They are connecting it to China though!

There is a NK internet, that China helped to build. Access and use of internet is increasing a lot in NK.

What if you were born into a Thornberries esque family, grew up traveling the world as your researcher and adventurer parents did their studies in the wilds, ancient ruins etc.

You fell in love with adventure and ancient mysteries, so after graduating from adventurer college (you were a legacy admission), you intern for [initial quest giver for campaign].

Easy one, done off the top of my head.

Impotently?

Cool little story and all, but Canada is the furthest thing away from socialist.

Socialism is not when the government does stuff. And the more stuff it does, it doesn’t get more socialist. Even if it does A LOT of stuff, it still won’t be communism.

Socialism/communism is the method and path through which the working class will liberate itself. It’s the death of classes and class struggle through the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Most people have fallen for neolib propaganda… of “we don’t have enough money for free universal healthcare”, “if you want free university we’ll need to raise taxes” etc etc.

They think the government is a household.

As I said, the initial inflation was caused by supply chains shock. Many countries had lockdowns. Like China, who produces the majority of everything anyone purchases around the world. Then when the lockdowns ended there was a shortage of shipping containers.

Inflation is caused when money is printed and sits in financialized investment. If it’s used to increase productivity it causes the opposite.

China has been running massive deficits (printing money like crazy) for over a decade and they have very consistent and low inflation.

It’s just that this argument, based on things that are not facts since the 70s, is used to cut social programs, investment in education, infrastructure etc.

When it makes no sense. The gvmt is not gonna go broke from paying its programs. It prints its own money, and all its debt is denominated in dollars.

We SHOULD cut military spending, subsidies to harmful industries, to private prisons, police forces etc. The way the money is spent SHOULD reflect the will of the people more.

But this argument about “revenue” and “public debt” are literally from the mouths of establishment neoliberal ghouls who have no objective other than enriching their friends. It’s not reality and is only used for harm.

That was only true when money had any relation to a physical good like gold.

Fiat money dominates, and it’s not bound by anything.

Like I’m not saying any crazy conspiracy theory. It’s just how the world has worked since Nixon…

How is it wrong if it’s factually what happens now? People have a “common sense” understanding of how the government works, and THAT is wrong.

Ever since fiat became the norm, all governments all over the world that print their own money and have debts denominated in their own currency simply print money to spend, for their budget. That is a FACT.

Only countries that have the majority of their debt denominated in another currency (the dollar mainly) that face inflation when printing money.

The US and Europe printed trillions during covid, and that barely caused a blip in inflation. Inflation only came after supply chains shock and the war.

Like do some basic research, if I’m so obviously wrong it will be very easy to see…:

Why do people think the federal budget comes from taxes?

The government prints money, pays for its budget, and THEN it taxes. It can’t wait for tax dollars to pay for the budget. Taxing is to make the dollar necessary and force its flow back to the government.

They mostly “burn” all your tax dollars…

Like the gvmt is not a company. It doesn’t have “obligations” and “revenue”. It fucking PRINTS the money. If any company could print money, they would stop giving a fuck about revenue instantly.

It’s racism plain and simple. “Brown” people are slow and ‘can’t work good’ or some shit.

If you don’t love fashion, don’t try to “keep up with trends”.

Think of it this way. Fashion can be a hobby. You can spend hours every week researching, studying, searching for clothes. You can participate in message boards or discord groups for it. You can travel just for it.

Like photography. Like working out. Like gardening.

You can still like to take some pictures, and want them to be nice, without making photography your hobby. Same with going to the gym, or keeping some plants in your apartment.

So if fashion is not the hobby for you, don’t worry about it too much. Just learn what is good for you. Don’t care about the trends.

You can dress in any style nowadays tbh.

Just be mindful of getting a good fit on your clothes. Make sure the length of the pants is right, they fit well around the waist etc.

Maybe find a couple of ppl on social media you like the way they dress, and just passively absorb their content while scrolling.

Then go shopping from time to time, when you feel the need for a piece of clothing. Like maybe you need new pants, maybe you need new shoes.

You’ll have an idea of what kind of stuff you like, how you’d like to have your clothes fit etc.

But yeah, you don’t have to make fashion a hobby if you don’t want to. Trends are for kids and fashion autists.

I think they mean a real person, the player, would need a minimum of “12 charisma” to even think of saying something like that to the DM.

And the meme says “me with 8 real life charisma” y’know, so less than 12.

If I’m honest, I don’t believe the official story at all.

Too many holes. Too many weird coincidences.

One that I see few people talking about is Philip D Zelikow. He is an ideologue for the right. And his main work was on myths and civilization building, how civilizations are built (or re-built) around myths.

He had a very interesting article a few years before 9/11 about how the US needed a major tragic event, like a terror attack, like bombing in the WTC, to kickstart a new myth. To shape the future of the country, shift its direction from the last major myth (WW2 and the fight against communism) after the victory at “the end of history”.

This guy was put in charge of writing up the official story from the 9/11 commission.

I don’t know what exactly happened. But I don’t believe the official story is all I can say.

It feels too much like the shady CIA operations we have lots of details for now from the 50s and 60s. Like I can see a Blowback on 9/11 in a few years. Or an Eyes Wide Open.

I really recommend Eyes Wide Open on YouTube btw. And James Corbett on 9/11 stuff as well. Both super well sourced.

Yeah? The executives are firing people, to lower costs, make the numbers look better…? Which makes the owners of the business money?

Why wouldn’t the executives get bonuses or golden parachutes if let go? They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

Executives don’t make products, provide services, or add any productive value. They are just the face of the owners, and will do the “hard” things for them.

Like lie, commit crimes, do mass-layoffs etc etc.

Dang I can’t find anything on that that’s not NED propaganda /: seems like it’s fake surprise surprise

That’s not a thing 😄

What “Han Chinese policy”…?

You know the one-child policy only applied to Han Chinese in major cities right? Ethnic minorities were exempt.

And ethnic minorities have autonomy, meaning they rule themselves and have their own laws/governments. Like the Tai people in Guangxi, or Inner Mongolia where they still have signs in the Mongolian script. While in Mongolia they use the Cyrillic alphabet 😄

The Chinese government sponsors local cultural events and practices, builds temples to local religions (like the largest Buddhist temple in the world in southwest China), incentivizes learning local languages (by having bilingual schools) etc etc.

What has any western country done in that respect? In guarding and preserving minority cultures? Like how are Canada or Australia doing? I won’t even mention the US 😄

Lmao vuvuzela ok gotcha