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Next paradigm shift. Could have happened in 2008, but Obama's guy fixed it. But that new way will also eventually get old and ugly.

Do you mean chloral hydrate? It's addictive.

You watch cowboy chainsaw porn?

Uh huh.

If you go on Amazon, which you apparently don't, there's an LGBT section on the front page with YouTube style videos. One is of a young man putting on...

He had syphilis, which is neurologically devastating. I loved GOM, but I think The Antichrist is a little nutty. But I'm not through with it yet.

China would lose badly period.

I guess population-wise, the US is like one tiny corner of China. Still, democracy is layered here. The closest democracy to a citizen is either their...

Gotcha.

Amazon now has an LGBT section to sell makeup and other stuff. A gay man applies the makeup and chats about how much fun the Denver Pride was. Is this...

I'm not the one who suggested you should look to a western model. That was Banno. I think China has to make its own path. Continue worrying about the ...

Stupid delta variant.

[ Your government is a dictatorship. You accept it because you're used to it. You have no experience with anything else. We're just different. We have...

That's because you accept dictatorship. We can't do that. Not at the moment, but our definition informs our goals.

Doesn't really matter how old anything is. The way you're using "democracy," any functioning government is democratic. That makes the word useless for...

I'm interested. Maybe another thread?

I gave you an updoot. Don't say I never gave you anything.

Did you know Kissinger's family escaped from Nazi Germany?

How do you know all this shit?

For now. Things change.

American corporate strategists were aware in the 70s that China was the last great economic frontier. Westerners have been trying to figure out how to...

:up: In the west, laws are made to protect people and they're immediately subverted by wealthy entities. The power of the people is really found in th...

Itlee1 knows they're using the word differently from westerners. The idea is that it's a better way. This is the confidence of the naive, and they nee...

No, just ashes. :lol:

Not really. It's just bluster. Nobody on either side wants war. Yeah, it's terrible. We're circling the drain.

Yep. It's the opposite of the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Jews who left the robbed man to die were right according to N.

Oh dear. You don't know. :grimace:

Right. In a sense, any healthy government is a democracy.

And so they define "democracy" as a government that works for the people?

The US is backing down from military intervention right now. And though Americans are at one another's throats continuously, there's not really any si...

ok. Take a break.

Look what you did. You offended the fuck out that person.

The lady I work with just says there's 0% chance China will back down regarding Hong Kong. True, but I was kind of shocked when I brought up the Weege...

That would be nice. I work with a Chinese woman. She explains stuff about Hong Kong to me, although I have a really hard time understanding her, espec...

Sure. There are exceptions. I think it's still true in the main. And that's why it's fun for me to pick on Banno about China's dominance of Australia....

There are two sides to that, though. I'm not sure how to explain this. Weaker entities congregate around stronger ones voluntarily. It's the nature of...

You seemed to want to say that there's just no fathoming the Chinese heart unless you're staring out of Chinese eyeballs. Since they own a fair portio...

If you want to understand China better, just look up. That's China's thumb.

They're becoming a regional power on their way to superpower. The US is moving out of their way, so there will be two superpowers, which the political...

The American says it's government of the people, by the people, for the people. China takes out the middle part. It's of and for, not by. Read the dam...

Yea whatever.

I think you misunderstood it. It's not that Chinese people are yammering for democracy. It's that the Chinese government needs to become responsive to...

They didn't have any experience with being underdogs. The antichrist is an evil king who pits himself against gods chosen ones. The idea transferred f...

That perspective was from a Chinese guy.

China mainly needs to ease over to something more democratic because of the expansion of their economy. The richer people get, the more it takes to pa...

But the image of the antichrist has its roots in Judaism. Early antichrist folklore centered around evil Roman emperors such as Nero. The oldest Hebre...

After claiming that Kant was popular only because he appealed to theologians, N says: "Quite the contrary is demanded by the most profound laws of sel...

:up: Get a pixelbook. There's no dustbin.

$5 a week? I don't know.

But if you did, it would be delicious probably.