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Cake day: June 27th, 2022

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  • Kids have always dreamed of vocations. Kids feel that calling sense in a much purer way than adults can. They want to sing so they want to be a star. They want to make new things, invent stuff, so they want to be scientists. They want to be cool as shit so they want to become astronauts.

    Capitalism fucks that up in so many ways. I’m not even talking about the fact that western kids today want to be streamers. Nowadays (as in as has been for decades) there’s no calling, even kids realise that being the lowest grunt in whatever organisation isn’t much of a goal so they also dream of “advancement”, except that means doing less of the thing you want to do to manage. And if you advance enough, you get to not do that thing you went in to do.

    Worst of it all, this is just what we face as kids. To say nothing on the alienation we suffer from, to feel like an animal doing human actions and human fulfilling animal needs. Folks got so used to the term wage slavery that they don’t even comprehend how inhuman labour under capitalism is.





  • I can fill pages with what I did and you didn’t that gives me confidence you’re the one acting with preconceptions based on propoganda, but it’d be quite useless. So I’ll issue you a challenge as well, for your edification only. Look for western news articles on whatever crime you think China has committed, preferably something more recent, and look though the linked sources.

    Seriously. While you’re taking a dump or whatever, open up an article, and check the links. A lot of them will be to other articles. After a chain of linking you might end up on a non-news page, maybe a UN thing, that references a study or report. You’ll probably have to dig up the report yourself. If you do all that you’ll find really stupid stuff, like a “study” that surveyed 8 people (yes, eight) to make the estimate that 1-3 million uyghurs are in camps. Or you’ll get to BBC saying “report says seeseepee officials want assimilation” and refer to a 50 page report that has one word that might be translated as assimilation and nothing else.


  • Why do you believe it’s censored, other than because you’ve been told as much?

    Here’s a challenge, go to baidu, look up 4th June incident. Either you’ll get nothing and I’ll have egg on my face, or you’ll get pages and pages of results and you’ll have to reconsider. I know which is true, I did it before. It gives results even if you write Tiananmen Massacre, even if the results are overall less helpful.

    So how’ll it be, pal? Will you take a few minutes of your time, a translator, a vpn and a chinese search engine to test your ideas?



  • I assure you, if protestors (see rioters) in any western country burned 2 police or soldiers alive, it wouldn’t end with a so-called massacre where as many security forces died as rioters. It’d be a literal bloodbath, it’d be tens of thousands of dead and it’d be far better documented than a picture of bicycles lying around and a not killed man in front of tanks leaving the square the day after. I’m not even saying the 4th June incident isn’t well documented, but you assholes don’t give two shits when the documentation doesn’t suit your preconceptions.

    Also, even if you can’t be bothered to investigate the truth of the situation, even the US State dept. dropped the genocide line. If you don’t have independent thought you should at least follow direction.


  • It’s the other way around though, isn’t it? When you ask them why the US is in this or that country, they either defend it or tepidly claim to oppose it. Yet I’ve never seen liberals call americans orcs or call for nuking it for what they did to Iraq, Afghanistan or many others they don’t even know about. So it can’t be “Russia bad cause invaded” since they don’t apply that to worse invaders and were calling for the destruction of Russia before the invasion.








  • There’s a huge difference between why there’s sufficient evidence to the occurrance of the Holocauast, and why the average liberal believes it. The latter has nothing to do with the reasons you’ve given, they believe because they’ve been told enough times to accept it. As far as they know, there’s as much evidence for the hololdomor and literally anthing bad that could be happening in Xinjiang. There have been a comparable number of headlines saying “there be genocide here” for the others, and that’s the level of scrutiny they have.


  • From a technical standpoint he’s definitely up there. I recently rewatched the Dark Knight after some time and despite knowing exactly what’s going to happen I was surprised how well executed the rising tension was.

    He’s also an elitist prick who refuses to get on with the times, so I have a feeling he doesn’t have that many more acclaimed films in him.