I mean, Graham Platner said he went through decades of work in the military and was never screened out for “hateful tattoos.” Guess they’re just saying the quiet part out loud, now.

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Yeah I ask cuz I am autistic so I take things literally, so whenever people use those terms I think of the actual acts which are off putting. Maybe NTs are able to separate the meaning from the joke, idk

But yeah not all sexual terms but the ones you mentioned in particular make me gag whenever someone just casually jokes / insults.

YES, by any chance are you also autistic?

I am; I hate sexual terms, it feels icky when people joke about that. The widespread porn consumption has such nasty 2nd order effects.

I’m the last person to defend the AI bubble, but this feels more like a hippie rant against “The Man” as opposed to any serious marxist discussion.

The cause of opioid addiction was already revealed by the famous Rat Park experiments of the 1970s. The results were clear: opioid addiction is someone’s “self medication” to cope with a miserable environment (generally from poverty & mental illness); happy rats with socialization and positive environments refused to take heroin-laced water. The literature gave us the solution to the opioid epidemic: eliminate poverty, and uplift our fellow brothers and sisters.

The US quickly labeled that approach “communism.” Disregarding the scientific consensus, it resorted to military action to kill even more people (inventing the bizarre label: “narco-terrorist”).

The results? No progress made, but the US now boasts the world’s highest prison population (despite being 5% of global pop).

Decades later, it’s 2025. The republicans are pushing harder than ever to continue the killing, and democrats stand idly by, ready to do… nothing.

Wth does Hong Kong have to do with this?

Actually as far as I know, all these votes are new except the typical US and Israel. Someone can correct me though

lmao so true

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East is wrong, west is correct

Lmao I just spit out my drink (upvoted)

That’s funny you point that out. I wrote this for a Western academic audience. Of course this isn’t a serious question, MD was far more evil than anything the Nazis did and we already know the Nazis were directly inspired by it.

But I know these liberal historians don’t give a shit they did the von Brauhn thing either so it was meant a subtle jab at them. Ffs NASA still has a page on him, describing him as one of the “most important champions of space exploration.” I’m wondering if they’ll even notice the irony that they don’t care about that either, or at least pretend like they condemn that, along with the rest of their country’s history they clutch their pearls at. I thought it would be fun to paste it here for the entertainment, I knew this community would be on my side at least lmao.

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Liberals oppose every war and every genocide except the ones they are currently engaged in.

this is perfect. Imagine how disgraceful your country is that it’s normal to condemn 99% of your own history.

Yeah I condemn the sterilization of 1/3 of Puerto Rico’s women, yeah I condemn having 17/20 Latin American countries under military dictatorships during the 1970/1980s period, Yeah I condemn the “wars” in vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, basically between 1950s-2021, yeah I condemn slavery so there’s another 200-300 years. Yeah I condemn the American colonization of Philippines & Guam so just the 1900-1945 period basically. And yeah also I condemn Jim Crow, too, so there goes whatever’s left.

Yeah I also condemn being the only country to hold up the isolated Apartheid South Africa all the way to 1994, and the shunned Israel beginning in 1967 all the way to… to…

to OCT 7, 2023 YOU ANTI SEMITE THATS WHEN THEY FLIPPED TO THE GOOD GUYS… THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST AS A JEWISH STATE AND MUST BE DEFENDED TO THE BITTER END, DAS BITTERE ENDE, MEIN FÜHRER!!

but yeah in spite of these… hiccups… i still love this country and everything it stands for, it’s the only thing safeguarding democracy.

Like what other country talks like this? And we are to assume that your country is now reformed?

Upvoted; something in me suspects the difference is that the victims of Lebensraum were white europeans, while MD were overwhelmingly brown people.

lmfao ofc this is a thing. What a country.

This is why i love this community! A great quality resource, added to my reading list

Thanks a lot, friend! Looks like I have a lot of reading lined up :)

This is why I joined this community! Thanks a lot :)

While I have you here, can you link some resources for the Xinjiang situation and tibet situation? i can’t find good resources around the western lies. All i know is there is a separatist movement threatening to destabilize China in Xinjiang. And that Tibet was a feudal country with major landlords which was liberated by the CCP. Beyond these points I have no clue what are western lies and have tried researching them but cannot come to break the western propaganda on it.

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So yeah i totally agree with your angle here. So my reasoning to strictly adhering to international law is because, in a perfect world, a country which violates it is punished. And because the US commits the overwhelming majority of the war crimes, it would face the most sanctions under such a system. Feel free to let me know if you disagree, I am far from an expert on this conflict so I’m not gonna pretend to be :)