I watched Jiang Zemin’s 60 minutes interview the other day and I’m starting to realize how…stupid American politicians are.

Not just trump, although I think he is certainly the stupidest, but put any premier against any president and you’d probably be able to see the difference very quickly.

Addition: actually my math professor last semester had a rant about definitions and the difference between describing something and defining something (i.e, integers can be described as positive and negative whole numbers including 0, but that’s not how they’re defined [which is complicated and involves sets and whatever].) As much as he’s not one of my favorite professors I’ve had I did find that bit intensely relatable.

Writer is the type of guy to only fail his ethics courses

Welcome back star wars program

I think I want to point out that for every guerrilla movement not supported by china, there’s probably two countries being lifted out of poverty and indentured servitude to thr imperialist powers.

Ive been reading wretched of the Earth lately and this quote on pg. 105 really struck me. “The Cold War must be ended, for it leads nowhere. The plans for nuclearizing the world must stop, and large-scale investments and technical aid must be given to underdeveloped regions. The fate of the world depends on the answer that is given to this question.” Is this not exactly what China has done?

Which is saying a lot considering he was not actually the smartest of guys. (Still rip though, I would’ve let him steal stuff from my home fr fr)

I can stand it when it comes to stupid comedy like that (as long as it’s not literally the entire video), but when i want to learn I don’t want any really, unless it’s genuinely appropriate (I can’t think of a case but I dont want to exclude the possibility of it being okay at all)

Yeah…

I don’t feel bad obviously. But I don’t feel good either. If this happened while he was in office then I would care, maybe, but otherwise this doesn’t really change anything, beyond confirming the inevitability of his death.

Obviously celebrate if you want, I don’t judge, but I just wanted to say something, not because I feel conflicted but because I just kinda dont feel anything. Which is odd for me

I still can’t get over the cognitive dissonance relating to Syria rn.

Even if we take all the allegations against Bashar and say they’re true, in the “logical” liberal society you’d think people wouldn’t have issues saying both sides are bad. Yknow they say that for Israel all the time. But when it comes to jihadists who were massacring minorities just a couple weeks ago suddenly its fine cause they’re not Bashar. Fucking psychopaths the lot of them

Honestly I don’t know if I’m angry at Bashar for letting this happen or grateful for how long he managed to hold on against the endless onslaught of the west

I feel like if there was concrete evidence of this, someone would’ve said something. Maybe not China itself but maybe the FSB/RT or something.

Well there’s not a lot of options, since most of the screen has a black background.

Well at least theres a party with some principles left.

I would need primary source evidence for this, but if there aren’t primary sources then it’s obviously false.

However, if there are, I still disagree with the interpretation. I doubt it was some realpolitik scheme (entirely) to do this. It was more likely that if china did not engage the Japanese now, China would be conquered by the pen, rather than by the gun. Han Suyin (biographer of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai) talks in an interview about how Chiang was often very apprehensive about fighting japan. In all seriousness Chiang needed to be captured and have his head put to a chopping block for him to agree to the chinese united front. So, again assuming the basic information presented is true, it is more likely that Stalin encouraged the fight now. Also remember that the Japanese and Soviets were engaged in broader border skirmishes. Considering the value of the Liberian troops during the great patriotic war, Japan not being able to invade the previously take far Easterm areas was extremely important for the people of the world.

I think this is a false equivalence. Trauma is a…(sorry, im not a mental health expert) primal thing(?). As in, trauma is a part of your flight/fight/freeze/fawn response. The things that cause fear and despair and such that impact your survival can be passed down to your offspring to help them survive. But superiority and racism are something that’s taught. There is a somewhat basic impulse (possibly) to be secure and to be wary of other “tribes” but it’s not something passed down into offspring’s subconscious, but something taught at a higher level.

I don’t think we should forget that the woman who avenged Che Guevara was the daughter of a nazi

I love statistics.

Also thx for the explanation

Where’s this coming from? (I’m probably just blind, sorry)

Well of course not, how would you go to the bathroom? (/s)

But I think it’s less “comraderly education” and more just an improvement of human psyche. Without alienation, without dependence on addiction, with better access to mental health services, etc. People will be less neurotic and anti-social. Also without the rat race and need for money then people will have no material reason for people to be paranoid and fighting for resources.

Of course culture will be naturally improved over time and that will help too, but I think the material basis here is equally if not more important

So what is the definition of art then? At what point can a doodle be considered art?

is it possible youre on the autism spectrum

Maybe? Idk, I might but I’m unsure if it’s that or adhd or just general cptsd issues.

But otherwise I think you’re understanding me well, but English is my first language. It’s more just specifically Haikus that I find clunky in English, and I’ve heard they’re more natural in Japanese.

Sorry, I’m starting to realize I’ve phrased things poorly.

It’s not necessarily what is big and what isn’t. Trust me, I dont mind not enjoying what a lot of people are into while liking my niche.

It’s more like, I do really enjoy certain works, but I dont think I enjoy them the “right way” (for lack of a better term). For instance, I really like Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I feel as though a lot of the philosophy gets stuck halfway in my head. Like i pick up on some the literal things, and I think I can feel what the creator is trying to say, but I myself can express it. And I think I fail to enjoy those concepts and more enjoy the cerebral feeling of it and others like it, like Slay the Princess.

I should’ve also emphasized my lack of ability to enjoy poetry. I’ve enjoyed something in basically every other medium, but for some reason poetry doesn’t click at all for me. I’ve always failed to find the rhythm with it and while others will gush with happiness about them I’ve just…haven’t had the same experience (especially with Haiku. I’ve tried, but Haiku I just can’t write nor really understand very well. Constraints are good but I think English doesn’t work well with the restrictions).

And on the modern art stuff, I understand the CIA supported it and such, but I still do like it. And that same abstractionism is found other places too. Avant-garde art is a thing in china and the Avant-garde movement in Russia/the early Soviet union produced what I think are good works too. One of my favorite is El Lizzitsky’s “Beat the whites with the red wedge.” I also do like Picasso’s work, and he certainly was no cia stooge. Hell, I even like “who’s afraid of red yellow and blue.” If strictly for the reason that it did inspire fear and anger in people.