Does it sound like a suppressed .22 to anyone else?

The Health Survey for England 2021 estimates that 25.9% of adults in England are obese and a further 37.9% are overweight but not obese.

1. How do you think China got so prosperous? Being outsourced labour is the foundation of the Chinese economy.

2. Stop projecting your AmeriKKKan views on other countries lmao

Run Harris. Run Newsom. Run Obama. Run Kennedy. Hell, run Gore.

There’s so many options here. This is the DNC’s election to lose.

His speech impediment is bullshit. Where was it when he was Obama’s VP? Where was it in the Senate?

Were you and I watching the same presser? He had moments of brilliance, but his fumbles were apparent throughout the night.

Japan is not a serious country

Only 10 US states have banned child marriage.

ITS HER TURN

Being wealthy in the US/UK/Canada is so much better than being rich in China because the marginal advantage is substantially larger

In China? You still take the train. Transit is probably still faster than driving. Your food expenses don’t scale as fast because cheap food isn’t made of garbage. You already likely own a home. You probably come from a tier 1/2 city, so traveling domestically is cheap. Your kid still has to grind for gaokao.

In the US? You fly business. You drive around in your S Class. You can bribe infinite extracurriculars for your kid to get into a top university. You basically never have to interact with anyone in the lower 90% of incomes, and you don’t need to be THAT wealthy to do so.

I love justifying racism too don’t worry

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Meanwhile Netanyahu is fine…

The ICC is and has always been the judicial arm of the West used to put down the Global South. Fuck them.

People really underestimate the impact of sonar on marine life. Hell, people really underestimate the impact of sonar, period. Active sonar operates at 300dB. For reference, 85dB can damage human hearing, and 300dB is 21 orders of magnitude greater than that.

So when are you booking your flight to Kyiv?

Calling all Black people monkeys isn’t ok, but calling all Chinese person slaves is?

Chinese spyware… Hosted in the US. With communications going to US data centers.

Odd that you’d call it Chinese spyware, when the more fair assessment is that it’s American spyware that happens to run a content recommendation algorithm from a Chinese company…

Republicans accept a post-truth society where everything is someone’s propaganda, that the federal government is out to get them and that the union would be better served as a union of state-level republics. Democrats still believe in the existence of a ground truth and want a union with centralized control (i.e., they are Federalists). Like the Federalists, the Democrats are backed by wealthy financial states (New York, California) as opposed to more rural/working-class states (Alabama, Ohio) and support heavy industrial subsidies (Biden’s IRA, CHIPS) as well as weak state governments.

This is a fundamental difference that explains a lot, actually. The role of government has always been to convince populations to pursue the policy goals of the elite. The foundations of representative democracy involve choosing which elites’ policy goals to follow. The Republicans want to follow state elites (to borrow a Chinese proverb, the mountains are high and the President is far away). The Democrats want to follow federal elites.

Here’s the real problem. The US gets to choose between a career politician and a career businessman (swindler, by definition). Who represents the working class? Who represents the people who actually built America’s economy?

Calling a spade a spade is a hit piece now? Truly the least propagandized people on the planet.

The entire principle of authoritarianism is either public support or public apathy. An authoritarian regime is only as stable as its populace.

A government that butchers its people against the will of the populace cannot survive even if it is democratic. A government that butchers people with the will of the populace will survive regardless of whether or not it’s authoritarian.

See: Israel, America, Canada, Australia, UK

There’s no fundamental difference between a democratic and authoritarian government in this regard. The primary difference is (and has always been) whether property is managed as a function of the state (monarchies, socialism) or as a function of the individual (democracies, anarchy).

Well, that and the “people” that get killed in democracies are usually of a different skin colour than you, so maybe you just don’t care?