@camedei456 @LukeAlmighty
Honestly, I don't think I follow what you're trying to say. And I know nothing of whatever examples you try to bring up. So I can't comment on it.
As for "Western work is kneecapped to the lowest standard, which clearly isn't China", are you honestly trying to suggest Chinese people do good, high quality work? I highly recommend you search "tofu dreg" on YouTube. There is no craftsmanship in what China does. It absolutely is of the lowest quality.
Also, Indian work might be lower quality because they're uneducated. But Chinese work is of the lowest quality because they cheat, steal and scam everywhere they can. These two are not the same. You can teach Indians to do better work. But you won't convince Chinese people to stop being corrupt bastards that steal from you for their benefit.
@LukeAlmighty Trump is in office, but even so, the left still has plenty of power and influence. Much of which was gained with the help of such dirty tactics. Unless Trump obliterates them (which I doubt he'll manage to do), from their perspective political violence works. It has rewarded them with power, that they've still managed to hold onto even now. Hollywood, mainstream news media, universities, most big IT companies, and other multinational companies. So again, unless Trump destroys them completely, they have every reason to believe that political violence can help them hold onto power, and increase their power in preparation for 2028.
I sympathize with libertarian ideas, but as long as sociopaths and psychopaths exist in the world, I don't believe libertarianism could be fully stable long term. Not sure yet what approach is best. The only thing I'm decently convinced of is that a nation does need a decent amount of patriotism/nationalism. But what you combine that with can make a drastic difference in the end result.
@maxmustermann
Looks more like Julian Assange to me than Trump.
@LukeAlmighty But the ones that bend don't remember. And they continue bending at every occasion for a long time. US is more than a decade since this political violence started, and normies still haven't taken a clear stance against it.
Again, people forget that this was Hitler's playbook too, with his brown shirts. This shit isn't new. It's a tactic that has been proven to work to gain political power fast.
The potential for a backlash does exist, but it takes far longer to manifest, to grow, to form a political movement, and strike back via democratic or non-violent means.
But if the ones using violence, use their gained political power to quickly infiltrate and reform power structures in their favor (with something like establishing DEI departments in every organization for example), you have the potential to prevent the opposition from being able to grow a movement and gain a foothold to any political power of it's own.
This is why the left has been using violence, and why it will continue to do so. Because it still has enough influence to trick normies into believing things like DEI are good and will solve the "social injustices" that drive BLM/Antifa to create chaos in the first place. And then they can use DEI to suppress the opposition that would revolt against their use of violence.
Hitler did this. Soviets did this. Mao did this to a ridiculous level. Steamroll radical governmental changes with the help of violence so that before the backlash has time to wake up and realize what's happening your new power structures effectively make opposition illegal.
This is what pisses me off about how EVERYONE has learned the wrong lesson after WW2/Nazi Germany. All that Europe and US paid attention to was "don't be racist", instead of learning to recognize dirty tactics such as this kind of political violence and riots.
People all over the world should have learned to recognize these signs, and nip it in the bud, with drastic measures if necessary, on day 1. There should have been MILLIONS of Kyle Rittenhouses, armed and ready at EVERY BLM/Antifa riot, with FULL societal approval and not a single tear being shed for casualties among the rioters.
Instead, all everyone cares about is "don't be racist", which just gave more political ammunition to the side that decided to adopt this yet another dirty political weapon.
@LukeAlmighty
So here's the thing... sure leftie violence can backfire and end up increasing support for the right. But:
1) the backfire is not actually guaranteed and it takes a long time to grow,
2) far more people have proved themselves to be perfectly content to bend over backwards to the violent mobs, and support whatever terrorist demands lefties make, thinking they'll be left alone if they just follow along. It worked for Hitler, and it's working for them too. During the BLM/Antifa riots, how many store fronts were more than happy to put up signs showing BLM support just so they got spared of the looting? Normies were more than happy to give political power to people who, as you say, are incompatible with civilized society, just so they get spared of an immediate danger from a violent person right up in their face.
@YeetLibs Don't follow her, but I feel like I've seen the model around. Ok, I'll bite. Give me a tl;dr of what the drama is.
@Sweetie_Squad_Liquidator @Wormwood
I haven't kept up with that story. She survived this long after that crash? Cause I remember her saying the doctors barely gave her a week to live, or something like that. And it feels like it's been a while since that happened.
Tragic story though. And I'm starting to lose faith that we'll get the answers and results we want. I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI erased the important evidence a long time ago.
@caekislove @rasterman @mitchconner @Hoss @coolboymew
I personally do prefer "SJW", cause I think it describes them a bit better, but I end up using "woke" because I'm not sure that people who've taken notice of the "Culture War" in the last 2-3 years are even aware of the words "social justice warrior". So I'd rather use a word that more people understand.
@mushroom_soup Just realized the mistake she did. This tweet is over 5 years old. People will argue that a lot can happen in that much time. She should have written a tweet like this, or made a video repeating this sentiment, every month or so.
@mangeurdenuage
Reminder that birds are in fact dinosaurs.
@Wormwood
Is this the one that ended up in a car accident with a schoolbus?
@get @tyler @mischievoustomato
Hell of a team... 2 of them are dead, 1 is close to it, and the last one lost his marbles because of Trump.
@mischievoustomato Worst coin that was ever minted.
@beardalaxy @LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior
You can have as many dev accounts as you want, I still don't think you could be enough to skew metrics. I'm more concerned about Counter-Strike players that regularly have multiple accounts with just CS to evade bans or smurf. But even those are a drop in the bucket.
@j @Matty @mitchconner @monsignor_dickface @tyler @LudditeMan
Him buying up advertising doesn't mean he's popular. It means he bought advertising.
@Nepiant @eee
I always love when these people insist that there was no Holocaust or any attempt at genociding the Jews, but at the same time they do believe in genociding Jews and see Hitler as their hero for wanting to genocide the Jews. So I guess the only conclusion is that Hitler was another liar politician that didn't keep his promises then. ![]()
@j @Matty @tyler
The zoom out leads me to believe it's unlikely to be AI (unless it's some deep state secret services hidden tech level AI, that is a decade ahead of anyone else).
That being said, I am Mary Magdalene.
Just because a mad man says something, doesn't make it true. If you're gonna claim you're Christ or whatever, either put up or shut up. If he really was some deep highly spiritual prophet or some shit, he would't need to make grandiose speeches about it. He'd be leading people into spiritual enlightenment with his church and religious preaching.
You can call him "Antichrist" if you want, I'll just call him a fraud and charlatan. He's a nobody that is trying to build a cult.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...