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The whole “Israel-Palestine conflict began on October 8th, do not look at the ageing historical events behind the curtain argument”. And then seem to basically fallacy fallacy at anything you might have to think about how it fits with your narrative. If you’re actually trying to bring nuance and point out how large nations are bullies who use military and economic clout to force their will on the world around them: that’s what I’m saying too. Go back and look over what I’ve said with that lens, and see if you can find that reading.

Also, what’s with the focus on 100 years ago? Time hasn’t moved that fast yet. Round up by 50%? Just say S70 my friend.

And for the purpose of friendship I should assume you actually want to make a point and ask:
“OK then, what information do you actually want to convey to me? What is the core idea you want to assert, not a negation of something said but an idea that stands on its own.”

Its funny of you to call my response to a post calling out China “whataboutism” when part of the idea of the original post is that the countries called out as hostile have done far fewer wars than the PoV nation-Empire The USA.
How dare I complicate a “China = bad, US = good” by exploring that the PRC might have reasons that make sense for it’s actions.
How dare I not assume that China’s aggressive expansion of fishing started in the 1970s when Korea and the US were engaging in anti-Communist war games around the DPRK and PRC after the Korean War.

Vietnam, Philippines, and the RoC are also part of the mess which is the South China Sea dispute (which really kicked off in the 70s too, with the discovery of oil there (how dare I write this aside insinuating which country is known best for its violations of international law, norms, and rules for a little bit of the black gold)) which to be clear I’m not on the PRC’s side on (or indeed any of the claimants on the whole. The South China seas is a mess, and needs to be settled; obviously the PRC has much greater clout and military power than the other claimants, so it won’t follow any arbitration that doesn’t give it most of what if wants - following the precedent set by the US with the UN and ICJ (there’s that “whataboutism” again, right? How dare I draw parallels and recognise similarities between hegemonic powers).

Responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to China responding to…

Not sure what your point is. I said PRC and US both did it. So you agree with that, right?

Orwell wasn’t only criticising Stalin and the Soviets, he was also criticising the UK and the BBC.

Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?

Why do you think you need a romantic partner?

… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”

Military exercises with Japan and South Korea in East China Sea? Exercises with Philippines and Vietnam in the contested waters the PRC claims despite international court rulings to the contrary?

A lot of use of language calling China a threat?

While the PRC has, the US has done its fair share of rattling at them, too.

So it’s more rattling back at the US by proxy.

(Though obviously the best way to weaken US power in East Asia would be to recognise Taiwanese independence and then slowly pull it back into orbit by geographical and cultural proximity.)

Camping (UK, 2016) - hope to finish it this weekend.

Great if you love horrible and/or awkward people being cringe inducingly terrible/awkward.
If you know Julia Davis, then you know what you’re in for and whether you’ll be down with it.

The book is considered very hard to impossible to adapt, but they said that about LotR.

That said, OHYoS is aware is it is a book, and I’m not sure how some parts would work being watched rather than read without some large changes.

Aye, only Protestantist Christianity (if it can be called that) and mormonism are worse.

The True Church of our Lord Father is Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

There’s a surface level understanding that racism is bad.

But that’s seen as having no impact on holding strong, negative, stereotypes about other ethnicities and cultures.

And tends to be, in many cases followed up with “it’s not a prejudice/racism, it’s a fact!” =(

Sadly there’s a lot of anti-African, anti-South East Asian, anti-Japanese & Korean, anti-Turkic, antisemitic, sentiment floating around in general in the PRC.

White man who lived in China here chiming in.

The racism, or at least prejudices and a lack of understanding that cause racism, are very real.

Asia benefited from being near the top of the racist hierarchy of lies that Europeans instituted in the 19th century and also mostly learn about Black people from Hollywood films. (There’s also a really odd trend of New Right and crypto-fash talking points getting popular and spread around Chinese social media.)

In China at least, dating is seen as valid only in the path to marriage, and family and kids is an expected and socially impressed upon goal. To the point where plenty of women in China have kids they don’t want because of familial and social pressure.

At the same time, Asian society is very colourist which combined with having ingested the racist hierarchy somewhat and only really knowing Black people and culture from Hollywood isn’t a great start.

Rounding it off, I China at least is a desire for in group marriage. Foreigners are seen as a risky choice, who could leave and don’t share the same cultural values (regardless of the truth of it).

White people get more of a benefit of a doubt, but there’s still pressure against a Chinese-White relationship. I’ve heard of plenty of families putting pressure that ens inter-ethnic relationships, and there is definitely more pressure against Chinese-Black relationships. (Both cases also, sexistly, exacerbated when Chinese women, foreign man.)

Don’t think this is anything new or not know, sadly.

If the family is supportive, things work a lot better - unsurprisingly. But with Asian value of family, if the family are openly against it, it’s very unlikely to work out.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

No, that’s Europe.

The PRC days off are appalling in comparison. And the previous comment didn’t even mention make up days.

Generally they’re not, provided they can keep it low key.

And since within the PRC it’s quite easy to fire people, and courts and settlement is about how much 面子 you can make the company lose without pissing off local authorities vs. the 关系 and pressure they can bring to bear to have you drop it there’s not much to be done.

“ask” that people do overtime, and then fire them for not being a team player, or downmote them into a stressful deadend if they don’t take the voluntary overtime.

No, the age of America is over.

The Trump preaidencies aren’t a radical break from the past, he’s just an unveiling of it’s darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.

Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.

The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.

Suicide only stopped being a crime in many parts of the world recently… Euthanasia is much larger step beyond that.

Let’s give things time.

Existence of copyright hasn’t even stopped that.

It is but a blugeon to control and limit the common people. And puts a slow on development and dissemination of culture.

I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.

But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.