I hope he does whatever is best for China which in my mind is continued control.

Atelier series games

They wouldn’t call China authoritarian if it were Anglo, European and Judeochristian. It has always been very thinly veiled Yellow-perilism.

Good. I hate Sam Altman.

Look up the Bonus Army

Liberals: two things can be true at the same time

Westerners today have so much in common with their inquisition and crusades predecessors. They replaced Christianity with Western Liberalism and they fight for it with the same zeal. Either you adopt their values and systems or you are an evil heathen who must be destroyed.

Expecting others to adhere to your cultural and political norms is authoritarianism. Not willing to learn or tolerate differences is bigotry.

Star Wars and other movie tropes. This is theory for some people. Absolutely infantile.

Ever since PRC stopped sharing data with Top500 we don’t know where they stand but they are definitely not standing still.

Have you considered turn based RPGs?

Democrats are better managers of the empire than Republicans. If you want the empire to be weakened or even destroyed, you’d prefer terrible managers.

The DNC is a private corporation and would have chosen Biden anyways

Democrats have been just as bad as Republicans when it comes to Central and West Asia. Just because you think people there don’t matter doesn’t mean everyone does

She could have distanced herself from Biden’s genocide but chose not to

“awful”

The US and the UK forcefully removed the people of the island to build the base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians

https://minorityrights.org/diego-garcia-uk-tries-to-remove-right-of-return-from-victims-of-ethnic-cleansing/

Western liberal democracies are structurally flawed, and despite the immense systemic advantage capital already enjoys, capital still needs to manipulate education, religion, and media to persuade people to vote against their own material interests. The result is a political landscape that, in many cases, produces outcomes more dysfunctional than those seen in some modern monarchies or even historic feudal systems—yet with the added disadvantage that many citizens remain unaware of their own diminished political and economic conditions, convinced they live in the freest societies on earth and that everything elsewhere must be worse. Concluding such a system is not truly democratic, or merely a democracy of the bourgeoisie is a valid conclusion, because whether systematic or through manipulation of education, religion and media, they are the only ones who benefit from it, and the majority have no means of getting what they want.

I know you already know this. This comment was meant for any lurker who doesn’t know. The people who think they are one election away from fixing the system if they would only voter harder.

Democracy is only as good as the voters. The average Chinese is better educated and a better citizen overall than the average USAmerican. Thus the difference in results. My experience with Chinese and USAians confirm this, even if anecdotal. I could have just missed the bad Chinese and was overexposed to bad USAians.

There is no draft. They volunteered to kill others.