47318 pts ยท August 17, 2016
humans, the animals that we are, crave instant gratification and immediate response to our impulses, but this is essentially the same idea as karma that you see in Buddhism: you get what you give.
China has always described itself as a sleeping giant, even more so since the end of the Cultural Revolution... and they use the tenuous-at-best foreign policies of the revolving door of leaders in the US to justify single-party, authoritarian and totalitarian rule.
the CCP actively is killing Cantonese in Guangdong to the degree that they've essentially banned all Cantonese programming on local television and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that will speak Cantonese to you in Guangzhou or Shenzhen
no one is saying "like" or "hate," we're just talking about more viewed more positively or negatively in relativity to one another
this is honestly just another ruse to distract from some other serious nonsense its admin is actually doing. ironic side note - I went to an Ai Weiwei, a Chinese dissident artist who has been living in exile as he vocally opposes global human rights violations and tyrannical government, exhibition on Alcatraz a few years ago - one of the exhibitions was photos and stories of incarcerated people globally for their vocal dissent against tyranny
calling whatever Sandra Lee's show was a "cooking show" is a huge stretch.
frankly, she was advocating for right-wing nonsense and was a supporter of Trump, so this whole story can go fuck itself.also, it's good to see cracks in their ranks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11670219/Artist-51-plagued-pain-says-using-dildos-helped-immensely.html
Korea voted their bozo in too, what's your point?
I'm almost entirely certain this was a directive from Poo-tin in order to tank the US economy and so Dump is just playing his role.
no, I meant the dragged out of the White House by an angry mob and set on fire part.
i really think we need to stop misnaming lazy as stupid... cause this entire tariff exercise was done lazily, and I'll even cede to "incompetently," but not "stupidly."
the last 2 minutes seem like the best guidebook.
America wasn't ever really too much better. The US Government was just so large and there are so many layers of bureaucracy and too many large corporations that the corruption is hidden a little more.
Netanyahu should also be arrested while he's in Hungary... but what do I know.
even in Korea, lawmakers ended up having to barricade themselves inside of their Congress in the middle of the night and camping there for the better part of the next day in order to have the emergency vote that revoked the martial law order... but I wish it was that cut and dry.
we're a long way from the days of Red Dawn being outrageous
Idiocracy definitely covers a chunk of the reality the US currently faces, but I would say it's a combination of a bunch of dystopian futures covered in film and media, from 1984 to the Handmaid's Tale and the movie, Civil War, among others. I suppose none of these are considered dystopian fantasies any more though.
I wasn't making any comment on the judgement as I assumed it would be independent from the pursuit of the charges against her as well as the recommendation of punishments. I agree that there could be a conflict of interest argument in terms of the prosecution and the charges, but less so on the actual judgement as her misuse of funds was clear cut.
do you think the Parisian prosecutor probably didn't have political motivations to more aggressively pursue the charges?
to be fair, most of Eastern Europe and the Balkans are a mess. Poland as a rectangle, Romania and Bulgaria are barely intelligible from one another, Albania being bigger than most of the other Balkan countries...
nah, this is weird man
the Russians and their proxies did something similar in Moldova - there is, in fact, an entire playbook from Moldova on how to resist Russian influences in their government and elections, but it hasn't been easyhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/moldova-former-soviet-republic-kremlin-putin
there is an even bigger garbage pile living in the White House and flying back and forth between this garbage patch and DC
nice try: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pornstar-lets-go-brandon-series-nazis/
cactus... why waste good pineapples
the state that is nearly synonymous with bitching about liberty and preserving personal freedoms is all about legislating the hell out of everyone's goddamn bodies and personal choices.
don't think so. right now, they're pushing Don Jr who is definitely a moron and a simp, but Ivanka is pretty fucking dangerous. and if they pivot towards her, you know suddenly, they're gonna be all about "breaking the glass ceiling" or whatever
well, if they don't get rid of Schumer and the 9 other traitors that capitulated with him, then, yes, nothing will be stopped
humans, the animals that we are, crave instant gratification and immediate response to our impulses, but this is essentially the same idea as karma that you see in Buddhism: you get what you give.
China has always described itself as a sleeping giant, even more so since the end of the Cultural Revolution... and they use the tenuous-at-best foreign policies of the revolving door of leaders in the US to justify single-party, authoritarian and totalitarian rule.
the CCP actively is killing Cantonese in Guangdong to the degree that they've essentially banned all Cantonese programming on local television and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that will speak Cantonese to you in Guangzhou or Shenzhen
no one is saying "like" or "hate," we're just talking about more viewed more positively or negatively in relativity to one another
this is honestly just another ruse to distract from some other serious nonsense its admin is actually doing. ironic side note - I went to an Ai Weiwei, a Chinese dissident artist who has been living in exile as he vocally opposes global human rights violations and tyrannical government, exhibition on Alcatraz a few years ago - one of the exhibitions was photos and stories of incarcerated people globally for their vocal dissent against tyranny
calling whatever Sandra Lee's show was a "cooking show" is a huge stretch.
frankly, she was advocating for right-wing nonsense and was a supporter of Trump, so this whole story can go fuck itself.
also, it's good to see cracks in their ranks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11670219/Artist-51-plagued-pain-says-using-dildos-helped-immensely.html
Korea voted their bozo in too, what's your point?
I'm almost entirely certain this was a directive from Poo-tin in order to tank the US economy and so Dump is just playing his role.
no, I meant the dragged out of the White House by an angry mob and set on fire part.
i really think we need to stop misnaming lazy as stupid... cause this entire tariff exercise was done lazily, and I'll even cede to "incompetently," but not "stupidly."
the last 2 minutes seem like the best guidebook.
America wasn't ever really too much better. The US Government was just so large and there are so many layers of bureaucracy and too many large corporations that the corruption is hidden a little more.
Netanyahu should also be arrested while he's in Hungary... but what do I know.
even in Korea, lawmakers ended up having to barricade themselves inside of their Congress in the middle of the night and camping there for the better part of the next day in order to have the emergency vote that revoked the martial law order... but I wish it was that cut and dry.
we're a long way from the days of Red Dawn being outrageous
Idiocracy definitely covers a chunk of the reality the US currently faces, but I would say it's a combination of a bunch of dystopian futures covered in film and media, from 1984 to the Handmaid's Tale and the movie, Civil War, among others.
I suppose none of these are considered dystopian fantasies any more though.
I wasn't making any comment on the judgement as I assumed it would be independent from the pursuit of the charges against her as well as the recommendation of punishments. I agree that there could be a conflict of interest argument in terms of the prosecution and the charges, but less so on the actual judgement as her misuse of funds was clear cut.
do you think the Parisian prosecutor probably didn't have political motivations to more aggressively pursue the charges?
to be fair, most of Eastern Europe and the Balkans are a mess. Poland as a rectangle, Romania and Bulgaria are barely intelligible from one another, Albania being bigger than most of the other Balkan countries...
nah, this is weird man
the Russians and their proxies did something similar in Moldova - there is, in fact, an entire playbook from Moldova on how to resist Russian influences in their government and elections, but it hasn't been easy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/moldova-former-soviet-republic-kremlin-putin
there is an even bigger garbage pile living in the White House and flying back and forth between this garbage patch and DC
nice try: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pornstar-lets-go-brandon-series-nazis/
cactus... why waste good pineapples
the state that is nearly synonymous with bitching about liberty and preserving personal freedoms is all about legislating the hell out of everyone's goddamn bodies and personal choices.
don't think so. right now, they're pushing Don Jr who is definitely a moron and a simp, but Ivanka is pretty fucking dangerous. and if they pivot towards her, you know suddenly, they're gonna be all about "breaking the glass ceiling" or whatever
well, if they don't get rid of Schumer and the 9 other traitors that capitulated with him, then, yes, nothing will be stopped