SnuggleButt [he/him]

Didn’t Trump initiate this withdrawal? Like, the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan?

The article kind of contradicts itself. Near the start I believe it mentioned how it wasn’t just a delay in births, but then when it gets down to the changes based on age, it very much indicates a delay, in that women below the age of 30 had a significant decline, but early 30s is the same and 35 and beyond is greater. Yes this is a decline since it’s harder to have a child past a certain age but it’s mostly a delay for now, although considering how our economy is also declining, this trend will increase

Love how we’ve tricked everyone into thinking the only way government can influence economy is through interest rate controls. Lol. Lmao even

Do not interrupt your enemy when they’re in the middle of making a mistake

The propaganda doesn’t really matter. If western elite want to clash with China they will make something up. All this does is continue to allow the western brain to rot. Zero attention span, full auto-pilot, divisive behavior from algorithmic pressure. The west is falling, so why would they try and save it?

Hey I just wanted to say I appreciate your response a lot. I disagree with parts of it but also agree with parts of it and was just a little frustrated at the seemingly uncritical support we often see here of nations simply because they’ve found themselves in opposition to western forces. I do want to respond to it but it’s hard to do from mobile which is how I typically access this site but did want to just mention that I appreciate it!

This has probably been mentioned somewhere but I mentioned to my physician that I was experiencing the same stuff and she told me vitamin b12 (on top of vitamin D that I was taking). She said don’t worry about the amount because you just piss out the excess. Going to bed earlier, wear a weighted eye mask helps with staying asleep. Finally, go to the dentist and check if you have mild periodontal disease. If you don’t take care of your gums what happens is bacteria will seep through them directly into your bloodstream making you perpetually tired. They will lift under your gums to clean them and it helps a ton

With both those supplements + the weighted eye mask (I also use a watch to help gamify my sleep habits) + that under gum cleaning I stopped getting gray hairs, I no longer need to nap every day (i don’t need to nap at all anymore in fact) + I have more energy. I don’t even exercise really because I’m super lazy but those have made a significant difference in my day to day. Compared to 2 years ago I feel like a completely different person from 2 simple supplements, a single visit to the dentist (floss of course going forward) and an eye mask (weighted is really important)

Hey wait mom said I couldn’t escalate my rhetoric anymore cause wishing death on slaveowners was too much! Why do they get to escalate their rhetoric and wish death on perfectly innocent people!? This doesn’t seem very fair you know

If ideology is downstream from material reality then why has material reality over the course of all human history begged for a more equitable distribution of resources among its laborers, but no nation has ever ended up with an ideology that made that a reality (China still pending)?

Material reality does influence ideology. In that those who control the means dictate the ideology much, much more often than not, with an occasional revolution that very often ends up with the same dichotomy between owner and worker.

Do not conflate nation with people, as very often a nation is represented by a very thin margin of elites pretending to represent the interests of their “people”. And very often from a failed state comes corpse-picking vultures who understand the economic situation and trajectory their nation is in, and the economic situation they are personally in, and take advantage of it for good reason.

Ideology is only downstream from your perception of reality if that reality is a revolution among labor, not among elites. Last I checked the Soviet Union falling wasn’t one driven by its labor. Its ideology is aligned with its elite material interests, since it’s very much owned by its elites. Barring some occasional theatrics, Putin is not the people’s president. And that’s not because he’s a permanent ruler, I understand the necessity of one in the face of stronger imperialist forces, it’s because he’s a shitty leader

Yes but the point is intent in this case. If what’s preventing a chud from chudding is a jail cell, does that stop them from being a chud? No it fucking doesn’t

They ally themselves with targets of imperialism, or I should say targets of imperialism often ally themselves with Russia, because they have a common enemy. It really doesn’t have anything to do with an ideology that died in that country decades ago. China actually does domestic shit that’s respectable which is what’s given them the ability to contend with western influence and financial power

Russia is susceptible to western interference because they’re much weaker than they once were, and so they’re forced into preemptive action (which is not wrong), but it’s not out of some anti-imperialist ideology, it’s for their own sovereignty. Just because those actions are taken doesn’t make them anti-imperialist.

I mean the blind and uncritical faith in both Russia and China simply because they are aligned against a foe completely discounts their significant differences in the modern day, and frankly it’s insulting to China’s progress to even lump them together. Russia hasn’t just swapped places with China in the US-Russia-China relationship, it’s swapped places but is in a decline; it doesn’t have potential anymore. Its leadership has failed from a starting point significantly more privileged than China’s, it cannot fend off western influence outside of physical war, of which most if not all is entirely preemptive which begs the question, was all of it necessary, since it creates yet another drain on their workforce and people?

Frankly I don’t even think the west really considers them very threatening outside of their locale. Current power is dominated by finance. China understands that, and China’s decisions put them in a position to fight on a front that matters. Most western rhetoric on Russia is in an attempt to divert public funds towards private arms companies, not to stunt a legitimate threat. Their investment in Ukraine is more a dumping ground for old equipment than anything else, and to prevent a short-term engagement that might spread beyond that, that would be considered short term because Russia’s population is in literal decline and has been for decades because their domestic policy has generated nothing for their people besides extraction. The Soviet Union collapsed and is still being looted, and the call is predominantly coming from inside the house

“We will never share your information with third parties”

How many litmus tests can god give us to determine who should stay and who should go? How many of them are entirely based on decisions individuals are free to make and not eugenic-based tests that people have no control over. How loudly can morality scream without being heard?

Because they’re an extremely small minority that don’t really have any voice at all in society, they’ve been under pressure for far longer than you think in the western world, and it’s easy for pigs to correlate the care they need to transition with something bad

For any chuds who have even a semblance of critical thinking, it’s actually super easy to get them think about it. You can tell them that even if they’re right about the issue (which they’re not) why are they prioritizing an issue that is literally a rounding error in society and not the greater economic/social issues at hand? They don’t expect you to, at least hypothetically, agree with them, and they can’t really argue against the priority issue. It absolutely stunlocks them because for a moment they have to consider, and I being misdirected?

Dude, he’s just thin and lanky not gay. Brother has long limbs and can’t fit in the booth. You cannot convince me any of these people ever go outside

No one knows because it feels like it was the most astroturfed campaign ever. I mean it was as astroturfed as the kind liberal reaction towards Charles’ death. One day Biden is running and the next literally everyone is now behind Harris and they’re posting about her as if she’d been building a campaign for months at that point and finally cinched the nomination

There was more genuine support for killary than this ghoul. Might as well have ran her for round 2

Is it not just possible to create semi-realistic masks at this point or even learn how to apply makeup and effects to obscure the face?

Okay but what if I support gun rights so much that I think we should be allowed to open carry at political rallies, you know, just as an insurance, in case they don’t wanna pass that policy to save grandndmama

“Scared to death”

Still alive

Disappointed

Okay but have you considered

That KKK member had a family donchano?

But unironically if he was born 40 years before he was, he’d literally be a KKK member

Elites talking about themselves is such a bore. Yes, no elite should be safe in a society with starvation and homeless. I hope they don’t feel safe anymore. Scum

You are a better person simply through your intent. If every action you took was the same but your true, honest, personal intent was more moral and just, you are better

And now realize that every action you take is not the same

You aren’t even comparable. I’d say there are greater differences between you and him than you and completely different species

A just society must be intolerant towards those who are without any motivation but their own greed