Vote with your money (unironically)

Note: The above advice doesn’t apply if you’re not a billionaire.

All the evils in the world sometimes make people wish Hell was real.

The US once wanted to send Hanoi back to the Stone Age as well. Didn’t really work.

Japan feels rebellious today.

Many Quora users have a habit of stating an opinion but word it as a question.

It could be that Piers’ employers and sponsors have enough of Benzion Mileikowsky’s^[1] shit.

Two days ago, I had the displeasure to come across a YouTube comment section full of European supremacists. They hated on socialism and immigrants. They even look down on the USA, saying that it was a failed empire and a failed culture because of “mixed race”. Needless to say, I’ve never felt more glad that America is hollowing out European industry.

The very foundation of Hollywood is Zionist propaganda.

SCP is a company? Do they sell anomalies for profit?

The more Israel rejects peace, the more of their monstrous nature is revealed, and the more international support they lose.

Either CIA funded or billionaire funded.

With bans.

Sometimes, it worse than ban. It shadow ban.

I have a feeling that YouTube has this particular behavior where, if my comment was simple and trollish, it’s visible for everyone to see. But if it contains proper analysis that combat the propaganda, it’s invisible.

I have tweaked my Twitter feed to show me only Touhou, anime, and programming. Occasionally, posts from American politics show up, but I would mute the account immediately.

ByteDance (the maker of TikTok) is a for-profit company whose purpose is to make money. They are not some kind of altruistic organization that seeks to educate people.

Douyin looks good because local Chinese laws forces it to not to be garbage. If Americans want TikTok and social media to be good, make your own regulations. (Though it is more likely that big tech would lobby against it in the name of free speech or smth)

Who would win? A nation in the brink of starvation as a result of being cut off from the rest of the world or the rest of the world?

Thank you for your answer. It was both excellent and humbling. I realize now that my discipline in dialectical materialism has been lacking.

I had asked you guys to prove me wrong from the very first comment. Unfortunately, the answers I received are a bit unconvincing.

Maybe the document you provide can change my world view, but I must take my time to read it first.

Gender is a social construct often upheld by patriarchal societal standards. The being of a man or a woman comes with many societal expectations, and quite a lot of people don’t agree with that.

Do you mean “gender role”?

Patriarchal societies often have different expectations for people of different biological sex. A Confucian society would expect a man to follow the Son of Heaven and a woman to follow her father or husband. This is gender role, and gender equality means the abolishment of gender roles.

I don’t think I can agree with conflating the concept of “gender” and “gender role”.

Now, I only want to comment on the gender aspect as I am sure that you, master observer that you are, can acknowledge stuff like intersex people existing, who are born with both sets of genitals for example.

After some thought, I think I see your point. If one considers intersex a biological sex then their true gender should be separate from their sex. Is that what you were trying to convey?

Now, gender as we know it now has evolved in capitalist societies

Please tell me what the concept of gender was like in other societies. Be it Medieval Europe or Imperial China or whatever society you are familiar with.

Non binary people, for example, have been around since the beginning of mankind and have even been acknowledged by historic societies.

Please provide me documents. I may take my time to research them.

The difference being, If I was assigned “male” at birth and society categorized me as “boy/man” and treats me as boy/man but I don’t “feel” boy/man and would like to be treated as girl/woman, what will that society do?

Transition, I guess. The Vietnamese society generally do not discriminate against transgenders. I’m not sure about Western societies. But I live in Vietnam, so it is the scope that I care about.

We can accept transgender because we know that, after having transitioned, they cannot fake their feeling and gender identity to sexually harass people of different sex.

The subject I was talking about was not specifically transgender, but the “72 genders”. I generally accept that a man can transition into a woman and vice versa, but that still 2. If we add intersex people and people who are unfortunately lack features of either sex, that would be 4. But this number 4 refers to biological sex, it doesn’t match 72 genders.

that’s not being uncomfortable with “fickleness” that’s drifting into bigotry territory.

The “fickleness” refers to [“I feel like a woman” today but next week telling you “I feel like a man”]. I don’t think my society will ever accept that a person can identify as different genders in different time of days, even if we accept transgender.

Happiness and sadness are easy to comprehend because all humans experience it. Their biological mechanisms have also been studied and partially understood by science. “Gender feelings”, not so much. Let put it this way: How can a biological male, who was never a female, know the feeling he feels is that of a woman?