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  84. I really like and admire Nat and Clay and what they're trying to do and often doing (less-so their bouncing-board co-host), mostly for simply waking up to the deliberate devolution of their country (largely via the umm 'media') after their previous corporate cult jobs .....but they're often and still far too easily sidetracked/distracted from the bigger manipulation picture (as the manipulators would hope of their more subtly controlled-opposition) especially when considering their previous experience and WHAT they probably should HAVE learnt by now. This whole current free-speech debacle is just more deliberately divisive nonsense ......Dehumanising and cancelling anyone who disagrees with, or simply challenges you had sadly (and cluelessly) been fine with so many of the ideologically-easily-led until it devolved far enough to then also include Israel/jew hate (or simple criticism). This world as a whole has been far too easily distracted, divided and cognitively-retarded via self-righteously justified (and easily manipulated) emotion, where BOTH ends of the mental-spectrum are now sadly as sketchy and as self-serving (and as hypocritical) as each other, while far too easily manipulated to BOTH now happily and self-righteously shut down free-speech (when self-serving) .....as the bigger 'divide and conquer' manipulators always ULTIMATELY intended. Where the umm 'Free Palestine' supposed movement has sadly become yet another nice idea (like LGBT+) that has been subverted and ironically sacrificed to then be repurposed/used as yet another dehumanising 'divide and conquer' tool where everyone just ends up a tool themselves ......and then useful-idiot for the bigger initiative and ultimate New World Disorder. .......where we'll ALL end up far too easily manipulated and then led into the creepy (and planned) world of less....in EVERY possible way, while sadly self-justifying it to OURSELVES via the same self-serving and self-righteous manipulation........just as our manipulator/puppet-masters (and their long term ambitions) always intended.
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  186.  @nerf2752  Yeah but you probably still know what caste your family comes from.....and that CAN and DOES unfortunately still produce issues in general and at a much more nuanced (and easy to self-conveniently dismiss level....especially with the more shameless amongst us while 'virtue signalling' and hoping to sell themselves as 'progressive'), which isn't as much of a criticism/condemnation as it may appear to be (or self-conveniently 'offend') when/if religion/cultural-heritage(baggage) is still an important, understandable and inherent part of identity. I'm Australian with Irish protestant grandparents (from Belfast!). I know what their background is/was but it plays NO part in my (non-religious/cultural) life as they CHOSE to leave all that (and the nonsense caused/justified by it) in the past while understandably and actively doing so, like a LOT of the Irish diaspora whose 'Irish pride' is thankfully not rooted in the old and deliberately divisive religious parts of the culture which they thankfully learned hard lessons from (they can always go back to the pagan pre-protestant/catholic parts if they really want to). I'm glad to hear that you also chose to leave the deliberately-divisive and self-justified/serving cultural/religious side behind and see it for what it sadly and often is but many of those cultural/religious(pride) issues do still understandably play a part (even if subtle) in many of Indian-originated folks I've known. A Vaishyas-originated friend of mine engaged to a Brahmin girl is currently going through all the nonsense now with both Indian family members in Australia and back in India......and caste played a large part in another Brahmin friend last year when she accepted an arranged marriage.
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  351. No you're right ....if you want to view it with simplicity despite all of the MANY complex realities, nuances and 'diplomacy-of-convenience' speak. The UN is full of self-interested (and easily bought) folks and is a collective-idea/think-tank of diplomacy rather than a government or administration (just ask Israel) and would happily ethnically/racially group all Chinese people into one self-convenient group despite the PRC never controlling Taiwan and despite the fact that the different Chinese folks on either side have massive ideologically-different political views, ideas and systems after having divided when their civil-war NEVER ended.  The US One China Policy is simply a US diplomatic 'acknowledgment' of the PRC's desire to unite Taiwan/the mainland (and to help keep those cheap goods flowing more easily)...... and The One China Principle means two different things to both sides agreeing to it.....the Taiwanese ROC/KMT folks think that they'll run the entire show when 'united' and the PRC/CPC folks think they'll run the show when 'united', like two folks debating abortion where each side ultimately talks about something else while hoping to negate the other....or a bigger, wider (and less self-convenient) discussion. The Taiwanese understandably pay little attention to the UN, especially when the UN so easily negates them out of self-serving, self-convenience (and some financial incentives) while not even acknowledging/valuing them for what they currently are. The W.H.O declared that PRC China would handle Taiwan's pandemic needs.....knowing that the PRC would do nothing......so Taiwan took care of it themselves and far more successfully than most countries, where they were then able to supply medical goods to other countries when items like N95 masks (and ventilators etc etc) became strangely hard to come by (and when hoarded by others like baby powder/formula). Taiwan is one of the most healthy actual democracies in the world with multiple opposing and tolerated views/parties after having fought for their democracy, unlike so many other countries who have now unfortunately become apathetic to their own while strangely looking towards bigger and less democratic/sovereign entities so as to then sadly NOT have to think further/harder unfortunately.
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  364. Their definition of 'choice' was as dubious as their self-serving re-definition of 'vaccination' (but is ALSO unfortunately 'technically' true as well) ......I'm in OZ too (Melb), I 'chose' NOT to partake in the deliberate (and ongoing) 'divide, devolve and conquer' initiative and had everything taken from me that could be.  My nursing home nan thankfully made it through the lack of contact where I finally got to see her before she passed recently at 101.......but I lost my job, my business and many friends....who have all moved on and who strangely don't want to talk about any of it nearly as much as they ironically and quickly un-personed me.  I would have been homeless as well had I not already (mostly) paid off my small flat. The government is now chasing me for tax, the same government who ironically didn't allow me to work, didn't protect (but helped deliberately destroy) my small business, didn't cover my lost wages (like they selectively chose to do for others), and actively 'encouraged' (or allowed) my part time employer to terminate me (I was teaching at university ONLINE during convid and was going to continue to do so when fired......which made as little sense as everything else related to convid when simply further-considered.....which few people chose to do, while unfortunately feared into conformist/compliancy and useful-idiocy instead). 'Choice' is a strange word (like many) nowadays in our ever-devolving and passive-regressive times. "I didn't MAKE him jump of the cliff I just told him I'd shoot him if he didn't......so he instead CHOSE to jump off the cliff.....of his own accord". 'choice' was ALWAYS a self-delusion of the self-serving manipulator .....and was also sadly an illusion of the person successfully manipulated.....and feared to unfortunately NOT think more/further despite the dodgy rest, which their ego (or emotionally prioritised victimhood) now continues to do to itself......as the shameless (but creepily knowing) manipulators ALWAYS unfortunately intended.
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  394.  @rap3208 "The only point of contention is on who is the rightful administration of this One-China" .....that's a PRETTY BIG only bone of contention! "Both taiwan and China subscribe to the One-China principle stating that the TWO ARE ONE." This is the HOPE (once resolved) but NOT the current reality. .....and one where the PRC is the entity of the two constantly threatening to invade Taiwan while its self serving authoritarianism has more than a few issues with deliberately NOT understanding nuance/diplomacy/co-operation when power leveraged bullying forms such a big part of its overbearing pride and self serving ego. The One China principle is a PRINCIPLE where both sides HOPE to eventually be one....once they can settle their VERY different ideas of who should run the show. "The entire world acknowledge that CHINA is the rightful government of this One China except for about ten countries" ....do you still not understand that CHINA is two entities, the PRC and the ROC? The US is sticking with its long-term One China diplomatic acknowledgement of the issue which is why it calls the PRC into question re; invasion threats despite your claims (and the clueless Nancy Pelosi types stirring their own self serving ego pot to remind the PRC). The UN is not (yet) a governing body and would gladly, cluelessly and self-servingly group the two countries into one self convenient ethnic group, (which feels a little racist) despite the major differences and realities, while also easily bought (like pacific nations when looking for investment). The WHO part of the UN for instance delegated Covid health responsibilities in Taiwan/ROC to the PRC while KNOWING that the PRC would do absolutely nothing.....Taiwan on the other hand handled the problem well themselves and then began to supply the rest of the world rather than hoarding supplies and lying to protect their ego from further origins questioning. You're allowed to look a little deeper and be as skeptical of the creepy PRC as you are of the increasingly creepy US government.
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  522. ​ @PlaYer-sn5or  The civil war never ended which is why the PRC and ROC both still exist today. The PRC has never controlled or run Taiwan/ROC.....The ROC has. (Chinese control of Taiwan goes back to the Dynastic era .....which the ROC followed after the end of the dynastic period). Japan ceded its territorial claim to no-one but did agree that the Taiwanese citizens were ROC citizens as part of this dissolution of its own control of Taiwan. UN declarations mean far less when the country in question, Taiwan doesn't even have any UN representation. It did once, where both the ROC and PRC threatened to leave the UN if either were given a UN seat (likely due to the civil war having never ended). The UN decided to hand the existing ROC seat to the PRC despite the reality of the two sides and unresolved war. Taiwan then left the UN (or was evicted according to the UN). The UN which is not (yet) a world governing body and the self-interested/easily-bought member states ignore the reality that there are two Chinese entities, while simply (like simpletons) hoping to group all Chinese folks in the region into one self-convenient ethnic group despite the reality and HUGE differences between the two currently existing governments. The One China Policy is a diplomatic agreement between the PRC and ROC, where both sides agree to one day unite but where both also have VERY different ideas of how and what this would entail.  The diplomatic 'agree to disagree' greyness of the One China Principle has thankfully kept the peace in the time since the civil war never ended, If Taiwan declares independence it breaks this agreement. If the PRC invade Taiwan it also breaks this agreement. Despite this agreed upon principle, the PRC continually threaten to invade Taiwan/ROC while choosing NOT to understand its own agreement (like a deliberately-clueless and self-serving authoritarian-bully cliche would). The US One China Policy is a diplomatic acknowledgement of the same One China Principle.
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  534. These loveable folks are showing their youthful age......Kurt's music wasn't JUST miserable, it was ALSO representative of a personified anger/frustration at/of the apathy of the late and plastic/fake 80's world, which so many of us felt after the early (and promising) world of the 80's had quickly devolved itself into crap (remember yuppies, recessions, BS war etc etc?) His music/writing was ALSO REALLY sarcastic, ironic and funny, which is what I loved and still love about it (alongside the catchy sound) while it humanised the frustration and humanised him too (despite the heroin and Courtney Love issues)......which are traits the youth now sadly have a hard time even properly understanding/contextualising/comprehending after manipulated to be SOO very apathetic while living in and only ever knowing a post 9-11 over-manipulated and apathetic world. We also grew up in an age where shows like The Simpson came into existence, which was also a sarcastic, ironic and critical (thinking) questioning of the reality and society we existed in......but we then made the mistake of placing our kids in front of the tv to enjoy it too where we mistook that our kids would simply 'get it' and contextualise it too.....but perhaps not properly considering that the world they'd grown up in was far more cynical and manipulative where irony and sarcasm now just had a FAR higher chance of being misinterpreted as 'mean' (like crappy/low-brow/low-aiming Family Guy), especially when they had been soo very over-'encouraged' to over-pursue supposed-politeness instead and at the expense of all else (like further considered critical-thinking) unfortunately. One of the many reasons there IS now sadly such a large ideological/age-gap/divide between the boomers and millennials/z'ers is because Generation X unfortunately became a 'passed over' generation.  We simply said 'no' which frustrated the powers that be, where they then tried to insult/gas-light us with the 'slacker' moniker, which we ironically adopted (while actually principled and working hard) before it simply became too hard for them, where they then simply moved onto the next and 'easy' generation instead by the time the 2000's had come around.....then there was the 2010's onwards where the 'mental' (and narcissistic-manipulation and deliberate-division) REALLY came into a self-fulfilling place of its own (and nasty) making unfortunately.
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  640. Cantankerous but thoughtful Drinker is far too nice to this adapted property here! It IS great to see this superbly written and plotted game adapted into a live action visualisation but it's also disappointing when you consider that the game itself was already so well considered as a filmic/serial narrative that it didn't actually need a single thing changed.....where most of the changes then just become a simple visual adaption/enhancement or an odd and unnecessary lessening (or game-like side-quest) while it now both over-thinks itself (like self-fart-smelling unfortunately) and also under-think/appreciates its original simplicity and humanity too as a dodgy and manipulative, hopeful-edge-lord strangely deconstructs his own property into bad 'over but under'-thought cliches in a strange homage/prayer to the creepy new cult of nihilism now so hoping to reset/re-write reality for a dehumanised and lessened umm Brave New World! .....which is sadly now far too easily-led by apathy, manipulation, emotion and over-encouraged (self-justifying/serving) narcissism rather than the stoic and genuinely thoughtful critical-thinking which once simply helped us to aspire to be better and try harder!. Just wait till this property becomes the self-serving, victimhood, murder (and golf) simulator of the second nasty game..... of dehumanised, simpleton revenge, where the dislikable, angry, victimhood-identifying characters strangely have to spend multiple seasons to realise that revenge is hollow like that angry halfwit Reeva in Star Wars/Obi Wan taking six whole episodes to umm 'discover'/realise that killing kids might be wrong!
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  722. Multiculturalism now has two meanings like so many other 'well intentioned' (but easily manipulated and subverted when deliberately NOT further considered) ideas nowadays unfortunately. One definition involves a group of folks from different cultures genuinely working for and towards common goals for a unified and stronger/healthier country. The other involves a collection of deliberately different people with far less in less common goals and belief wise, who are squashed together under a supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately NOT further considered) narrative, with the aim of creating generic, globalist (and sovereign country/culture negating) citizens unfortunately serving a deliberate 'divide and conquer (and then devolve/lessen)' initiative from the more shameless (and creepy), self-serving manipulators, useful-idiots and folks who are far too easily led by the those supposed 'good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered. ......where the new global citizens are far more likely to be compliant (as the bigger manipulators always intended) to the manipulative (and ultimately control-obsessed) new passive-aggressive ideology/cult......especially when new to country, more desperate and then justifiably out-for-themselves (especially if easily and self-serving led/manipulated to self-identify as victims) in a society clearly now running on obviously insincere BS when so easily manipulated, divided and then devolved/lessened ......in sincerity, accountability AND morality.
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  914. A communist commissar was once tasked with the job of travelling to a rural village to investigate a murder. When he arrived at the village the murderer had already handed himself into the authorities AND also confessed to the murder. "Why did you do it?" asked the commissar. "I HAD to" declared the murderer "he was a capitalist who owned three chickens when the rest of us only own two" After some consideration the commissar then insisted that the authorities release the comrade (and accused/confessed murderer). A few months later the commissar was again tasked with returning to the village to investigate a new case, the murder of the previously accused murderer. When he arrived at the village, the newly accused murderer had also already handed himself into the authorities and confessed. "Did you do it for revenge?" asked the commissar. "No" declared the accused "I HAD to, he was a capitalist who owned two chickens when the rest of us only own one". After some consideration the commissar again insisted that the authorities release the comrade (and accused/confessed murderer). The commissar returned to the city and waited patiently while anticipating his next call to return to the village. But the call never came as all the villagers eventually starved to death after having been easily-led/manipulated to turn on one another. Objective morality tells us that all murder is wrong.......but when morality (and reality) is deliberately manipulated to become Subjective instead it also becomes flexible and self-serving, where the more easily-led (and narcissistically 'encouraged') amongst us will then self-justify pretty much ANY self-serving THING (to themselves mostly), especially when they've ALSO been easily-led to see and self-identify themselves as 'virtuous' victims.  ......as their original 'divide and conquer' manipulators always intended of their easily-led, manipulated and then sadly dehumanised useful-idiots. Communism/Marxism ideas ultimately just become a nasty and dehumanised cult when the ideas are 'adopted' into becoming a manipulative and self-serving ideology of supposed 'good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered. ......and it works best when the masses are deliberately distracted (and then devolved) AWAY from more-considered critical-thinking .....and into apathy (and nihilism) instead, where emotionally-prioritised, divisive tribalism (and that 'virtuous' self-identified victimhood) 'help' the easily-led to sadly self-justify pretty much ANY self-serving and seemingly pragmatic (but dehumanised) thing to themselves, especially when they've been manipulated to believe that morality and reality are subjective rather than objective.
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  961. ​ @Jm-wt1fs  Lex is a self identified introvert despite ironically running the guest-heavy podcast/show that he runs daily (and as his job). 'Likes' aren't just about the mario-cart (or coin) inspired internet ones. They can often (and simply) evolve from the basic internal/human needs and desires that most folks have......and are often more about the simple desire for the (perhaps over-prioritised...or manipulated) approval/acknowledgement of others, where supposed introvertism can be EASILY and psychologically manipulated like many things (focussing on someone's inherent or chosen ideological beliefs is another really easy/effective/proven method) ......and especially so via sketchy/manipulative and 'by design' social-media platforms.....their algorithms (which strangely, but not so strangely, ONLY have 'thumbs up' but no 'thumbs down' responses).... OR via dodgier, more shameless folks than me, whose job and 'expertise' (like mine) IS and HAS always been TO manipulate folks (mine has been a 30+ year running career which has constantly creeped me out, despite appreciating the intuition it has taught me too, where the 'methods' are something to always be wary/skeptical of). Maybe I'm too harsh on Lex but really like him too despite the criticism, I hope he does well AND see big potential for more in him too....but I'm also wary that he's easily manipulated by others and his own personality/nature too, like many well intentioned (and 'smart' more than perhaps 'wise') folks. .....especially nowadays in an era where narcissism (in many outward or subtle ways) is clearly being over-encouraged in order to more easily divert and then manipulate folks (often resulting in 'useful idiots' FOR others unfortunately), then you also have all the encouraged self-righteousness, binary wrong/rights and lack of discussion that you mentioned, which Lex's politeness can also indadvertedly end up over-compensating for/too despite his best intentions while hoping to be a polite-considerate instead (but perhaps a little naive regarding deliberate manipulation) while the TED-talk like salesmen guests grift on his supposed introvert but who could probably do with more pushback despite the algorithm, the creeps and their hopes (and over 'encouragement'). Appreciate your comments and willingness to discuss though JM, I pretty much completely agree with you but also have my skepticism too, especially in our creepy age of manipulation (and apathy), have a good one and cheers from the ether of the internet!
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  979. ​ @redneckscumbags4422  You should try living there more than reading umm 'polls' and then resorting to name calling. I did (before lockdown and before returning to my own country) and I saw a proud and self determined people in a very healthy democracy constantly negated by others and outsider groups who would sadly and simply place them all into one self-serving and self-convenient racial/nationalistic basket despite the actual complex history and reality of the place (or by not exploring the nuances of 'diplomacy' not further or fully considered). There are multiple groups in Taiwan who keep the vibrancy and discussion of their democracy alive far better than most other and unfortunately apathetic democracies and folks elsewhere. Amongst them are some who apathetically accept an inevitable CPC take-over, then there are others who support the One China Principle (but think it means that they'll run the mainland when/if unified) and then there are the rest who don't want their current and democratic situation to change who have voted for the current and independent government ......despite groups like the UN constantly negating and grouping them all together while self-serving their own agendas.....or the CPC chasing their own and creepy, self-serving authoritarian pride (and ghosts of dead people they still have grievances over for a country they have never run or controlled) ......or other self-serving $hit Stirrers like Pelosi who would gladly use Taiwan as a Vietnam-like cold war hotspot (while hoping to make some more easy stock 'predictions') while also hoping to self-implode her own country out of the same cluelessness and over-desire for self-centred control.
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  1032. This covered it well but also missed some (actually ONE very important) point/s. The allies gave (previously Japanese-controlled) Taiwan to the ROC after the second world war when mainland China (ROC) was still run by the same KMT authoritarian elements, who then fled from the mainland during the civil war (which has technically never ended according to both parties involved) where the KMT then took their authoritarianism and installed it on the Taiwanese as the (new and smaller) ROC (until the 90's with the first free and direct elections) leaving the mainland to the new and totalitarian CPC/PRC government. He's forgetting to tell you that the KMT is an advocate of Leninist democratic centralism (Three Principles of the People....nationalism, democracy, and welfare/livelihood) from the old Republic Era where the KMT and CPC have different ideas on the 'democracy 'and the 'welfare/livelihood' parts (the KMT preferred western democratic terms and the CPC Marxist/communist terms). The KMT are against independence .......BUT ALSO AGAINST unification under the current 'one country, two systems' framework and consensus...... and maintain their own ROC constitution of/in Taiwan instead (with an ambiguity to the different interpretations of what 'One China' should mean..... some still think that re-unification would mean the KMT ideology running the whole eventual ONE CHINA as opposed to the CPC/PRC idea which holds the opposite ideological-thinking).  The One China Policy is a 'diplomatic acknowledgement' of China and Taiwan potentially being One Country.....and the One China Principle means something different to both the CPC and the KMT......Then there's the UN who would just like to throw all Chinese folks into one convenient group due to their racial ethnicity regardless of their political desires. Taiwan is likely best left as it currently is (and ambiguous) when both sides (or three/four sides) are so ideologically led to the detriment of all else that they'll just end up destroying everything that is good about Taiwan while trying to prove who has the bigger knob while swinging it in the wind!
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  1154. Australia never had much of 'culture' ......but mateship was thankfully always obvious, like folks helping others out during natural disasters......I have only heard denial or hesitation to even talk about (or bad excuses) regarding how to help (and what was done to) small business and all the self-determined folks (and previous contributors to the system who were not reliant on big business or the government) who were sadly the biggest target of the nasty 'divide and conquer' deliberate devolution initiative after they were so easily disregarded and after all the inconsistent and ever-changing nonsense which was ironically sold as a natural disaster, which we used to help folks after. Melbourne now sadly feels like a city of compliant, apathetic, half-sleeping, pod-people from the old Body Snatchers film who won't even have a bigger discussion let alone thinking or considering further/more. I ended up having no income throughout the fiasco after deemed 'not eligible' for the assistance given to all the big business employees and already government reliant (after having paid tax for 30 years and never getting or expecting anything back).  No income, locked down with no ability to work, no coverage, bills still coming regardless, business destroyed and then losing my part time uni teaching gig for not getting jabbed (despite me ironically teaching on-line and my employer planning to continue on-line teaching)........where the results and rest become obvious......but try telling anyone. It was all deliberate......or the folks running the show are utterly incompetent, neither of which is something to be proud of or aspire to......like those so easily disregarded ironically were.
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  1220. It hasn't been 'hard hit'....it has been actively and deliberately destroyed......where less competition self-fulfillingly means more monopolistic control for the big-corps AND for the increasingly big-brother-aspiring globalist-retarded rather than sovereign governments, who have unfortunately forgotten who and what they are supposed to serve as we now increasingly and ironically/sadly serve them and their rewarded apathy.  The lockdown was simply the final nail, I've increasingly been getting ripped off and slow-payed by bigger clients for quite a while now AND more often (good luck taking everyone of them to orgs like VCAT or small-claims with your time and ever-lowering income considered)...... largely due to them deliberately hiring and filling their companies with more and more clueless middlemen (like an un-employment reducing sheltered-workshop) who suck up the profits and reduce budgets and who will often do whatever their boss tells them with zero morality now that merit means far less.  Australia always comes together in a crisis which makes you proud to be an Australian, but we still haven't heard ANYTHING in support of all the deliberately destroyed small business like we would have if we had an accidental flood or bushfire......just crickets chirping and an apathetic 'that's a shame' unfortunately. Ask a farmer why the prices of food has risen, it's not because their expenses have risen (even though they have) they're still being paid and beholden to the same (and often) underpaid prices as before while the big corps jack up the prices and claim 'rising expenses' which they're not actually paying for/passing back while just swallowing the profits instead and manipulating the public with more umm 'nice sentiment' like they did when selling them (and profiting more from) those bigger and heavier plastic bags.
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  1375. I really like the Trig blokes but the fact they're on a deliberately cog-retarding encouragement platform is a BIG part of the problem. As much as politeness is nice you can unfortunately NEVER be polite enough with the passive regressive types of manipulation, which is sadly how this type of manipulation works.....and which (despite the manipulated idea and definition of umm 'mean-ness') needs to be called out upfront and directly for what it is in order to simply end the nastiness and in order to actually move beyond and have the bigger (and non-distracted) discussion. Over prioritised politeness can far too easily just become a polite [sic] form of Soviet Era 'political correctness' Changing this devolved/regressive (but umm 'progressive'ly sold) thinking is hard when so many folks have now been cognitively retarded (and distracted) to over prioritise and chase supposed politeness (and those 'upvote' approvals from others)......like how so many people (and women particularly) have been deliberately manipulated/distracted and lessened (by both men and other women) throughout the ages to then NOT form their own opinions while unfortunately so prioritised/distracted elsewhere. Good luck trying to 'cross that divide' Konstantin but I don't think you've fully (or also) considered the bigger manipulation at play and how it works where the same idea will simply be used against you......while you unfortunately talk about (and prioritise) politeness over the bigger issue like you did here throughout this entire video, while also misunderstanding (and being manipulated) by the idea of consideration like in debate which isn't about winning/losing but instead ultimately about defining the speaker as a genuinely thoughtful person whose ideas are perhaps worth actually considering rather than the speaker instead selling themselves AS considerate.
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  1502.  @Gary_oldmans_left_nut  That's why I suggested thinking a little deeper and wider! I'd probably start with the idea of unfairly leveraging-power, especially the self-convenient part of it when not personally affecting you......where all you sadly have to do is make sure to leverage against a group not you (or a minority of the total) if deciding to so calculate your democracy and thinking like a calculator (and like that old-school greek and mob-rule based democracy.....where everyone below the 51% is likely on the ar$e end of it) as your preference to the 'representative' democracy that we supposedly moved towards instead, where wiser and more thoughtful folks were supposed to represent ALL of us better (before they unfortunately sold their souls to the largest bidder of the latest self-serving umm 'idea' of course!) Smokers and fat people also die earlier.....which is also less of a burden on health systems..... in the 'calculated' long-run! Being led by 'easily-led emotion' (and easily-sold-narratives) rather than the objectivity of further (and perhaps less self-convenient) thought will ultimately just result in the 'majority' telling you that YOU are one day a threat under such simply-calculated umm democratic-thinking (now unfortunately more approximating authoritarianism!) Cow's are now being taxed for farts in NZ due to the resultant scare of ideo-thinking (and unquestioned but sold-narratives) via the same type of 'calculating' instead. I'm just glad I don't currently fart too much or have children because they'll soon be a taxable and power-leveraged item too alongside the growing narrative of fear and self-righteous supposed-'earth saving' (with a whole lot of convenient profit....for some!) at the expense of the more easily-led.....into a dehumanised form of self sabotage! When humans realise that they are simply a binary calculator, they should probably at least aspire to be become better than one, which is probably what makes us human rather than soul-lacking and dehumanised calculators of self-convenience.... while then unfortunately serving something else instead.
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  1529. They're just desperately (and shamelessly) trying-hard to change the meaning of money (and the free market) from a simple intermediate to trade goods and products of actual desire (and merit) to instead be based on supposed (but vague, manipulative and easily changeable) 'virtue' (as defined by self-serving them) so that they can easily and constantly 'adapt' their ongoing greed-grift and unfortunately our REALITY at ANY time whenever their grift looks like it might collapse again.......'sustainability' for instance unfortunately and mostly = their profits, power and shameless grift! Deliberately prioritising and empowering self-identified (and then self-justifying) victims (supposed 'diversity') rather than empowering folks based on merit just guarantees that they'll have their own easily-manipulated and self-serving useful-idiots in positions of power to help maintain the shameless grift and creepy non-reality indefinitely. No wonder others are going back to the gold standard, it's a more honest/simpler/better way to standardise rather than going by vague and ever-changing emotional (and ideological) based umm 'methodology' which is manipulative and will just result in crap/half-arsed products/services and a reality which end up serving something/someone else altogether .....and not their people/customers (just look at the product/service market in the USSR when everything served the state and creepy, self-serving ideology). The dropping quality (and instead valuing supposed 'quantity rather than quality') of the ever-normalising and ongoing (forever) rental/services industry should have woken folks up to the over-controlling sad reality and grift ......if they weren't so apathetic and easily-led/manipulated.
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  1737. "Australia Is The Last Stronghold Of The West".......Is this a bad joke, or just a naive foreigner/'influencer'-hopeful trying to easily-win some new 'upvote/like' supposed 'friends' with some meaningless/hollow over-politeness?.......because It also just sounds like another exercise and example of "just keep telling them something pretty" .....or a naive (and self-conveniently clueless), back-patting delusion of self-serving self-convenience?  I really like Konstantin, especially when he's passionate enough about individual topics to have a good dig and further exploration ....but he IS often naively-selective too while so over-prioritising and confusing 'politeness' and supposed (but then ironically LESS CONSIDERED) 'consideration' with wisdom (like wishy-washy Lex Friedman). ...where he's ALSO yet-another modern 'influencer' now OVERLY-RELIANT on the creepy (and overly-conformist creating/seeking) 'quantity over quality' Youtube/social-media algorithms/initiatives and their manipulative (while over-prioritised) 'like chasing" .....where the associated DELIBERATE-distraction (and focus....often to the self) now unfortunately comes with all the subsequent/resultant self-devolvement. Melbourne alone now feels more like a city full of Stepford Wives (or Invasion of the Body Snatchers Pod People) than a supposed (and easily-sold) 'Stronghold Of The West'. "Descended from convicts and their jailers" ......is unfortunately/probably a better/more-appropriate AND more-realistic description of how sadly easily-led and conformist-devolved Australia ACTUALLY and mostly now IS (and increasingly becomes).  The recent plandemic response with its blind/easily-feared acceptance and failure to now even discuss the nastiness of the deliberate-divisiveness, deliberate-destruction (and resultant rest) unfortunately says far more than undeserved and hollow (while back-patting) platitudes.
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  1761. ​@ "Morality has always been subjective" ......no it hasn't on a societal level. There's a big difference between; A) Moral Absolutism - The overly-judgmental intolerant rule based 'morality' which was often just a tool of control, which at its worst bought us The Inquisition (convert or die) and modern day Islam where a woman can be stoned to death for adultery even when the 'adultery' happened due to sexual-assault/grape (where adultery is self conveniently seen as a greater moral evil than the excused grape). B) Objective Morality - societal agreed upon morality which is able to further consider the morality and evolve....ie murder in self defence is still murder but different than intentional pre-meditated murder. This system is WHAT allowed for the tolerances/changes you mentioned. C) Moral Relativism - Make your OWN ('flexible'/self-serving morality/reality), often self-justified by emotionally manipulative supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately NOT further considered), which has been a perfect way to divide, devolve and conquer a society.....just ask the Germans, The Soviets (and current day PRC) who knew murder was wrong but decided it was 'relatively' OK if a jew or capitalist (ie someone you were emotionally-led to see yourself as a 'victim' of). We were once A) (and still are if an Islamic country) but we then evolved into the more critical-thinking/valuing (and able to evolve) based B) We're now unfortunately being manipulate-'encouraged' (and devolving ourselves) into C) via the same manipulative supposed 'good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered (especially if self-serving or easily-led).  Adding a little narcissism and self-identified victimhood 'encouragement' just helps the shamelessly self-serving .....and then helps guarantee the devolution of further/better/more-considered critical-thinking (and conscience). Folks who are easily-led by emotion (and the same manipulative cult of supposed 'good intentions') self-justification are far too quick to FORGET that we HAD moved AWAY from A) a while back and into B) The critical thinking/valuing/evolving MIDDLE-GROUND between the 'absolute' (rules/control) and the 'relative' (subjective/flexible/self-serving and ultimately DIVISIVE, where the masses unfortunately end up on the ar$e-end of the most shameless, manipulative and often immoral or at worst amoral).   ....probably because they don't read or think enough about history while far too easily-led/manipulated (and self-manipulated) by emotion and those supposed good intentions while self-conveniently forgetting the rest. ....at the expense of their better/further/more-considered critical-thinking......just as their shameless manipulators always unfortunately intended of their emotionally easily-led/manipulated (and then self-led/manipulated) useful-idiots.  History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.  If I wanted to divide, devolve and then conquer a society then I'd probably do exactly the same ....and then watch the society devolve itself while it told itself something pretty and self-serving.
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  1762.  @occultrock  ​ @occultrock PT 1 : "Morality has always been subjective" ......no it hasn't on a societal level. There's a big difference between; A) Moral Absolutism - The overly-judgmental intolerant rule based 'morality' which was often just a tool of control, which at its worst bought us The Inquisition (convert or die) and modern day Islam where a woman can be stoned to death for adultery even when the 'adultery' happened due to sexual-assault/grape (where adultery is self conveniently seen as a greater moral evil than the excused grape). B) Objective Morality - societal agreed upon morality which is able to further consider the morality and evolve....ie murder in self defence is still murder but different than intentional pre-meditated murder. This system is WHAT allowed for the tolerances/changes you mentioned. C) Moral Relativism - Make your OWN ('flexible'/self-serving morality/reality), often self-justified by emotionally manipulative supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately NOT further considered), which has been a perfect way to divide, devolve and conquer a society.....just ask the Germans, The Soviets (and current day PRC) who knew murder was wrong but decided it was 'relatively' OK if a jew or capitalist (ie someone you were emotionally-led to see yourself as a 'victim' of). We were once A) (and still are if an Islamic country) but we then evolved into the more critical-thinking/valuing (and able to evolve) based B) We're now unfortunately being manipulate-'encouraged' (and devolving ourselves) into C) via the same manipulative supposed 'good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered (especially if self-serving or easily-led).
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  1764. ​ @occultrock  Back (tracking) to Onlyfans?.....I thought we'd moved on to discussing 'morality' and the differences (and dangers) of societal based Moral-Relativism and Moral-Absolutism over Objective-Morality/reality? A functioning society does unfortunately require an agreed upon 'morality' basis despite individual views.....otherwise it becomes divided, devolved and then more easily conquered. The folks most likely to impede free-speech and impose their personal supposed (but lacking) morality/views on others are now sadly the ones who ironically claim to be 'progressive' (while sadly regressive), who seem more than happy to gaslight and completely negate others for a simple differing (or just challenging) opinion as they go about replacing objective-morality/reality with their own self-serving moral-relativism, while telling/fearing themselves (and self-conveniently forgetting) that objective-morality/reality ever happened and that the old over-bearing moral-absolutists are in control and oppressing them.....which isn't hard when their own supposed 'morality', views and narrative has become completely self-serving/obsessed and shameless. The old conservative, moral-absolutist, power-leveragers and creepies were at least far more umm honest/upfront in their a-holerly. The new moral-relativist's ironically became even creepier for their own self-convenient cluelessness and glazed-eyed, passive-aggressive, fake-smiles alone, while just telling themselves something pretty and self-serving ......and claiming to be 'virtuous' but not understanding that virtue is something you ARE or DO, not something you simply (like a simpleton) SAY to win conformist-approval while hoping to over-compensate for your own shamelessly self-serving self. The bigger 'divide, devolve and conquer' creepies must be pretty proud of their own manipulation efforts, where free speech, privacy, or individual rights will sadly end up LESSENED whichever way the pushed-pendulum swings AWAY from Objective-Morality/reality.
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  1848. Tim's out confusing that social-media ('like/'upvote' chasing) and safe fence-sitting/controlled-opposition of his with being umm 'thoughtful' again.....there's already a study and paper very recently showing that the Myocarditis increase has not risen due to covid (but perhaps something else..... like with the strange 'sudden death', reduced immunity-systems and SADS!)......as much as folks now like to cope by telling themselves something pretty regardless of all else gradually and strangely (but not so strangely with all things considered) being 'discovered'. The broken iphones percentage analogy is a bad one and just helps to explain class action lawsuits! The small businesses were sacrificed and the bigger ones sheltered by their wealth but the goal is ultimately one of no personal ownership/right-to-self determination while ruled/controlled instead by the last standing (and likely wealthiest) few companies......like a strange corporate version of creepy authoritarian-communism......but with a big fake smile (and maybe an encouragement-award, scout- badge) for your feelings......and for the (de-humanised) planet! 'Convinced' to be vaccinated in order to 'help others' is just another cope to explain (and then self-justify) all the easily-led fear (and bad feelings of then feeling stupid.....like Fonzie trying but unable to say sorry, even to himself!) If others were truly wanting to help others they could and should have also seen that they were being deliberately divided from those 'others'.....many of who were being clearly, deliberately and un-necessarily marginalised FOR their own and self-determined choice/rights (which we once used to value) unfortunately.
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  2117. ​ @trumpbellend6717  I'm clearly not your dear when your knickers are so easily (and passive-regressively) challenge-knotted while strangely distracting and diverting yourself away from the original point being made. An agreed upon (and humanity based) morality really shouldn't be that hard to understand and isn't just a concept tied to one (or many) religions but one simply tied to humanity, the usefulness of civilisation (which made us and allowed us to reach this point) and basic common sense.... eg not stealing from your neighbour (unless also OK for your neighbour to steal from you). I'm not even remotely religious myself (where many would happily just group me into an unnecessary atheism 'grouping' of their own self-convenient and self-serving nature). Conveniently selective/subjective (and 'make it up as you go' self-serving) morality (or even unquestioned morality) has sadly been an old tool of manipulation (for the more easily-led) by most of the creepy (and ideological based) authoritarian's from our past (and sometimes even the religious ones!) like the self-serving Inquisition era, the Nazi's (and nihilism) or the Soviet era and current Chinese CPC one where supposed morality was/is determined by the nasty (and negating all else) dehumanised state while umm supposedly pragmatic (but in a strangely self-serving and self-justifying manner). The current (and ironically named) post-humanist hoped-for (or manipulated-into) 'reality' is one unfortunately now dominated by narcissism and the lazy/apathetic 'tell yourself something pretty' (and less-thinking) instead method rather than using the more-considered (and more work-based) critical-thinking method from our past (which once at least helped us to aspire to be better) .....where all the current (and nihilistic-based) apathy sadly and ultimately just helps the more easily-led (and over-encouraged/manipulated) amongst us to justify (and overcompensate for) all the other nasty dehumanisation, which just becomes a big black and dehumanised/nihilistic hole with no moral basis .....as the manipulators intended while now unfortunately (and umm 'pragmatically') 'FOR the planet' apparently.
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  2199.  @PlaYer-sn5or  1) Yes 2) 'China' at the time was the ROC 3) Again 'China' was the ROC and Japan accepted that Taiwan's citizens were ROC citizens. 4) The Chinese civil war never ended which is why in ACTUAL (and perhaps inconvenient) reality today there are currently TWO Chinese governments/entities, one in Taiwan (ROC) and one in the newer PRC. The PRC has NEVER run or controlled Taiwan (ROC). 5) The UN thankfully isn't (yet) a world government, which is a good thing when the same non-government organisation of supposed diplomacy is so easily willing to ignore the ACTUAL reality (often when self-serving ....or just easily bought) as it so hopes to decide on the fate of others it ironically doesn't even acknowledge, represent or even offer representation to. 6) The US One China Policy ACKNOWLEDGES the One China Principle......an agreement (which has kept the peace) between the ROC and PRC to one day reunite but where both. understandably have very different ideas of what this would entail, especially when one entity is a healthy multi-party democracy and the other a single-party, creepy and authoritarian/communist cult.....which clearly doesn't even understand its own agreement whenever it threatens to invade 'unify' Taiwan. 7) You might want to further consider UN supposed 'international law' and the many countries who choose or don't choose to follow it when self-convenient (including both the PRC and US)....Again the easily bought/subverted UN is a tool of diplomacy to avoid conflict and ISN'T a world government. The 'wishes' of the 1.4b Chinese folks?....what the same ones who don't even have a choice in/of their own government? Invading a sovereign entity which the PRC has an existing agreement with IS only really 'protecting its sovereign integrity' in its own delusional, passive-aggressive and self-conveniently clueless (while self-serving) mind. You ARE allowed to think wider/deeper despite what your overbearing government tells you (.....and might later reward you with 50c of creepy social-credit).
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  2344. Jimmy has been easily-led to (justifiably in many ways) over hate his own country (like many others also led-by good intentions) while strangely not as critical of the 'just as creepy (or creepier)' control ambitions of the nasty and also massively dehumanised PRC. Anti-war is good but can also be easily manipulated unfortunately like many other manipulated ideas/concepts into ideo-based/less-questioned (non) think......... Like with folks over led by the idea that there are 'sides', when all the 'sides' strangely and happily work WITH one another when self-interested .......and at the same time AGAINST one other whenever the current (and manipulative/self-serving) ideological non-think is in a conflict (of self-convenience). Hot war with the PRC would be terrible but we've been in a soft war (which will inevitably lead to a nasty hot war) the moment folks over-prioritised cheap commoditisation but not holding folks to the principles of the supposed free market like the protection of IP or the protection against monopolies......then there's all the other manipulative warfare elements at play like an enemy being easily divided and then half won already,.......where the end (or final) solution will sadly end up being a umm 'choice' between a communist controlled authoritarian world, a corporate based fascist one ........OR a bit of both while we 'own nothing and are supposedly happy' as those mutual interests are pursued as the primary while the masses are easily distracted by the self-righteousness of emotion and an apparent (but also self-serving) WAR! Oceania is at war with Eastasia.....this week....in the meantime enjoy your Two Minutes of Hate venting to help compensate for your loss of sovereign/independent thought and self-determination which is ironically THE primary cause of your anxiety and frustration while your eyes are unfortunately held wide shut......often by a 'choice' of your own umm 'making'.
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  2360. ​ @carlydubbya7620  Thankfully gay folks are no longer being... "lobotomised, arrested, fired, simply for being in an opposite sex relationship" anymore .....except in regressive/far-less-tolerant cultures, which we're ironically too umm 'inclusive' (self-serving/convenient) scared to criticise, who also consider adultery a crime rather than it simply being a shamelessly self-serving CHOICE. The (over?) focus on the past victimhood of gay folks, despite ALL the positive progress/acceptance into equality (and sometimes now more!) has been manipulatively transformed (or just mutated) into a strange societal/conformist 'badge of honour' (and an odd encouragement-award) instead ....or even worse a pseudo-merit replacement for something which folks simply ARE which WASN'T achieved (like genuine merit is). .....like SO MUCH other manipulatively over-'encouraged' (and/or just shamelessly self-serving) self-identified supposed victimhood nowadays ....which has just devolved us into even MORE deliberately-divisive us/them (oppressed/oppressor) manipulation-narratives (and then self-manipulation narratives when/if self-serving).  ......which are now being USED to self-justify pretty much ANY relative-subverted thing to the easily-led (while well-intentioned but deliberately LESS considered) or just the shamelessly self-serving.....ironically FOR their original 'divide, devolve and conquer' manipulators/'encouragers'/enablers.....just as the same manipulators always unfortunately intended.
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  2401. I remember seeing Brooke in Black Comedy and laughing my arse off that they'd even do it.....but not really either when you just had to consider who funded and made it (and its actual purpose).....where it all made much more (but also much less) sense when It's (more than a bit) tragically OK if the clueless white girl is the one being ridiculed instead (despite the off-bounds rest). Ironic humour works best when ridiculing ALL (like The Simpsons once did) rather than being misunderstood or umm 'repurposed' as nasty Stepford Wife styled passive-progressive/regressive/aggressive supposed 'sass' to entertain (and further sedate/confuse) the easily-led half-wits (like with Family Guy....or the supposed 'news' now so full of dumb-people that they don't even challenge you nowadays!) They must have had to constantly remind Brooke that it was all OK cause I bet she was 'white guilt' uncomfortable doing it, but less so when collecting the paycheque as she was told (and likely told herself) something pretty (and vacuous) instead while not really understanding that she was actually debasing herself at the expense and benefit of others FOR the creepy division/devolvement cult. ....... via the grift of emotionally(and easily)-led supposed umm 'good' intentions now that further/more-considered thinking and irony have also been so devolve-reduced......like that over-bearing and half-witted 'talk to the hand' supposed (but just plain nasty) 'sass' that now so easily substitutes for the over-encouraged simpletons amongst us, who are now strangely (but not so strangely) growing in number.
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  2441. This was 'more than a bit' on the typical wishy-washy, and polite-nothingness side now being so over-encouraged and prioritised (while ironically and often IN prayer to algorithms or that sad hopeful-'like' based approval from others instead)..... which can easily and unfortunately just end up devolving (or simply being vague and apathetic in its indecision), especially now that opinions are increasingly so frowned upon (or just deemed 'dangerous' or 'mean' as the manipulators intended). Wisdom comes from genuine consideration but a lot of folks nowadays clearly just think that projecting themselves as considerate (and indecisive) provides them with a shortcut to genuinely more considerate (and critical of the self) actual wisdom. She's 'not there' yet? ......perhaps she should simply look around nowadays with a MORE critical eye of what it HAS sadly become, with the same critical eye she has of those religious/ideological problems from the past. .....despite the over-selling of apathy or simply (like a simpleton?) 'telling yourself something pretty' instead despite the reality around you. Perhaps other atheists (not in a cult of their own) can simply learn to be amazed and value the mere existence of everything and everyone in a potentially infinite (and both ordered and chaotic at the same time) binary universe as many of us non god believers have already done without the fear or the need for the badge/name/grouping/approval from others while still maintaining their humanity.
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  2667. ​ @Didigetitwrong  "Does this sound reasonable to you American war ships 7,000km from their home port. Defending an island they recognise as part of China." Perhaps go and read what the Policy and Principle ACTUALLY are, those warship are there for a reason.....to bully-remind a bully of its own Principle. The US One China Policy 'recognises' The One China Principle......a deliberately grey diplomatic agreement between the ROC and the PRC (which has kept the peace since the un-ended civil war) to one day re-unite .....but where both (understandably) have VERY different ideas of what this would entail. The PRC threaten and threaten to invade Taiwan (and ironically break its own Principle/agreement) CONSTANTLY (it has Taiwan surrounded as part of its current passive-aggressive war-games). Comparisons to other countries/wars is unnecessary (and then ultimately just a distraction from the actual/current conversation).  With your Texas/US split example/distraction for instance, you could easily use the same example to argue that Taiwan (ROC) has the right to invade the PRC (mainland) simply because they've existed longer as a legitimate government and via the fact that the civil war has never officially ended. Australia and the Philippines likely don't want to take either side but conflict caused when/after two sides fail to mutually respect one another (like with ALL conflicts) leads to this .....and the sad rest unfortunately. The US collapsing (or self-destructing after successfully subverted) probably shouldn't be so enthusiastically supported (or so easily/apathetically seen as 'inevitable' ....as the PRC and its globalist 'friends' so like to umm 'promote')  .....despite its current subverted and self-devolved dodginess, including its successful manipulation into a deliberately less-considered over-focus on self-hate despite the rest (like much of the west) especially when you further consider what will likely replace it...ie something far worse and likely nasty/globalist/authoritarian.
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  2671. The UN is unfortunately full of self-interested (and easily bought) ideological folks (and sub-organisations) while it is SUPPOSED to just be a collective-idea/think-tank of diplomacy rather than a replacement for SOVEREIGN government or administration, despite the ease at which WEF 'young leadership' awards have so easily-led (and bought) our elected but narcissistically and ideologically 'influenced' sociopath leaders to forget who and what they serve, for a cheap (and self-back-patting) encouragement-award instead. If you sign a non-binding UN agreement, they're not binding......but if you don't follow through as non-binding 'instructed' they'll power-leverage their other 'institutions' like the IMF against you..... like the usual passive-aggressive and fake-smiling creeps they unfortunately often are! They UN often (and unfortunately) then just become another group of self-serving/vested-interest halfwits who self-conveniently group folks into convenient (to themselves) categories like dehumanised chess pieces on a board (or pins on a war-map)...like the grouping of all Chinese folks under the the racial/ethnic grouping of creepy and authoritarian PRC styled 'Chinese' despite the clearly obvious political differences and inconvenient realities....just ask the Taiwanese who the UN far too easily negate.....and where the W.H.O designated the PRC as Taiwan's covid 'helper' despite knowing that the PRC would do F all. The UN is now in a carbon war against carbon based life-forms, the reduction of those evil and farting (but meat and milk useful) cows SHOULD have told everyone EVERYTHING they needed to know (then there's the rest)....but folks ARE unfortunately easily-led, especially when deliberately scared and then easily and apathetically manipulated. They're also the type of folks who now openly declare that they 'own' science with ZERO self-awareness (or shame).
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  2711. ​ @christopherrobinson7541  There has been a LOT of excess deaths in all the statistics (and associated ACTUAL humans) despite which figures you choose to use as a basis.  ....and presumptions already made with other assumptions/questions already quickly (and often strangely/self-conveniently) dismissed (like the many medical professionals whose concerns and careers/experience/expertise has also and likewise been quickly negated and dismissed),  While science, like in many other areas and disciplines nowadays (with the previous ability and admirable strength to discuss/consider-further), have unfortunately been transformed into yet more binary-devolved (and really manipulative) 'divide (and conquer)' narratives (and unfortunate cult-like) single-think with NO further discussion via the critical-thinking which ONCE made us. ......where many folks, who you'd expect to be interested in further consideration (more than binary side-taking) are strangely not even willing to further discuss/consider while instead choosing self-serving (numbers rather than human-cost) umm 'pragmatism' (I'm being polite) and non-discussion instead. I have two close friends who have had children under 20 die as a direct result of the vaccinations (with insulting payouts), alongside having at least 4 friends who have 'died suddenly' from new and sudden heart related issues, with quite a few others now also having new and ongoing heart and immune related issues. .......where their friends and loved ones don't consider that they've had adequate answers to from the health community. (another friend was just recently told that he was having panic attacks before then having a full cardiac arrest....and thankfully an ambulance arrive on time).  At the same time I haven't known a single person who died of covid (my 98 yr old grandma tested positive for it twice and survived before recently passing naturally at 101). ....again, another potential 'correlation does not = causation' issue but one that should at least be open to further-questioning as much as (potentially self-serving) dismissal......especially when 2 'vaccinations' HAVE already been pulled.
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  2720. Communism is ultimately (and sadly) just a self-serving Cult of Supposed 'Good Intentions' deliberately NOT further considered.....sold to the well-intentioned but easily-led/manipulated via the tried and trusted "just tell em' something pretty" method ......by shamelessly self-serving grifters and hypocrites who lack a conscience but definitely NOT an ego while far too easily and self-conveniently convincing themselves ......of themselves.  They don't like or understand/appreciate established (and inconvenient to them) morality and think that virtue is something you can simply SAY instead of actually BE while over-hoping that hollow words will compensate, balance and suffice for their own nasty and self-serving selves. They then HAVE to create their own self-serving reality and negate any critical-thinking based opposition to their own fragile egos and selves ......to simply avoid any potential (and inconvenient) self-realisation of their own shamelessly self-justified and self-serving nastiness. They also need an army of useful-idiots to help their new-reality ambitions....and the best way to do so is to 'encourage' the masses into a self-sense of victimhood. When the useful-idiots are led by emotion (especially anger) at the expense of their better/more-considered critical-thinking then they too will self-justify ANY self-serving thing to themselves......and ironically FOR their original manipulators, just as their also self-serving manipulators always unfortunately intended.
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  2759.  @fernandoz2023  1. I'd start with your deliberate negations of simple (even if complex) history which HAS shaped the current situation..... while also self-conveniently beholden to selective (and parts of) individual treaties instead of perhaps using more considered critical thinking and considering the WHOLE and bigger situation......the deliberately contradictory nature of The San Francisco and Tapei treaties (and their effects).is a good example of those created greys.... and then choosing to see only one self-serving side despite the rest or the (deliberate) grey. 2. if we're talking about Taiwan's political status why do you negate the affect the unfinished civil war has clearly had on the situation, it should all be considered AND most importantly the Taiwanese people themselves if we actually care about their self determination. The current situation in Taiwan is a text book example of grey diplomacy despite the varied big ego's at play. 3. If there's no deal and no treaty then Taiwan shouldn't be beholden to anyone but themselves....but they have a constitution, (a history whether we want to deny/negate it or not) AND an over-bearing, bully neighbour with a fragile ego who instead thinks they own Taiwan while not really understanding how the deliberate grey of the same diplomacy (and treaties) works while instead also only focussed on the self-serving, self-conveniences instead but like an inconsiderate (and then dehumanised) robot unfortunately. The contradictory nature of the treaties and grey diplomacy surrounding/regarding Taiwan has thankfully and at least allowed Taiwan itself to prosper from and despite them .....even if upsetting the fragile ego's of others who continually threaten to invade Taiwan while also hoping to over-control it.
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  2777. They're not JUST 'teaching' (and now sadly preaching) their ideological/religious/cult-like self-flagellation 'inspired' guilt, they're also unfortunately ENCOURAGING the kids to be over-led by self-serving (and deliberately less-thinking) EMOTION at the expense of their better/wider/more-considered critical-thinking abilities and more aspirational potential (while also negating objective-morality in the process) as they also ENCOURAGE them into nasty tribal regression and divisiveness (with some self-serving, self-identified victimhood) AS their sad, creepy and devolved NEW non-merit and non-aspirational based life-meaning substitute. ......where the easily-led/manipulated (and sucessfully-devolved) can then self-justify pretty much ANY self-serving THING to their own narcissistically-manipulated selves while they parrot/signal supposed 'virtue' to help over-compensate for their increasingly clueless and nasty, self-serving selves ......AND ironically FOR their original manipulators while they then unfortunately serve them AS easily-led (and self-serving) useful-idiots.....as their original manipulators always unfortunately intended. They're also encouraging ideological (deliberate single/less-think) 'compliancy' via the equally narcissistic over-pursuit of 'upvote' based conformity and (carrot on a stick) reward-seeking, where the manipulated then over-look towards others (and the new ideology/cult) for outside affirmation, especially when individuality, individual-thinking (and more individual-aspiring merit) then (self-fulfillingly) becomes more difficult and harder ......and now also self-conveniently 'evil'......like the meaning of 'Critical thinking' now being subverted to instead be perceived as 'mean' (like racism) for simply containing the word 'critical'..... when it WAS once just a 'critical' part of our thinking ability ......to help us aspire to be better and ultimately MORE than our base, beastly and simple calculator/machine-like selves.
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  2825. Everyone is currently being easily-led to be emotionally distract-focussed on the obvious nastiness of all the micro events and AWAY from further/better-considering the BIGGER macro/ultimate/long-term goal while deliberately divided, devolved and then conquered. Where the bigger/longer-term goal is ALL sadly becoming self-conveniently, self-fulfilling (like a puzzle assembling and gradually showing itself) everyday and as always intended. Which will ultimately RESULT in a supposed 'Multi-Polar' (but NOT Very Brave) New World Disorder of multiple self-interested entities forever power-leveraging in ANY necessary/dodgy way (just like in the old days of multiple warring empires) while all dubiously claiming to be 'in it together' with zero sincerity behind all the big smiles and glazed eyes. The resulting Multi-Polar New World Disorder will HAVE to be 'managed' by a third-party, non-elected and sovereign negating (while ultimately self-serving) GLOBAL 'entity' like the now governing-'ambitious' but subverted UN, which no longer understands its own simple diplomatic original-purpose and reason to exist in the first place. Especially now that all the 'poles' of the 'multi' are overly-reliant/beholden to those already well established global supply-chains.....where simple free-market 'supply and demand' can then be subverted, controlled and gimped for vaguely-defined (and easily-re-defined) supposed (but emotionally manipulative) 'virtue'......like 'sustainability'......of control and corporate profits (at the expense of all else).
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  2911. The strange art of selling ideological authoritarianism Probably not really that strange how objectivity in the west has now become like CPC Chinese objectivity...... where it IS now what they say it is.....like that time when Zhou Enai of the communist party convinced orthodox jewish US reporter/ambassador Teddy White at a banquet/dinner that in China a pig could be a duck if it needed to be and that it was therefore ok to eat…..which he did….for the sake of politeness and good intentions (which is where the communists would have also realised that they might have had a pig of their own over a barrel!) Cultural Revolutions (and wishful but authoritarian great-reset corprorate-serfdom-initiatives) hope to first divide you and then rewrite your reality to more easily sell by successfully convincing you that 2 + 2 = 5.....now via outrage and shame while also and supposedly pursuing and over prioritising those 'good intentions' instead (and now with the bonus of an ideological enviro-scare/indoctrination too!) It all just sadly empowers angry self-identifying victim-types who then easily become uber-bullies via the self-justification of their own angry and disgruntled selves...... like a brown shirted or Red shirted bully from the past! We really don't learn when the entire planet replaces its humans every 100 years and the replaced ones don't read books or properly value individual critical thinking more than their group-thinking desires instead while so hoping to be liked by others....probably via an upvote on their narcissistic social media! Individuals also don't generally need ideological flags to rally under like an ideologue...... where the ideologues then just simply and unfortunately self-justify the burning of everything not themselves! What is a man?..... what is a woman? .....and are you allowed to decide for yourself based on the principles of objectivity which so made us and all the what we are....or were?
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  2960. I'm so glad I didn't take it for the subsequent (and shamelessly self-serving) LACK of accountability and gaslighting alone.....and the reason I refused the poke ironically wasn't even health related. Before the 'health emergency' we were clearly being deliberately (and shamelessly) divided by 'race, sex, gender'. .....when the 'health emergency'/leak/spread 'accidentally' happened we were then divided further into supposed 'essential business' and 'non-essential (disposable) business' categories. ....during lockdown we were divided again by 'wages covered' and 'wages not covered' categories. When the poke speedily/readily became available we were then shamelessly manipulate-divided EVEN further into 'compliant' and 'deliberately (and unnecessarily) marginalised' categories, alongside the lockdown goalposts being re-defined AGAIN (first 'flattening the curve' then 'convid zero') with a THREAT to NOT re-open until a percentage took it. .....which was the point where I'd simply had enough, especially after being on the A-end of ALL the other above-mentioned phases of the deliberate division and destruction initiative. I now feel like I was (and still am) on the lower decks of the Titanic where the mere mention of an iceberg fear-manipulated so many folks into nasty supposed 'greater good' self-justifications to then be complete bell-ends to their fellow humans.....where the folks responsible now refuse to investigate and simply tell the survivors that their frostbite (and missing digits) is all in their own heads.
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  2965. The clue is in the name 'CRITICAL drinker' ......AND in what criticism IS (and is SUPPOSED to be) in general. Then you have all the slimy tentacles of our deliberate ideological lessening to further consider.....which are just an extended part of the REALLY obvious and current Cultural Revolution/Devolution increasingly being inflicted upon us. .....to 'help' lessen us into its creepy (and cult-like) compliancy-instead 'aspiring' end-goals of MORE deliberate LESS think as a merit alternative .....while self-serving, apathetic or just easily-led/manipulated. Which is all unfortunately more akin to a really BAD and shameless Leni Riefenstahl 'initiative' from our sad past. Where far too many folks have already been easily manipulated by brand-recognition worship, the cult of over-prioritised politeness and the cult of supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately NOT further considered) while sadly over-seeking their conformity-prioritised supposed 'virtue' .....and a quantity-over-quality 'like' from a stranger (or algorithm/bot) unfortunately. ......to now conformity-equate ANYTHING with the word 'critical' (even critical-thinking unfortunately) as somehow being 'mean' .....like that evil racism and bigotry now so easily distracting so many folks (as it over self-serves the narcissistic and/or self-loathing) AWAY from understanding or appreciating that CRITICAL THINKING is 'critical' for us to simply be, and aspire to be, better/more-considered and thinking/aspiring humans than instead just being apathetic and easily-led sheep .....or dehumanised cogs in a machine.
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  3067. This woman is an idiot but Jimmy, like many others, has unfortunately been over-led/manipulated to hate himself and his own dodgy system (understandably so in many cases) via those (lighter than the fully ideo-devolved) left-leaning and ideological-based 'good intentions'......at the expense of not equally criticising the other dodgy ideological player (and partner) while far too easily led/manipulated to pick a dodgy/halfwit binary-side....... as manipulatively intended (where BOTH 'sides' are sadly against us while also ironically in partnership against us too when self-convenient) where he then unfortunately loses better/more considered objectivity (and some further critical thinking too) in the process (like taking the jab of a needle, despite the manipulation at play while also over-led by fear and emotion). Probably worth focussing on ALL forms of control and manipulation instead......and looking further into what is simply and unfortunately a PRC version of the umm 'polite' (but creepy) soft-power 'initiative' of IMF based debt-servitude/control/modern-colonialism....... as much as understandably hating hard-war. He should probably also look a little deeper into the history of Taiwan too and the history of what the PRC actually IS and how it actually works/manipulates (and sadly dehumanises) while so obsessed with creating its own self-serving reality...... which can strangely never be questioned at home (and increasingly abroad strangely enough now too). Yanis is also often his own worst overly-left-led enemy while confusing 'non-interventionist' or 'humanist' via his supposed ideo-led 'good intentions' (but inability to look deeper into manipulation past his own political leanings).....which is why.he's both loved and loathed for good reason by folks on ALL sides of the ideo-divide and devolvement.
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  3191. ​ @idealstoic  You're perhaps misunderstanding the point and re-framing my basic consideration to simply look beyond racial/tribal grouping. I think it can be a number of different things and different under different circumstances.  Ethnicity isn't something you choose and different political beliefs in a country/region which only tolerates one IS an issue to perhaps consider (like history, especially after a Cultural Revolution which hopes to re-write it alongside reality for other and self-serving purposes).  My comment was a response to what I see far too commonly, China, the PRC, and Chinese ethnicity being conflated by folks without them realising what they're doing (out of the ease of not really thinking a bit wider) or deliberately for a number of other sketchy reasons. You'd probably be better off grouping folks under philosophical or religious thinking categories such as Buddhism or Confucius values but even that becomes dubious when politicised/manipulated and often just used to further average individuals.  I wouldn't like folks automatically assuming that I'm a monarchist simply because I'm white and live in a commonwealth country so I'm less likely to group other folks out of self-convenience either. Taiwan has a healthy democracy with many different ideas, views and thinking at play and in constant conversation/debate, which is completely different than the CPC controlled mainland where those different ideas/views aren't even tolerated despite them potentially existing too but unable to be expressed of further discussed/considered.
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  3229. The manipulative (and then easily-manipulated) attempt to prioritise politeness over objectivity will be the end of us....or the beginning of a sad 'new' reality after the existing one is successfully deconstructed and destroyed like a creepy Cultural Revolution (and then devolution to less)  ......ironically via 'old' school (tried and trusted) tools of manipulation like being encouraged and then (easily)led by emotion over our important critical-thinking, the same critical-thinking which once made us better (and to try more too while hoping to seek/find genuine merit) AND is something that can easily cut through any creepy, ideological-based, non-think like a hot knife through butter (which is probably why it is now so feared and actively discouraged). Then you have all the other self-retarding methods at play too, like the over-encouragement of 'nothing matters/is real' nihilism-apathy and narcissism via (anti)social-media, which sadly drives folks to now search for their self-meaning through the approval of others (and the mob-think majority) like a sad, non-thinking upvote calculator or dehumanised and calculating weighing-machine. (Anubis at least had scales) Wise folks were once admired for their considered thinking, many lesser folks now just think that they can simply pretend to be umm 'considerate' as a more direct method to then hopefully also be seen as wise but missing the point while so led astray instead by that much easier 'approval from others' (happy-ending jerk-off) and supposed politeness which pretends that it is considerate while confused. I'm not surprised that Jeremy responded like this, he's one of the wishiest-washiset folks on the net while so hoping to be liked and seen as umm 'considerate' while indecisive (and ironically prone to self-victim-bitching/whining offence almost as much as the folks he often bitches about),.....and Tim Pool has his fence to protect (or fence pole to keep warm)....the Trig blokes are unfortunate as Konstantin does understand much of the above mentioned nastiness......but they too seek their income through the the same and guaranteed, self-retarding algorithm and less-thinking platform.
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  3448. Deliberately re-defining the simple idea of sovereignty and cultural-uniqueness (and what it actually IS and means) to now being somehow 'bigoted' (and therefore clearly evil) is just yet ANOTHER 'cultural revolution' inspired subversion example from the completely self-serving (while it self-conveniently lacks ANY self-awareness) globalist cult of hypocritical-inconsistency being even MORE shamelessly manipulative than usual. ......as it hopes (badly) to further gaslight the easily-led and the apathetic (or just as self-serving) types into its creepy, de-individualised, dehumanised (and critical-thinking devolved) 'reality' and deliberate single/less-think mental(ity) of over-prioritised conformist-seeking ......for a sad post (as in AFTER) human hive-mind existence and 'ambitious' (but NOT Very Brave) New World Disorder  .....of LESS in every possible way .....with MORE creepy control and compliancy TO and FOR them. .....where we'll all be expected to simply exist (or pragmatically be spreadsheet-negated) like serfs or cattle in their nihilistic and aspiration-lacking, monopolised corporatocracy  ......while the nasty authoritarianism is ironically sold to the gullible and easily-manipulated with collectivist/socialist utopian 'characteristics' via the already 'tried and trusted' Cult of Supposed 'Good Intentions' (deliberately NOT further considered) method ......where some further 'encouraged', but also narcissistically self-serving, supposed 'virtue' (with a side-serving of self-identified victimhood) REALLY helps seal the deal .....for the same easily-manipulated (or just self-serving) useful-idiots to then self-justify pretty much ANY nasty and self-serving thing (to themselves mostly) while far too easily group-divided, devolved and then sadly conquered......as their manipulators always unfortunately intended.
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  3660. The Japanese handover acknowledged that Taiwanese citizens were ROC citizens. This happened before the current state of the civil war (and eventual split with the PRC in control of the mainland and the ROC Taiwan). The Chinese civil war never ended, which is why in ACTUAL reality there are two entities (the older ROC in Taiwan and the PRC on the mainland) DESPITE the UN hoping to geographically/ethnically group both (regardless of their HUGE political/ideological differences) into one self-convenient (and self-serving) entity. The UN (a tool of diplomacy rather than a now hopeful world government) chose to give the earned (WW2 ally) ROC representative seat to the PRC. Both the ROC and PRC threatened to leave the UN if the other were given a seat. The ROC left the UN (or were kicked out according to the UN) the day this happened.  Taiwan (ROC) doesn't really care what the UN thinks when it doesn't even allow them representation/acknowledgement despite the REALITY and ACTUALITY of their existence.....which is understandable in the same way that the US, Australia or any other country would likely feel the same way. The US One China Policy is an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the One China Principle.....a (grey) diplomatic agreement (which has kept the unfinished civil-war peace) between the PRC and ROC to ONE DAY re-unite......but where BOTH (understandably) have very different ideas of what this would eventually entail. If Taiwan OFFICIALLY becomes a sovereign declared state (which it already actually is in reality) it breaks this agreement......If the PRC invades the ROC it also breaks this agreement (which it clearly and self-conveniently doesn't understand while so self-serving)......which is why the US fleet sails down the strait whenever the invasion threats are (constantly) made ......to bully-remind the hopeful-bullies. Taiwan (ROC) and the PRC both exist in ACTUAL reality and should BOTH be represented by the UN (despite its own foreign self-serving interests)......until that time it is probably best to continue the current and diplomatic grey which HAS kept the peace but is now MOST threatened by the overbearing communist/authoritarian PRC whenever it threatens to (or actually DOES) invade......which would then trigger a terrible/catastrophic war in Asia while dragging the rest of the world into it too.
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  3737. Sad to think he's supposedly the protege of Carl Sagan....... "Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." "We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements- transportation, communication, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting- profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things, so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. For much of our history, we were so fearful of the outside world, with it’s unpredictable dangers, that we gladly embraced anything that promised to soften or explain away the terror. Science is an attempt, largely successful to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get a hold of ourselves. To steer a safe course. Microbiology, and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. Avoidable human misery is more often caused by not so much by stupidity, but by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves. I worry that…pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." Carl Sagan
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  3775. ​ @ronburgandy1475   Did he talk about independence (which they already have) and by force did he mean so as opposition to the threats of invasion based umm 're-unification'? The deliberately grey 'agree to disagree' diplomacy of the One China Principle (which has thankfully kept the peace) and allows each to be their independent selves until better minds prevail is the way to continue in my opinion.....but is threatened when either side fails in the mutual-respect (and then self-serving war) department. They should both stop pushing one another to take the first shot .....and then guarantee the nasty and self-fulfilling rest. "Did Hong Kong really lose much reverting back to Chinese owned?" .....You'd have to ask them, most of the HK'ers I know have left or are planning to, as the absorption (and commoditised lessening) continues....the remaining ones I have to be careful emailing now while not wanting to cause them any simple online 'discussion' issues. Which you and I can thankfully still do here despite the YT algorithm increasingly lessening the prospects (almost like it 'leant' from someone with an over-control fetish and fear of simply being challenged). The west increasingly and deliberately devolving itself just makes (and normalises) the worse seeming to be far less worse unfortunately (and as intended).  They'll soon be asking the kids to fight communist authoritarianism while ironically supporting corpro-globalist authoritarianism (as intended) where we ALL lose and end up LESS.....for the planet apparently!
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  3925. The "One China Principle" is an agreement between the two STILL existing governments/sides of the UN-ENDED/UN-FINISHED civil war (the PRC and ROC), where BOTH agree that it is in BOTH of their best interests (ie no war) to one day re-unite.  The 'principle' (and its deliberate diplomatic-vagueness/greyness) HAS KEPT the peace since. .......which is threatened whenever the self-conveniently clueless (while shamelessly self-serving) CPC threaten to invade 'unite' Taiwan/ROC while interpreting the Principle in their own self-serving way (which isn't remotely surprising when they're an authoritarian communist cult). Taiwan/ROC officially declaring itself independent (even though it IS in self-governing actuality) also threatens to break the agreed-upon Principle (especially while it is still part of their constitution).  Taiwan doesn't threaten to invade 're-unite' the mainland either anymore, after once having its own 'ambitions' (and self-serving 'interpretation'). The US 'One China Policy' is a simple US diplomatic acknowledgement of the One China Principle agreement, which is why the US fleet sail between the strait whenever the PRC threaten to invade 'unite' Taiwan/ROC, to remind the PRC of their own agreed-upon Principle (while bully-reminding the bullies that their are bigger potential bullies/consequences). The supposed-diplomacy PURPOSE of the UN (while also self-interested/serving....or just easily bought) is thankfully NOT (yet) a world government despite its authority(arian) ambitions .....and doesn't even acknowledge the inconvenient REALITY (or allow representation) of Taiwan/ROC despite the inconvenient ACTUALITY. The 'China' you speak of in the constitution is a potential future (and united) China......which you're confusing with the CURRENT CPC ruled PRC China, who CLAIM (while shamelessly self serving) to be the self-proclaimed authority of ALL things Chinese and the only 'China'.....despite the REALITY of the self-governing (and previous government) Taiwan/ROC ALSO still existing. You SHOULD know all this being Taiwanese.
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  3972. Don't have faith kids (especially the old 'god fearing' type of 'faith' which might help you aspire to try harder/better/more as a human being)......Have 'faith' instead in the new and deliberately manipulative (and ideologically devolving) cult of nihilism now being creepily (and easily) over-sold to the easily-led (or narcissistically self-serving/grifting) under the guise of supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately and ironically NOT further/better considered).  When are they gonna amp up (even further) the 'encouragement' of subjective (flexible/self-serving) morality/reality to replace objective morality? (they've already unfortunately devolved reality into subjectivity)......so that the same grifters, easily-led or narcissistically over-'encouraged' can then more easily self-justify pretty much ANYTHING to their own nasty and self-serving selves .....and also ironically FOR their original manipulators, just as the creepy manipulators always unfortunately intended of the 'far too easily' led.  The same types so easily led by self-serving emotion, to then serve as simpleton, useful-idiots (while told, or telling themselves, something pretty but deliberately less considered) will soon be nastily-ending anyone (like they already happily cancel/unperson anyone with a differing or challenging opinion) who simply has more than them.....where they'll then just tell themselves it's all OK because the ended-folks were clearly evil 'capitalists' .....and likely bigots too (of the self-serving/self-convenient kind).....while they cluelessly then devolve THEMSELVES even further humanity and critical-thinking wise as the deliberate Cultural Devolution sadly carries on .....with a big fake/insincere/vacant smile, some more passive-aggressive bad-gaslighting attempts and a WHOLE LOT of self-serving denial!
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  4086. ​ @shatzofhudson  When it's too hard to further consider the original post/opinion (or context) distract instead (and maybe passive progressive/aggressively name call! too) 'mythological ideal of meritocracy' ....yeah it's such a MYTH (despite the reality of how so many of the genuinely good things in this world have come about). 'enshrine meritocracy'? .....maybe have a further think about what the opposite of that hyperbolic (and telling) binary actually implies (and then self conveniently concludes in)? It's strangely NOT a case of one or the other as much as the deliberate (and self-serving) ideological based manipulation and less-think would have you believe. Those good ol' 'structural and historical factors' (and deliberately self-serving half facts/stories) ARE something to consider ......but perhaps less so while so emotionally and ideologically led, manipulated (and then unfortunately devolved). .....especially when deliberately not further considered past the self-serving and self-convenient parts. The REAL and bigger issue is (and always has been) the sketchy and unfair leveraging of power, but we don't like to talk about that (and distract via the emotive instead) because the new cult would like to reserve the opportunity (and hypocrisy) to sketchily leverage-power against others themselves while telling themselves something overcompensating, pretty (and self serving) instead. No system is perfect and should always be open to questioning but the ideas are often something to aspire towards.... WHILE led by further considered critical thinking (inclusive of the self and the self-serving) rather than by easily-manipulated emotion (and deliberate self-serving, less think). The supposed 'equity' narrative (and ideological grift) and the deliberate self-loathing (while ironically) narcissistically over-encouraged (to then self-justify the self) manipulation narrative will unfortunately just manipulate and further devolve us all into ideo-devolved serfs to the original manipulators via the 'cult of good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered......as the manipulators sadly intended!  .....via those deliberately easily-led and manipulated by emotion (and self-loathing/self-victimhood) to then sadly self-justify pretty much anything including themselves AND ironically their original manipulators (to themselves mostly) while self-fulfilling their useful-idiot role and unfortunately negating individual self-determination for a return to conformist tribal mentality which we once aspired to rise above. This has all happened before.....and will unfortunately happen again, especially when emotional based manipulation (and ideo-based/devolved less think) trumps further/wider considered critical thinking.
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  4259. Tim is an insincere, self-serving, blow-with-the-wind, progressive/regressive (virtue-signalling) stooge who works for the interests of his global shareholders at the expense of all else (including his country) but will happily and shamelessly pull out his 'American company being bullied' card whenever the chickens come home to roost and he's desperate.  He's in his CEO position because he was the 'supply chain optimiser' (send it all to PRC China) even after told not be so reliant on a communist/authoritarian cult (who ultimately aim to steal from, subvert and then control the free-market it was invited to but doesn't even believe in). The last time he was pictured with Trump he looked like Beaker from the Muppets with an upside down smile (instead of his usual Apple launch fake/valium one) after Trump had justifiably imposed tariffs on the PRC once it became OFFICIAL CPC policy and a REQUIREMENT for foreign companies to now outright hand-over all of their IP to the PRC, where Trump had simply given him some hard truth about the repercussions of Tim's own choices in outsourcing so much there. Tim is now just shamelessly hoping for some Trump help while desperate now that his corporate interests are being power-leveraged over by the EU version of the same progressive/regressive corpro-communist globalist cult (whose lack of self-awareness, principles, values and hypocrisy) he ironically sides with at home. Tim can't decide whether he's all in for the globalist progressive/regressive corpro-communist cult and its 'sustainability' (of profits and control) or if he still wants those bigger capitalist profits from a genuine and healthy free-market which Apple have previously done so well with/via.
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  4507. China have easily bought off most smaller and supposedly developing countries in terms of thinking it owns Taiwan, (like how they buy off US corporations, politicians, film studios and actors like John Cena) with carrot-on-stick 'development' money competition to the dodgy imperialist/colonising IMF system....or threats of non-money. What the China-siding countries (and all of us beholden to cheap stuff from authoritarians) will ultimately get in the long run is probably the bigger thing to consider like with those controlling IMF 'loans'. Jimmy should look into both how China runs (a even bigger passive-aggressive and self-serving communist bully system than the scummy US war-bully corpro-serving system) AND also look into the actual History of Taiwan..... and not necessarily the one decided by the hopeful power-leveraging UN (who would like to conveniently box all Chinese folks into one convenient box) otherwise he'll just tard himself by being more critical of his own country's scummy 'power leveraging' and its dodgy system than the dodgy China-purchasing and 'leveraging of power' one too......all due to a 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' like distraction via those cluelessly nasty folks like Nancy and the war monger co (who all deserve the same scorn too!) I think you have to hate ALL power leveragers equally Jimmy as much as hating war......and ask which supposed lesser evil you'd like to live (and individual free-think) under which might end up being the one who does at least let you run a Youtube show despite doing their best to dismiss you. I hate warmongers too, but the biggest supposed evil in this world is actually the control of others while power-leveraging and the apathy of far too easily accepting it while unfortunately being easily (and deliberately) distracted.
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  4564. ​ @nikkijack911  So just be happy with the gigs and merch then.....and simply forget about the other folks making money while shamelessly co-opting and grifting off giving the original creation away for free? Have you ever made money or an income from something you've created?  Not everyone is a wage monkey with a guaranteed income working FOR a corporation for their livelihood .....and should have the option to be or not be. Intellectual property is important for a reason.....it creates the incentive to create more, which giving it away for free negates, even if everyone does over-want their free stuff (despite the long term end results). They get paid (really small) royalties for each time their songs are played on the air-waves....as they should when the radio station is making advertising revenue giving away other people's creation.  I used to work at a record label and we often had a room full of folks listening to all the stations and checking that the royalties matched the number of actual plays declared.....it was a big and crazy/absurd task, but one which HAD to be done unless you just assumed that everyone was honest (or valued intellectual property). Not being allowed to take and publish a photo of the Eiffel tower at night-time because the lights are supposedly a 'show' is a far better example of supposed intellectual property to criticise than criticising creators simply wanting a piece of the pie being shamelessly given away under dubious reasoning while itself making an income.
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  4794. They ARE now slowly doing this, ironically AFTER having previously been warned/told by Trump, the reality of which just hurt Tim's fragile ego and self-serving feelings. Tim is unfortunately and ultimately an insincere, self-serving, blow-with-the-wind, progressive/regressive (virtue-signalling) stooge though who works for the interests of his global shareholders at the expense of all else (including his country) but will happily and shamelessly pull out his 'American company being bullied' card whenever the chickens come home to roost and he's desperate. He's in his CEO position because he was the 'supply chain optimiser' (send it all to PRC China) even after told not be so reliant on a communist/authoritarian cult (who ultimately aim to steal from, subvert and then control the free-market it was invited to but doesn't even believe in). The last time he was pictured with Trump he looked like Beaker from the Muppets with an upside down smile (instead of his usual Apple launch fake/valium one) after Trump had justifiably imposed tariffs on the PRC once it became OFFICIAL CPC policy and a REQUIREMENT for foreign companies to now outright hand-over all of their IP to the PRC, where Trump had simply given him some hard truths about the repercussions of Tim's own choices in outsourcing so much there. Tim is now just shamelessly hoping for some Trump help while desperate now that his corporate interests are being power-leveraged over again....but this time by the EU version of the same progressive/regressive corpro-communist globalist cult (whose lack of self-awareness, principles, values and hypocrisy) he ironically sides with at home. Tim can't decide whether he's all in for the globalist progressive/regressive corpro-communist cult and its 'sustainability' (of profits and control) or if he still wants those bigger capitalist profits from a genuine and healthy free-market which Apple have previously done so well with/via.
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  4798. There's a big difference between;  1) Moral Absolutism......which quickly devolves into deliberately LESS-thinking RULES (and a tool of control) unfortunately. Think of old-style 'with us or against us' religion or current day islam as a 'modern' example, where a woman can be stoned for adultery.....even though the adultery came about due to rape, where the stoning then becomes self justified when adultery is seen as a greater sin than rape. 2) Objective Morality/Reality ......which we do (or did once) live in and which allows for further consideration ie murder is wrong and murder in self-defence is also wrong but is also further considered in context and in judgement. 3) Moral Relativism ......which is now being overly-'encouraged' (strangely at the same time as self-identified victimhood and narcissism), which quickly just becomes a form of 'flexible' and shamelessly self-serving morality/reality, while also a 'tried and trusted' (just ask to old Germans, Soviets or current day CPC/PRC) tool to 'divide, devolve and conquer a society from within after easily-led to debase ITSELF......If you can 'confuse' folks about something as objectively true as say the difference between a man/woman (under the guise of 'supposed good intentions' deliberately NOT further considered).....you can then likely convince them of (and to self-justify) ANYTHING to both themselves and sadly FOR their manipulators (just as the manipulators always unfortunately intended). 1) and 3) are REALLY dubious (and are great manipulation/self-manipulation tools), whereas 2) encourages our better/further-considered (and humanist aspiring) critical-thinking minds (the best part of us).
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  4982. Gad, why even get involved in a 'pissing in the wind' argument/distraction regarding 'academia' self-righteousness when it has clearly been shooting itself in the face (while deliberately self-devolving itself) for a while now..... as it also now exists even more so in it's own institutionalised/ideological, sheltered-workshop and bubble while so increasingly (and sadly) removed from the REAL world unfortunately? I too am a university lecturer (with less credentials but perhaps more working/industry-world experience) and now sadly have FAR less respect for the current world of supposed academia (and other institutionalised umm 'institutions') and have felt so for a while now based on my own observational experiences while simply attempting to teach ideation and creativity (thinking different).  Is this REALLY any surprise and is it even worth comparing (and being distracted by) dick sizes especially when one side cannot even acknowledge basic biology and objective reality? My particular creative 'expertise' is one of manipulation and if you can confuse a supposed thinking mind that simple biological reality (man/woman) doesn't exist then you can convince-manipulate the same folks of pretty much anything, which has been the creepy plan from the very beginning where zero/subjective morality is simply the next step to then help self-justify ANYTHING unfortunately. Orthodox Jew Teddy White once visited current China back in the early days as a correspondent/diplomat. When he arrived at the pre-prepared banquet he regrettably informed his communist Party host Zhou Enlai that as an Orthodox Jew he could not eat the awaiting suckling pig.....Zhou apparently comforted Teddy by declaring that in China a pig could also be a duck if it needed to be.......where the two then sat down and enjoyed their duck together!
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  4993. ​ @BrettMoore66  You're confusing/conflating the word 'China' with the reality that there are TWO parts to China due to the unresolved civil war there.....the ROC and the PRC, (one a communist-authoritarian state and one a healthy democracy).....Where the newer PRC has NEVER run or controlled Taiwan (ROC) (The PRC was once the ROC which the ROC could also make claims to if they were overbearing dicks). I get that it is easy to compartmentalise all ethnically Chinese folks into one self-convenient (and deliberately less considered) group despite the reality of the democracy vs communism situation and actual reality......and I get that hating the evil west (and those Rothschilds!) has become the sad 'new normal' way to self flagellate (while easily manipulated), but you ARE allowed to look a little deeper and more critically at BOTH sides too. The One China Principle is a diplomatic agreement between the divided ROC and PRC where both sides agree that they should one day re-unite......but where both sides have a very differing opinion on what that might entail. The diplomatic 'agree to disagree' greyness of the One Chine Principle is what has kept the peace there since the civil war but is compromised whenever one side threatens to invade or 'take' the other while self conveniently confused and authoritarian clueless to its own agreement......where the 'evil' west then has to sail its fleet between the two to remind the over-bearing one threatening the other that they're going against their own agreement.
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  4994. ​ @BrettMoore66 It's nothing like Tasmania/Australia (despite Taiwan/ROC being around the same size). Why use (and distract) with flawed analogies when you can simply talk about the real/actual place in question and the inconvenient realities you conveniently choose not to see while hoping to badly equate, conflate (and distract)? Your overly simple definition of China also self conveniently ignores the actual history and reality that China is two entities (since the un-ended civil war), the PRC and the ROC, where the ROC existed before the PRC and has far more claim on Taiwan than the PRC (who have NEVER run or administered it).  Dynastic China is NOT the PRC (or ROC) in the same way the PRC is not the ROC. I know it's easy to group all Chinese in the region under one self-serving/convenient ethnic-grouping but it completely ignores the actual reality (like the easily-bought and self-serving UN who also don't acknowledge Taiwan/ROC or the actual reality of the situation while they also choose not to understand WHAT the One China Principle actually is). "Taiwan cannot be a western military power 112km off the coast of mainland china"......according to the PRC! It isn't a western military power, it is its own independently governed country......and has its own dubious relationship with the west where support is often sadly just self-serving to the self-interested west who are obsessed (and torn) by/between access to all that cheap authoritarian tat in the mainland! Whenever the PRC threaten to invade Taiwan, AGAINST their own One China Principle agreement with the ROC (whose deliberate diplomatic greyness has kept the peace there for a while now) the US fleet sails through the strait .....to remind the PRC of their own self-serving cluelessness as only two egotistical bullies can unfortunately. "China is a Communism, Socialism, Capitalism hybrid government" ....that sounds more like Mussolini's accurate description of fascism. "Why is communism bad?" ......Are you kidding, have you not looked at the results (and human cost) of its already (and current) well 'tested' implementations? .....and true-scotsman excuses like "but that wasn't REAL communism" Communism (or capitalism) as an 'idea' is simply an idea (ideas are neither right or wrong/good or bad, but simply something to further consider) Communism as an IDEOLOGY unfortunately always takes/subverts those ideas to then quickly devolve into a cult of supposed 'good intentions' (deliberately) NOT further considered.......while also ultimately just ending up an easy way for authoritarian/totalitarian-hopefuls to sell something pretty (and also not further considered) to the easily-led masses, which unfortunately results in self-serving and self-justifying dehumanised-nastiness, where even a differing opinion cannot be tolerated by its fragile and ideologically-devolved single-think ego. Which alone is a threat to the critical-thinking that has thankfully made us MORE (and aspire to be more) than a simple, less-thinking beast, machine or cog in a wheel (while the threat attempts to dehumanise us into nihilism). A communist regime ironically wouldn't even allow us to have this very conversation (at leat not me anyway, you'd probably get your 50c and some potential social credit though!) It strangely DOESN'T have to be Communism vs Capitalism (as much as you'd like a lame binary/take-a-side fight) or cluelessly just abandoning one for the other like a baby and bathwater. Both are ideas whose ACTUAL implementations are far more worrisome. Free Market Capitalism primary works best when the value of merit/IP is actually valued and monopolising is prevented, but the west is currently in the process of deliberately devolving itself (after ironically inviting their PRC opposite into the free market) where the west increasingly no longer values those principles itself as it increasingly and sadly adopts the "gotta be like the creepy PRC to ironically fight the creepy PRC" narrative as Kissinger and his creepy globalist empowering friends always sadly intended. .....where we'll all sadly end up with a choice between the State/Corporatist 'communism' of the PRC or the Corporate/State based fascism of the US.....where they'll then expect the easily-distracted to fight for one.....like choosing between Constipation and Diarrhea, where you'd really only EVER want one to be RID of the other. I'm not a party or ideological partisan myself, especially when it clearly so devolves folks into ideological (and deliberate) less-think and easily-distracted binary side-taking......which just lessens that VERY valuable (and human) critical thinking asset we were all born with (if we choose to use it). "China's own social score system was a wise cost effective way to police and control the corruption that was holding the nation back"......"colonialism.......ethnic cleansing" .......crikey you really are ON BOARD! The corruption hasn't remotely ended unfortunately, not when the CPC is like one giant and self-serving mafia or human centipede where ANY and EVERY nasty thing is simply justified as 'for the state'.......with strangely NO differing (or challenging) opinion tolerated. "So how do you explain the success of China over equal states like India" .......Hard working Chinese folks and a lot of them (some forced and really under-paid/un-protected.... 'for the state') and a heap of really big western/outside investment is a big part of it (for the "gotta be like the creepy PRC to umm fight the creepy PRC" initiative)......which was probably a better option than more Cultural Revolutions and Great Leaps Forward when left to its own devices. Why are you distracting into 'whatabout' talk regarding the deliberately devolving western countries and the wonder of BRICS? For a precious bloke accusing others of name calling, half truths and distraction you sure are proving to be an aspirational figure. Keep up those Google searches, you're thankfully allowed to move past page 3 (for now) and read multiple views too!
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  5066. It's all just another sad part of the increasingly-creepy narrative from the increasingly-dubious folks now so hoping to over-control other folks by changing the very definition of accepted and simple objectivity/reality....... so that those same other folks, who are overly and easily-led by emotion and nice sentiment (instead of further critical-based thinking......while telling themselves something pretty) will then be more easily manipulated to then also believe (and accept) pretty much ANY newly defined umm 'reality' moving forwards (but also unfortunately backwards).....and especially so when so many have now become overly-apathetic and easily-led to find their life meaning from the 'likes' and 'upvotes' of others in a world where both narcissism (and nihilism) over-encouragement has been sadly over-prioritised over other pursuits such as the merit-based ones or simply trying/thinking harder. It's all unfortunately like a bad 'idiots guide to manipulation'......but for sheep or parrots! 'Man and women' is a great place to start......If you can persuade folks to question that simple biological reality/truth you're almost guaranteed to be able to convince them of ANYTHING moving forwards (while backwards!) Authoritarian objectivity (and then reality) is simply what you say it is; When Zhou Enai of the Chinese communist party met orthodox jewish US reporter/ambassador Teddy White at a banquet featuring a suckling pig back in the day, he convinced the hesitant Teddy that in China a pig could be a duck if it needed to be and that his awaiting banquet featuring the suckling pig was therefore ok to eat…..which Teddy did….for the sake of politeness and diplomatic good intentions. The old term 'Political-correctness' (derived from and in the Soviet Union) now likely over-impresses even itself!
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