Don’t mind me, just eating this bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed.

“Does he smell as bad as you?”

Personally I’ve never seen or heard about anyone’s disbelief in women being gamers.

Rule 30 of the “Rules of the Internet”

You can lose your DL in the US very easily

Reminds me of the US No Fly List.

No idea how your name gets on there. Impossible to remove. Every attempt to fly is a humiliation

Could they not also just selectively ban all Utah-based IPs?

No. Because VPNs redirect traffic from the site to a third party to Utah, in order to disguise the location of the original request

Which is why I’m suggesting they preemptively block everyone in Utah.

Pornhub and other porn sites already do this.

They would still be liable for transmitting content to a Utah resident using a VPN to appear as though they were in neighboring Arizona.

Web services and websites should block all Utah IP addresses

That won’t work on a VPN, though. The VPN will say the user is coming from outside the state. That’s the whole point of the VPN.

Family reunion

More holding the liquor store liable, which is what already happens.

Easy solution: stick your website behind a CDN.

I would say the easy solution is to stop serving content to residents of the state

If the Chinese killed them, it’s relevant

If the US killed them, it’s not relevant

You cannot engage about the rightness/ wrongness of Chinese domestic policy without stopping to bash the United States

:-/

As of May 2026, the U.S. has deployed NMESIS (Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System) anti-ship missiles to the Philippines, specifically on islands near Taiwan.

Why would a country worried about its sovereignty and domestic security be worried about a neighboring territory bulking up its military in their backyard? You can analyze the US policy towards Cuba by considering the Cuban Missile Crisis and its consequences. Why would Chinese politicians not have similar concerns with Taiwan and respond in kind? Why would Chinese policymakers be obligated to ignore the history of Cuba when making their own Taiwanese policies?

But killing tens of thousands of people is Whataboutism?

Liberalism in a nutshell.

Whataboutism

You’re accusing China of invading Taiwan, a thing it categorically hasn’t done.

I’m arguing against the premise

I’m discussing the actual material facts in these two countries.

I’m listening to someone point to LBJ’s Great Society and calling it a Holocaust. You sound like one of those homeschool libertarians, screaming about how truancy laws are unconstitutional.

what people/ the West take issue with is the rounding up of dissidents, sending them to reeducation camps, and forcibly sterilizing some of them

Not when their friends in The Philippines or Israel are doing it. Not when they’re doing it to refugees in US prisons or UK detention camps.

What Westerners object to isn’t Chinese policing. It’s Chinese sovereignty, Chinese technology, and Chinese trade they’re freaked out about.

As far as the Chinese government goes, this part refers to taking Taiwan by force.

What blockade are they running against Cuba Taiwan? How many military bases are they squatting on in defiance of the national government? How many times have they attempted to assassinate a Cuban Venezuelan Iranian Afghani Taiwanese head of state?

How many homes have they bulldozed? How many citizens have they butchered? How many fishing boats have double-tapped?

But just because the United States is creating/ allowing internment camps and death camps doesn’t mean it’s okay for the Chinese to do it to the Uygurs

China is building schools and factors in Xinjiang, extending their massive rail network into the country, developing new high density urban centers, and - as a consequence - importing a great deal of the neighboring territory language, culture, and economic practices.

The US is defunding education across the Southwest, gutting low-cost public transit, criminalizing the development of property in migrant neighborhoods, and conducting mass arrests of legal residents based on the social media posts of grifters and fanatics.

How are these two policies equivalent?

Is your premise that suppression of minorities and military adventurism is par for the course so there’s no use criticizing it?

On what planet is policing your own sovereign territory against domestic insurgency “military adventurism”?

Hey, it’s the Internet. You can aim higher.

Say you’re the CEO next time.

i dont have them so they can’t

“Please provide any social media as part of your application”

“Haha. Well, guess what, dipshits. I don’t have any. Checkmate!”

Sound of resume hitting the bottom of the trash can

In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing.

…

Compared to the relatively high satisfaction rates with Beijing, respondents held considerably less favorable views toward local government. At the township level, the lowest level of government surveyed, only 11.3 percent of respondents reported that they were “very satisfied.”

So, I am not going to dive into the raw numbers, but I’m already a little turned around at

• relatively satisfied

• highly satisfied

• very satisfied

I’ll simply note that local governments are also run by Communist Party officials. So claiming the CCP has 99.5% approval (even considering how this is a decade out of date and how “relatively” and “highly” satisfied suggest a bit of a gulf in opinion) is a serious fudge of the real public view.

That said, yeah. Much higher domestic view of the state than in the US/EU block. Definitely a problem for all those NAFO-heads who pine for Regime Change in Beijing.

It came on it’s own accord.

It literally had to be dragged along hissing and scratching