Perhaps too afraid to ask for styling advice for himself and "asking for a friend" would invite too many follow up questions so he has to make up a girlfriend to impress.
meowMix2525
joined 2 years ago
If convenience is so wrong then why do we even have water bottles? Can't you cope with just using a normal cup? We are witnessing the next generation of water delivery systems, I say let the man have his gravity enhanced hydration. Hydrate or diedrate 🤙
I think it just takes quite a few moral failings to even achieve that level of wealth in the first place in the vast majority of cases.
Here specifically, these people are authors and IP holders in a society that places a lot of value in ignorance and in very chauvinist and racist ideas. By hook or by crook, they've made something original. They have some merit, and you would expect them of all people to see those societal failings for what they are. To not comment on them, or to uphold them, or to mask them, (arguably all the same thing) is a decision they made in their work. I think we vastly overestimate how easy it is to do that across an entire body of independent work if it doesn't align with your beliefs.
It makes sense that a person who has the merits and will to do something like that, again, entirely without challenging such obvious failures (as most in their position would), would be chosen to win the broad favor of a society that desperately does not want to be challenged or its failings acknowledged (esp ruling class, the ones with something to lose and wealth to spare to push these things), and would gain a lot of its wealth. Especially in ye old early-internet world when people weren't discovered as easily. Then, when their platform is secure, the mask slips.
It's not a conspiracy or an aberration, it's survivorship bias. These people are a product of our society. We have to reckon with that.
edit: I realized I could expand on what I meant in a few places so I sprinkled a bit more in.
Cool. What does that have to do with their history and the way they are treated by the west? You know so much, can you tell me that? What do you suggest should be done about it? Just to clear things up, so I'm not "putting words in your mouth" by literally repeating what you said verbatim and responding to it.
Also its "virtue signalling" now to insist people be treated with respect and that their material reality shouldn't be dismissed? wtf??? As you said, we have the same "ignorance and cultural failures" in our society. Do we deserve to be bombed and occupied?
Huh??? Did I say anything about that? Does this racism excuse anything we've done to them? Seriously, project much?
What the hell should we do about it, fucking invade them again? Continue blockades that don't even achieve their stated purpose and just make things worse for their people? Cause that's gone over so well... the only real interaction with most foreign nations being that of sanctions, acts of war and colonization, arbitrarily imposing their own values, and constantly talking down on them both as a nation and as a people, definitely is going to make them love foreigners.
It's not an "excuse" brother it's just material reality, why do I have to be "excusing" anything? Is it too much to treat them like humans worthy of a basic level of respect??
Let's talk excuses though. It'd really be no fucking wonder if they hate us like you say they do. You would hate foreigners too if they talked about you like that and preyed on your downfall the way western nations do to the DPRK. In fact you've shown very clearly that you have the exact same hate which you're trying to condemn here. Calling their home a "shithole", your only response to a very brief overview of their history not being one of understanding or empathy but simply to lash out and call them racist, which I can only assume is to imply they deserved it. What's your excuse??
I don't think any detail is important to those who want to liquidate the party. They were going to find a reason sooner or later and probably use this whether or not they could materially link him. Edit: also that's no reason to write their headlines for them.
Briefly, almost a decade ago
Good luck finding a job in tech without any experience right now
less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries.
I haven't even heard about this yet. Link?
The comment they were responding to there was literally calling them on it
Washing my blankets as frequently as they would need it would wear them down much faster and for that matter, sheets are just easier and more efficient to wash. That's why I use a top sheet at least. It's not a comfort thing for me.