It is kind of hard to make good drama out of "everybody is doing farming and helping eachother to get the best out of a shitty situation". It is a lot easier to imagine a good narrative when there's conflict, danger and violence in the picture. The capitalist idea of "human nature" as inherently selfish and evil also push writers towards the more violent narratives.
But could you make a good and engaging narrative based on the premise that humans are inherently good and altruistic? While danger makes a story engaging that danger doesn't have to come from Mad Max style psychos in bondage gear. The dangers facing the post-apocalyptical society could be the dangers connected to surviving in a world where all supply chains and infrastructure is gone and people have to relearn subsistence farming fast not to starve to death. The danger could also come from the before times, like radioactive fallout or whatever. You could even throw a few leather enthusiasts with guns in the mix but present them as the unsustainable anomaly such marauders would be.
Yes. Since I am also the head of state of a sovereign country I have of course done all of these things myself first so people online will not call me a hypocrite.
Joined South Africa's anti-genocide case at the ICJ?
Has he done anything at all to oppose the genocide or is this just a disingenuous attempt to calm domestic opposition to the genocide with empty phrases?
I seriously didn't think they had nudify apps on the app stores. Firstly, these apps are blatantly obviously unethical in virtually all use cases, secondly, I naively thought that app stores were typical American prudes, hostile to anything involving sex or nudity. And here they are peddling revenge porn apps.
Coming from somewhere that has a very widespread flag culture I kind of get what he is saying but it makes little sense either way. When you're at a protest against things the German state does, anyone who is not a disingenuous prick who was just going to find something else to cry crocodile tears over anyways understands that the German flag you're burning does in fact represent the German state and political elite and not all German people.
I understand why there are special cases, such as trans women, where you can understand the aversion to going bald (and doesn't HRT already stop the balding process?). But for most cisgender men, the obsessive fear of balding is doing far more harm than good. It's breeding insecurity, creating fertile ground for exploitation by grifters, quacks and con artists and causing unnecessary psychological distress. The reality is, being bald is a completely normal and natural way for adult men to look.
Western culture, however, has an unhealthy obsession with youth, idolizing adolescent features and treating them as a beauty baseline for all ages. This is deeply unrealistic and fundamentally harmful. The pressure to preserve a youthful appearance is not only as futile as trying to hold back the tide, but it also distracts from the dignity and attractiveness that can come with aging. Conventional female beauty standards have long been understood to have severely problematic aspects and I think there are similar points of criticism to be made against male beauty standards for being unrealistic and rooted in shame and commodification.
We'd all be better off if grown adults didn't feel the need to look like photoshopped teenagers to feel valid or desirable.
Greenland gave a huge mineral concession to a Chinese conglomerate about 20-15 years ago. The plan was to construct a huge mine staffed by Chinese workers. Greenland's labour movement was strongarmed into exempting the Chinese workers from Greenlandic collective agreements and labour laws. From the Greenlandic point of view the mine project wasn't ideal but it represented a hope of desperately needed economic diversification and development.
The project eventually failed. They managed to mine a bit of metals but the challenging Greenlandic climate and geography meant that the mine was never profitable and was shut down.
China doing genocide in Yemen and Sudan? I don't recall having ever seen that as part of official propaganda. The consent manufacturing machine is so powerful that libs are coming up with the propaganda themselves:
Genocide is bad, so someone bad must be doing it.
Who is bad? Chyna!
Where are they doing it? Eh... probably in some non-white place I've heard the name of on the news.
Nazis are completely incoherent. He thinks Jews are scheming deceivers who are part of a vast and powerful conspiracy controlling, among other things, the courts. But he also doesn't want to have a Jewish lawyer. It makes no sense.
I too think the designated "progressive" party in a two-party system should resign to a purely reactive position and leave it to the right to actually try to change people's beliefs.
I hate how the sick and disgusting terf ideology is metastasizing to the rest of the west. Relatively progressive social was one of our few redeeming features — we are racist, imperialist scumbags but at least we're somewhat normal to LGBTQ people — and now we can't even have that. We were just about to achieve the kind of normalisation for trans people that gay people have had and now it's all being called off to protect the precious feelings of a handful of weird mold-brained wankers.
Meanwhile the same pricks who are spreading this filth have no problems crying crocodile tears over the fate of queer people in enemy non-Aryan countries.
Why don't he just go on sick leave and let some substitute take over if he's too sick to perform the tasks he was elected to do? Is he really that narcissistic?
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It is kind of hard to make good drama out of "everybody is doing farming and helping eachother to get the best out of a shitty situation". It is a lot easier to imagine a good narrative when there's conflict, danger and violence in the picture. The capitalist idea of "human nature" as inherently selfish and evil also push writers towards the more violent narratives.
But could you make a good and engaging narrative based on the premise that humans are inherently good and altruistic? While danger makes a story engaging that danger doesn't have to come from Mad Max style psychos in bondage gear. The dangers facing the post-apocalyptical society could be the dangers connected to surviving in a world where all supply chains and infrastructure is gone and people have to relearn subsistence farming fast not to starve to death. The danger could also come from the before times, like radioactive fallout or whatever. You could even throw a few leather enthusiasts with guns in the mix but present them as the unsustainable anomaly such marauders would be.