Being in China has not stopped me from posting these last 3 months.

Mullvad works quite well.

I am in Wuhan, Hubei. 15:53 Sunday November 24th. Hexbear is inaccessible with CTC 5G mobile connection.

Gaslight Gatekeep Gthreaten to assassinate the president Girlboss

Imagining a Star Wars style situation where she gets her apprentice to do the assassing but the apprentice hires a bounty hunter and the bounty hunter hires an assassin and the assassin uses a robot who uses some venomous bugs

Honestly didn’t know the etymology coming from an unhinged weirdo, but I’ve generally used it (irl mind you, I’m in China) as a handwaive when family asks about why X in the west is bad/inefficient/non-existent and “right wingers” isn’t the cause.

Like what’s with the aversion to nuclear power? Combination of 白左 and also the fossil fuel lobby.

Or if a policy that does (ostensibly) benefit poor people but is means tested to death, and they ask why it’s set up like that. 白左

But I don’t really often hear it in China. My family is just weirdly politically engaged due to being former Party members and revolutionaries. The average guy in the street is absolutely not going to use the phrase ever.

Yeah sure weirdos on XHS will also use it to refer to any aspect of the Western “left” they see online that they disagree with, but it’s wholly inconsistent. Could be addressing Ultras. Or trots. Or liberals. Or redditors. Or nazbols. Or socdems. Or demsocs. I feel like XHS comment sections are like 2 steps away from calling Shanghai 白左.

Well he was probably 21 and already a 5 star general, there must surely be something in those genes right?

Telling my family here in China of what the western diet is is always fun.

“So the working class would often go to a petrol station, known as a “servo” to the locals, and purchase something called a “sausage roll”, which is sausage mince wrapped in high fat pastry.”

“As the whole lunch? There are no other dishes?”

“No, it’s basically entirely unseasoned except for a small amount of salt. It is often paired with a miniscule amount of tomato sauce, though. They would then also drink a sweetened iced coffee or a soda. The Anglo Australian has meat consumption rates rivaling that of a Mongol, but with a fraction of the exercise or excuse”

Taiwan and Palestine flag

??? Have you met the average Taiwanese?

Israel came out on top, with 35.1 percent of respondents expressing sympathy; 14.8 percent sympathizing with Palestine; 9.8 percent sympathizing with neither; 6.8 percent sympathizing with both; and 33.6 percent expressing no opinion.

Both leading political parties are pro Israel, as have the last half dozen presidents.

Don’t get me started on the average Ukrainian.

69% of Ukrainians side with Israel, 1% with Palestine and 30% both or neither)

That’s up there with making a bottom shelf blended whisky called “Spouse and Kids”

“Hey, sorry, I can’t come to the meeting, I have to spend time at home with the Spouse and Kids™”

“Did you just say “™” really quietly at the end there?”

“…no.”

Breaking: Holy Roman Empire appoints Anti-Pope

The only reason he hasn’t tried to get Hannibal Lecter to be the head of the FDA is not because he’s a fictional character, but because he thinks he’s recently deceased.

I fully believe a significant amount of libs opposed the Iraq war because it was started by Bush Jr. If it was a Democrat they wouldn’t have been against it. Nevermind all the Dems that started it. GOP = bad, Dem = good, and for the parts that overlap, it’s bad if GOP is currently in charge and a necessary evil/tolerable inconvenience if the Dems are in charge.

See also: Children in cages at the border

I’ve posted this before but

Ray Bradbury has come out to say Farenheit 451 is actually about the dangers of TV addiction. On multiple occasions.

There’s a time where he gave a lecture at UCLA and a student insisted to Bradbury’s face that he was wrong about the book he wrote and so Bradbury walked out. Death of the author, yada yada yada.

The moral of the story is that TV is going to kill literature and turn people into smooth brained zombies who can’t/won’t accept the higher medium of the written word, so they made it illegal.

Kim’s an Aeon of Strife on StarCraft I purist.

So long as bureaucrat isn’t signing their posts I think we’re good

-7DeadlyFetishes

I keep bringing this up:

Elon just copied and pasted a 1982 video game’s design for a car.

A Mac II era video game isn’t going to consider the other things, it just has wheels and looks like an aerofoil

Its based on a video game on the Mac II Elon played in his childhood.

That’s the highest possible aerodynamic score because it’s what an aerofoil would look like rendered on a 1982 computer.

Obviously it needs to be closer to the ground and needs rounded edges.

This is actually the most aerodynamic car in the world:

Soviet deep sleeper agent Ayn Rand planted seeds of “rich = good and smart” into the brains of Americans and other Westerners. Such a mindset was designed to undermine technological advancement.

Now their worship of billionaires and their products as flawless and foolproof will only harm themselves.

They’re probably emboldened by the fact that they contributed to the climate change that’s melting all the icebergs.

Though wise Poseidon has other methods of swallowing the rich who completely lack hubris.

The good thing, though, is if disaster strikes the ship and the wine cave libs end up in a Gilligan’s Island situation, they’ll be dead in a couple weeks because none of them have any skills besides being professional managers. They’re just gonna delegate foraging food to other people and establishing a pecking order (with surviving crew at the bottom, obviously) until they just get thrown into the ocean.