even Hong Kong is being outcapitalisted by the mainland, with Shanghai and even Shenzhen surpassing Hong Kong in terms of commerce and trade,

I don’t want to assume the worst, but it really reads like you’re thinking that “capitalism is when trading” which is how liberals understand capitalism

The KMT renewing their truce with the CPC against the US this time

Not-so-educated guess : the english language data it was trained on has an anti-PRC biais that was identified by its creators so they blocked anything about them instead of letting it repeat anti-PRC propaganda to westerners

Astronomy Universities failed to protect flat-earth academics

History Universities failed to protect Holocaust deniers

The 8k mmr Lone Druid smurf knowing he’s making my muscles shrink irl

Oh okay good to know !

Wait that’s not a universal experience? I have ADD with no H and I experience this regularly but I thought most people had this

Few years earlier it would’ve been a humanities degree, welcome to the club “learn to code” bros

Somehow I can’t help but feel this is simply because of Trump

I think that’s literally the case. EU libs have no problems with genocide when it’s done by polite white people, the second they become rude it’s game over

I feel sympathy because they’re fighting for a good cause despite how the establishment demonizes them but I must admit I don’t understand hunger strikes.

You don’t get any compassion from your enemies, and your allies are already allies. The people in power are participating in the deaths of people at home and around the world, including death by starvation, they don’t give a damn if people starve that’s why they’re here. Do strikers think they are special and will force the starvers to change their genocidal agenda because a student is now doing it to themselves?

I wouldn’t be so harsh if going hungry wasn’t so dangerous. Hunger can inflict lifetime damage on your brain, you can lose critical abilities like speech, sight, reasoning. Losing a limb to kill a fascist id heroic, but hunger strikes don’t kill anyone but the strikers, and they don’t save anyone either. I mean, do they? Maybe they did in some less fascistic regime, but the current US of A? No chance that’s doing anything.

Gonna show up to a protest with a sign in Chinese, surely that won’t raise any eyebrows

Yes, but also, USians cannot possibly think themselves as belonging to this national community or think as their wealth as a legitimate thing to have without a complete mythology of racism and liberalism

The superstructure maintains the structure, if you could magically remove racism from the psyche of americans the revolution would be immediate

Yes but also there is a complex dialectical relationship between sex and love

It’s a tough but really interesting subject that touches the relationship between the nuclear family and private property. I’ll try not to write a whole book so I’ll focus on what you need to explore to understand the whole infidelity paradigm.

Firstly, observe how much housing and property is tied to family status. Ultimately, marriage is not a love affair it’s an economic one.

Secondly, explore how the reunion of private property, love and sexuality is a historical construct that has and had many alternatives.

Finally, understand how social constructs corners us into absurd dilemmas. Cheating is dishonest, yes we should always say that we want an open relationship before lying to somebody who trusts us, unfortunately, that’s not how things present themselves in reality. Your uncle might be an ass, idk, or maybe he knows wanting an open relationship would mean divorce, aka, personal level economic crisis, and that nobody wants this, so cheating is the lesser evil. You might say well just give up on sex/love if you’re married, but I don’t think we should expect people to renounce that very prevalent aspect of the human life because of some private property shenanigans

Hope that helps seeing a different perspective, I personally got way more involved in questionning love/marriage and family after I experienced living together as a couple. Some stuff you gotta live it in your flesh to understand why people do the things they do