@eiam_coyle_CE@stanleygraps regardless of what believe, china won civil a war that pushed its dissidents to taiwan to set up government. by treaty their are only 13 states that formally recognize Taiwan as a country. US is not even one of them, we have always recognized China as one. Let that sink in
John Cena reflects on the “Taiwan is a country” controversy:
China took it as a “Ron Burgundy ‘F you, San Diego’ moment.”
“In apologizing to China, I pissed off my home country.”
“I won’t speak Mandarin anymore (in public) because I don’t have the cultural fluency.”
@ChesterCop240 That’s exactly the point
When people like this go on Tucker/Rogan they’re on their best behavior
Then they show their true colors when they think nobody is listening
This is a WILD clip
John Kiriakou is an ex-CIA officer
He spent two years in prison for leaking the name of an undercover CIA officer
Now he’s on the podcast circuit, in part launched by Tucker Carlson in 2019; and Rogan recently
And he hates America
Democracy is a terrible idea because public opinion hasn’t ever been organic. Plato explained a lot with his criticism of democracy, but observing people today will validate his assertion. Democracy is an illusion of consent by the governed, when it’s just about which team has a more intricate and veiled societal con job network afoot.
Van Jones Gets Emotional After a Newly Discovered DM from Charlie Kirk
“After he was murdered, my team called and said he was trying to reach you … This guy is reaching out to his mortal enemy saying, we need to be gentlemen and sit down together … I've sat on it long enough.”
I cannot express in words, non-verbal cues, or telepathic communication, the extent to which I despise @jimmykimmel. He represents all of the ugly traits that could be embodied in a person.
There’s no excuse for not investing.
We live in an era where tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can compress days of research into minutes.
If you’re not investing, it’s not because you “lack experience”…
It’s because you’re being intellectually lazy.
Don’t be that person.
It’s a terrible look.
Sean Strickland on the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk
“My gut reaction.. I was excited to see the video. Then I realized how did we become desensitized and sociopathic. The government manipulated us to think guns, war and death is cool. They ruined America and took God from us”
No one wants to hear this (especially Americans) but loafers with no socks is a European flex of pure aristocratic elegance.
A man can only expose his ankles if he has aristo ankles - not those thick knobby peasant ones. Don’t hate on Tucker’s aristo ankles please.
My thoughts after a few days in the US:
This is one of the reasons that allowing illegal immigration to happen is cruel and immoral.
Inevitably, many people get fed up of it, express that democratically and people who were allowed to enter or overstay illegally end up being deported, separated from their loved ones and having their lives upended.
Some people want to celebrate that this is happening. But this is not something to celebrate - at the human level, what's happening is objectively awful.
Other people want to pretend that the solution is simply to allow illegal immigration to go unprosecuted and uncorrected. That can't happen if you want to have a country. You cannot have some people spending thousands and years following all the rules while others simply skip ahead. What incentive does that leave for anyone to follow the rules?
The fact that Western countries have allowed so many people to enter illegally is the reason for what is happening now. When those decisions were made, they made these decisions inevitable.
It's the same reason failing to teach children right and wrong by setting clear boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour is cruel rather than kind as many people think. A child who grows up without these boundaries will be taught those same lessons by life, which will be far harsher than loving parents.
It's always better to do the right thing as early as possible, or the problem gets bigger and bigger and a bigger and bigger correction is then necessary.