Australian rePublic wrote:Do you think that this will kill the SJW/political correctness movement once and for all
Err....how?
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by Nobel Hobos 2 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:27 am
Australian rePublic wrote:Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:
None of those is realistic. Taiwan and whose army?
I do expect there will be democracy in China some day, but it will be decades in the future. It may not even be possible in such a large-pop country (bearing in mind India where democracy is less than ideal) so they may have to devolve power to the provinces and form a federation. Though as the US shows us, that is less than ideal too.
Flawed democracy is better than the clusterfuck they have now
by Nobel Hobos 2 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:29 am
by Albrenia » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:30 am
Australian rePublic wrote:Do you think that this will kill the SJW/political correctness movement once and for all
by Australian rePublic » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:32 am
by Alvecia » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:34 am
Australian rePublic wrote:Alvecia wrote:Err....how?
For starters, the concept of cultural relativism will show its consequences. Secondly, people will start callimg out people who scream blind racism to anyone who tries to call China out for their bullshit, and thirdly, people have actual things to worry about, so they don't need to invent imagi ary ones
by Australian rePublic » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:35 am
Alvecia wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:For starters, the concept of cultural relativism will show its consequences. Secondly, people will start callimg out people who scream blind racism to anyone who tries to call China out for their bullshit, and thirdly, people have actual things to worry about, so they don't need to invent imagi ary ones
I think you underestimate the persistence of fools
by Thermodolia » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:10 am
by Nobel Hobos 2 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:32 am
by Rojava Free State » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:34 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Rojava Free State » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:35 am
Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Or the people of China get democracy. Though it’s more likely that if Xi goes the entire apparatus is going down with him. So we are probably going to see warlord era 2.0
On the list of possible alternatives to Xi, I think democracy is down the Very Unlikely end of the list. But if it makes you happy.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by James_xenoland » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:48 am
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Rikese wrote:From a 14 year old saying that children should vote, to a wankfest about whether or not God exists. Good job, you have all achieved new benchmarks in stupidity.
by Novus America » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:32 am
by Nakena » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:55 am
Novus America wrote:Honestly I think we will go right back to our idiocy soon enough.
Although I hope people finally realize just how dangerous, fragile and stupid our global supply chain is, and how it completely fails in a crisis, too many people have invested too much in their lies to admit the truth and actually change.
by Novus America » Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:08 am
Nakena wrote:Novus America wrote:Honestly I think we will go right back to our idiocy soon enough.
Although I hope people finally realize just how dangerous, fragile and stupid our global supply chain is, and how it completely fails in a crisis, too many people have invested too much in their lies to admit the truth and actually change.
I believe there will if there isnt already a change in mentality regards to lack of redundancy and fragile supply lines. It might be one big takeaway from the crisis.
by Cisairse » Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:43 am
Thermodolia wrote:Cisairse wrote:
Yeah. Humans will be damned if we give away our society for a virus that isn't even airborne.
About that
by Nakena » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:20 am
Novus America wrote:Nakena wrote:
I believe there will if there isnt already a change in mentality regards to lack of redundancy and fragile supply lines. It might be one big takeaway from the crisis.
I hope you are right, but neoliberal “free trade” (when it actually as currently practiced fails to meet the criteria laid out by early advocates for free trade) has become an article of religious faith, not of practicality or logic, and corporations have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into it.
I fear the combination of religious dogma sunk costs will be too much for this one crisis showing the failures to overcome.
by Novus America » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:24 am
Nakena wrote:Novus America wrote:
I hope you are right, but neoliberal “free trade” (when it actually as currently practiced fails to meet the criteria laid out by early advocates for free trade) has become an article of religious faith, not of practicality or logic, and corporations have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into it.
I fear the combination of religious dogma sunk costs will be too much for this one crisis showing the failures to overcome.
Depends how bad it gets.
by Lost Memories » Tue May 05, 2020 11:42 am
State-run and private processors are now holding seven million tons -- equivalent of more than 50 million barrels -- on-board tankers out at sea, the minister said in a Facebook post. The refiners are doing so amid a collapse in crude prices that saw the world’s top benchmark lose more than 60% of its value this year and U.S. West Texas Intermediate plunge into negative territory.
- The country’s oil-product demand in April declined about 70% from a year earlier, Dharmendra Pradhan said
- India’s use of what’s known as floating storage comes as all its onshore storage options run out
Oil has slumped due to a combination of collapsing consumption from the coronavirus outbreak and a short-lived price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that forced other producers to slash prices.
India is the world’s third biggest consumer of oil and imports more than 80% of its crude, which is typically the biggest expense on its trade bill.
Indian refiners are taking advantage of cheap oil to bulk up its supplies even as every corner of the nation’s onshore storage tanks fills to the brim, according to Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
by Saiwania » Tue May 05, 2020 11:52 am
by Rojava Free State » Wed May 06, 2020 4:21 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Albrenia » Wed May 06, 2020 5:21 am
by Bassoe » Wed May 06, 2020 6:04 pm
Nakena wrote:"...as long as we are confined to a single planet we're within a closed system that can be affected by global (Climate change? max extinctions, totalitarian belief systems such as Islam or Communism gaining total control etc.) or outer factors. (Giant Meteor?) To guarantee long term survival it is thus necessary to diversify beyond this confinement..."
Australian rePublic wrote:I'll go whatever name goves Xi Jinping the shits. I think that's CCP virus
by Green October Z » Wed May 06, 2020 7:07 pm
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