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Only straight people that have never had the “omg al I gay?” Moment and REALLY thought about it.

Like you’re playing spin the bottle in hs with 5 girls and 1 other guy and you’re like “if you land on a girl you gotta kiss the girl” and the girls are like “fine, but if it lands on a guy you gotta kiss the guy” and you’re like the odds are ever in my favour “okay” you and your friend agree. Then you’re the first to spin the bottle and of course it lands on your friend but you ain’t no bitch so you man up and kiss your best guy friend right on the mouth to keep the game going so you can kiss some hot ladies. Kissing your friend seems a purely mechanical experience.

But you just kissed a guy. “Omg. Am I gay?” You think. So you go through it in your head.

After the party you give your friend a ride home, only to make out in your car. That seems meh but you continue the thought experiment.

Then you picture his parents aren’t home, he invites you in. You go in and go to pound town on each other. Again, it’s not great, but hey, you got off, that ain’t bad.

But then, in your mind, comes the afterglow.

You picture laying in bed, holding eachother. Telling secrets, caressing, laughing.

Fucking bleh.

You continue the game. You kiss some girls. You enjoy the fuck out of it.

And that my friends is how you are straight but not insecure about it. I’m 42 now, this actually happened to me at 16. I’ve been secure in my sexuality ever since. I’m convinced these insecure, homophobic men, at least, have never entertained the “omg am I gay?” Moment, for fear of the answer.

Live your truth, whatever that is.

US Train travel has actually gotten worse since 1996.

My wife got that exact printer free through work. She was very confused about my excitement

But I thought Russia were the good guys in this fight?/s

I lived there for four years. For me the bad outweighed the good.

Solution. Have the amount of cookies made everyday set by management, then take the excess home/to the food bank.

If you’ve never been with a muscle mommy you are missing out.

Chinese people seem way more informed about current events? 🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂. That’s gonna be a no from me dog. Clearly you’ve never talked to the average Chinese person. There are vast swathes of current events and information they’ve never even heard about. They’re well informed about the topics that make it past the censors, for sure. My god you’re just as misinformed as everyone else. The only difference is your misinformation is “china good” misinformation. Which is sad, there are a lot of things to point at in china that are legitimate “China good”. Like fast, cheap/free and effective healthcare. The best in the world high speed rail. The closest to a meritocratic education system I’ve seen or heard of. Virtually zero homelessness. But when it comes to censorship, nah, they’re wayyyyy worse. Yeah, the west can be better than china then some things. It’s okay buddy, you can be objective you know

This election cycle there was no “getting your candidate on the ballot” though. No for president anyway.

Most Chinese don’t have access to a VPN. Do you need a VPN to access that information? The fact that there is an extra step to access the information means that china is more censored by default. There’s also the fact that at certain times of year all consumer VPNs are blocked (June 4th is one of those dates, oddly enough)

Yes, I’ve heard of shadow banning. The censorship in China is still worse. I’m not saying censorship doesn’t happen in the west. I am saying it is much more widespread, oppressive, and complete in China. No amount of you crying is going to change that fact.

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Yes, there is censorship. But the information is there if you search for it. The fact that you’re typing the words “genocide in Palestine” and I am reading those words pretty clearly demonstrates that the level of censorship in the west is no where near the level of censorship in China. If the CCPs position is “Israel has a right to defend itself” you would never even know there’s a conflict in Gaza.

The guy’s a braindead pedant. He’s not here to have a discussion, he’s here to feel superior.

And you searched this inside China did you? What are you not getting? Even Chinese search engines inside China show different information then Chinese search engines outside china. It’s a walled garden. You are out of your depth here. Go to bed.

Angry? Me thinks he projects too much. I lived there. I base my opinion on first hand experience. So the fact that you haven’t means your basing your experience on something that somebody else WANTS you to think. You’re an actual sheep.

So no. So it’s impossible for you to really make an accurate comparison. So your opinion here is literally worthless.

Not all internet outside of China is Western. I’ll give you an example. My wife was a cross cultural communications teacher in China. She had her students pick countries outside of Asia to do a cultural report on. One student picked Poland for whatever reason. The Chinese internet, other than here is Poland on a map, it has this many people, and it’s capital is Warsaw, had no other information, Literally nothing else.

So when you ask why they would need access it’s because they deserve to be informed about the world around them. There is waayyyyyyy more to the internet than “fascist propaganda”.

They also can’t access the absolutely braindead remarks you’re saying right now. Isn’t that a travesty?