Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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I lived in Shanghai for many years and I just want to add that while there's more than a few of these Gusanos floating around, the majority of the people are pretty cool and many of them are very patriotic.

Never ask a woman her age.

Never ask a man his salary.

Never ask a Swede which country's military they propped up by selling iron ore to between 1939 and 1945.

The only silver lining to this is imagining how absolutely livid Hitler and Himmler would be seeing the torchbearers of their ideology wishing people a happy Hanukkah in front of a huge Menorah.

Cuz it looked cool in Triumph of the Will and the alternative ways of looking cool on a parade take a shit ton of training and discipline and coordination that they can't pull off.

Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think

"I delivered a cost reduction of 21 cents per man hour to the shareholders, so my bonus is going up this year" type of thing?

Remnants of the German 6th Army commiserate over the last of their rations, Stalingrad, December 1942, colorized

This is how you get flat earthers.

The Ghost of Keeeeeev has only shot down 9,999 Russian planes this year, down from 69,420 kills in 2022.

Small blessings.

Us Tankies copeing and seething like this would be Ukraine's greatest victory all year.

NASA is a key pole in the US Military-Industrial Complex and should be opposed in all things. China should no more cooperate with NASA than with Raytheon or BAE or any other Westoid weapons manufacturer.

Personally, I wish nothing except aborted launches and mid-air explosions for NASA. What little practical space knowledge we gain from it's successes are far outweighed by the fact that it furnishes the Empire with space capabilities.

"Yes, but only if Joe Biden draws a clock on live TV."

Bittersweet.

I think this is common to most languages: English speakers lecturing native speakers about how they're grammatically incorrect based on some rule printed in an entry-level language textbook.

I once saw a white dude confidently assert to a Japanese person that 全然 could not be used in the positive and only in the negative. Dude wouldn't even back down after the Japanese speaker got out their phone and showed him a famous 12th century (or something) poem that used 全然 in the affirmative. That's like trying to correct someone's grammar and then getting shut down by Shakespeare.

Is aussie style sushi not still considered Japanese food?

To an Australian, probably. To a Japanese person in Japan? Probably not.

While there are people who are too trigger happy with the term, and a sizable gray area between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, I do think there are cases where people cross over into objectionable cultural appropriation.

A really good example was when white American college students wore fake native American headwear with significant cultural and spiritual importance as decoration for drunken parties. I can definitely sympathize with native Americans not wanting their culture treated with disrespect.

The US made the dealer's biggest mistake: getting high on their own supply.

In North Korea, academics are prevented from publishing their work if their conclusions are politically unpopular. Some people even threaten to kill scholars and journal publishers if they publish papers which embarrass the ruling party.

On the other hand, I doubt China is spending $14,000 on one toilet seat, so the bloated US military budget probably doesn't even convert to proportionate fighting capabilities. For example, all that money and the US can't even manufacture enough artillery shells to keep Ukraine going against Russia and it's tiny sliver of expenditure on that chart.