Kill the part of yourself that’s holding you back. Hollow yourself out into you are an empty husk, an all consuming void, that relentlessly hungers but can never be filled.

Earthlings do be like this

“You aliens have Jesus, too?”

“Yeah, he showed up 1900 years ago. Ushered in a golden age of enlightenment and prosperity. He checks back on us every century or so and provides new advancements is philosophy and theology. We’ve lived a utopian existence ever since. Why do you ask?”

“He only ever visited us once and hasn’t been back since.”

“What did you guys do when he arrived?”

“Uh… errrr…”

“And why do you all wear big plus signs on your clothes?”

“Ho-boy, this is awkward”

Sometimes you’ll reap enormous rewards through selfishness and cruelty.

I guess the market has spoken. Be a sociopath.

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is referring to the upvotes my comment has?

This isn’t Reddit. Nobody cares about your karma score

Is this English?

And, lo and behold, people came screaming out of the woodwork

Ah, the resident troll

You are literally angry that no one is gonna let you argue in bad faith

Nothing “Bad Faith” about it. You’re presented with facts, you reject them for propaganda.

The conversation dead ends as people downvote anything that rattles their priors.

Because the US is shit, doesn’t mean China can use that as a standard

Because the US is ideological, you reject that any other county might be doing better.

You only get called a wumao if you parrot the official CCP line

Anything that isn’t reactionary propaganda against China is “the official CCP line”. You can say the most inane shit about their high speed rail network or post pretty pictures from the fucking Panda Sanctuary and it’s CCP propaganda.

Also trying to paint China and it’s government as flawless or deflecting any criticism

You’re just proving my point. How can you engage in any kind of serious discussion when the rebuttal is “You think China is perfect!” and “Stop talking about non-China countries for comparison!”

How do you have a serious discussion when even the most minor concession is met by “So you admit China Bad! I win!” Nevermind when there’s actual criticism rather than paranoid bullshit, and its just ignored because it doesn’t sound critical enough.

Sadly, any serious analysis is meet with “Wumao Bot Tankie” on reflex.

More than two word of a post that don’t begin “China Bad” bounce right off the mental deflector dish reactionaries shelter under.

This is what most of China’s rapid construction projects end up being.

Well, I think I found the logic behind the boot. Wildly different to say construction standards are a problem than to conclude the majority of buildings are defective and dangerously prone to collapse.

Might also be noted that this isn’t something that’s gone unaddressed. Police in China arrest 9 people linked to Changsha building collapse that left dozens missing

At the same time, you’ll have western media insisting the draconian Chinese police state is cruelly persecuting businessmen in the country.

Guo Wengui is a great example - a man who turned “Exiled Persecuted Chinese Businessman” into a cottage industry, bouncing from cable news show to right-wing radio program to complain about the villainous evil far-left authoritarian communist police state that was harassing him illegally for fake crimes he’s falsely accused of. And then he gets caught running scams in the US using the same modus operandi Chinese prosecutors sought him out over.

Worker and civilian safety is not a priority in China

This is flatly untrue, particularly since the Xi administration began cracking down on corruption at the municipal level nationwide. But it is routinely asserted that instances where corruption and malfeasance occur are “normal”. Meanwhile, instances where the police investigate and arrest corrupt and incompetent administrators are “persecution”.

It’s “heads-China-bad” / “tails-China-bad”.

What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and the Reds

The imperial boomerang is the concept that repressive techniques to control colonial territories by governments will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. This concept originates with Aimé Césaire in his 1950 work Discourse on Colonialism, where it is called the terrific boomerang to explain the origins of European fascism in the first half of the 20th century. Hannah Arendt agreed with this usage, calling it the boomerang effect in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

Kamala: “If you don’t vote for me, Trump will send in the military.”

Also Kamala: “I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”

In his 2022 National Defense Strategy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin laid out five key traits of America’s “future force.” The first among them: “Lethal.”

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In 2017, then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said his “Modernization Priorities for the United States Army” had “one simple focus: make Soldiers and units more lethal.”

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In discussing the 2024 Pentagon budget request, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks said the funding would deliver “combat-credible joint forces that are the most lethal, resilient, survivable, agile and responsive in the world.”

Well… y’all got what you voted for, I guess.

Do you even know what braces are for?

Now Is The Time of Monsters

Cosmetic surgery should not be banned on children. What is up with the UK and wanting to criminalize everything?

It shouldn’t be any more illegal than any harmless cosmetic procedure.

The last thing you want is unsupervised and unsanitary procedures done by a religious zealot.

Outlawing circumcision sends you down the same road as outlawing ear piercings or abortions or transgender surgery. You’re guaranteed to do more harm than good.