I admit I know very little about it. What is it?

Mad respect to my comrades taking the time to try to engage and educate the liberals who literally refuse to have a positive thought about China. I’ve never seen one of them actually read an article or respond to the best points; usually they just find what they perceive is the weakest or most controversial argument and focus on that. Anything to deny the fact that sinophobic bias and believing propaganda is 90% of their reasoning for their shit takes. Still, I’m proud of the people in the community that still actively try to educate. I wish I had that patience anymore.

I never thought of it like that until seeing your comment. “Discipline” always makes me cringe because it has connotations like the issue is me, that it’s an internal or personal failing, that I’m not trying hard enough, etc. Thinking of it as “resolve”, though, really does make it feel more like I’m surviving, I’m pushing through, I’m overcoming. Be it a mental block or all the external bullshit we have to endure. I think I’ll quit thinking of it as me lacking self-discipline, and try thinking of it as building greater resolve now. Thank you :)

I think that was a plot point in a Batman comic, wasn’t it? Where Superman intervenes in the Cold War for Reagan and nearly destroyed the world?

Lmao, yes. Bonus points if there’s a multiverse crossover and the “real” Superman is viscerally disgusted by this parody version.

Sounds right. I’m just referring to fundamentalist Christians in particular because they’re the sort I see in the US that push the concept. Most other people seem to aim for 2-3 as the ideal number of kids, or don’t want any. Or they just don’t plan one way or the other.

Even funnier if he’s still a true believer in the US even as he’s uncovering more and more shit. Finds out cops are working with white supremacists to silence black protesters? Well, the issue is just a few bad apples, not the whole system. Exposes Lex Luthor’s bribery of courts and politicians to cover up his death squads killing protesting overseas workers? That’s just one rich guy, not indicative of capitalism at all. Discovers the CIA running a drug ring to experiment new mind control drugs? Surely it’s just rogue agents and not the whole CIA.

Top it off by him finding out, point-blank, that the CIA is trying to kill him for exposing the corruption and lies of the US, and Clark still not understanding that the US is the problem. Have Waller herself be the antagonist, getting frustrated trying to get it through his head that he’s upholding a system totally opposed to his overly idealistic vision, but Clark just can’t grasp it.

My understanding is that there’s a trend in fundamental Christianity, here in the US anyway, where people think it’s their duty to have as many children as possible. That said, there’s also a good chunk of people who come from those upbringings who become very progressive minded, defeating the whole effort.

It’s what we’re forced to teach/learn.

It’s about 1.5’ long. My music friend tells me the keys are a little small. Half the features don’t work. I got it secondhand from a store. From the 80s, I think, lol.

I started going to HEMA lessons for German longsword. And I bought a tiny keyboard to try and learn piano.

It’s honestly astounding how subconsciously the selective nature of liberal thinking is. They don’t even seem to be aware that they’re dismissing and accepting narratives when presented with evidence vs. anecdote. What do videos of Israel flattening Gaza matter compared to some Israelis saying they saw Hamas kill babies? I’m honestly not even surprised liberals and Western “leftists” take the stances they do, anymore: they’ll always act in the interest of Western capitalists and just cherry pick narratives to justify it, morally.

If anything, my grandparents killed the guest room. My mom and I had to live with them for years, and after we both moved out they converted our rooms into crafting rooms. My mom and I live in different apartments, with no extra room, and they got rid of their guest rooms to have more space to craft stuff. Hardly what I’d call Millennials…

When I took a Modern Middle East class, I remember something about a king (I wanna say it was the Saudi king?) discussing the Israel situation with FDR. The story went something like FDR explaining they wanted to make an ethnic homeland for Jewish people because of what the Nazis had done, and the king was sympathetic but points out “Why not give them land seized from the Germans if the Germans were responsible? Why take land from Arabs who had nothing to do with it?” Allegedly, FDR admitted it was a good point and promised to discuss it later, but died before he could, and Truman just went ahead and supported Israel.

We also read a letter a Jewish person from the region had written around the time of Israel’s creation where he pleaded with the West not to force the creation of the state by stealing Arab land, pointing out they had a peaceful relationship within Palestinian Muslims and that stealing land to make an ethno-state would just agitate the region and make them hostile to the people Europeans were claiming to protect. He asked why it wasn’t possible to just create a Jewish homeland in the US if it was so important and the US cared so much, especially since the US had so much land. I think he also mentioned the fact most of the Jewish people being sent to Palestine to found Israel were European first, and there was a cultural and linguistic rift between them and the Jewish people actually already living there.

That class was the only instance in the US I’ve ever heard these points of view. Not counting online communist spaces.

I and every ML I know are 25 and up. “We have evidrnce” means “we made it up to belittle them” in lib speak.

Burgersize.

Part of it is to create and push a code of morality on your populace, then control the narrative so that way your side is always doing what’s morally good, and the enemy is doing whatever is morally bad. That’s why media control is so tight. Not just news, but every facet of entertainment reinforces our prescribed education of an artificial worldview. I could write a book on the anticommunist indoctrination put into children and family shows, and then those demographics start learning from one-sided history books, and then they’re exposed to biased news and propagandic documentaries. And that’s just the “neutral” liberal shit that’s considered progressive or inclusive, enlightened, pacifist, etc. When you get into the hardcore shit like conservative media, military propaganda video games, etc., it’s even more apparent.

I found the mask off racism with the Russia thing a shock, but I was expecting it with Palestine. I grew up with this shit during the Iraq War and War on Terror. I thought we’d learned, but the anti-China shit was obnoxious. Then with Russia. Then Iran. By the time it’s gotten back to Palestine, I’ve come to realize that it’s never about a specific group being targeted. It’s about ensuring a specific group stays dominant, and cutting any others who dare oppose them down. They all pretend to care about human rights until the oppressed fight back, then they only care about colonizers and tyrants.

I just wasn’t sure, because we learned about it during all the Juche necromancy stuff, so I couldn’t tell what was really happening, lol

So he may very well have been assassinated by the DPRK?

I live in the US, so I’m spoon fed bullshit about NK and can’t trust Google searches to save my life. What was the real situation surrounding Kim Jong-nam?