Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.
Without condoning or condemning: some people have had many bad days, are easily triggered and don’t know how to act any better. Maybe one day they will, they just don’t yet. Sometimes it really has very little to do with you and almost everything to do with them.
That’s so cheesy. ❤️
Morals and compassion are unAmerican tbh.
Depends on the values of the society, but there will always be a need for at least some security (because some people are just maniacs).
It’s a very interesting videogame!
I’ve been downvoted to hell and back (I’m an anti-imperialist, anti-Western supremacy monotheist that believes in objective reality and that some decisions are objectively more or less moral than others, so it’s just expected 🤷) but I doubt it’s ever been some sort of coordinated effort and not just what happens when one reads the truth/different POVs that oppose and weaken one’s idiosyncrasies but is too cowardly and/or stupid to process it, so all one can do is have an emotional tantrum in the form of a downvote.
Because they don’t have the intellectual capacity and/or the courage to engage with what you’ve said in earnest, since it might mean they’d have to agree with you and admit they were wrong (and these are not wise people who understand admitting you’re wrong is the path to being right). They’d rather just “e-boo” you without any more explanation and hope the other stupid cowards do the same and there we go, we were right all along because of numbers! Morons, lol, spineless morons.
And the downvotes on the post I’m replying to just gives what I’ve said here more credence, lol.
An empty land with American military bases and soldiers? They’d just raze it, lol, and nothing of value would be lost. Or are you suggesting that America, who has historically seen Taiwan as their “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and has used the island to coerce China the same way it’s used Israel in the Middle East, should just freely concede the territory? I mean, ideally, sure, but I highly doubt it. I can be done, and probably will be, but not for free.
Don’t feel like you’ve wasted your time, your comments are appreciated. But there are too many pigs in here who know nothing of pearls. ✌️
Yeah, because nukes in what MacArthur called their “unsinkable aircraft carrier”, knowing how uhh trigger happy America is, is not the better option, lol.
It’s been done, Reddit is just Dem./alternative Truth Social now, if not fully in function definitely in spirit/attitudes.
This is just the result of a power vacuum/imbalance left by the declining American empire. And there are many more players (the rich af Gulf countries, mainly SA and the UAE, India, Turkey) and some of them are not even nations like banking institutions, technocrats and capitalist oligarchs, and asset management firms, for example.
If I may, I think the reality of things is more like this: the world has realized that the American empire and its vassals can no longer unilaterally make the rules and force every other nation to do their bidding or face the consequences, things have changed both in the US (it’s no longer the MIC and banks deciding the direction of the country but now there are multiple conflicting groups of interest; corruption has done its thing and every part of the American empire suffers from theft at every level, the military included) and in the world as a whole and the balance of power has shifted. So, since we’re firmly in a post-American hegemony era, all that has to be decided is how this transition will be managed and what America’s new role will be in this new world. Before, the whole world belonged de facto to the West, which means ultimately America, now different nodes of power have arisen and power will be distributed between them.
Man, every time someone acts shockingly immorally I just get sad, and if I’m mad that’s a secondary feeling. None of it is addictive. I’m addicted to people doing the right thing when it’s difficult. 🤷
Believing in God and yapping/arguing are big parts of my life. 🤷😅
Same, but I’m not gigantic and I also love to “argue” IRL. It’s easier IRL too (as a non gigantic guy, ofc 😅), because people can feel your good vibes and friendly disposition and will more comfortably engage even through disagreements.
That’s not how the world works, though, we can’t just snap our fingers and make everyone think thoroughly and empathetically before they say something. One will or won’t learn to better handle words, and that’s entirely for one’s wellbeing, so I think it’s better to try to do so (and hope you don’t have to deal with too many bullies, regardless).
It’s a thought process worth exploring, and one necessary for self-actualisation and prosocial living. It can’t be examined in an ideological vacuum though: what are your values and how and when have you gone against them? What’s the intensity and periodicity? Are you truly that far away from righteousness (and panicking a little bit in this case is warranted) or are you an overall “decent” person that needs to uhh round out their corners?
Eh, more or less skilled, sure, but “unskilled” is never accurate. I say this as someone who’s very clumsy by nature and takes forever to do manual tasks that others won’t struggle as much with. I know that there’s a lower floor of skill (the floor I inhabit 😭), so they can’t just be doing “unskilled” tasks.
My MIL’s surgery went well and she’s much more lively and relaxed now, thank God.