Counter Revolution of 1776.

Incredibly poor scholarship. Author obviously stretches really thin evidence to fit an idea he had before actually researching. Dude really dug through piles of letters from people you never heard of to justify the thesis.

Frames the British empire as radical abolitionists. Gimme a break.

I’m being hyperbolic.

However, people in power have greater leverage to exploit children via their institutions, from Epstein to the Catholic church. It’s really no wonder we associate the two because this is the kind of shit we hear about most.

“relative maleness”

Christ, they accuse us of making up words.

Literally admitting she’s cis but because of a disorder she has relative maleness. Absolutely dystopian. Size based gender.

In fact, let’s make it easy. From now on, everything below 5’9 is a woman. All things, not just people. That should settle the whole debate.

I’ve said it before, and I hope I’ll say it again.

I love buzzword cranks.

Tangentially related, but I just remembered everyone flying flags on their car windows after 9/11. So fucking cringe.

I’m not getting out of the pool.

Here, eat these Sichuan peppers :gigachad:

This band has a really interesting story. You can check it out here

No problem. I like a lot of this Chinese rock music, but nobody else cares, so it gives me a chance to share haha

There’s another band I really like that also sings about dialect and country/village life. They say they make “music of the common people.” They’re called 九连真人. They go pretty hard.

It makes logical sense to me.

They still believe all of the atrocity propaganda. To them, socialism is this pure thing that deserves defending, but if they were required to defend socialist states, they would also have to disprove all of the stuff that they still believe.

So, in their minds, they are defending against tankies who just want to make the same “mistakes” as previous attempts at socialism. they are keeping socialism modern and adapting it to new circumstances with the power of hindsight. It’s also easier to convert other people to socialism if you can convince them it won’t be anything like those “evil authoritarian” socialist states.

In fact, if all the shit the state department said about socialist states was true, then I think it would probably be the right approach. But it’s not, so it isn’t.

I think the words that more accurately make your point are “dishonest” or "cynical "