i mean that’s literally it. None of this shit is genuinely controversial, it’s just the ambient neurosis of the internet that someone out there wants you crucified for your banal identity-forming habits.

they put it in the washing machine

lol what are we gonna do when we find them? tell them kindly but firmly to leave?

we’ll see about that

They’re the largest media org in the middle east and have been for decades. They’re very good on some topics, and will reliably provide a different perspective from that of western media, but they are owned by the Qatari state, so you should be highly critical of stories that involve Qatar’s interests, just as you would be of a BBC story involving British interests.

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Yeah, the lifestyle coach is an inherently evil breed. Unhappy young people don’t need a talking head to tell them to buy the book and listen to the podcast, they need friends. Even just a discord where you can get relationship advice from people who have actually been in a healthy relationship is way more valuable.

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If you pay attention, you’ll notice how many of these discussions will go like

“If you think China is a perfect utopia, then how do you explain that something bad happened there?”

“I don’t think it’s a utopia. Yeah that bad thing seems bad.”

“So you accept that China is literally Mordor then?”

“What”

“the exception that proves the rule” doesn’t just mean any evidence against your point is actually evidence for your point. it means that something is only notable because it’s usually rare.

You forgot to post a meme

No, I’m not Chinese. China is not important to my politics at all. That’s like the first thing I said if you scroll up.

I believe that’s normal for breeding hogs, yes

I haven’t seen that movie, does a pig shit on its own balls?

I don’t really care whether or not China is communist, or if other people think it’s communist for various esoteric reasons. It doesn’t effect me either way. State Department propaganda and warmongering does effect me though.

The Fountainhead is a novel about an American architect that has nothing to do with China. They’re doing a weird bit, presumably about how evil tankies asking them to read books is cheating.

good bit

I don’t think census data compiled and verified by the UN DESA is Pravda, a publication which does not exist anymore. I quite like Wikipedia and I think it’s a very good way to get a quick introductory understanding of a topic which you’ve just learned about. In this case it prints a similar graph citing the same data, so I don’t know why you would mention it to support your strange argument that China’s life expectancy has not significantly improved under communism.

It’s not even that outrageous a thing to believe, but you demand that I presume it false because believing that China is a normal country opens the door to believing a whole bunch of other scary things.

let’s skip to the end of the discussion: I say “that’s not anything like what I said.” you say “yes but you believe those statistics are true???” I say “do you have any good evidence that they’re fabricated, and that the life expectancy in China is actually still hovering around 40?” you beg the question, possibly implying that Chinese people are inherently untrustworthy, and accuse me of supporting genocide. There is nothing I can say to you that will instill an ounce of critical thinking ability in you.

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