's reputation from liberal hatemongering) for calling liberal culture war bait exactly what it is.

Is it an unpopular opinion to find the edit irritating? It represents a body image trope that belongs in the dustbin of history.

I was gonna downvote but then I saw your choice of examples.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we're missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it's a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there's so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine's economy. It's only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they've been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it'll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies' investments from hungry Ukrainians.

Russia doesn't need to do that. Burgerlanders already experience it through the magical way they render themselves blind to their government's behaviour unless it's projected onto China or Russia. Like how Trump is a Russian asset and China is turning Cuba into a staging ground for an invasion.

Especially when the user experience is constantly guiding users who don't know better to do exactly that

The Democrats knew this was going to happen. There's no way they couldn't. And I don't mean Democrat supporters, many of whom were vehement that Biden was fine like so many anecdotes in this thread recount. I mean the Democrat leadership, who manage his campaign and more than likely manage his presidency. Unlike the public, they have access to him. They have his medical records, the reports of his doctors and caregivers, everything. There's no way they didn't know this would happen if he debated.

They might start seeding support for a different candidate into their supporter's discourse after this, but they will have been planning for this outcome long ago. And when a left-leaning (left from a US Overton window) news platform hosts a debate that shows him up that badly and then publishes commentary like this, you have to wonder if that caused friction with the DNC or if they assented to it.

As the party starts singling out a replacement, the question I hope people start asking is why they didn't replace Biden earlier? Did they need to wait until the urgency of imminent elections made their new candidate more palatable? And if they don't replace Biden, why are they letting Trump win?

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn't "oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time" then I don't think he's really appealing to the US government's interests.

Or it's a glimpse at Rom's Dengist arc

The kicker is that Rom eventually becomes Grand Nagus and starts transforming Ferengi society.

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It's so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it's not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

That's not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

How'd that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?

It doesn't matter what the people outside China think. The people inside China - on both sides of the Taiwan strait - think Taiwan is part of China. They all call themselves Chinese except the tiny minority that speak with American accents. There are indigenous ethnic minorities on Taiwan whose ancestors were not part of China, but they didn't call themselves 'Taiwan' because that's a Chinese word.

isn’t there a single candidate that thinks more about the humans than for the money.

Yes, plenty.

Any of them that will be allowed anywhere near power?

No, none.

Conscious and Conscience are different things (but understandably easy to conflate)

https://youtu.be/sKyJ1o5JjHg

I saw this comedy sketch this morning and it got me thinking it's similar to how libs see China just trading with developing countries and denounce it as some kind of nefarious 'dept trap diplomacy'