香港，中国
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)
His proffered respect for the Royal Family has dropped dramatically with the death of Elizabeth. In the first show back after being sworn into parliament he was openly decrying the fact that he has to swear loyalty to Charles to be able to keep his seat. He’d never have been so vociferous with his crticism about that with ER2. I guess being born right after the Attlee government, the Queen was associated with a childhood in the kind of Britain he’s been fighting to get back ever since. And then there’s also the realpolitik of Elizabeth having been quite popular, and extremely popular relative to Charles and his Duchy Orignals™ drama farming progeny.
Yeah it’s called the National Security Law. When that went into effect it was a clear message to the liberals to shut the fuck up or fuck the fuck off. The ones that have stayed (because they wanted to keep getting the kind of paychecks that they could only dream about back home) are all just quietly ‘complaining’ in private (I know this first-hand because a lot of them think I’m one of them) but keep their mouths shut in public.
You don’t. You let them live out their lives coping and seething while their children get the bigotry educated out of them by a proper education system.
The Hong Kong was repatriated 27 years ago, and it’s stll decolonizing from the sick Westoid mentality about what society should look like. It’s slow, but it’s working.
Well Josep Borrell said that Europe is a garden.
You prune a garden, unlike those savage unkempt jungles. And you’re very selective about what you allow to grow in the garden.
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What’s people’s opinion on Wagenknecht here?
All I know of her is that some liberals I know have called her ‘problematic,’ a term which is bereft of any meaning when it passes from a liberal’s lips.
Holy shit that sounds dystopian as fuck.
Liberals usually pretend they’re acting from a place of objective neutrality and measured, scholarly interpretation of historical facts when they parrot their narrative. But it sounds like this professor’s really showing their bias, especially with the way they disparaged Mike Davis’ appearance. That fuckhead of a professor is probably enjoying having you sit through that echo chamber of insipid liberal bullshit.
I’d reject any attempt by that professor to claim that they’re open to all ideas. He very clearly isn’t. If I were in your position and needed to ‘pass’ that farce of a history education, I’d probably go with malicious compliance. Cry performative crocodile tears and loudly lament about how the West is in an unsalvagable decline while the dirty commies and upstart former colonies are building a new world without the white man’s permission or involvement. The Western take on history is cope, and you can wipe out any sense of triumph of ideology your professor might be deluding himself into by reminding him that he’s getting a front row seat to the end of capitalism and liberalism, just as Marx (everybody guess what he looks like! hur hur) predicted.
Have you tried emailing history faculties in Chinese universities? It’s impossible to explain your situation without being inappropriately personal but asking for some guidance or advice saying that certain topics are difficult to study in Canada would be enough for them to read between the lines. No harm in reaching out to see if anyone reaches back.
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.