Yeah, after what happened, I now understand how irrational stock market is.

Well… if there is one thing I have to commend CCP is they are unafraid to crack down on billionaires after all.

I suppose, but we’re talking about international diplomacy. And a modern one at that.

Trump’s strong arming sounds so 19th century though. His open threat of taking Panama canal, Canada, Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico is so manifest destiny.

Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.

Trump is going all in. He’s reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

Look, I know that immigration is a contentious issue, but sanctioning a country for not repatriating its citizens is a disproportionate response. Trump and Co. are really obsessed with immigration to even do this. It says a lot what values they have.

To be honest, I never got that feeling. I always feel catharsis finishing a game. However, with a huge exception on the Metal Gear Solid series, because Hideo Kojima always leaves more questions than answers at the end of the games. But without spoiling anything for those who haven’t played it yet, the exception in itself in the series is MGSV which completed the series full circle at the end.

The only time I felt empty after consuming a media is after the finale of Breaking Bad. Never have I felt so empty and lost on what to do after. Post-college life does not even beat it.

memes.ml banned me for saying both US and China engage in propaganda. One of the users, which I assume to be one of the moderators, responded as false equivalence because I could not reply the minute after the response. Either that, or because I directly mentioned .ml users in general is tone deaf about China doing its own propaganda.

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Mate, we still haven’t gone through the double 20s yet. Wait until October, 2029 and we will talk.

A car company complimenting Hitler’s painting is nothing compared to making business deals with Hitler. Ford and GM still have subsidiaries that operated and built for Nazi Germany despite the US declaration of war in World War 2.

Things haven’t really changed. Corporations will typically side with fascists when it comes to it.

My former college has gender neutral bathroom in the gym. I have never heard any issues in the many decades that it has been there. Besides, the wall of the toilet stalls are really high and there are no gaps underneath the stalls to dissuade peeping. Just do how my college did with gender neutral bathrooms.

Blaming colonialism is used by many corrupt, incompetent post-colonial governments to distract people from their own corrupt incompetence. It’s like with Putin blaming NATO and the West for everything.

Source: I am from a corrupt, incompetent post-colonial country

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I was about to say it but you beat me to it.

(get it… beat?)

without recognising the statehood of Israel

You also did not answer my question: do you support the October 7 attack? Your silence on the question speaks loud.

Is that a serious question? I’d rather ask you to name a major independence movement that didn’t. War is a bloody affair.

The Irish war of independence did not purposefully kill civilians. They only targeted British military personnel, and the British retaliate by killing Irish civilians, which proved to be to Ireland’s PR advantage for international support for independence (you might mention the IRA in the 1960s to 90s, but that’s a different story right after the establishment of the independent southern part of Ireland, in which the IRA activities had been condemned by the Irish government all throughout). And you mentioned Ghandi’s peace movement for Indian independence, and yet somehow have a doublethink that it wasn’t a major enough.

How would you tell the Palestinians to struggle for their freedom from occupation and violence?

Are you asking Palestinians to just lay down and die?

How about target military personnel only, and not kidnapping civilian hostages, especially foreign nationals with no dog in the race? It’s not that hard to grasp. How is this going to help Palestinian cause? If the Irish freedom fighters killed civilians, that certainly would not have helped their cause for independence.

You claimed Hamas support two state solution, but then posted a link that directly contradict what you said (why do people post links they don’t read and turns out it contradict what they say?) Now you redirect the conversation asking what two state solution had done to PA. While PA had been spineless, they did not kill civilians. Now, it sounds like you are misdirecting by trying to paint Hamas as pro-two state solution, but contradicted what you just said by posting a link that contradicted what you claim. Hamas is clearly anti-Israel and against two state solution, and it seems to me that you are too. Then now, does that mean you support October 7 attack?

I answered the question already. While PA have been spineless, they did not kill civilians. But you and your ilk then seem to wilfully ignore what Hamas did to civilians. Now answer me, do you and the other guy support Hamas’ October 7 attack? Have other independence movements in other places killed civilians? By supporting Hamas, do you and the other guy don’t support two state solution in essence and do not recognise Israel’s right to exist?

If by PA you mean Palestinian Authority, while they seem to have been spineless, how is Hamas taking foreign civilian hostages with no dog in the race promote Palestinian cause? What is your opinion on October 7 attack?